Lessons Learned for Energy (Wave, Wind, Tidal)

RRI Roadmap Milestone 1

Attract different stakeholders in order to have a diversity and complementarity to obtain inputs as complete as possible;
Plan the stakeholders carefully to ensure that the right people, stakeholder groups and organisations are in the room;
Involve all interested stakeholders;
Recruit participants based on their interest, research, business or experience related to the workshop topic;
Offer an incentive for citizens in order to attract people to attend at the workshop.

RRI Roadmap Milestone 2

Raise awareness of the general public on the environmental impact of offshore installations at all stages (building, exploitation, dismantling).

RRI Roadmap Milestone 3

Use methods that offer to the participants the opportunity to interact and to have open discussions;
Explain the participatory method used to the participants as clearly and in a shorter time;
Empower all stakeholder groups to co-create sustainable value propositions that reflect societal needs and support healthy marine environments thanks to RRI dimensions;
Encouraged all the participants to work on all the solutions during the session;
Create the opportunity to network and discuss, in order to identify the key marine and societal challenges for the Wave Energy Sector;
Make a clear presentation of the debated issue and its current status;
Use of different communications platforms/technologies to communicate with stakeholders and make data accessible;
Use new communications channels and IT technologies as opportunities to engage with communities;
Develop webinars for cross-sectorial stakeholder engagement;

RRI Roadmap Milestone 4

Use a method that encourages participants to work together in order to have an interactive group;
Try to approach of potential participants and their engagement in convergent discussions with the future topic of the event;
Have proactive public participation from stakeholders, in particular from government and industry;
Encourage and promote marine involvement for all stakeholders;
Increase the level of awareness of Marine Spatial Planning process and it's implication in coastal communities and for all stakeholders;
Promote best practice cross sectorial stakeholder engagement processes through webinars;
Multidisciplinary research considers the sustainability vector is key.

RRI Roadmap Milestone 5

Have a discussion phase that is long enough for all participants to be fully aware of all the implications of the proposed ideas without extending the duration of the workshop;
Develop a stakeholder engagement plan;
Encourage the production of socially and environmentally acceptable solutions and services with the science education of business and industry professionals;
Plan what to do with buildings/installations which have been created while building wind farms;
Conduct studies of renewable energy on the Black Sea coastal area;
Promote the meaning of the term "renewable energy systems";
Develop educational programs to prepare specialists in the "renewable energy systems" field;
Developing a spatial plan specific to zoning of areas of offshore renewables;
Develop a GIS information database;
Develop a clear communications strategy;
Use of research and data sets to ensure that decisions are made to safeguard the interests of all stakeholders.

RRI Roadmap Milestone 6

Consider Governance as a common responsibility of citizens and decision makers;
Carry out studies on potential impact of the investment in offshore wind energy to develop them;
Educate children to environmental issues as well as renewable energy profits to create a new wiser society;
Develop societal awareness about water and advantages of use of renewable energy sources in general and offshore wind farms in particular;
Use public-private partnerships as a new economical instrument;
Raise public awareness regarding the benefits of renewable energy by promoting the renewable energy methods;
Develop a clear understanding around Marine Spacial Planning (MSP) and what its implications are for all stakeholders groups including offshore wind;
Open data for all interested stakeholders.

RRI Roadmap Milestone 7

RRI Roadmap Milestone 8

Open university faculties, strongly connected with wind farms to help the sustainable development of renewable energy;
Scale up research and bring responses to sustainable development of offshore wind farms with Science education;
Implement program of innovative research in relation to the effectiveness of the constructions of towers and generators to ensure sustainable development of renewable energy;
Establish policies that are favourable for ecological investments in sustainable development;
Educate policy-makers to science to reinforce policies and adopt coherent legislative frameworks of economic competitiveness and sustainability of offshore wind energy;
Improve the legislative framework to encourage the capitalization process of renewable energy;
Upgrade the transport infrastructure for renewable energy;
Attract private investments and develop national projects;
Attract students into engineering courses;
Build the appropriate infrastructure and technology for the Wave Energy Sector;
Create higher awareness on technological achievements from challenging and cutting edge successful projects to attract skilled people to work in the sector.

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