MARINA - User contributions [en]

Lessons Learned per Milestone 8

2019-02-18T10:14:47Z

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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 8'''
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* Raise awareness among the general public to make informed choices and have an active social participation to further push the new initiatives;
* Focus on good enforcement of already existing legislation mechanisms rather than reinventing others from scratch and adjust legislation as necessary;
* Coordinate collaborative activities and tools to push RRI forward;
* Train policymakers through communication tools and adapt legislation to facilitate the creation of a dynamic knowledge-sharing mechanism;
* Organise regular follow-up workshops by involving more decision makers to anchor change;
* Ensure that funding will be secured for action plan execution and follow up actions;
* Embed governance in legislation through accountability to ensure the sustainability and to address societal challenges;
* Provide tax reductions or other benefits to businesses for massively applying environmental protection legislature and procedures and for making use of innovative technologies;
* Use the media and science mediators to make society aware about research and innovation results;
* Advocate on the necessity of creating specific funding schemes to support the development of the targeted sector based on RRI principles;
* Create funding mechanisms to promote RRI in research and innovation in the innovative sectors;
* Equip urban open areas for open debates where local communities can meet frequently in order to exercise the rights guaranteed by the Aarhus convention to develop sustainable decisions in a collective and legal manner;
* Encourage scientific knowledge and professional growth that have fundamental roles in supporting innovative sectors;
* Involve "Ambassadors" or " figures" at regional level (navigators, high level sportsman, known well-respected public figures of all kinds);
* Establish policies that are favourable for ecological investments in sustainable development;
* Use funding programs dedicated to citizens, aimed at replacing old goods and polluting with new and environmentally friendly ones;
* Involve citizens in public consultations and decision–making processes for local and national/ EU regulations;
* Attract private investments and develop national projects;
* Communicate broadly and raise wide awareness about the specific initiative to anchor change;
* Raise the attractiveness of science studies by illustrating the application of science in societal issues;
* Provide strong incentives to promote the circular economy;
* Create higher awareness on technological achievements from challenging and cutting edge successful projects to attract skilled people to work in the sector;
* Reliable scientific information is not easily accessible for sectorial actors;
* Raise awareness and embed RRI into educational curricula;
* Facilitate fruitful discussions and widely disseminate conclusions to third parties;
* Ensure the policies are socially inclusive and are widely known;
* To develop a sector, develop a legal framework promoting and regulating its development;
* Plan periodic meetings on the same topic, with old and new participants, to create ownership of the process, intensify the effort and ensure follow-up;
* Invest in communication campaign by professionals, work with marketing societies to translate the scientific results into clear messages that can reach in particular young people;
* Translate in easy-to-understand messages research outputs and results for better dissemination. Consider using science mediators.
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==See also...==
[[RRI Roadmap Milestones]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Milestone 7

2019-02-18T10:14:20Z

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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 7'''
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* Use Open access to boost innovation and increase the use of scientific results by all societal actors as well as to develop public trust and engagement;
* Consider the distinction between the actions of making information available and the actions of making the information understandable by its potential users when dealing with Open Access;
* Develop real-time information systems, training activities and incentives to share knowledge and information for avoiding tendencies of local governments and businesses to downplay negative consequences;
* Follow-up with all participants and monitor results regularly and engage them in post-workshop knowledge sharing and networking through an online platform;
* Governance should strive for active engagement of the key public and private stakeholder bodies for the development and impact on the societal challenge;
* To measure success, define clear and achievable objectives;
* The ultimate aim should be to develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts and to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products;
* Get media cover and social media presence to influence policy and decision makers;
* Organise a European "Grenelle" of bioethics to do an inventory of knowledge, regulations and current projects and processes as well as to define indicators and good practices for the development of marine biotech;
* Be aware that only about half of the participants are likely to use the knowledge gained at the workshop;
* Involving customers ranked the most favourable cluster with specific actions including the adoption of the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) business model;
* Build capacity through education by developing local and national programmes for secondary schools and outreach programmes through citizen projects utilising real-time data from monitoring equipment;
* Try to engage volunteer groups/stakeholders who use the specific environment on a regular basis;
* Create innovative tools to guide the consumers, thus inducing public and private stakeholders (including NGOs) to invest in more sustainable directions;
* Start specific economic changes (investment, taxation) to support the goal of efficient and sustainable activities;
* Enhance control mechanisms of research and innovation outputs, according to ethical rules.
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==See also...==
[[RRI Roadmap Milestones]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Milestone 5

2019-02-18T10:13:35Z

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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 5'''
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* Ensure that all participants stay until the end of the workshop to have coherent results;
* Have participants rank the priorities and discuss from the highest to the lowest to co-construct a common vision;
* Foster stakeholder engagement, capacity building, behavioural changes and production and consumption pattern shift with Science education;
* Use the SMART action format to ease the follow up of the workshop;
* 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;
* Apply a long-term and crosscutting strategic planning by defining SMART common vision and actions;
* Define a clear plan for the future engagement of the workshop's participants to keep the community active;
* Focus not only on high-level ideas, but also on required research and innovation actions needed to execute them;
* Develop a common vision and an action plan with a more narrow focus combining development milestones and follow-up workshops;
* Create decision-making processes that are participative, transparent and allow for public deliberation;
* Check carefully the voting process of the actions, to avoid selfish or non correct behaviours which could distort the results;
* Translate workshop results in something short and friendly in short time and disseminate among the participants and others, not to loose momentum;
* Check carefully the voting process, to avoid selfish or improper behaviours, which could distort the results;
* Empower citizens beyond data collection through involvement in decision-making and governance;
* Prepare take home tools and methods that participants can implement in their jobs;
* Encourage the production of socially and environmentally acceptable solutions and services with the science education of business and industry professionals;
* Include more education aspects of citizenship, sustainability and ecology in schools;
* Organize more science dissemination events targeting the general public;
* Develop new capacities for studying and a performing monitoring;
* Develop and implement awareness and educational campaigns and engage local communities;
* Include marine/environmental education in school curricula;
* Try to obtain clear actions from people from different areas of interest, but targeting the common vision;
* Improve governance by defining a shared and common vision by involving citizens and business networks for clean and green industries;
* Focus on RRI issues by prompting participants to talk more about how researchers can be enrolled in all actions generated and how other stakeholders can be useful to researchers;
* Push participants to move beyond exchanging ideas and to start co-creating a vision;
* Allocate a good part of the workshop for creating a clear common action plan;
* Claim for an alignment between legislation and the changing scientific situation and technological innovations;
* Promote local communities and their traditions for societal relevance of the scientific outputs;
* Choose the most effective methodology to build a common vision and give space to many different voices;
* Ask the participants to obtain in advance the necessary authorization from the Institutions they represent, to propose actions during the workshop;
* Consider the best way of collecting votes for the purpose such as the number of votes available for each participant, the rounds of votes, etc.
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==See also...==
[[RRI Roadmap Milestones]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned Relating to all dimensions

2019-02-18T10:12:07Z

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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 2'''
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* Start planning at least 4 months in advance the organisation of a workshop as it is very time consuming task.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 3'''
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* Involve the private sector, policymakers, the scientific community and the local and national community for the definition of ideas, needs and solutions;
* Help the participants with examples to understand how to embed RRI principles when discussing a sector and societal challenges.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 4'''
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* Focus on the concept and its tools when explaining RRI to participants;
* The SDD method allows for integrating contributions from individuals with diverse views, backgrounds and perspectives through a process that is structured, inclusive and collaborative;
* A structured participatory method like SDD helps participants converge their opinions towards a common vision and a common action plan.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 5'''
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* Define SMART common vision and actions towards a specific goal and project.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 6'''
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* Changing customer demand requires attractive and sustainable products that provide unique and customised experiences;
* Each initiative on sustainable tourism products requires the right expertise (knowledge and skills) and institutional participatory processes that will support stakeholders' successful involvement.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 7'''
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* To measure success, define clear and achievable objectives.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 8'''
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* Advocate on the necessity of creating specific funding schemes to support the development of the targeted sector based on RRI principles;
* Create funding mechanisms to promote RRI in research and innovation in the innovative sectors;
* Make ports hubs of sustainability;
* Increase the usage of alternative fuels for ships as for instance Liquefide Naturaò Gas.
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==See also...==
[[RRI Dimension]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Ethics

2019-02-18T10:11:44Z

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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 4'''
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* Encourage researchers to voice their opinions on marine issues in the media focusing on economic, environmental and social needs to enable the uptake of new technologies.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 5'''
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* Have business and industry professionals consider producing socially and environmentally acceptable marine bio-based goods and services;
* Consider ethics when dealing with the legal frameworks to assure marine biotechnologies sustainability and social awareness;
* Use of research and data sets to ensure that decisions are made to safeguard the interests of all stakeholders;
* Promote local communities and their traditions for societal relevance of the scientific outputs;
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 6'''
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* Use rational the natural resources, with maximum economy;
* Change unsustainable patterns of consumption and production, in order to reduce the amount of waste;
* Disseminate widely local and regional regulations and type approvals since the businesses often have significant knowledge gaps;
* Push for cooperation among academic institutions and the industry, as it is crucial.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 7'''
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* Enhance control mechanisms of research and innovation outputs, according to ethical rules.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 8'''
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* Disseminate research and innovation outcomes that have societal relevance for ethical acceptability;
* Put in place an effective communication about green washing, so to improve the critical sense of the public against "fake" green activities.
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==See also...==
[[RRI Dimension]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Governance

2019-02-18T10:11:22Z

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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 1'''
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* Realize a complete inventory of local skills needed for the topic of academic actors, start-ups or companies already established in the region;
* Keep in mind the local context to answer local needs and specificities;
* Be careful of possible competition of other events happening as the same time in the same city or on the same topic;
* Start a survey to establish the relationship between local communities and the coastal areas and share results with politicians to put marine biotechnologies on the national agenda as an economic and sustainable opportunity;
* There is a strong need for redefining and refocusing the business model of tourism.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 2'''
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* Promote the involvement of public authorities on local, national and European levels;
* Identify motives for policy makers and implementers to participate in the workshops as they are reluctant in participating;
* Explain RRI and innovation tools and how to embed them in policy agendas as participants find it useful;
* Be aware that policy-makers are not easy to engage unless they see a specific benefit that fits their agenda.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 3'''
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* Construct a good collaboration among project partners from the beginning of the project to its legacy to ensure a wider take-up of the results by all partners;
* Consider carefully legislation and cultural differences between project participants in the discussion prior to the project proposal to avoid possible understanding of feasability barriers;
* Develop concrete examples that stakeholders can understand and get involved;
* Involve politicians and municipality representatives in workshops to increase its effectiveness;
* Identify or create a unique Body entrusted with the control of a process to ensure coordination and synergy of all stakeholders involved.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 4'''
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* Focus on environmental aspects through a multi-stakeholder approach to ensure stability and availability of resources;
* Stakeholders are concerned that the authorities and the private companies will decide to advance with Deep Sea Mining without proper public consultation and without knowing sufficient about the deep sea;
* The society believes that RRI will never be in full effect without strong political will;
* Provide the participants with the legislative aspects related to the topic. If possible ensure the attendance of an expert.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 5'''
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* Implement a coherent national monitoring programme;
* Apply a long-term and crosscutting strategic planning by defining SMART common vision and actions;
* Engage local communities in awareness raising event;
* Develop a common vision and an action plan with a more narrow focus combining development milestones and follow-up workshops;
* Consider the RRI principles as guidelines to construct the project processes for a sound management of the projects;
* Provide a quality framework in which all stakeholders can work toward a solution thanks to a good governance;
* Plan what to do with buildings/installations which have been created while building wind farms; * Develop new methods of governance for engaging citizens through public awareness and politics;
* Include key local stakeholders in the planning and implementation of local strategies;
* Improve governance by defining a shared and common vision by involving citizens and business networks for clean and green industries;
* Claim for an alignment between legislation and the changing scientific situation and technological innovations.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 6'''
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* Consider Governance as a common responsibility of citizens and decision makers;
* Develop sustainable and long-term solutions even if they do not entirely focus on technical and/or economic aspects, but add lifestyle qualities and/or facilities;
* Put in place a policy-oriented, holistic and integrated approach to tackle complex issues;
* Make restaurants aware restaurants and the public about the potential offered by the blue biotechnologies;
* Develop a "Social and Solidarity Economy" type of framework in the field of marine biotechnologies;
* Develop new model of governance for marine biotechnology development including the engagement of the society;
* Build a network to report challenges to politicians to put marine biotechnologies on the national agenda as an economic and sustainable opportunity;
* Push for broad vision for industrial harbour development by local governments inviting non-harbour stakeholders to contribute in new ways;
* Adapt local policies and strategies in order to be in agreement with research outcomes;
* Plan local actions in agreement with its local circumstances instead of promoting larger-scale policies;
* Support local and international decision-makers in charge of evaluating if, when, how, by who and for what should Deep Sea Mining ever take place;
* Develop campaigns for promoting sustainable fishing methods and techniques through protecting resources and other incentives/compensation;
* Use of the outcomes of the national monitoring programme as part of a targeted national awareness raising campaign;
* Push governmental bodies for high-tier governance on local initiatives to have the biggest impact;
* Create procedures for an open access to data and data exchange, to allow for multiple feedbacks from end-users and policy-makers;
* Business stakeholders are mostly interested on the policy agendas;
* Coordinate all activities related to policy, planning and regulation in the best possible way to reduce conflict and help meet environmental, economic and social objectives;
* The greater majority of actions relate to more than one RRI dimension; this shows that actions are multidisciplinary and involve multiple stakeholders;
* Implement innovative and responsive policies to face climate change effects and assure a balanced competitiveness, growth and sustainability;
* Develop information-based decision support tools, with automated intervention systems.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 7'''
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* Governance should strive for active engagement of the key public and private stakeholder bodies for the development and impact on the societal challenge;
* The ultimate aim should be to develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts and to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products;
* Get media cover and social media presence to influence policy and decision makers;
* Organise a European "Grenelle" of bioethics to do an inventory of knowledge, regulations and current projects and processes as well as to define indicators and good practices for the development of marine. biotech;
* Make regulations for developers and investors for securing more liveable areas in harbour transformations;
* Build a coastal protection system that can harness the wave energy;
* Restructuring different mechanisms in order to prevent pollution and to apply polluter sanctions, to ensure the transparency of legislative processes;
* Create innovative tools to guide the consumers, thus inducing public and private stakeholders (including NGOs) to invest in more sustainable directions;
* Start specific economic changes (investment, taxation) to support the goal of efficient and sustainable activities.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 8'''
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* Focus on good enforcement of already existing legislation mechanisms rather than reinventing others from scratch and adjust legislation as necessary;
* Train policymakers through communication tools and adapt legislation to facilitate the creation of a dynamic knowledge-sharing mechanism;
* Ensure that funding will be secured for action plan execution and follow up actions;
* Embed governance in legislation through accountability to ensure the sustainability and to address societal challenges;
* Provide tax reductions or other benefits to businesses for massively applying environmental protection legislature and procedures and for making use of innovative technologies;
* Push for the adoption of common processes for accessibility of results of European projects that would allow a comparison of results through time and creation of broader synergies among past and present projects;
* Put in place effective pathways for communicating policy recommandations to EU and to national bodies as part of the global process of the project;
* Create of a one-stop shop for the Institute of blue bio-technologies with short and long-term strategies;
* Create an award for the best blue bio-technologies innovation or product to make maritime biotechnologies a sustainable economic opportunity;
* Put in place a certification label of projects to draw guidelines for the sustainable development of marine biotechnologies;
* Promote the reinforcement of policies and adoption of coherent legislative frameworks to develop marine biotechnology;
* Establish policies that are favourable for ecological investments in sustainable development;
* Train and convince policymakers, implementers, and investors to develop biotechnologies;
* Make environmental impact assessment mandatory for Deep Sea Mining within the EU;
* Oblige companies by contract to use 10% of their investment in an investigation in engineering design for mitigation of Deep Sea Mining during all the operation;
* Improve the legislative framework to encourage the capitalization process of renewable energy;
* Upgrade the transport infrastructure for renewable energy;
* Use funding programs dedicated to citizens, aimed at replacing old goods and polluting with new and environmentally friendly ones;
* Define and update the legislation to prevent climate changes for Black Sea area;
* Involve citizens in public consultations and decision–making processes for local and national/ EU regulations;
* Improve port reception facilities and services for processing over waste from ships;
* Build the appropriate infrastructure and technology for the Wave Energy Sector;
* Promote Sustainable Tourism policies to improve coastal and marine ecosystems, minimise pollution and create economic growth by combining efforts at national, regional and local levels and creating green funding schemes and incentives;
* Enhance coastal and maritime tourism by adapting to demographic changes, while maintaining the original vocation and atmosphere of the coastal cities;
* Protect the deep sea from mining, create laws that impose that deep sea mining is a non-profit activity and concert the deep sea into world heritage site;
* Provide strong incentives to promote the circular economy;
* Promote governance arrangements and practices to favour sustainable tourism and seafood consumption;
* Ensure the policies are socially inclusive and are widely known;
* Push for governance and ethics to be required in business registration requirements for creating awareness on sustainability;
* To develop a sector, develop a legal framework promoting and regulating its development;
* Ensure a ministerial umbrella to facilitate the educative process in school by scientists or scientific mediators;
* Engage government and law makers in order to make sustainable change in ports and ship;
* Consider that National and International organizations must balance economic profit and a competitive market with the goal of preserving the natural environment of our seas;
* Improve regulations and legislations about the release of bacteria at sea;
* Improve legislation to deal with climate change and coastal errosion.
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==See also...==
[[RRI Dimension]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Gender Equality

2019-02-18T10:10:49Z

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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 4'''
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* The absence of gender equality reveals a critical gap in access to opportunities and resources and decision-making power for women and men;
* Actively introduce Gender Equality into discussions and ideas, as most often is a non considered aspect.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 6'''
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* Involve citizens in the political/technical systems.
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==See also...==
[[RRI Dimension]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Open Access

2019-02-18T10:10:32Z

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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 2'''
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* Present the RRI concept with clear examples;
* Raise awareness of the general public on the environmental impact of offshore installations at all stages (building, exploitation, dismantling);
* Improve science literacy and research applicability to increase awareness on the specific issue;
* Make marine issues visible and understandable to the public.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 3'''
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* Invite stakeholders to provide their feedback about workshop;
* Provide as much information as possible to the subject before the workshop;
* Engage researchers with the industry for the development of appropriate technologies since there is a discrepancy between the academia and the industry needs.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 4'''
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* Develop partnerships for science outreach actions;
* Capture the content in a way that is more free-flowing which is later interpreted by the workshop team.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 5'''
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* Focus not only on high-level ideas, but also on required research and innovation actions needed to execute them;
* Increase knowledge on deep sea minerals occurrences and their economic;
* Work together (science, law, economics, policy) to give advice on seabed mining issues;
* Create an organized knowledge synthesis on Deep Sea Mining;
* Develop new capacities for studying and a performing monitoring;
* Conduct studies of renewable energy on the Black Sea coastal area;
* Provide the results on MARINA platform;
* Developing a spatial plan specific to zoning of areas of offshore renewables;
* Develop a GIS information database;
* Develop a clear communications strategy;
* Push for adjust rules to allow open access to relevant sector research results;
* Open access, i.e. giving free online access to the results of publicly-funded research data will boost innovation and increase the use of scientific results by all societal actors;
* While interpreting the results consider that participants can have different information and data about the topic: the "reality" can be difficult to identify.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 6'''
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* Share data for a better cooperation and public engagement on the high seas;
* 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;
* Promote researchers qualifications to find new bio applications for products answering societal needs;
* Contribute with knowledge and conceptual frameworks that support interaction, collaboration and holistic recommendations based on research experience;
* Create an open access platform with all Deep Sea Mining data available including biological and geological information;
* Create a common DATABASE – for centralizing all the data and studies regarding biodiversity;
* Disseminate the results on MARINA platform;
* Use public-private partnerships as a new economical instrument;
* Offer open access to the specialized information and share knowledge;
* Send the final results of the workshop to the participants;
* Create a path to open information on climate changes topic and related data;
* Open data for all interested stakeholders;
* Succeed with public engagement through science education and open access in policy;
* Initiate open access through public offices also to non-governmental stakeholders;
* Develop information exchange systems between government, industry and the universities;
* Start measuring and collecting marine scientific data on board different non-scientific vessels.
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* Develop real-time information systems, training activities and incentives to share knowledge and information for avoiding tendencies of local governments and businesses to downplay negative consequences;
* Collect and share information and good practices to raise awareness on marine biotech and to reduce marine pollution;
* Take into consideration new types of ownership forms in order to kick-start of development;
* Analyse the impact of plumes and waste produced by Deep Sea Mining exploitation.
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* Use the media and science mediators to make society aware about research and innovation results;
* Increase the impact of projects' results thanks to open access;
* Implement program of innovative research in relation to the effectiveness of the constructions of towers and generators to ensure sustainable development of renewable energy;
* Communicate broadly and raise wide awareness about the specific initiative to anchor change;
* Create higher awareness on technological achievements from challenging and cutting edge successful projects to attract skilled people to work in the sector;
* Reliable scientific information is not easily accessible for sectorial actors;
* Ethical issues are highly important in maintaining the sustainable operation of the vessels while safeguarding the environment;
* Raise awareness and embed RRI into educational curricula;
* Provide free and easier access to the results of the studies;
* Claim for an international coordination to identify the possible impacts of innovations.
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==See also...==
[[RRI Dimension]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Science Education

2019-02-18T10:10:03Z

Jordankent:

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* Make lists of actions and players, record skills, know-how and economic potential, identify best practices and make full use of them to put the chosen topic on the national agenda.
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* Present the RRI concept with clear examples;
* Provide enough time for the presentation of science outcomes and sharing knowledge from research point of view;
* Make the high seas more visible to all stakeholders, the benefits for all and the issues at stake;
* Raise awareness of the general public on the environmental impact of offshore installations at all stages (building, exploitation, dismantling);
* Make the MARINA platform a case study platform where collaborative coastal climate solution projects are presented;
* Improve science literacy and research applicability to increase awareness on the specific issue;
* Explain clearly the MARINA project goals;
* Make marine issues visible and understandable to the public;
* Run awareness campaigns so that the issue problem is clearly understood by all stakeholders;
* Raise citizen and business awareness about the environmental protection and sustainability.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 3'''
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* Empower European citizens, business representatives, researchers and policy makers to take informed decisions on the high seas through science education;
* Invite stakeholders to provide their feedback about workshop;
* Provide as much information as possible to the subject before the workshop;
* The education of young people and the use of exchange programs between schools will lead to active citizenship respectful of the environment;
* All relevant stakeholders need to be involved in the process of developing sustainable tourism ventures within Marine Protected Areas (MPAs);
* Engage researchers with the industry for the development of appropriate technologies since there is a discrepancy between the academia and the industry needs;
* Raise awareness among pupils and students about environmental protection through informational programs as well as promote the specific sector as a means of employability.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 4'''
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* Develop partnerships for science outreach actions;
* Promote the societal challenge as a hot topic and the workshop's results (media, partners, stakeholders, etc);
* Increase the level of awareness of Marine Spatial Planning process and it's implication in coastal communities and for all stakeholders;
* Capture the content in a way that is more free-flowing which is later interpreted by the workshop team;
* Multidisciplinary research considers the sustainability vector is key.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 5'''
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* Focus not only on high-level ideas, but also on required research and innovation actions needed to execute them;
* Encourage the production of socially and environmentally acceptable solutions and services with the science education of business and industry professionals;
* Develop case studies on how municipalities work with climate change projects and community driven innovation;
* Include more education aspects of citizenship, sustainability and ecology in schools;
* Increase knowledge on deep sea minerals occurrences and their economic;
* Work together (science, law, economics, policy) to give advice on seabed mining issues;
* Increase awareness in the use of raw materials and their importance on our society;
* Create an organized knowledge synthesis on Deep Sea Mining;
* Identify what are the society's perceptions and knowledge gaps for consideration in future planning of Deep Sea Mining research and innovation initiatives;
* Develop new capacities for studying and a performing monitoring;
* 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;
* Raise public awareness on the real problems;
* Develop and implement awareness and educational campaigns and engage local communities;
* Provide the results on MARINA platform;
* Learn from education, rather than experience, is necessary to avoid climate changes impact;
* Include marine/environmental education in school curricula;
* Developing a spatial plan specific to zoning of areas of offshore renewables;
* Develop a GIS information database;
* Develop a clear communications strategy;
* Develop a national strategy for coastal management and coastal protection;
* Develop a coastal protection strategy that is fit for purpose by all stakeholders;
* Focus on RRI issues by prompting participants to talk more about how researchers can be enrolled in all actions generated and how other stakeholders can be useful to researchers;
* Push for adjust rules to allow open access to relevant sector research results;
* Raise awareness through education for developing/supporting new technologies for responsible maritime transport;
* Open access, i.e. giving free online access to the results of publicly-funded research data will boost innovation and increase the use of scientific results by all societal actors;
* While interpreting the results consider that participants can have different information and data about the topic: the "reality" can be difficult to identify.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 6'''
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* Facilitate collaboration between research and industry/market to create a dynamic knowledge-sharing mechanism;
* Convince investors to facilitate the creation of a dynamic knowledge-sharing mechanism;
* Increase environmental and science education to promote societal understanding and participation;
* Create training programs targeting SMEs and investors by focusing on enablers and barriers;
* Exchange with star chefs on new products from the transformation of marine resources to provide the opportunity to make the audience aware a wider audience;
* Share data for a better cooperation and public engagement on the high seas;
* Raise awareness and spread information about marine biotechnologies to the different groups of stakeholders;
* Raise awareness on aquaculture in the Azores;
* 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;
* Organize of a marine biotechnology day at the regional level including different actors to make the general public aware on the marine biotechnology sector and its potential;
* Encourage scientists and NGO's to popularize the different aspects of marine biotechnology through science café, forums, open days etc;
* Organise Open Days in companies to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with marine biotechnologies;
* Involve senior/retired scientific experts to communicate on marine biotechnologies in layman's terms to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with the topic;
* Promote researchers qualifications to find new bio applications for products answering societal needs;
* Implement training and guidance for careers around marine biotechnologies to reduce marine pollution;
* Contribute with knowledge and conceptual frameworks that support interaction, collaboration and holistic recommendations based on research experience;
* Create new models for evaluating risks and economic issues;
* Create an open access platform with all Deep Sea Mining data available including biological and geological information;
* Educate children on the importance of biodiversity and how to think about the environment responsibly;
* Create a common DATABASE – for centralizing all the data and studies regarding biodiversity;
* Disseminate the results on MARINA platform;
* Use public-private partnerships as a new economical instrument;
* Raise public awareness regarding the benefits of renewable energy by promoting the renewable energy methods;
* Offer open access to the specialized information and share knowledge;
* Send the final results of the workshop to the participants;
* Promote and develop responsible and sustainable tourism in a changing environment;
* Education is the most important aspect that can accelerate social change and climate change mitigation;
* Create a path to open information on climate changes topic and related data;
* Development of an educational platform for changing knowledge between public and private institutions;
* Open data for all interested stakeholders;
* Inform and educate wider society of the impacts, challenges and potential solutions for coastal protection;
* Assess / quantify the social, economic and environmental risk;
* Succeed with public engagement through science education and open access in policy;
* Educate all stakeholders about sustainable tourism sustainability to achieve socially and environmentally acceptable goods and services;
* Science & Education and Open Access have a vital role in achieving success in the development of sustainable tourism ventures within Marine Protected Areas;
* Consider the impacts of any activity before consenting which may require the deployments of monitoring technologies to facilitate monitoring and impact assessment;
* Initiate open access through public offices also to non-governmental stakeholders;
* Educate citizens about the value of the sea in their daily lives is necessary to raise ocean awareness and literacy;
* Develop information exchange systems between government, industry and the universities;
* Start measuring and collecting marine scientific data on board different non-scientific vessels.
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* Use Open access to boost innovation and increase the use of scientific results by all societal actors as well as to develop public trust and engagement;
* Consider the distinction between the actions of making information available and the actions of making the information understandable by its potential users when dealing with Open Access;
* Develop real-time information systems, training activities and incentives to share knowledge and information for avoiding tendencies of local governments and businesses to downplay negative consequences;
* Develop new collaborations for new means of communication;
* Collect and share information and good practices to raise awareness on marine biotech and to reduce marine pollution;
* Take into consideration new types of ownership forms in order to kick-start of development;
* Analyse the impact of plumes and waste produced by Deep Sea Mining exploitation;
* Distinguish between occurrences and resources, in order to know what exists and its potential economic value;
* Develop efficient monitoring systems and assess the environmental impacts of best/worst policy practice;
* Build capacity through education by developing local and national programmes for secondary schools and outreach programmes through citizen projects utilising real-time data from monitoring equipment.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 8'''
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* Raise awareness among the general public to make informed choices and have an active social participation to further push the new initiatives;
* Use the media and science mediators to make society aware about research and innovation results;
* Encourage scientific knowledge and professional growth that have fundamental roles in supporting innovative sectors;
* Increase the impact of projects' results thanks to open access;
* Involve "Ambassadors" or " figures" at regional level (navigators, high level sportsman, known well-respected public figures of all kinds);
* Promote education, training and more equal incomes for fishermen in the Azores;
* Beware that the high level of qualification needed in aquaculture and the small scale of the region market are two constraints of the synergies between the fisheries and aquaculture sectors in the Azores;
* 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;
* Start a regional programme and raise awareness of tourism actors to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with marine biotechnologies;
* Train educators and information relays on marine biotechnologies to develop them in the field of marine pollution;
* Educate policy-makers to science to reinforce policies and adopt coherent legislative frameworks of economic competitiveness and sustainability of offshore wind energy;
* Add marine biotechnologies in school programmes to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with marine biotechnologies;
* Try to develop stronger engagement among schools and the local authorities for the maintenance of basic infrastructure;
* Attract students into engineering courses;
* Educate planners, civil society leaders, business industry to be more collaborative, responsible and exert place-based leadership;
* Communicate broadly and raise wide awareness about the specific initiative to anchor change;
* Raise the attractiveness of science studies by illustrating the application of science in societal issues;
* Improve marine education provided in medium and higher education;
* Create higher awareness on technological achievements from challenging and cutting edge successful projects to attract skilled people to work in the sector;
* Reliable scientific information is not easily accessible for sectorial actors;
* Focus on Science Education in sustainable development and marine resources management as a critical part of local culture and coastal tourism;
* Ethical issues are highly important in maintaining the sustainable operation of the vessels while safeguarding the environment;
* Raise awareness and embed RRI into educational curricula;
* Use of technology as an instrument to both monitor the regulations and to disseminate data in near real-time;
* Education is necessary for the marine biotechnology development thus the need for developing university educational programmes on marine biotechnology;
* Invest in communication campaign by professionals, work with marketing societies to translate the scientific results into clear messages that can reach in particular young people;
* Provide free and easier access to the results of the studies;
* Translate in easy-to-understand messages research outputs and results for better dissemination. Consider using science mediators;
* Provide scientific education in all the scholar cycles: it is crucial;
* Improving education/training;
* Claim for an international coordination to identify the possible impacts of innovations.
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==See also...==
[[RRI Dimension]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Public Engagement

2019-02-18T10:09:18Z

Jordankent:

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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 1'''
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* 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;
* Organise carefully the workshop phases for successfully meeting the objectives and for engaging all participants;
* Use dialog for initiating collaboration among private landowners and municipalities;
* Bring researchers from ‘non-conventional’ areas related to Deep Sea Mining;
* 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;
* Find a topic which will attract different stakeholders;
* Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) can help to overcome the current marine and societal challenges and unlock the potential for Blue Growth;
* Explore the questions that are relevant to the real-life concerns of the group.
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* Develop messages that make the problem tangible for everybody for instance by translating facts and figures into something simple and impactful;
* Provide a good incentive and personal benefits to motivate people to attend the workshop(s) and processes;
* Use using storytelling to describe the challenge with clear and concrete examples;
* Present the topic approached from the beginning of the workshop;
* Explain the challenge in an inclusive, strategic and broad manner for involving all types of participants;
* Define a clear triggering question highlighting the issue and goal to be addressed at the workshop;
* Use diverse communication channels (e-mail, telephone, face-to-face and word of mouth) for recruiting participants;
* Define the initiative's broad goals from a policy, social / cultural, economic, technological perspective;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstandings during the event;
* Focus the challenge with relevant examples for the participants and related to their daily lives;
* Use keynote speakers to introduce the topic for example specialists, but their speech must be in simple language and avoid using difficult terminology;
* Define the date, finalise the workshop topic and have communication material two months ahead;
* Focus the workshop and the RRI presentation on a topic relevant for the participants and related to their daily lives;
* Contact directly the person to recruit via e-mails or telephone;
* Address a specific subject that concerns multidisciplinary stakeholders;
* Invite additional stakeholders and communities to join the MARINA knowledge sharing platform and direct them to the results and materials related to Deep Sea Mining;
* Present the Mobilisation and Mutual Learning and RRI approach;
* Define a workshop triggering question that is short, clear and easily understood by all stakeholders;
* Consider personal e-mails as the recruitment mechanism because it has been proven by far the most effective recruitment mechanism;
* Be aware of the motivational factor that workshop participants may feel because they like the fact that an interdisciplinary group representing all society's niches is invited to brainstorming for resolving the problem;
* Be aware about the participants motivations to attend a workshop such as to learn from others participants;
* Perform an analysis of publics' behaviours before engaging the public engagement;
* Use audience targeted communication for all types stakeholders to engage them;
* Initiate target awareness campaigns towards all stakeholders through a specific media;
* Motivate to receive ahead of the workshop and on time the participants' action ideas and to attract participants from all stakeholders’ groups;
* Carefully consider the workshop's duration as many participants think that a one day-long workshop is too long;
* Prepare a concise information corpus for participants;
* Consider societal challenges (as defined by the EC) during the participative events, in order for the results to be easily related to them;
* Inform in a wider manner all societal actors about the issue.
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* Create a relaxing but effective work experience and joint decision-making with the world café methodology;
* Ensure a good representation of professionals (industry related to the topic, policy makers, journalists) to have a balanced dialogue;
* Send a personalised and direct (e-mail or telephone) invitation to ensure a better buy-in of targeted participants;
* Allocate sufficient time for discussions and to involve all participants interests and ideas;
* Allocate more time for group discussions during workshops;
* Adopt participative methods tested in MARINA in other initiatives including stakeholders;
* Attract participants by sending invitations via e‐mail, followed by phone calls;
* Present the topic approached from the beginning of the workshop;
* Offer a clear explanation of the methodology used to be as clear as possible to the participants;
* Use methods for involving the active participation of the public by giving them the opportunity to express their opinions;
* Offer a clear explanation of the methodology used in order to be as clear as possible for the participants;
* 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;
* Choose a familiar methodology for participants;
* Use a method that gives the opportunity to all participants to express their opinion;
* Moderate the workshop with an experienced facilitator to avoid "Groupthink" and the "Erroneous Priorities Effect";
* Explain at the start of the workshop the different phases that participants will go through;
* Continue to engage the stakeholders for knowledge exchange after the workshop;
* Make the workshops highly participatory and interactive;
* Give the participants sufficient time to present themselves and their work/field of interest, in order to facilitate connection and co-operation after the workshop;
* Plan an in-depth and varied engagement with stakeholders at all stages of the projects;
* Adapt the presentation of projects information to the specific needs of respective stakeholders groups;
* Help participants become active in the workshop by helping them understand the importance of the Marine Hot Topic;
* Collaborate with your local partners, which can be great allies.;
* Use role play and "Decide" game to integrate difficult concepts in workshop discussion;
* Adapt the workshop methodology to the local culture;
* Remember that apart from being scientists, teachers, policy-makers, they are all citizens of coastal cities who want to care for the environment as a private person;
* Use common words so that non scientists participants can understand and contribute to the discussion without being overwhelmed by scientific language;
* Assign participants to a specific table according to gender, type of organization/institution, type of expertise in the field, main interest in general to ensure multidisciplinarity;
* Multiply events where researchers from academia and industry exchange with a broader community to enhance this community and its visibility;
* Ensure that participants can exchange knowledge and meet new people;
* Look for participants open to dialogue, but who don't usually interact with each other;
* Start with a roundtable process so that everybody know each-other, and everyone can share their personal perspective of the subject;
* Empower all stakeholder groups to co-create sustainable value propositions that reflect societal needs and support healthy marine environments thanks to RRI dimensions;
* Connect all stakeholders through education and communication;
* Foster collaboration among companies in the marine biotechnologies value chain and social and environmental actors;
* Hook RRI abstract subjects to a topic related to participants lives and has interests in it;
* Recruit participants by telephone to ensure a great effectiveness of recruitment;
* Workshops may participants convince about RRI, but doesn't tend to help them in the concrete application of RRI in their daily work;
* Adapt the workshop schedule and structure according to the specifics and program of the stakeholders you want to attend;
* Implement RRI in real situations, with many participants proposing many actions;
* Choose a suitable method for the number of participants and the specific of the workshop;
* Present and explain the method used;
* Encouraged all the participants to work on all the solutions during the session;
* Mobilize stakeholders for active involvement;
* Engage stakeholders from different sectors of activity;
* Choose a method which will produce a large amount of data on a topic in a short time;
* Invite and encourage different stakeholders to participate at this kind of workshops;
* 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;
* Stimulate and ensure open dialogue among the attendees;
* 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;
* Plan the programme to encourage as much opportunity for interactions between participants;
* The SDD dialogue is a rigorous and efficient participatory methodology, but also time-consuming, leaving no time for the interpretation of the presented ideas in terms of their RRI dimensions by the participants during the workshop;
* Ask participants' to state their workshop expectations because experience shows that some find the workshop and its participatory method intriguing, others were interested In how to develop a shared vision, some had an interest in being inspired and build networks;
* Identify and invite the right number of participants representing all necessary science fields to create a viable action plan. Participant recruiting is time-consuming and must be planned well in advance of the workshop;
* The reversed science cafe method motivates participants to express their opinions and views in a structured, inclusive, yet open manner;
* Participatory workshops provide good opportunities for better discovering developments and problems of the studied industry;
* Enable workshops participants to create networks and communities of interest to further research and identify solutions for the studied issue;
* Engage participants via emails and phone calls, since it has been proven as the most effective means of recruitment;
* Be aware that it is challenging to persuade people to participate in workshops;
* Use both phone and email for citizen recruitment;
* Establish transparent, efficient and effective democratic mechanisms amongst all involved and throughout all the phases to create trust;
* Keep the workshop's duration short and engage an experienced facilitator;
* Email and telephone were the best communication channels for promoting the workshop;
* The SDD method was evaluated as very well structured, inclusive, productive, scientific, interesting and dynamic;
* Plan well the participant groups so that all stakeholders are sufficiently represented;
* Promote the workshop through websites and a poster campaigns;
* Push for multi-stakeholders' representation and input from all relevant actors;
* Bring people and particularly the young on location where they can have transformative experiences that they will seek to relieve throughout their lives;
* Engage young potential "citizen scientists" in schools to promote the issue at hand;
* Achieve positive engagement with all types of local stakeholders including relevant government agencies, local businesses, regulators, NGOs, CSOs, researchers and citizens;
* Clarify from the start of any process or workshop all terms and acronyms so that all participants from various backgrounds understand them;
* Explain clearly the workshop methodology and how the outputs will be used at the beginning of the workshop and include some warm-up activity;
* Learn about participatory methods and how to use them;
* Choose well the workshop methodology to allow participants contribute to the discussion and to strengthen the links among them;
* Ensure the comfort of the room (space around the tables, temperature, light etc.) to reduce the stress and fatigue of the participants and to improve the results. Provide some small "gift" or surprise them somehow, to create a friendly environment for the discussion;
* Define a clear agenda and respect it, but do not hesitate to be flexible and modify the schedule to reach the final results;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
* Participants do not subscribe gladly to the platform, they don't have time and/or willingness to learn using another tool;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
* Ensure you have some big institution's newsletter to disseminate your workshop for recruitment and spreading of the results;
* Use new participatory methodologies to attract participants;
* Take into consideration that despite participants' willingness to participate, often practical barriers impede their attendance in participative workshops;
* Consider having virtual discussions to help some stakeholder groups (e.g. citizens) to attend participatory workshops and events;
* Increase awareness in the youngest about the (local) marine issues to create a new generation of people that are aware of the problems and want to engage themselves, to take action also through a political career;
* Be flexible with the methodology adopted in order to finalize the process, even if not in the way you planned;
* Choose your methodology considering your audience;
* Dedicate the needed time to discuss and clarify the methodology and the agenda with the facilitator - and among the organizing group;
* Define the length of the workshop according with your foreseen audience and local habits;
* Involve students when possible;
* Stream only the most crucial sections of the workshop, disseminate the streaming agenda;
* Provide a synthetic, max 5 pages, info pack about the topic before the workshop;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
* Send an official invitation letter signed by the director/president of the institute organizing the workshop to facilitate the recruitment;
* Apply different participatory methods during the event to maintain a high level of attention.
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* Ensure that all voices have an equal footing in the debate during the workshop;
* Request participants keep trying to think from other stakeholders' position.;
* Allocate time for every participant to present his/her own idea and to discuss it in plenum;
* Let different perspectives on the subject, which will lead to a common background for further discussion;
* Give all participants the opportunity to discuss and generate ideas;
* Allocate time for every participant to present his/her idea and to discuss it in plenum;
* Take measures to develop and further enhance the engagement and cooperation between different stakeholders;
* Request the participants to state their ideas in the form of action statements in order to “push” them to think in practical terms;
* Make an inventory of innovations and tools, and facilitate collaboration and networking for the development of biotechnologies in France;
* Do not interfere too much with the topics participants chose to focus on, it mostly depends on individual needs/experience and knowledge;
* Give participants more time to contribute to the ideas at other tables;
* Enable each group to take the floor to present their results;
* Put in place a multi-stakeholder dialogue to efficiently reduce plastic pollution;
* Activate citizens as a resourceful group of action that could lead to a more innovative and including society;
* Find moderators with experience on methods used for event moderation;
* 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;
* Promote best practice cross sectorial stakeholder engagement processes through webinars;
* Find the best way to incorporate the multi-disciplinary element into the organisation of the workshop;
* Establish cooperation among diverse stakeholders (researchers, innovative businesses, politicians and citizens) even when it's challenging;
* Mobilise stakeholders early in the process to develop viable and sustainable business models;
* Joined stakeholder involvement produces ideas with integrated and holistic focus based on synergy and collaboration;
* Collect participant's post-workshop feedback focusing on the added value workshop points: the participatory method, the topic, the action plan, the common vision, the future participation options;
* Create a friendly and relaxed workshop atmosphere for participants to have lively and open discussions;
* Plan well the workshop so that participants provide their ideas in an active way;
* Avoiding "Groupthink" and the "Erroneous Priorities Effect": taking measures for the protection of the authenticity of all ideas;
* Give tight bounds to participants about the shape of the contributions they have to provide, so they will not have other option than provide what is needed;
* Check the discussion and gently but firmly ask the participants not to lose focus on the final purpose, to speed up and keep up with the timing or not to go too deep or too specific;
* One day is not enough for SDD.
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* Ensure that all participants stay until the end of the workshop to have coherent results;
* Have participants rank the priorities and discuss from the highest to the lowest to co-construct a common vision;
* Foster stakeholder engagement, capacity building, behavioural changes and production and consumption pattern shift with Science education;
* Use the SMART action format to ease the follow up of the workshop;
* 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;
* Define a clear plan for the future engagement of the workshop's participants to keep the community active;
* Create decision-making processes that are participative, transparent and allow for public deliberation;
* Check carefully the voting process of the actions, to avoid selfish or non correct behaviours which could distort the results;
* Translate workshop results in something short and friendly in short time and disseminate among the participants and others, not to loose momentum;
* Check carefully the voting process, to avoid selfish or improper behaviours, which could distort the results;
* Empower citizens beyond data collection through involvement in decision-making and governance;
* Prepare take home tools and methods that participants can implement in their jobs;
* Identify easy-to-implement solutions to attract people and harbour-related businesses in innovative harbour development;
* Develop tools for engaging citizens in urban development and communicate them broadly to inspire local communities;
* Develop new models and ways of collaborating on climate change in order to create common knowledge and more awareness of climate change in public mind;
* Organize more science dissemination events targeting the general public;
* Promote citizen science to involve the general public on research;
* Develop more partnerships with the Media and NGOs in order to reach bigger audiences;
* Develop and organize more actions, in order that different stakeholders meet and discuss their ideas more often and get used to think outside their boxes;
* Increase awareness regarding water quality;
* Develop a network of common interest;
* Try to obtain clear actions from people from different areas of interest, but targeting the common vision;
* Engage the public and involve governing bodies at various levels to generate ideas that are ethical, sustainable, inclusive and of social justice;
* Push participants to move beyond exchanging ideas and to start co-creating a vision;
* Improve efficient communication, generate plural debates and disseminate reliable data and information to convert vision into reality;
* Achieve success through multi-stakeholder engagement and consensus;
* Awareness and education are fundamental in changing mind-sets;
* Allocate a good part of the workshop for creating a clear common action plan;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: a) simple, short title; one line describing the idea and one-two lines (minimum) explaining and clarifying the idea;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: b) think who would be responsible for implementing the proposed action and how to engage the person or organisation;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: c) timing (when could such an idea be implemented);
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: d) resources (how would the idea be implemented);
* Ensure that the process of co-generating an action plan is concluded during the workshop;
* While interpreting the results consider the location of the workshop: statistically most of the participants will come from the area where the workshop is held;
* Choose the most effective methodology to build a common vision and give space to many different voices;
* Ask the participants to obtain in advance the necessary authorization from the Institutions they represent, to propose actions during the workshop;
* Consider the best way of collecting votes for the purpose such as the number of votes available for each participant, the rounds of votes, etc.
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* Identify common working initiatives between municipalities and the civil societies, so that citizens may be actively involved;
* Take actions in order to update the actual legislation;
* Involve some stakeholders in the creation or validation of the scientific processes to improve their acceptance of the final results, even if it can be seen as a time-consuming process;
* Follow up with the participants with periodic workshops using the same methodology;
* Develop new tools and infrastructures of research on marine resources, particularly in inaccessible depths, but also for monitoring the marine environment, stocks of biomass or still unwanted algae;
* Develop societal awareness about water and advantages of use of renewable energy sources in general and offshore wind farms in particular;
* Promote public engagement actions to raise awareness to the urgency of deep sea mapping;
* Develop partnership between different stakeholders;
* Create links among participants for future partnerships and develop a network of common interest;
* Engage participants to apply RRI principles in daily work and daily life;
* Develop a clear understanding around Marine Spacial Planning (MSP) and what its implications are for all stakeholders groups including offshore wind;
* Make urban planning and tourism development collaborative and democratic by involving citizens and business in envisioning urban futures and resolve negative environmental impacts;
* Follow-up on motivated participants of how that used the knowledge obtained in workshops for third private and professional projects;
* Educate the public at large in their individual role in marine conservation and sustainability (Public Engagement, Science Education);
* Action and follow-up the co-defined action plan;
* Make scientific information reliable and easily accessible to citizens and stakeholders;
* Use citizen observatories through mobile phones to report pollution sites and inappropriate environmental behaviour;
* Provide Open Access to data for a proactive response to societal challenges.
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* Follow-up with all participants and monitor results regularly and engage them in post-workshop knowledge sharing and networking through an online platform;
* It's necessary a good collaboration and interaction between civil society, policy makers, researchers, business sector and citizens, in all the Black Sea coastal countries;
* Be aware that only about half of the participants are likely to use the knowledge gained at the workshop;
* Involving customers ranked the most favourable cluster with specific actions including the adoption of the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) business model;
* Try to engage volunteer groups/stakeholders who use the specific environment on a regular basis;
* The participants did not follow-up on the platform as they declared they were willing to do: there are too many platforms, they get lost or do not have time to explore another one.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 8'''
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* Coordinate collaborative activities and tools to push RRI forward;
* Organise regular follow-up workshops by involving more decision makers to anchor change;
* Promote a greater participation of general public in projects financed by European funds to help filling the gap between science and society;
* Equip urban open areas for open debates where local communities can meet frequently in order to exercise the rights guaranteed by the Aarhus convention to develop sustainable decisions in a collective and legal manner;
* Be aware that the knowledge transfer to other sectors and general public is a great challenge faced by partners of European projects;
* Consider opportunities of synergies between the fisheries and aquaculture sectors in the Azores;
* Coordinate and develop industrial, academic and political linkages to boost funding around marine biotechnologies;
* Engage all interested stakeholders in harbour development;
* Attract private investments and develop national projects;
* Disseminate information about opportunities, threats and risks on the studied topic;
* Create a seafood producers organisation in France to reduce the gap between the producers and consumers;
* Facilitate fruitful discussions and widely disseminate conclusions to third parties;
* Create platforms where industry and academic leaders can disseminate accurate and influential information which can be accessible by the general public;
* Plan periodic meetings on the same topic, with old and new participants, to create ownership of the process, intensify the effort and ensure follow-up;
* Involve a multitude of stakeholders and implement actions as widely as possible, even globally, in order for adopted policies and solutions to be as relevant as possible, resulting in more support to implement the changes by all sides;
* Use your participatory event as a flywheel to organize other similar events.
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==See also...==
[[RRI Dimension]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Relating to all Stakeholder Types

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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 1'''
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* Keep in mind the local context to answer local needs and specificities;
* 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;
* Organise carefully the workshop phases for successfully meeting the objectives and for engaging all participants;
* Make lists of actions and players, record skills, know-how and economic potential, identify best practices and make full use of them to put the chosen topic on the national agenda;
* Be careful of possible competition of other events happening as the same time in the same city or on the same topic;
* Use dialog for initiating collaboration among private landowners and municipalities;
* Bring researchers from ‘non-conventional’ areas related to Deep Sea Mining;
* 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;
* Find a topic which will attract different stakeholders;
* Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) can help to overcome the current marine and societal challenges and unlock the potential for Blue Growth;
* There is a strong need for redefining and refocusing the business model of tourism;
* Explore the questions that are relevant to the real-life concerns of the group.
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* Develop messages that make the problem tangible for everybody for instance by translating facts and figures into something simple and impactful;
* Provide a good incentive and personal benefits to motivate people to attend the workshop(s) and processes;
* Use using storytelling to describe the challenge with clear and concrete examples;
* Present the RRI concept with clear examples;
* Present the topic approached from the beginning of the workshop;
* Explain the challenge in an inclusive, strategic and broad manner for involving all types of participants;
* Define a clear triggering question highlighting the issue and goal to be addressed at the workshop;
* Use diverse communication channels (e-mail, telephone, face-to-face and word of mouth) for recruiting participants;
* Define the initiative's broad goals from a policy, social / cultural, economic, technological perspective;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstandings during the event;
* Focus the challenge with relevant examples for the participants and related to their daily lives;
* Use keynote speakers to introduce the topic for example specialists, but their speech must be in simple language and avoid using difficult terminology;
* Define the date, finalise the workshop topic and have communication material two months ahead;
* Focus the workshop and the RRI presentation on a topic relevant for the participants and related to their daily lives;
* Make the high seas more visible to all stakeholders, the benefits for all and the issues at stake;
* Contact directly the person to recruit via e-mails or telephone;
* Make the MARINA platform a case study platform where collaborative coastal climate solution projects are presented;
* Address a specific subject that concerns multidisciplinary stakeholders;
* Invite additional stakeholders and communities to join the MARINA knowledge sharing platform and direct them to the results and materials related to Deep Sea Mining;
* Explain clearly the MARINA project goals;
* Present the Mobilisation and Mutual Learning and RRI approach;
* Define a workshop triggering question that is short, clear and easily understood by all stakeholders;
* Consider personal e-mails as the recruitment mechanism because it has been proven by far the most effective recruitment mechanism;
* Make marine issues visible and understandable to the public;
* Explain RRI and innovation tools and how to embed them in policy agendas as participants find it useful;
* Run awareness campaigns so that the issue problem is clearly understood by all stakeholders;
* Be aware of the motivational factor that workshop participants may feel because they like the fact that an interdisciplinary group representing all society's niches is invited to brainstorming for resolving the problem;
* Be aware about the participants motivations to attend a workshop such as to learn from others participants;
* Perform an analysis of publics' behaviours before engaging the public engagement;
* Use audience targeted communication for all types stakeholders to engage them;
* Initiate target awareness campaigns towards all stakeholders through a specific media;
* Motivate to receive ahead of the workshop and on time the participants' action ideas and to attract participants from all stakeholders’ groups;
* Start planning at least 4 months in advance the organisation of a workshop as it is very time consuming task;
* Carefully consider the workshop's duration as many participants think that a one day-long workshop is too long;
* Prepare a concise information corpus for participants;
* Consider societal challenges (as defined by the EC) during the participative events, in order for the results to be easily related to them;
* Inform in a wider manner all societal actors about the issue.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 3'''
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* Create a relaxing but effective work experience and joint decision-making with the world café methodology;
* Ensure a good representation of professionals (industry related to the topic, policy makers, journalists) to have a balanced dialogue;
* Send a personalised and direct (e-mail or telephone) invitation to ensure a better buy-in of targeted participants;
* Allocate sufficient time for discussions and to involve all participants interests and ideas;
* Allocate more time for group discussions during workshops;
* Adopt participative methods tested in MARINA in other initiatives including stakeholders;
* Attract participants by sending invitations via e‐mail, followed by phone calls;
* Present the topic approached from the beginning of the workshop;
* Offer a clear explanation of the methodology used to be as clear as possible to the participants;
* Use methods for involving the active participation of the public by giving them the opportunity to express their opinions;
* Offer a clear explanation of the methodology used in order to be as clear as possible for the participants;
* 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;
* Choose a familiar methodology for participants;
* Use a method that gives the opportunity to all participants to express their opinion;
* Moderate the workshop with an experienced facilitator to avoid "Groupthink" and the "Erroneous Priorities Effect";
* Involve the private sector, policymakers, the scientific community and the local and national community for the definition of ideas, needs and solutions;
* Explain at the start of the workshop the different phases that participants will go through;
* Continue to engage the stakeholders for knowledge exchange after the workshop;
* Make the workshops highly participatory and interactive;
* Give the participants sufficient time to present themselves and their work/field of interest, in order to facilitate connection and co-operation after the workshop;
* Plan an in-depth and varied engagement with stakeholders at all stages of the projects;
* Adapt the presentation of projects information to the specific needs of respective stakeholders groups;
* Construct a good collaboration among project partners from the beginning of the project to its legacy to ensure a wider take-up of the results by all partners;
* Consider carefully legislation and cultural differences between project participants in the discussion prior to the project proposal to avoid possible understanding of feasability barriers;
* Help participants become active in the workshop by helping them understand the importance of the Marine Hot Topic;
* Collaborate with your local partners, which can be great allies;
* Use role play and "Decide" game to integrate difficult concepts in workshop discussion;
* Adapt the workshop methodology to the local culture;
* Remember that apart from being scientists, teachers, policy-makers, they are all citizens of coastal cities who want to care for the environment as a private person;
* Use common words so that non scientists participants can understand and contribute to the discussion without being overwhelmed by scientific language;
* Assign participants to a specific table according to gender, type of organization/institution, type of expertise in the field, main interest in general to ensure multidisciplinarity;
* Multiply events where researchers from academia and industry exchange with a broader community to enhance this community and its visibility;
* Ensure that participants can exchange knowledge and meet new people;
* Empower European citizens, business representatives, researchers and policy makers to take informed decisions on the high seas through science education;
* Look for participants open to dialogue, but who don't usually interact with each other;
* Start with a roundtable process so that everybody know each-other, and everyone can share their personal perspective of the subject;
* Empower all stakeholder groups to co-create sustainable value propositions that reflect societal needs and support healthy marine environments thanks to RRI dimensions;
* Connect all stakeholders through education and communication;
* Hook RRI abstract subjects to a topic related to participants lives and has interests in it;
* Recruit participants by telephone to ensure a great effectiveness of recruitment;
* Workshops may participants convince about RRI, but doesn't tend to help them in the concrete application of RRI in their daily work;
* Develop concrete examples that stakeholders can understand and get involved;
* Adapt the workshop schedule and structure according to the specifics and program of the stakeholders you want to attend;
* Invite stakeholders to provide their feedback about workshop;
* Implement RRI in real situations, with many participants proposing many actions;
* Choose a suitable method for the number of participants and the specific of the workshop;
* Present and explain the method used;
* Encouraged all the participants to work on all the solutions during the session;
* Mobilize stakeholders for active involvement;
* Provide as much information as possible to the subject before the workshop;
* Engage stakeholders from different sectors of activity;
* Choose a method which will produce a large amount of data on a topic in a short time;
* Invite and encourage different stakeholders to participate at this kind of workshops;
* 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;
* Stimulate and ensure open dialogue among the attendees;
* 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;
* Plan the programme to encourage as much opportunity for interactions between participants;
* The SDD dialogue is a rigorous and efficient participatory methodology, but also time-consuming, leaving no time for the interpretation of the presented ideas in terms of their RRI dimensions by the participants during the workshop;
* Ask participants' to state their workshop expectations because experience shows that some find the workshop and its participatory method intriguing, others were interested In how to develop a shared vision, some had an interest in being inspired and build networks;
* The reversed science cafe method motivates participants to express their opinions and views in a structured, inclusive, yet open manner;
* Participatory workshops provide good opportunities for better discovering developments and problems of the studied industry;
* Enable workshops participants to create networks and communities of interest to further research and identify solutions for the studied issue;
* Engage participants via emails and phone calls, since it has been proven as the most effective means of recruitment;
* Be aware that it is challenging to persuade people to participate in workshops;
* Establish transparent, efficient and effective democratic mechanisms amongst all involved and throughout all the phases to create trust;
* Keep the workshop's duration short and engage an experienced facilitator;
* Email and telephone were the best communication channels for promoting the workshop;
* The SDD method was evaluated as very well structured, inclusive, productive, scientific, interesting and dynamic;
* The education of young people and the use of exchange programs between schools will lead to active citizenship respectful of the environment;
* Plan well the participant groups so that all stakeholders are sufficiently represented;
* Promote the workshop through websites and a poster campaigns;
* Push for multi-stakeholders' representation and input from all relevant actors;
* All relevant stakeholders need to be involved in the process of developing sustainable tourism ventures within Marine Protected Areas (MPAs);
* Achieve positive engagement with all types of local stakeholders including relevant government agencies, local businesses, regulators, NGOs, CSOs, researchers and citizens;
* Clarify from the start of any process or workshop all terms and acronyms so that all participants from various backgrounds understand them;
* Explain clearly the workshop methodology and how the outputs will be used at the beginning of the workshop and include some warm-up activity;
* Engage researchers with the industry for the development of appropriate technologies since there is a discrepancy between the academia and the industry needs;
* Raise awareness among pupils and students about environmental protection through informational programs as well as promote the specific sector as a means of employability;
* Learn about participatory methods and how to use them;
* Help the participants with examples to understand how to embed RRI principles when discussing a sector and societal challenges;
* Choose well the workshop methodology to allow participants contribute to the discussion and to strengthen the links among them;
* Ensure the comfort of the room (space around the tables, temperature, light etc.) to reduce the stress and fatigue of the participants and to improve the results. Provide some small "gift" or surprise them somehow, to create a friendly environment for the discussion;
* Define a clear agenda and respect it, but do not hesitate to be flexible and modify the schedule to reach the final results;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
* Participants do not subscribe gladly to the platform, they don't have time and/or willingness to learn using another tool;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
* Ensure you have some big institution's newsletter to disseminate your workshop for recruitment and spreading of the results;
* Use new participatory methodologies to attract participants;
* Be flexible with the methodology adopted in order to finalize the process, even if not in the way you planned;
* Choose your methodology considering your audience;
* Dedicate the needed time to discuss and clarify the methodology and the agenda with the facilitator - and among the organizing group;
* Define the length of the workshop according with your foreseen audience and local habits;
* Stream only the most crucial sections of the workshop, disseminate the streaming agenda;
* Provide a synthetic, max 5 pages, info pack about the topic before the workshop;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
* Send an official invitation letter signed by the director/president of the institute organizing the workshop to facilitate the recruitment;
* Apply different participatory methods during the event to maintain a high level of attention.
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* Ensure that all voices have an equal footing in the debate during the workshop;
* Request participants keep trying to think from other stakeholders' position;
* Allocate time for every participant to present his/her own idea and to discuss it in plenum;
* Let different perspectives on the subject, which will lead to a common background for further discussion;
* Give all participants the opportunity to discuss and generate ideas;
* Allocate time for every participant to present his/her idea and to discuss it in plenum;
* Take measures to develop and further enhance the engagement and cooperation between different stakeholders;
* Request the participants to state their ideas in the form of action statements in order to “push” them to think in practical terms;
* Make an inventory of innovations and tools, and facilitate collaboration and networking for the development of biotechnologies in France;
* Do not interfere too much with the topics participants chose to focus on, it mostly depends on individual needs/experience and knowledge;
* Give participants more time to contribute to the ideas at other tables;
* Enable each group to take the floor to present their results;
* Put in place a multi-stakeholder dialogue to efficiently reduce plastic pollution;
* Activate citizens as a resourceful group of action that could lead to a more innovative and including society;
* Find moderators with experience on methods used for event moderation;
* 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;
* Promote the societal challenge as a hot topic and the workshop's results (media, partners, stakeholders, etc);
* 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;
* Find the best way to incorporate the multi-disciplinary element into the organisation of the workshop;
* Capture the content in a way that is more free-flowing which is later interpreted by the workshop team;
* Establish cooperation among diverse stakeholders (researchers, innovative businesses, politicians and citizens) even when it's challenging;
* Mobilise stakeholders early in the process to develop viable and sustainable business models;
* Joined stakeholder involvement produces ideas with integrated and holistic focus based on synergy and collaboration;
* Collect participant's post-workshop feedback focusing on the added value workshop points: the participatory method, the topic, the action plan, the common vision, the future participation options;
* Create a friendly and relaxed workshop atmosphere for participants to have lively and open discussions;
* The absence of gender equality reveals a critical gap in access to opportunities and resources and decision-making power for women and men;
* Plan well the workshop so that participants provide their ideas in an active way;
* The SDD method allows for integrating contributions from individuals with diverse views, backgrounds and perspectives through a process that is structured, inclusive and collaborative;
* Avoiding "Groupthink" and the "Erroneous Priorities Effect": taking measures for the protection of the authenticity of all ideas;
* A structured participatory method like SDD helps participants converge their opinions towards a common vision and a common action plan;
* Give tight bounds to participants about the shape of the contributions they have to provide, so they will not have other option than provide what is needed;
* Actively introduce Gender Equality into discussions and ideas, as most often is a non considered aspect;
* Provide the participants with the legislative aspects related to the topic. If possible ensure the attendance of an expert;
* Check the discussion and gently but firmly ask the participants not to lose focus on the final purpose, to speed up and keep up with the timing or not to go too deep or too specific;
* One day is not enough for SDD.
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* Ensure that all participants stay until the end of the workshop to have coherent results;
* Have participants rank the priorities and discuss from the highest to the lowest to co-construct a common vision;
* Foster stakeholder engagement, capacity building, behavioural changes and production and consumption pattern shift with Science education;
* Use the SMART action format to ease the follow up of the workshop;
* 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;
* Engage local communities in awareness raising event;
* Define a clear plan for the future engagement of the workshop's participants to keep the community active;
* Focus not only on high-level ideas, but also on required research and innovation actions needed to execute them;
* Develop a common vision and an action plan with a more narrow focus combining development milestones and follow-up workshops;
* Create decision-making processes that are participative, transparent and allow for public deliberation;
* Check carefully the voting process of the actions, to avoid selfish or non correct behaviours which could distort the results;
* Translate workshop results in something short and friendly in short time and disseminate among the participants and others, not to loose momentum;
* Check carefully the voting process, to avoid selfish or improper behaviours, which could distort the results;
* Consider the RRI principles as guidelines to construct the project processes for a sound management of the projects;
* Prepare take home tools and methods that participants can implement in their jobs;
* Provide a quality framework in which all stakeholders can work toward a solution thanks to a good governance;
* Develop new models and ways of collaborating on climate change in order to create common knowledge and more awareness of climate change in public mind;
* Include key local stakeholders in the planning and implementation of local strategies;
* Include more education aspects of citizenship, sustainability and ecology in schools;
* Organize more science dissemination events targeting the general public;
* Promote citizen science to involve the general public on research;
* Develop more partnerships with the Media and NGOs in order to reach bigger audiences;
* Develop and organize more actions, in order that different stakeholders meet and discuss their ideas more often and get used to think outside their boxes;
* Work together (science, law, economics, policy) to give advice on seabed mining issues;
* Increase awareness in the use of raw materials and their importance on our society;
* Create an organized knowledge synthesis on Deep Sea Mining;
* Identify what are the society's perceptions and knowledge gaps for consideration in future planning of Deep Sea Mining research and innovation initiatives;
* Increase awareness regarding water quality;
* Develop a network of common interest;
* Promote the meaning of the term "renewable energy systems";
* Develop educational programs to prepare specialists in the "renewable energy systems" field;
* Raise public awareness on the real problems;
* Develop and implement awareness and educational campaigns and engage local communities;
* Provide the results on MARINA platform;
* Learn from education, rather than experience, is necessary to avoid climate changes impact;
* Include marine/environmental education in school curricula;
* Try to obtain clear actions from people from different areas of interest, but targeting the common vision;
* Develop a clear communications strategy;
* Use of research and data sets to ensure that decisions are made to safeguard the interests of all stakeholders;
* Engage the public and involve governing bodies at various levels to generate ideas that are ethical, sustainable, inclusive and of social justice;
* Raise awareness through education for developing/supporting new technologies for responsible maritime transport;
* Push participants to move beyond exchanging ideas and to start co-creating a vision;
* Improve efficient communication, generate plural debates and disseminate reliable data and information to convert vision into reality;
* Achieve success through multi-stakeholder engagement and consensus;
* Awareness and education are fundamental in changing mind-sets;
* Open access, i.e. giving free online access to the results of publicly-funded research data will boost innovation and increase the use of scientific results by all societal actors;
* Allocate a good part of the workshop for creating a clear common action plan;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: a) simple, short title; one line describing the idea and one-two lines (minimum) explaining and clarifying the idea;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: b) think who would be responsible for implementing the proposed action and how to engage the person or organisation;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: c) timing (when could such an idea be implemented);
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: d) resources (how would the idea be implemented);
* Ensure that the process of co-generating an action plan is concluded during the workshop;
* While interpreting the results consider the location of the workshop: statistically most of the participants will come from the area where the workshop is held;
* Choose the most effective methodology to build a common vision and give space to many different voices;
* While interpreting the results consider that participants can have different information and data about the topic: the "reality" can be difficult to identify;
* Ask the participants to obtain in advance the necessary authorization from the Institutions they represent, to propose actions during the workshop;
* Consider the best way of collecting votes for the purpose such as the number of votes available for each participant, the rounds of votes, etc.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 6'''
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* Develop sustainable and long-term solutions even if they do not entirely focus on technical and/or economic aspects, but add lifestyle qualities and/or facilities;
* Increase environmental and science education to promote societal understanding and participation;
* Create training programs targeting SMEs and investors by focusing on enablers and barriers;
* Involve some stakeholders in the creation or validation of the scientific processes to improve theur acceptance of the final results, even if it can be seen as a time-consuming process;
* Follow up with the participants with periodic workshops using the same methodology;
* Share data for a better cooperation and public engagement on the high seas;
* Raise awareness and spread information about marine biotechnologies to the different groups of stakeholders;
* Raise awareness on aquaculture in the Azores;
* Create an open access platform with all Deep Sea Mining data available including biological and geological information;
* Educate children on the importance of biodiversity and how to think about the environment responsibly;
* Promote public engagement actions to raise awareness to the urgency of deep sea mapping;
* Create a common DATABASE – for centralizing all the data and studies regarding biodiversity;
* Develop partnership between different stakeholders;
* Disseminate the results on MARINA platform;
* Create links among participants for future partnerships and develop a network of common interest;
* Raise public awareness regarding the benefits of renewable energy by promoting the renewable energy methods;
* Offer open access to the specialized information and share knowledge;
* Send the final results of the workshop to the participants;
* Promote and develop responsible and sustainable tourism in a changing environment;
* Use rational the natural resources, with maximum economy;
* Education is the most important aspect that can accelerate social change and climate change mitigation;
* Create a path to open information on climate changes topic and related data;
* Change unsustainable patterns of consumption and production, in order to reduce the amount of waste;
* Develop campaigns for promoting sustainable fishing methods and techniques through protecting resources and other incentives/compensation;
* Development of an educational platform for changing knowledge between public and private institutions;
* Engage participants to apply RRI principles in daily work and daily life;
* 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;
* Inform and educate wider society of the impacts, challenges and potential solutions for coastal protection;
* Assess / quantify the social, economic and environmental risk;
* Make urban planning and tourism development collaborative and democratic by involving citizens and business in envisioning urban futures and resolve negative environmental impacts;
* Follow-up on motivated participants of how that used the knowledge obtained in workshops for third private and professional projects;
* Educate all stakeholders about sustainable tourism sustainability to achieve socially and environmentally acceptable goods and services;
* Changing customer demand requires attractive and sustainable products that provide unique and customised experiences;
* Action and follow-up the co-defined action plan;
* Each initiative on sustainable tourism products requires the right expertise (knowledge and skills) and institutional participatory processes that will support stakeholders' successful involvement;
* Consider the impacts of any activity before consenting which may require the deployments of monitoring technologies to facilitate monitoring and impact assessment;
* Coordinate all activities related to policy, planning and regulation in the best possible way to reduce conflict and help meet environmental, economic and social objectives;
* Push for cooperation among academic institutions and the industry, as it is crucial;
* The greater majority of actions relate to more than one RRI dimension; this shows that actions are multidisciplinary and involve multiple stakeholders.
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* Use Open access to boost innovation and increase the use of scientific results by all societal actors as well as to develop public trust and engagement;
* Consider the distinction between the actions of making information available and the actions of making the information understandable by its potential users when dealing with Open Access;
* Develop real-time information systems, training activities and incentives to share knowledge and information for avoiding tendencies of local governments and businesses to downplay negative consequences;
* Follow-up with all participants and monitor results regularly and engage them in post-workshop knowledge sharing and networking through an online platform;
* Governance should strive for active engagement of the key public and private stakeholder bodies for the development and impact on the societal challenge;
* To measure success, define clear and achievable objectives;
* The ultimate aim should be to develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts and to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products;
* Develop new collaborations for new means of communication;
* Collect and share information and good practices to raise awareness on marine biotech and to reduce marine pollution;
* Distinguish between occurrences and resources, in order to know what exists and its potential economic value;
* Build a coastal protection system that can harness the wave energy;
* It's necessary a good collaboration and interaction between civil society, policy makers, researchers, business sector and citizens, in all the Black Sea coastal countries;
* Develop efficient monitoring systems and assess the environmental impacts of best/worst policy practice;
* Be aware that only about half of the participants are likely to use the knowledge gained at the workshop;
* Build capacity through education by developing local and national programmes for secondary schools and outreach programmes through citizen projects utilising real-time data from monitoring equipment;
* Try to engage volunteer groups/stakeholders who use the specific environment on a regular basis;
* The participants did not follow-up on the platform as they declared they were willing to do: there are too many platforms, they get lost or do not have time to explore another one.
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* Coordinate collaborative activities and tools to push RRI forward;
* Create funding mechanisms to promote RRI in research and innovation in the innovative sectors;
* Increase the impact of projects' results thanks to open access;
* Push for the adoption of common processes for accessibility of results of European projects that would allow a comparison of results
through time and creation of broader synergies among past and present projects;
* Be aware that the knowledge transfer to other sectors and general public is a great challenge faced by partners of european projects;
* Promote education, training and more equal incomes for fishermen in the Azores;
* Consider opportunities of synergies between the fisheries and aquaculture sectors in the Azores;
* Beware that the high level of qualification needed in aquaculture and the small scale of the region market are two constraints of the synergies between the fisheries and aquaculture sectors in the Azores;
* Put in place a certification label of projects to draw guidelines for the sustainable development of marine biotechnologies;
* Engage all interested stakeholders in harbour development;
* Enhance coastal and maritime tourism by adapting to demographic changes, while maintaining the original vocation and atmosphere of the coastal cities;
* Educate planners, civil society leaders, business industry to be more collaborative, responsible and exert place-based leadership;
* Disseminate information about opportunities, threats and risks on the studied topic;
* Reliable scientific information is not easily accessible for sectorial actors;
* Create a seafood producers organisation in France to reduce the gap between the producers and consumers;
* Focus on Science Education in sustainable development and marine resources management as a critical part of local culture and coastal tourism;
* Facilitate fruitful discussions and widely disseminate conclusions to third parties;
* Use of technology as an instrument to both monitor the regulations and to disseminate data in near real-time;
* Create platforms where industry and academic leaders can disseminate accurate and influential information which can be accessible by the general public;
* Education is necessary for the marine biotechnology development thus the need for developing university educational programmes on marine biotechnology;
* Plan periodic meetings on the same topic, with old and new participants, to create ownership of the process, intensify the effort and ensure follow-up;
* Invest in communication campaign by professionals, work with marketing societies to translate the scientific results into clear messages that can reach in particular young people;
* Involve a multitude of stakeholders and implement actions as widely as possible, even globally, in order for adopted policies and solutions to be as relevant as possible, resulting in more support to implement the changes by all sides;
* Use your participatory event as a flywheel to organize other similar events.
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==See also...==
[[Stakeholder Type]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Researchers and Scientists

2019-02-18T10:03:57Z

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* Provide enough time for the presentation of science outcomes and sharing knowledge from research point of view;
* Improve science literacy and research applicability to increase awareness on the specific issue.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 3'''
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* Identify and invite the right number of participants representing all necessary science fields to create a viable action plan. Participant recruiting is time-consuming and must be planned well in advance of the workshop.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 4'''
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* Focus on the concept and its tools when explaining RRI to participants;
* Develop partnerships for science outreach actions;
* Encourage researchers to voice their opinions on marine issues in the media focusing on economic, environmental and social needs to enable the uptake of new technologies;
* Multidisciplinary research considers the sustainability vector is key.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 5'''
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* Implement a coherent national monitoring programme;
* Develop new methods of governance for engaging citizens through public awareness and politics;
* Increase knowledge on deep sea minerals occurrences and their economic;
* Develop new capacities for studying and a performing monitoring;
* Conduct studies of renewable energy on the Black Sea coastal area;
* Developing a spatial plan specific to zoning of areas of offshore renewables;
* Develop a national strategy for coastal management and coastal protection;
* Develop a coastal protection strategy that is fit for purpose by all stakeholders;
* Focus on RRI issues by prompting participants to talk more about how researchers can be enrolled in all actions generated and how other stakeholders can be useful to researchers;
* Define SMART common vision and actions towards a specific goal and project.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 6'''
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* Develop new tools and infrastructures of research on marine resources, particularly in inaccessible depths, but also for monitoring the marine environment, stocks of biomass or still unwanted algae;
* Carry out studies on potential impact of the investment in offshore wind energy to develop them;
* Encourage scientists and NGO's to popularize the different aspects of marine biotechnology through science café, forums, open days etc;
* Involve senior/retired scientific experts to communicate on marine biotechnologies in layman's terms to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with the topic;
* Promote researchers qualifications to find new bio applications for products answering societal needs;
* Implement training and guidance for careers around marine biotechnologies to reduce marine pollution;
* Contribute with knowledge and conceptual frameworks that support interaction, collaboration and holistic recommendations based on research experience;
* Make scientific information reliable and easily accessible to citizens and stakeholders;
* Science & Education and Open Access have a vital role in achieving success in the development of sustainable tourism ventures within Marine Protected Areas;
* Initiate open access through public offices also to non-governmental stakeholders;
* Provide Open Access to data for a proactive response to societal challenges;
* Start measuring and collecting marine scientific data on board different non-scientific vessels.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 7'''
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* Analyse the impact of plumes and waste produced by Deep Sea Mining exploitation;
* Enhance control mechanisms of research and innovation outputs, according to ethical rules.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 8'''
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* Organise regular follow-up workshops by involving more decision makers to anchor change;
* Ensure that funding will be secured for action plan execution and follow up actions;
* Use the media and science mediators to make society aware about research and innovation results;
* 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;
* Train educators and information relays on marine biotechnologies to develop them in the field of marine pollution;
* Attract private investments and develop national projects;
* Attract students into engineering courses;
* Communicate broadly and raise wide awareness about the specific initiative to anchor change;
* Raise the attractiveness of science studies by illustrating the application of science in societal issues;
* Create higher awareness on technological achievements from challenging and cutting edge successful projects to attract skilled people to work in the sector;
* Disseminate research and innovation outcomes that have societal relevance for ethical acceptability;
* Ethical issues are highly important in maintaining the sustainable operation of the vessels while safeguarding the environment;
* Provide free and easier access to the results of the studies;
* Translate in easy-to-understand messages research outputs and results for better dissemination. Consider using science mediators;
* Improving education/training;
* Claim for an international coordination to identify the possible impacts of innovations.
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==See also...==
[[Stakeholder Type]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Policy Makers

2019-02-18T10:03:28Z

Jordankent:

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* Realize a complete inventory of local skills needed for the topic of academic actors, start-ups or companies already established in the region;
* Start a survey to establish the relationship between local communities and the coastal areas and share results with politicians to put marine biotechnologies on the national agenda as an economic and sustainable opportunity.
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* Promote the involvement of public authorities on local, national and European levels;
* Identify motives for policy makers and implementers to participate in the workshops as they are reluctant in participating;
* Be aware that policy-makers are not easy to engage unless they see a specific benefit that fits their agenda.
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* Involve politicians and municipality representatives in workshops to increase its effectiveness;
* Identify or create a unique Body entrusted with the control of a process to ensure coordination and synergy of all stakeholders involved.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 4'''
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* Have proactive public participation from stakeholders, in particular from government and industry;
* Focus on environmental aspects through a multi-stakeholder approach to ensure stability and availability of resources;
* Stakeholders are concerned that the authorities and the private companies will decide to advance with Deep Sea Mining without proper public consultation and without knowing sufficient about the deep sea;
* The society believes that RRI will never be in full effect without strong political will.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 5'''
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* Apply a long-term and crosscutting strategic planning by defining SMART common vision and actions;
* Plan what to do with buildings/installations which have been created while building wind farms;
* Consider ethics when dealing with the legal frameworks to assure marine biotechnologies sustainability and social awareness;
* Identify easy-to-implement solutions to attract people and harbour-related businesses in innovative harbour development;
* Develop case studies on how municipalities work with climate change projects and community driven innovation;
* Develop tools for engaging citizens in urban development and communicate them broadly to inspire local communities;
* Improve governance by defining a shared and common vision by involving citizens and business networks for clean and green industries;
* Push for adjust rules to allow open access to relevant sector research results;
* Claim for an alignment between legislation and the changing scientific situation and technological innovations.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 6'''
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* Consider Governance as a common responsibility of citizens and decision makers;
* Identify common working initiatives between municipalities and the civil societies, so that citizens may be actively involved;
* Take actions in order to update the actual legislation;
* Put in place a policy-oriented, holistic and integrated approach to tackle complex issues;
* Make restaurants aware restaurants and the public about the potential offered by the blue biotechnologies;
* Educate children to environmental issues as well as renewable energy profits to create a new wiser society;
* Organize of a marine biotechnology day at the regional level including different actors to make the general public aware on the marine biotechnology sector and its potential;
* Develop new model of governance for marine biotechnology development including the engagement of the society;
* Build a network to report challenges to politicians to put marine biotechnologies on the national agenda as an economic and sustainable opportunity;
* Push for broad vision for industrial harbour development by local governments inviting non-harbour stakeholders to contribute in new ways;
* Adapt local policies and strategies in order to be in agreement with research outcomes;
* Plan local actions in agreement with its local circumstances instead of promoting larger-scale policies;
* Support local and international decision-makers in charge of evaluating if, when, how, by who and for what should Deep Sea Mining ever take place;
* Use of the outcomes of the national monitoring programme as part of a targeted national awareness raising campaign;
* Push governmental bodies for high-tier governance on local initiatives to have the biggest impact;
* Succeed with public engagement through science education and open access in policy;
* Create procedures for an open access to data and data exchange, to allow for multiple feedbacks from end-users and policy-makers;
* Disseminate widely local and regional regulations and type approvals since the businesses often have significant knowledge gaps;
* Develop information exchange systems between government, industry and the universities;
* Implement innovative and responsive policies to face climate change effects and assure a balanced competitiveness, growth and sustainability;
* Develop information-based decision support tools, with automated intervention systems.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 7'''
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* Get media cover and social media presence to influence policy and decision makers;
* Organise a European "Grenelle" of bioethics to do an inventory of knowledge, regulations and current projects and processes as well as to define indicators and good practices for the development of marine. biotech;
* Make regulations for developers and investors for securing more liveable areas in harbour transformations;
* Create innovative tools to guide the consumers, thus inducing public and private stakeholders (including NGOs) to invest in more sustainable directions;
* Start specific economic changes (investment, taxation) to support the goal of efficient and sustainable activities.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 8'''
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* Focus on good enforcement of already existing legislation mechanisms rather than reinventing others from scratch and adjust legislation as necessary;
* Train policymakers through communication tools and adapt legislation to facilitate the creation of a dynamic knowledge-sharing mechanism;
* Embed governance in legislation through accountability to ensure the sustainability and to address societal challenges;
* Provide tax reductions or other benefits to businesses for massively applying environmental protection legislature and procedures and for making use of innovative technologies;
* Advocate on the necessity of creating specific funding schemes to support the development of the targeted sector based on RRI principles;
* Put in place effective pathways for communicating policy recommandations to EU and to national bodies as part of the global process of the project;
* Create of a one-stop shop for the Institute of blue bio-technologies with short and long-term strategies;
* Create an award for the best blue bio-technologies innovation or product to make maritime biotechnologies a sustainable economic opportunity;
* Promote the reinforcement of policies and adoption of coherent legislative frameworks to develop marine biotechnology;
* 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;
* Coordinate and develop industrial, academic and political linkages to boost funding around marine biotechnologies;
* Train and convince policymakers, implementers, and investors to develop biotechnologies;
* Add marine biotechnologies in school programmes to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with marine biotechnologies;
* Try to develop stronger engagement among schools and the local authorities for the maintenance of basic infrastructure;
* Make environmental impact assessment mandatory for Deep Sea Mining within the EU;
* Improve the legislative framework to encourage the capitalization process of renewable energy;
* Use funding programs dedicated to citizens, aimed at replacing old goods and polluting with new and environmentally friendly ones;
* Define and update the legislation to prevent climate changes for Black Sea area;
* Involve citizens in public consultations and decision–making processes for local and national/ EU regulations;
* Build the appropriate infrastructure and technology for the Wave Energy Sector;
* Promote Sustainable Tourism policies to improve coastal and marine ecosystems, minimise pollution and create economic growth by combining efforts at national, regional and local levels and creating green funding schemes and incentives;
* Improve marine education provided in medium and higher education;
* Protect the deep sea from mining, create laws that impose that deep sea mining is a non-profit activity and concert the deep sea into world heritage site;
* Provide strong incentives to promote the circular economy;
* Promote governance arrangements and practices to favour sustainable tourism and seafood consumption;
* Raise awareness and embed RRI into educational curricula;
* Ensure the policies are socially inclusive and are widely known;
* Push for governance and ethics to be required in business registration requirements for creating awareness on sustainability;
* To develop a sector, develop a legal framework promoting and regulating its development;
* Ensure a ministerial umbrella to facilitate the educative process in school by scientists or scientific mediators;
* Engage government and law makers in order to make sustainable change in ports and ship;
* Consider that National and International organizations must balance economic profit and a competitive market with the goal of preserving the natural environment of our seas;
* Make ports hubs of sustainability;
* Improve regulations and legislations about the release of bacteria at sea;
* Improve legislation to deal with climate change and coastal errosion.
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==See also...==
[[Stakeholder Type]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Citizens and CSO's

2019-02-18T10:02:50Z

Jordankent:

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* Raise awareness of the general public on the environmental impact of offshore installations at all stages (building, exploitation, dismantling);
* Raise citizen and business awareness about the environmental protection and sustainability.
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* Use both phone and email for citizen recruitment;
* Bring people and particularly the young on location where they can have transformative experiences that they will seek to relieve throughout their lives;
* Engage young potential "citizen scientists" in schools to promote the issue at hand;
* Take into consideration that despite participants' willingness to participate, often practical barriers impede their attendance in participative workshops;
* Consider having virtual discussions to help some stakeholder groups (e.g. citizens) to attend participatory workshops and events;
* Increase awareness in the youngest about the (local) marine issues to create a new generation of people that are aware of the problems and want to engage themselves, to take action also through a political career;
* Involve students when possible.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 5'''
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* Empower citizens beyond data collection through involvement in decision-making and governance;
* Promote local communities and their traditions for societal relevance of the scientific outputs.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 6'''
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* Develop societal awareness about water and advantages of use of renewable energy sources in general and offshore wind farms in particular;
* Involve citizens in the political/technical systems;
* Educate the public at large in their individual role in marine conservation and sustainability (Public Engagement, Science Education);
* Use citizen observatories through mobile phones to report pollution sites and inappropriate environmental behaviour;
* Educate citizens about the value of the sea in their daily lives is necessary to raise ocean awareness and literacy.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 7'''
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* Involving customers ranked the most favourable cluster with specific actions including the adoption of the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) business model.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 8'''
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* Raise awareness among the general public to make informed choices and have an active social participation to further push the new initiatives;
* Promote a greater participation of general public in projects financed by European funds to help filling the gap between science and society;
* Equip urban open areas for open debates where local communities can meet frequently in order to exercise the rights guaranteed by the Aarhus convention to develop sustainable decisions in a collective and legal manner.-;
* Encourage scientific knowledge and professional growth that have fundamental roles in supporting innovative sectors;
* Involve "Ambassadors" or " figures" at regional level (navigators, high level sportsman, known well-respected public figures of all kinds);
* Start a regional programme and raise awareness of tourism actors to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with marine biotechnologies;
* Provide scientific education in all the scholar cycles: it is crucial;
* Put in place an effective communication about green washing, so to improve the critical sense of the public against "fake" green activities.
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==See also...==
[[Stakeholder Type]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Business Representatives

2019-02-18T10:01:24Z

Jordankent:

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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 3'''
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* Foster collaboration among companies in the marine biotechnologies value chain and social and environmental actors.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 5'''
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* Encourage the production of socially and environmentally acceptable solutions and services with the science education of business and industry professionals;
* Have business and industry professionals consider producing socially and environmentally acceptable marine bio-based goods and services;
* Develop a GIS information database.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 6'''
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* Facilitate collaboration between research and industry/market to create a dynamic knowledge-sharing mechanism;
* Convince investors to facilitate the creation of a dynamic knowledge-sharing mechanism;
* Exchange with star chefs on new products from the transformation of marine resources to provide the opportunity to make the audience aware a wider audience;
* Develop a "Social and Solidarity Economy" type of framework in the field of marine biotechnologies;
* Organise Open Days in companies to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with marine biotechnologies;
* Create new models for evaluating risks and economic issues;
* Use public-private partnerships as a new economical instrument;
* Business stakeholders are mostly interested on the policy agendas.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 7'''
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* Take into consideration new types of ownership forms in order to kick-start of development;
* Restructuring different mechanisms in order to prevent pollution and to apply polluter sanctions, to ensure the transparency of legislative processes.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 8'''
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* Implement program of innovative research in relation to the effectiveness of the constructions of towers and generators to ensure sustainable development of renewable energy;
* Oblige companies by contract to use 10% of their investment in an investigation in engineering design for mitigation of Deep Sea Mining during all the operation;
* Upgrade the transport infrastructure for renewable energy;
* Improve port reception facilities and services for processing over waste from ships;
* Increase the usage of alternative fuels for ships as for instance Liquefide Naturaò Gas.
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==See also...==
[[Stakeholder Type]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned Applying to none of the engagement

2019-02-18T10:00:51Z

Jordankent:

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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 6'''
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*Involve some stakeholders in the creation or validation of the scientific processes to improve theur acceptance of the final results, even if it can be seen as a time-consuming process.
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==See also...==
[[Stakeholder Engagement]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Co-Defining an Action Plan

2019-02-18T10:00:30Z

Jordankent:

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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 1'''
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* Explore the questions that are relevant to the real-life concerns of the group.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 2'''
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* Improve science literacy and research applicability to increase awareness on the specific issue;
* Consider societal challenges (as defined by the EC) during the participative events, in order for the results to be easily related to them.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 3'''
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* Ensure a good representation of professionals (industry related to the topic, policy makers, journalists) to have a balanced dialogue;
* Involve the private sector, policymakers, the scientific community and the local and national community for the definition of ideas, needs and solutions;
* Construct a good collaboration among project partners from the beginning of the project to its legacy to ensure a wider take-up of the results by all partners;
* Consider carefully legislation and cultural differences between project participants in the discussion prior to the project proposal to avoid possible understanding of feasability barriers;
* Collaborate with your local partners, which can be great allies;
* Use common words so that non scientists participants can understand and contribute to the discussion without being overwhelmed by scientific language;
* Connect all stakeholders through education and communication;
* Foster collaboration among companies in the marine biotechnologies value chain and social and environmental actors;
* Develop concrete examples that stakeholders can understand and get involved;
* Implement RRI in real situations, with many participants proposing many actions;
* Mobilize stakeholders for active involvement;
* Plan the programme to encourage as much opportunity for interactions between participants;
* All relevant stakeholders need to be involved in the process of developing sustainable tourism ventures within Marine Protected Areas (MPAs);
* Increase awareness in the youngest about the (local) marine issues to create a new generation of people that are aware of the problems and want to engage themselves, to take action also through a political career.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 4'''
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* Do not interfere too much with the topics participants chose to focus on, it mostly depends on individual needs/experience and knowledge;
* Give participants more time to contribute to the ideas at other tables;
* Try to approach of potential participants and their engagement in convergent discussions with the future topic of the event;
* Find the best way to incorporate the multi-disciplinary element into the organisation of the workshop;
* Capture the content in a way that is more free-flowing which is later interpreted by the workshop team;
* Establish cooperation among diverse stakeholders (researchers, innovative businesses, politicians and citizens) even when it's challenging;
* Mobilise stakeholders early in the process to develop viable and sustainable business models;
* Joined stakeholder involvement produces ideas with integrated and holistic focus based on synergy and collaboration;
* Focus on environmental aspects through a multi-stakeholder approach to ensure stability and availability of resources;
* Stakeholders are concerned that the authorities and the private companies will decide to advance with Deep Sea Mining without proper public consultation and without knowing sufficient about the deep sea;
* The absence of gender equality reveals a critical gap in access to opportunities and resources and decision-making power for women and men;
* The SDD method allows for integrating contributions from individuals with diverse views, backgrounds and perspectives through a process that is structured, inclusive and collaborative;
* Give tight bounds to participants about the shape of the contributions they have to provide, so they will not have other option than provide what is needed;
* Actively introduce Gender Equality into discussions and ideas, as most often is a non considered aspect;
* One day is not enough for SDD.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 5'''
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* Use the SMART action format to ease the follow up of the workshop;
* 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;
* Implement a coherent national monitoring programme;
* Apply a long-term and crosscutting strategic planning by defining SMART common vision and actions; * Focus not only on high-level ideas, but also on required research and innovation actions needed to execute them;
* Develop a common vision and an action plan with a more narrow focus combining development milestones and follow-up workshops;
* Empower citizens beyond data collection through involvement in decision-making and governance;
* Consider the RRI principles as guidelines to construct the project processes for a sound management of the projects;
* Prepare take home tools and methods that participants can implement in their jobs;
* Provide a quality framework in which all stakeholders can work toward a solution thanks to a good governance;
* Plan what to do with buildings/installations which have been created while building wind farms;
* Develop case studies on how municipalities work with climate change projects and community driven innovation;
* Develop new models and ways of collaborating on climate change in order to create common knowledge and more awareness of climate change in public mind;
* Include key local stakeholders in the planning and implementation of local strategies;
* Work together (science, law, economics, policy) to give advice on seabed mining issues;
* Create an organized knowledge synthesis on Deep Sea Mining;
* Develop new capacities for studying and a performing monitoring;
* Increase awareness regarding water quality;
* Conduct studies of renewable energy on the Black Sea coastal area;
* Develop educational programs to prepare specialists in the "renewable energy systems" field;
* Raise public awareness on the real problems;
* Develop and implement awareness and educational campaigns and engage local communities;
* Include marine/environmental education in school curricula;
* 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;
* Engage the public and involve governing bodies at various levels to generate ideas that are ethical, sustainable, inclusive and of social justice;
* Define SMART common vision and actions towards a specific goal and project;
* Raise awareness through education for developing/supporting new technologies for responsible maritime transport;
* Awareness and education are fundamental in changing mind-sets;
* Allocate a good part of the workshop for creating a clear common action plan;
* Ensure that the process of co-generating an action plan is concluded during the workshop;
* While interpreting the results consider that participants can have different information and data about the topic: the "reality" can be difficult to identify;
* Ask the participants to obtain in advance the necessary authorization from the Institutions they represent, to propose actions during the workshop.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 6'''
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* Facilitate collaboration between research and industry/market to create a dynamic knowledge-sharing mechanism;
* Convince investors to facilitate the creation of a dynamic knowledge-sharing mechanism;
* Develop sustainable and long-term solutions even if they do not entirely focus on technical and/or economic aspects, but add lifestyle qualities and/or facilities;
* Take actions in order to update the actual legislation;
* Put in place a policy-oriented, holistic and integrated approach to tackle complex issues;
* Carry out studies on potential impact of the investment in offshore wind energy to develop them;
* Create new models for evaluating risks and economic issue;
* Adapt local policies and strategies in order to be in agreement with research outcomes;
* Plan local actions in agreement with its local circumstances instead of promoting larger-scale policies;
* Support local and international decision-makers in charge of evaluating if, when, how, by who and for what should Deep Sea Mining ever take place;
* Create an open access platform with all Deep Sea Mining data available including biological and geological information;
* Create a common DATABASE – for centralizing all the data and studies regarding biodiversity;
* Create a path to open information on climate changes topic and related data;
* Change unsustainable patterns of consumption and production, in order to reduce the amount of waste;
* Develop campaigns for promoting sustainable fishing methods and techniques through protecting resources and other incentives/compensation;
* Development of an educational platform for changing knowledge between public and private institutions;
* Use of the outcomes of the national monitoring programme as part of a targeted national awareness raising campaign;
* Make urban planning and tourism development collaborative and democratic by involving citizens and business in envisioning urban futures and resolve negative environmental impacts;
* Educate the public at large in their individual role in marine conservation and sustainability (Public Engagement, Science Education);
* Changing customer demand requires attractive and sustainable products that provide unique and customised experiences;
* Action and follow-up the co-defined action plan;
* Each initiative on sustainable tourism products requires the right expertise (knowledge and skills) and institutional participatory processes that will support stakeholders' successful involvement;
* Initiate open access through public offices also to non-governmental stakeholders;
* Push for cooperation among academic institutions and the industry, as it is crucial;
* The greater majority of actions relate to more than one RRI dimension; this shows that actions are multidisciplinary and involve multiple stakeholders;
* Implement innovative and responsive policies to face climate change effects and assure a balanced competitiveness, growth and sustainability;
* Start measuring and collecting marine scientific data on board different non-scientific vessels;
* Develop information-based decision support tools, with automated intervention systems.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 7'''
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* Governance should strive for active engagement of the key public and private stakeholder bodies for the development and impact on the societal challenge;
* The ultimate aim should be to develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts and to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products;
* Organise a European "Grenelle" of bioethics to do an inventory of knowledge, regulations and current projects and processes as well as to define indicators and good practices for the development of marine biotech;
* Take into consideration new types of ownership forms in order to kick-start of development;
* Build a coastal protection system that can harness the wave energy;
* Restructuring different mechanisms in order to prevent pollution and to apply polluter sanctions, to ensure the transparency of legislative processes;
* Create innovative tools to guide the consumers, thus inducing public and private stakeholders (including NGOs) to invest in more sustainable directions;
* Start specific economic changes (investment, taxation) to support the goal of efficient and sustainable activities;
* Enhance control mechanisms of research and innovation outputs, according to ethical rules.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 8'''
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* Focus on good enforcement of already existing legislation mechanisms rather than reinventing others from scratch and adjust legislation as necessary;
* Ensure that funding will be secured for action plan execution and follow up actions;
* Advocate on the necessity of creating specific funding schemes to support the development of the targeted sector based on RRI principles;
* Create funding mechanisms to promote RRI in research and innovation in the innovative sectors;
* Encourage scientific knowledge and professional growth that have fundamental roles in supporting innovative sectors;
* Promote education, training and more equal incomes for fishermen in the Azores;
* Consider opportunities of synergies between the fisheries and aquaculture sectors in the Azores;
* Beware that the high level of qualification needed in aquaculture and the small scale of the region market are two constraints of the synergies between the fisheries and aquaculture sectors in the Azores;
* Open university faculties, strongly connected with wind farms to help the sustainable development of renewable energy;
* Establish policies that are favourable for ecological investments in sustainable development;
* Coordinate and develop industrial, academic and political linkages to boost funding around marine biotechnologies;
* Make environmental impact assessment mandatory for Deep Sea Mining within the EU;
* Oblige companies by contract to use 10% of their investment in an investigation in engineering design for mitigation of Deep Sea Mining during all the operation;
* Upgrade the transport infrastructure for renewable energy;
* Use funding programs dedicated to citizens, aimed at replacing old goods and polluting with new and environmentally friendly ones;
* Define and update the legislation to prevent climate changes for Black Sea area;
* Improve port reception facilities and services for processing over waste from ships;
* Build the appropriate infrastructure and technology for the Wave Energy Sector;
* Enhance coastal and maritime tourism by adapting to demographic changes, while maintaining the original vocation and atmosphere of the coastal cities;
* Educate planners, civil society leaders, business industry to be more collaborative, responsible and exert place-based leadership;
* Raise the attractiveness of science studies by illustrating the application of science in societal issues;
* Protect the deep sea from mining, create laws that impose that deep sea mining is a non-profit activity and concert the deep sea into world heritage site;
* Provide strong incentives to promote the circular economy;
* Disseminate research and innovation outcomes that have societal relevance for ethical acceptability;
* Promote governance arrangements and practices to favour sustainable tourism and seafood consumption;
* Reliable scientific information is not easily accessible for sectorial actors;
* Education is necessary for the marine biotechnology development thus the need for developing university educational programmes on marine biotechnology;
* Invest in communication campaign by professionals, work with marketing societies to translate the scientific results into clear messages that can reach in particular young people;
* Provide free and easier access to the results of the studies;
* Translate in easy-to-understand messages research outputs and results for better dissemination. Consider using science mediators;
* Provide scientific education in all the scholar cycles: it is crucial;
* Put in place an effective communication about green washing, so to improve the critical sense of the public against "fake" green activities;
* Engage government and law makers in order to make sustainable change in ports and ship;
* Consider that National and International organizations must balance economic profit and a competitive market with the goal of preserving the natural environment of our seas;
* Make ports hubs of sustainability;
* Increase the usage of alternative fuels for ships as for instance Liquefide Naturaò Gas;
* Claim for an international coordination to identify the possible impacts of innovations.
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==See also...==
[[Stakeholder Engagement]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Co-Creating a Vision

2019-02-18T09:59:38Z

Jordankent:

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* Realize a complete inventory of local skills needed for the topic of academic actors, start-ups or companies already established in the region;
* Make lists of actions and players, record skills, know-how and economic potential, identify best practices and make full use of them to put the chosen topic on the national agenda;
* Start a survey to establish the relationship between local communities and the coastal areas and share results with politicians to put marine biotechnologies on the national agenda as an economic and sustainable opportunity;
* Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) can help to overcome the current marine and societal challenges and unlock the potential for Blue Growth;
* There is a strong need for redefining and refocusing the business model of tourism.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 2'''
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* Develop messages that make the problem tangible for everybody for instance by translating facts and figures into something simple and impactful;
* Present the RRI concept with clear examples;
* Present the topic approached from the beginning of the workshop;
* Provide enough time for the presentation of science outcomes and sharing knowledge from research point of view;
* Use keynote speakers to introduce the topic for example specialists, but their speech must be in simple language and avoid using difficult terminology;
* Make the high seas more visible to all stakeholders, the benefits for all and the issues at stake;
* Make the MARINA platform a case study platform where collaborative coastal climate solution projects are presented;
* Explain clearly the MARINA project goals
* Initiate target awareness campaigns towards all stakeholders through a specific media.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 3'''
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* Use role play and "Decide" game to integrate difficult concepts in workshop discussion;
* Empower European citizens, business representatives, researchers and policy makers to take informed decisions on the high seas through science education;
* Empower all stakeholder groups to co-create sustainable value propositions that reflect societal needs and support healthy marine environments thanks to RRI dimensions;
* Provide as much information as possible to the subject before the workshop;
* Develop webinars for cross-sectorial stakeholder engagement;
* Identify or create a unique Body entrusted with the control of a process to ensure coordination and synergy of all stakeholders involved.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 4'''
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* Request participants keep trying to think from other stakeholders' position;
* Let different perspectives on the subject, which will lead to a common background for further discussion;
* Activate citizens as a resourceful group of action that could lead to a more innovative and including society;
* Develop partnerships for science outreach actions;
* Promote the societal challenge as a hot topic and the workshop's results (media, partners, stakeholders, etc);
* Increase the level of awareness of Marine Spatial Planning process and it's implication in coastal communities and for all stakeholders;
* A structured participatory method like SDD helps participants converge their opinions towards a common vision and a common action plan;
* Check the discussion and gently but firmly ask the participants not to lose focus on the final purpose, to speed up and keep up with the timing or not to go too deep or too specific.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 5'''
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* Ensure that all participants stay until the end of the workshop to have coherent results;
* Have participants rank the priorities and discuss from the highest to the lowest to co-construct a common vision;
* Foster stakeholder engagement, capacity building, behavioural changes and production and consumption pattern shift with Science education;
* Identify easy-to-implement solutions to attract people and harbour-related businesses in innovative harbour development;
* Develop tools for engaging citizens in urban development and communicate them broadly to inspire local communities;
* Include more education aspects of citizenship, sustainability and ecology in schools;
* Organize more science dissemination events targeting the general public;
* Promote citizen science to involve the general public on research;
* Provide the results on MARINA platform;
* Learn from education, rather than experience, is necessary to avoid climate changes impact;
* Develop a national strategy for coastal management and coastal protection;
* Develop a coastal protection strategy that is fit for purpose by all stakeholders;
* Improve governance by defining a shared and common vision by involving citizens and business networks for clean and green industries;
* Push participants to move beyond exchanging ideas and to start co-creating a vision;
* While interpreting the results consider the location of the workshop: statistically most of the participants will come from the area where the workshop is held;
* Choose the most effective methodology to build a common vision and give space to many different voices.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 6'''
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* Consider Governance as a common responsibility of citizens and decision makers;
* Identify common working initiatives between municipalities and the civil societies, so that citizens may be actively involved;
* Make restaurants aware restaurants and the public about the potential offered by the blue biotechnologies;
* Share data for a better cooperation and public engagement on the high seas;
* Develop a "Social and Solidarity Economy" type of framework in the field of marine biotechnologies;
* Educate children to environmental issues as well as renewable energy profits to create a new wiser society;
* Organize of a marine biotechnology day at the regional level including different actors to make the general public aware on the marine biotechnology sector and its potential;
* Encourage scientists and NGO's to popularize the different aspects of marine biotechnology through science café, forums, open days etc;
* Organise Open Days in companies to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with marine biotechnologies;
* Involve senior/retired scientific experts to communicate on marine biotechnologies in layman's terms to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with the topic;
* Contribute with knowledge and conceptual frameworks that support interaction, collaboration and holistic recommendations based on research experience;
* Push for broad vision for industrial harbour development by local governments inviting non-harbour stakeholders to contribute in new ways;
* Educate children on the importance of biodiversity and how to think about the environment responsibly;
* Develop partnership between different stakeholders;
* Disseminate the results on MARINA platform;
* Offer open access to the specialized information and share knowledge;
* Send the final results of the workshop to the participants;
* Develop a clear understanding around Marine Spacial Planning (MSP) and what its implications are for all stakeholders groups including offshore wind;
* Assess / quantify the social, economic and environmental risk;
* Push governmental bodies for high-tier governance on local initiatives to have the biggest impact;
* Educate all stakeholders about sustainable tourism sustainability to achieve socially and environmentally acceptable goods and services.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 7'''
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* Use Open access to boost innovation and increase the use of scientific results by all societal actors as well as to develop public trust and engagement;
* Consider the distinction between the actions of making information available and the actions of making the information understandable by its potential users when dealing with Open Access;
* Get media cover and social media presence to influence policy and decision makers;
* Collect and share information and good practices to raise awareness on marine biotech and to reduce marine pollution;
* Analyse the impact of plumes and waste produced by Deep Sea Mining exploitation;
* Distinguish between occurrences and resources, in order to know what exists and its potential economic value.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 8'''
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* Push for the adoption of common processes for accessibility of results of European projects that would allow a comparison of results through time and creation of broader synergies among past and present projects;
* Put in place effective pathways for communicating policy recommandations to EU and to national bodies as part of the global process of the project;
* Be aware that the knowledge transfer to other sectors and general public is a great challenge faced by partners of european projects;
* Involve "Ambassadors" or " figures" at regional level (navigators, high level sportsman, known well-respected public figures of all kinds);
* Create of a one-stop shop for the Institute of blue bio-technologies with short and long-term strategies;
* Create an award for the best blue bio-technologies innovation or product to make maritime biotechnologies a sustainable economic opportunity;
* Start a regional programme and raise awareness of tourism actors to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with marine biotechnologies;
* Add marine biotechnologies in school programmes to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with marine biotechnologies;
* Try to develop stronger engagement among schools and the local authorities for the maintenance of basic infrastructure;
* Improve the legislative framework to encourage the capitalization process of renewable energy;
* Attract students into engineering courses;
* Promote Sustainable Tourism policies to improve coastal and marine ecosystems, minimise pollution and create economic growth by combining efforts at national, regional and local levels and creating green funding schemes and incentives;
* Push for governance and ethics to be required in business registration requirements for creating awareness on sustainability;
* To develop a sector, develop a legal framework promoting and regulating its development;
* Ensure a ministerial umbrella to facilitate the educative process in school by scientists or scientific mediators;
* Improve regulations and legislations about the release of bacteria at sea;
* Improving education/training;
* Improve legislation to deal with climate change and coastal errosion.
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==See also...==
[[Stakeholder Engagement]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Actively Participating

2019-02-18T09:59:04Z

Jordankent:

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* Keep in mind the local context to answer local needs and specificities;
* 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;
* Organise carefully the workshop phases for successfully meeting the objectives and for engaging all participants;
* Be careful of possible competition of other events happening as the same time in the same city or on the same topic;
* Use dialog for initiating collaboration among private landowners and municipalities;
* Bring researchers from ‘non-conventional’ areas related to Deep Sea Mining;
* 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;
* Find a topic which will attract different stakeholders.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 2'''
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* Provide a good incentive and personal benefits to motivate people to attend the workshop(s) and processes;
* Use using storytelling to describe the challenge with clear and concrete examples;
* Explain the challenge in an inclusive, strategic and broad manner for involving all types of participants;
* Define a clear triggering question highlighting the issue and goal to be addressed at the workshop;
* Use diverse communication channels (e-mail, telephone, face-to-face and word of mouth) for recruiting participants;
* Define the initiative's broad goals from a policy, social / cultural, economic, technological perspective;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstandings during the event;
* Focus the challenge with relevant examples for the participants and related to their daily lives;
* Define the date, finalise the workshop topic and have communication material two months ahead;
* Focus the workshop and the RRI presentation on a topic relevant for the participants and related to their daily lives;
* Promote the involvement of public authorities on local, national and European levels;
* Raise awareness of the general public on the environmental impact of offshore installations at all stages (building, exploitation, dismantling);
* Contact directly the person to recruit via e-mails or telephone;
* Address a specific subject that concerns multidisciplinary stakeholders;
* Invite additional stakeholders and communities to join the MARINA knowledge sharing platform and direct them to the results and materials related to Deep Sea Mining;
* Present the Mobilisation and Mutual Learning and RRI approach;
* Define a workshop triggering question that is short, clear and easily understood by all stakeholders;
* Consider personal e-mails as the recruitment mechanism because it has been proven by far the most effective recruitment mechanism;
* Make marine issues visible and understandable to the public;
* Identify motives for policy makers and implementers to participate in the workshops as they are reluctant in participating;
* Explain RRI and innovation tools and how to embed them in policy agendas as participants find it useful;
* Run awareness campaigns so that the issue problem is clearly understood by all stakeholders;
* Be aware of the motivational factor that workshop participants may feel because they like the fact that an interdisciplinary group representing all society's niches is invited to brainstorming for resolving the problem;
* Be aware about the participants motivations to attend a workshop such as to learn from others participants;
* Perform an analysis of publics' behaviours before engaging the public engagement;
* Use audience targeted communication for all types stakeholders to engage them;
* Raise citizen and business awareness about the environmental protection and sustainability;
* Motivate to receive ahead of the workshop and on time the participants' action ideas and to attract participants from all stakeholders’ groups;
* Be aware that policy-makers are not easy to engage unless they see a specific benefit that fits their agenda;
* Start planning at least 4 months in advance the organisation of a workshop as it is very time consuming task;
* Carefully consider the workshop's duration as many participants think that a one day-long workshop is too long;
* Prepare a concise information corpus for participants;
* Inform in a wider manner all societal actors about the issue.
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* Create a relaxing but effective work experience and joint decision-making with the world café methodology;
* Send a personalised and direct (e-mail or telephone) invitation to ensure a better buy-in of targeted participants;
* Allocate sufficient time for discussions and to involve all participants interests and ideas;
* Allocate more time for group discussions during workshops;
* Adopt participative methods tested in MARINA in other initiatives including stakeholders;
* Attract participants by sending invitations via e‐mail, followed by phone calls;
* Present the topic approached from the beginning of the workshop;
* Offer a clear explanation of the methodology used to be as clear as possible to the participants;
* Use methods for involving the active participation of the public by giving them the opportunity to express their opinions;
* Offer a clear explanation of the methodology used in order to be as clear as possible for the participants;
* 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;
* Choose a familiar methodology for participants;
* Use a method that gives the opportunity to all participants to express their opinion;
* Moderate the workshop with an experienced facilitator to avoid "Groupthink" and the "Erroneous Priorities Effect";
* Explain at the start of the workshop the different phases that participants will go through;
* Continue to engage the stakeholders for knowledge exchange after the workshop;
* Make the workshops highly participatory and interactive;
* Give the participants sufficient time to present themselves and their work/field of interest, in order to facilitate connection and co-operation after the workshop;
* Plan an in-depth and varied engagement with stakeholders at all stages of the projects;
* Adapt the presentation of projects information to the specific needs of respective stakeholders groups;
* Help participants become active in the workshop by helping them understand the importance of the Marine Hot Topic;
* Adapt the workshop methodology to the local culture;
* Remember that apart from being scientists, teachers, policy-makers, they are all citizens of coastal cities who want to care for the environment as a private person;
* Assign participants to a specific table according to gender, type of organization/institution, type of expertise in the field, main interest in general to ensure multidisciplinarity;
* Multiply events where researchers from academia and industry exchange with a broader community to enhance this community and its visibility;
* Ensure that participants can exchange knowledge and meet new people;
* Look for participants open to dialogue, but who don't usually interact with each other;
* Start with a roundtable process so that everybody know each-other, and everyone can share their personal perspective of the subject;
* Hook RRI abstract subjects to a topic related to participants lives and has interests in it;
* Recruit participants by telephone to ensure a great effectiveness of recruitment;
* Workshops may participants convince about RRI, but doesn't tend to help them in the concrete application of RRI in their daily work;
* Adapt the workshop schedule and structure according to the specifics and program of the stakeholders you want to attend;
* Invite stakeholders to provide their feedback about workshop;
* Choose a suitable method for the number of participants and the specific of the workshop;
* Present and explain the method used;
* Encouraged all the participants to work on all the solutions during the session;
* Engage stakeholders from different sectors of activity;
* Choose a method which will produce a large amount of data on a topic in a short time;
* Invite and encourage different stakeholders to participate at this kind of workshops;
* 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;
* Stimulate and ensure open dialogue among the attendees;
* 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;
* The SDD dialogue is a rigorous and efficient participatory methodology, but also time-consuming, leaving no time for the interpretation of the presented ideas in terms of their RRI dimensions by the participants during the workshop;
* Ask participants' to state their workshop expectations because experience shows that some find the workshop and its participatory method intriguing, others were interested In how to develop a shared vision, some had an interest in being inspired and build networks;
* Identify and invite the right number of participants representing all necessary science fields to create a viable action plan;
* Participant recruiting is time-consuming and must be planned well in advance of the workshop;
* The reversed science cafe method motivates participants to express their opinions and views in a structured, inclusive, yet open manner;
* Participatory workshops provide good opportunities for better discovering developments and problems of the studied industry;
* Enable workshops participants to create networks and communities of interest to further research and identify solutions for the studied issue;
* Engage participants via emails and phone calls, since it has been proven as the most effective means of recruitment;
* Be aware that it is challenging to persuade people to participate in workshops;
* Use both phone and email for citizen recruitment;
* Establish transparent, efficient and effective democratic mechanisms amongst all involved and throughout all the phases to create trust;
* Keep the workshop's duration short and engage an experienced facilitator;
* Involve politicians and municipality representatives in workshops to increase its effectiveness;
* Email and telephone were the best communication channels for promoting the workshop;
* The SDD method was evaluated as very well structured, inclusive, productive, scientific, interesting and dynamic;
* The education of young people and the use of exchange programs between schools will lead to active citizenship respectful of the environment;
* Plan well the participant groups so that all stakeholders are sufficiently represented;
* Promote the workshop through websites and a poster campaigns;
* Push for multi-stakeholders' representation and input from all relevant actors;
* Bring people and particularly the young on location where they can have transformative experiences that they will seek to relieve throughout their lives;
* Engage young potential "citizen scientists" in schools to promote the issue at hand;
* Achieve positive engagement with all types of local stakeholders including relevant government agencies, local businesses, regulators, NGOs, CSOs, researchers and citizens;
* Clarify from the start of any process or workshop all terms and acronyms so that all participants from various backgrounds understand them;
* Explain clearly the workshop methodology and how the outputs will be used at the beginning of the workshop and include some warm-up activity;
* Engage researchers with the industry for the development of appropriate technologies since there is a discrepancy between the academia and the industry needs;
* Raise awareness among pupils and students about environmental protection through informational programs as well as promote the specific sector as a means of employability;
* Learn about participatory methods and how to use them;
* Help the participants with examples to understand how to embed RRI principles when discussing a sector and societal challenges;
* Choose well the workshop methodology to allow participants contribute to the discussion and to strengthen the links among them;
* Ensure the comfort of the room (space around the tables, temperature, light etc.) to reduce the stress and fatigue of the participants and to improve the results. Provide some small "gift" or surprise them somehow, to create a friendly environment for the discussion;
* Define a clear agenda and respect it, but do not hesitate to be flexible and modify the schedule to reach the final results;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
* Participants do not subscribe gladly to the platform, they don't have time and/or willingness to learn using another tool;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
* Ensure you have some big institution's newsletter to disseminate your workshop for recruitment and spreading of the results;
* Use new participatory methodologies to attract participants;
* Take into consideration that despite participants' willingness to participate, often practical barriers impede their attendance in participative workshops;
* Consider having virtual discussions to help some stakeholder groups (e.g. citizens) to attend participatory workshops and events;
* Be flexible with the methodology adopted in order to finalize the process, even if not in the way you planned;
* Choose your methodology considering your audience;
* Dedicate the needed time to discuss and clarify the methodology and the agenda with the facilitator - and among the organizing group;
* Define the length of the workshop according with your foreseen audience and local habits;
* Involve students when possible;
* Stream only the most crucial sections of the workshop, disseminate the streaming agenda;
* Provide a synthetic, max 5 pages, info pack about the topic before the workshop;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
* Send an official invitation letter signed by the director/president of the institute organizing the workshop to facilitate the recruitment;
* Apply different participatory methods during the event to maintain a high level of attention.
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* Ensure that all voices have an equal footing in the debate during the workshop;
* Allocate time for every participant to present his/her own idea and to discuss it in plenum;
* Give all participants the opportunity to discuss and generate ideas;
* Allocate time for every participant to present his/her idea and to discuss it in plenum;
* Take measures to develop and further enhance the engagement and cooperation between different stakeholders;
* Request the participants to state their ideas in the form of action statements in order to “push” them to think in practical terms;
* Make an inventory of innovations and tools, and facilitate collaboration and networking for the development of biotechnologies in France;
* Focus on the concept and its tools when explaining RRI to participants;
* Enable each group to take the floor to present their results;
* Put in place a multi-stakeholder dialogue to efficiently reduce plastic pollution;
* Find moderators with experience on methods used for event moderation;
* Use a method that encourages participants to work together in order to have an interactive group;
* Have proactive public participation from stakeholders, in particular from government and industry;
* Encourage and promote marine involvement for all stakeholders;
* Promote best practice cross sectorial stakeholder engagement processes through webinars;
* Collect participant's post-workshop feedback focusing on the added value workshop points: the participatory method, the topic, the action plan, the common vision, the future participation options;
* Encourage researchers to voice their opinions on marine issues in the media focusing on economic, environmental and social needs to enable the uptake of new technologies;
* The society believes that RRI will never be in full effect without strong political will;
* Multidisciplinary research considers the sustainability vector is key;
* Create a friendly and relaxed workshop atmosphere for participants to have lively and open discussions;
* Plan well the workshop so that participants provide their ideas in an active way;
* Avoiding "Groupthink" and the "Erroneous Priorities Effect": taking measures for the protection of the authenticity of all ideas;
* Provide the participants with the legislative aspects related to the topic. If possible ensure the attendance of an expert;
* Encourage the production of socially and environmentally acceptable solutions and services with the science education of business and industry professionals;
* Have business and industry professionals consider producing socially and environmentally acceptable marine bio-based goods and services;
* Consider ethics when dealing with the legal frameworks to assure marine biotechnologies sustainability and social awareness;
* Develop new methods of governance for engaging citizens through public awareness and politics;
* Develop more partnerships with the Media and NGOs in order to reach bigger audiences;
* Develop and organize more actions, in order that different stakeholders meet and discuss their ideas more often and get used to think outside their boxes;
* Increase knowledge on deep sea minerals occurrences and their economic;
* Increase awareness in the use of raw materials and their importance on our society;
* Identify what are the society's perceptions and knowledge gaps for consideration in future planning of Deep Sea Mining research and innovation initiatives;
* Develop a network of common interest;
* Promote the meaning of the term "renewable energy systems";
* Try to obtain clear actions from people from different areas of interest, but targeting the common vision;
* Focus on RRI issues by prompting participants to talk more about how researchers can be enrolled in all actions generated and how other stakeholders can be useful to researchers;
* Push for adjust rules to allow open access to relevant sector research results;
* Improve efficient communication, generate plural debates and disseminate reliable data and information to convert vision into reality;
* Achieve success through multi-stakeholder engagement and consensus;
* Open access, i.e. giving free online access to the results of publicly-funded research data will boost innovation and increase the use of scientific results by all societal actors;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: a) simple, short title; one line describing the idea and one-two lines (minimum) explaining and clarifying the idea;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: b) think who would be responsible for implementing the proposed action and how to engage the person or organisation;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: c) timing (when could such an idea be implemented);
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: d) resources (how would the idea be implemented);
* Claim for an alignment between legislation and the changing scientific situation and technological innovations;
* Promote local communities and their traditions for societal relevance of the scientific outputs;
* Consider the best way of collecting votes for the purpose such as the number of votes available for each participant, the rounds of votes, etc.
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* Develop a stakeholder engagement plan;
* Engage local communities in awareness raising event;
* Define a clear plan for the future engagement of the workshop's participants to keep the community active;
* Create decision-making processes that are participative, transparent and allow for public deliberation;
* Check carefully the voting process of the actions, to avoid selfish or non correct behaviours which could distort the results;
* Translate workshop results in something short and friendly in short time and disseminate among the participants and others, not to loose momentum;
* Check carefully the voting process, to avoid selfish or improper behaviours, which could distort the results;
* Encourage the production of socially and environmentally acceptable solutions and services with the science education of business and industry professionals;
* Have business and industry professionals consider producing socially and environmentally acceptable marine bio-based goods and services;
* Consider ethics when dealing with the legal frameworks to assure marine biotechnologies sustainability and social awareness;
* Develop new methods of governance for engaging citizens through public awareness and politics;
* Develop more partnerships with the Media and NGOs in order to reach bigger audiences;
* Develop and organize more actions, in order that different stakeholders meet and discuss their ideas more often and get used to think outside their boxes;
* Increase knowledge on deep sea minerals occurrences and their economic;
* Increase awareness in the use of raw materials and their importance on our society;
* Identify what are the society's perceptions and knowledge gaps for consideration in future planning of Deep Sea Mining research and innovation initiatives;
* Develop a network of common interest;
* Promote the meaning of the term "renewable energy systems";
* Try to obtain clear actions from people from different areas of interest, but targeting the common vision;
* Focus on RRI issues by prompting participants to talk more about how researchers can be enrolled in all actions generated and how other stakeholders can be useful to researchers;
* Push for adjust rules to allow open access to relevant sector research results;
* Improve efficient communication, generate plural debates and disseminate reliable data and information to convert vision into reality;
* Achieve success through multi-stakeholder engagement and consensus;
* Open access, i.e. giving free online access to the results of publicly-funded research data will boost innovation and increase the use of scientific results by all societal actors;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: a) simple, short title; one line describing the idea and one-two lines (minimum) explaining and clarifying the idea;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: b) think who would be responsible for implementing the proposed action and how to engage the person or organisation;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: c) timing (when could such an idea be implemented);
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: d) resources (how would the idea be implemented);
* Claim for an alignment between legislation and the changing scientific situation and technological innovations;
* Promote local communities and their traditions for societal relevance of the scientific outputs;
* Consider the best way of collecting votes for the purpose such as the number of votes available for each participant, the rounds of votes, etc.
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* Increase environmental and science education to promote societal understanding and participation;
* Create training programs targeting SMEs and investors by focusing on enablers and barriers;
* Follow up with the participants with periodic workshops using the same methodology;
* Exchange with star chefs on new products from the transformation of marine resources to provide the opportunity to make the audience aware a wider audience;
* Develop new tools and infrastructures of research on marine resources, particularly in inaccessible depths, but also for monitoring the marine environment, stocks of biomass or still unwanted algae;
* Raise awareness and spread information about marine biotechnologies to the different groups of stakeholders;
* Raise awareness on aquaculture in the Azores;
* Develop societal awareness about water and advantages of use of renewable energy sources in general and offshore wind farms in particular;
* Promote researchers qualifications to find new bio applications for products answering societal needs;
* Develop new model of governance for marine biotechnology development including the engagement of the society;
* Build a network to report challenges to politicians to put marine biotechnologies on the national agenda as an economic and sustainable opportunity;
* Implement training and guidance for careers around marine biotechnologies to reduce marine pollution;
* Involve citizens in the political/technical systems;
* Promote public engagement actions to raise awareness to the urgency of deep sea mapping;
* Create links among participants for future partnerships and develop a network of common interest;
* Use public-private partnerships as a new economical instrument;
* Raise public awareness regarding the benefits of renewable energy by promoting the renewable energy methods;
* Promote and develop responsible and sustainable tourism in a changing environment;
* Use rational the natural resources, with maximum economy;
* Education is the most important aspect that can accelerate social change and climate change mitigation;
* Engage participants to apply RRI principles in daily work and daily life;
* Open data for all interested stakeholders;
* Inform and educate wider society of the impacts, challenges and potential solutions for coastal protection;
* Follow-up on motivated participants of how that used the knowledge obtained in workshops for third private and professional projects;
* Succeed with public engagement through science education and open access in policy;
* Make scientific information reliable and easily accessible to citizens and stakeholders;
* Create procedures for an open access to data and data exchange, to allow for multiple feedbacks from end-users and policy-makers;
* Disseminate widely local and regional regulations and type approvals since the businesses often have significant knowledge gaps;
* Business stakeholders are mostly interested on the policy agendas;
* Science & Education and Open Access have a vital role in achieving success in the development of sustainable tourism ventures within Marine Protected Areas;
* Consider the impacts of any activity before consenting which may require the deployments of monitoring technologies to facilitate monitoring and impact assessment;
* Coordinate all activities related to policy, planning and regulation in the best possible way to reduce conflict and help meet environmental, economic and social objectives;
* Use citizen observatories through mobile phones to report pollution sites and inappropriate environmental behaviour;
* Educate citizens about the value of the sea in their daily lives is necessary to raise ocean awareness and literacy;
* Provide Open Access to data for a proactive response to societal challenges;
* Develop information exchange systems between government, industry and the universities.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 7'''
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* Develop real-time information systems, training activities and incentives to share knowledge and information for avoiding tendencies of local governments and businesses to downplay negative consequences;
* Follow-up with all participants and monitor results regularly and engage them in post-workshop knowledge sharing and networking through an online platform;
* To measure success, define clear and achievable objectives;
* Develop new collaborations for new means of communication;
* Make regulations for developers and investors for securing more liveable areas in harbour transformations;
* It's necessary a good collaboration and interaction between civil society, policy makers, researchers, business sector and citizens, in all the Black Sea coastal countries;
* Develop efficient monitoring systems and assess the environmental impacts of best/worst policy practice;
* Be aware that only about half of the participants are likely to use the knowledge gained at the workshop;
* Involving customers ranked the most favourable cluster with specific actions including the adoption of the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) business model;
* Build capacity through education by developing local and national programmes for secondary schools and outreach programmes through citizen projects utilising real-time data from monitoring equipment;
* Try to engage volunteer groups/stakeholders who use the specific environment on a regular basis;
* The participants did not follow-up on the platform as they declared they were willing to do: there are too many platforms, they get lost or do not have time to explore another one.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 8'''
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* Raise awareness among the general public to make informed choices and have an active social participation to further push the new initiatives;
* Coordinate collaborative activities and tools to push RRI forward;
* Train policymakers through communication tools and adapt legislation to facilitate the creation of a dynamic knowledge-sharing mechanism;
* Organise regular follow-up workshops by involving more decision makers to anchor change;
* Embed governance in legislation through accountability to ensure the sustainability and to address societal challenges;
* Provide tax reductions or other benefits to businesses for massively applying environmental protection legislature and procedures and for making use of innovative technologies;
* Use the media and science mediators to make society aware about research and innovation results;
* Promote a greater participation of general public in projects financed by European funds to help filling the gap between science and society;
* Equip urban open areas for open debates where local communities can meet frequently in order to exercise the rights guaranteed by the Aarhus convention to develop sustainable decisions in a collective and legal manner;
* Increase the impact of projects' results thanks to open access;
* 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;
* Put in place a certification label of projects to draw guidelines for the sustainable development of marine biotechnologies;
* Train educators and information relays on marine biotechnologies to develop them in the field of marine pollution;
* Promote the reinforcement of policies and adoption of coherent legislative frameworks to develop marine biotechnology;
* Educate policy-makers to science to reinforce policies and adopt coherent legislative frameworks of economic competitiveness and sustainability of offshore wind energy;
* Train and convince policymakers, implementers, and investors to develop biotechnologies;
* Engage all interested stakeholders in harbour development;
* Involve citizens in public consultations and decision–making processes for local and national/ EU regulations;
* Attract private investments and develop national projects;
* Communicate broadly and raise wide awareness about the specific initiative to anchor change;
* Improve marine education provided in medium and higher education;
* Disseminate information about opportunities, threats and risks on the studied topic;
* Create higher awareness on technological achievements from challenging and cutting edge successful projects to attract skilled people to work in the sector;
* Create a seafood producers organisation in France to reduce the gap between the producers and consumers;
* Focus on Science Education in sustainable development and marine resources management as a critical part of local culture and coastal tourism;
* Ethical issues are highly important in maintaining the sustainable operation of the vessels while safeguarding the environment;
* Raise awareness and embed RRI into educational curricula;
* Facilitate fruitful discussions and widely disseminate conclusions to third parties;
* Ensure the policies are socially inclusive and are widely known;
* Use of technology as an instrument to both monitor the regulations and to disseminate data in near real-time;
* Create platforms where industry and academic leaders can disseminate accurate and influential information which can be accessible by the general public;
* Plan periodic meetings on the same topic, with old and new participants, to create ownership of the process, intensify the effort and ensure follow-up;
* Involve a multitude of stakeholders and implement actions as widely as possible, even globally, in order for adopted policies and solutions to be as relevant as possible, resulting in more support to implement the changes by all sides;
* Use your participatory event as a flywheel to organize other similar events.
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==See also...==
[[Stakeholder Engagement]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Substantive: Knowledge Mobilisation and Knowledge Sharing: "Making better decisions"

2019-02-18T09:57:43Z

Jordankent:

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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 1'''
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* Use dialog for initiating collaboration among private landowners and municipalities;
* Involve all interested stakeholders;
* Recruit participants based on their interest, research, business or experience related to the workshop topic;
* There is a strong need for redefining and refocusing the business model of tourism;
* Bring researchers from ‘non-conventional’ areas related to Deep Sea Mining;
* Make lists of actions and players, record skills, know-how and economic potential, identify best practices and make full use of them to put the chosen topic on the national agenda;
* Start a survey to establish the relationship between local communities and the coastal areas and share results with politicians to put marine biotechnologies on the national agenda as an economic and sustainable opportunity;
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 2'''
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* Present the topic approached from the beginning of the workshop;
* Define a clear triggering question highlighting the issue and goal to be addressed at the workshop;
* Define the initiative's broad goals from a policy, social / cultural, economic, technological perspective;
* Present the RRI concept with clear examples;
* Focus the challenge with relevant examples for the participants and related to their daily lives;
* Make the MARINA platform a case study platform where collaborative coastal climate solution projects are presented;
* Be aware about the participants motivations to attend a workshop such as to learn from others participants;
* Raise awareness of the general public on the environmental impact of offshore installations at all stages (building, exploitation, dismantling);
* Provide enough time for the presentation of science outcomes and sharing knowledge from research point of view;
* Make marine issues visible and understandable to the public;
* Make the high seas more visible to all stakeholders, the benefits for all and the issues at stake;
* Raise citizen and business awareness about the environmental protection and sustainability;
* Initiate target awareness campaigns towards all stakeholders through a specific media;
* Run awareness campaigns so that the issue problem is clearly understood by all stakeholders;
* Start planning at least 4 months in advance the organisation of a workshop as it is very time consuming task;
* Define a workshop triggering question that is short, clear and easily understood by all stakeholders;
* Improve science literacy and research applicability to increase awareness on the specific issue;
* Explain clearly the MARINA project goals;
* Use keynote speakers to introduce the topic for example specialists, but their speech must be in simple language and avoid using difficult terminology;
* Inform in a wider manner all societal actors about the issue.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 3'''
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* Involve the private sector, policymakers, the scientific community and the local and national community for the definition of ideas, needs and solutions;
* Moderate the workshop with an experienced facilitator to avoid "Groupthink" and the "Erroneous Priorities Effect";
* Offer a clear explanation of the methodology used to be as clear as possible to the participants;
* Ensure a good representation of professionals (industry related to the topic, policy makers, journalists) to have a balanced dialogue;
* Use common words so that non scientists participants can understand and contribute to the discussion without being overwhelmed by scientific language;
* Invite and encourage different stakeholders to participate at this kind of workshops;
* Develop concrete examples that stakeholders can understand and get involved;
* 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;
* Push for multi-stakeholders' representation and input from all relevant actors;
* Develop webinars for cross-sectorial stakeholder engagement;
* Workshops may participants convince about RRI, but doesn't tend to help them in the concrete application of RRI in their daily work;
* Use role play and "Decide" game to integrate difficult concepts in workshop discussion;
* The reversed science cafe method motivates participants to express their opinions and views in a structured, inclusive, yet open manner;
* Participatory workshops provide good opportunities for better discovering developments and problems of the studied industry;
* Empower European citizens, business representatives, researchers and policy makers to take informed decisions on the high seas through science education;
* All relevant stakeholders need to be involved in the process of developing sustainable tourism ventures within Marine Protected Areas (MPAs);
* The SDD dialogue is a rigorous and efficient participatory methodology, but also time-consuming, leaving no time for the interpretation of the presented ideas in terms of their RRI dimensions by the participants during the workshop;
* The SDD method was evaluated as very well structured, inclusive, productive, scientific, interesting and dynamic;
* Engage researchers with the industry for the development of appropriate technologies since there is a discrepancy between the academia and the industry needs;
* Learn about participatory methods and how to use them;
* Help the participants with examples to understand how to embed RRI principles when discussing a sector and societal challenges;
* Be flexible with the methodology adopted in order to finalize the process, even if not in the way you planned;
* Clarify from the start of any process or workshop all terms and acronyms so that all participants from various backgrounds understand them;
* Encouraged all the participants to work on all the solutions during the session;
* Connect all stakeholders through education and communication;
* Foster collaboration among companies in the marine biotechnologies value chain and social and environmental actors.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 4'''
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* Let different perspectives on the subject, which will lead to a common background for further discussion;
* Give all participants the opportunity to discuss and generate ideas;
* Allocate time for every participant to present his/her idea and to discuss it in plenum;
* Take measures to develop and further enhance the engagement and cooperation between different stakeholders;
* Request the participants to state their ideas in the form of action statements in order to “push” them to think in practical terms;
* Do not interfere too much with the topics participants chose to focus on, it mostly depends on individual needs/experience and knowledge;
* Find the best way to incorporate the multi-disciplinary element into the organisation of the workshop;
* Capture the content in a way that is more free-flowing which is later interpreted by the workshop team;
* Activate citizens as a resourceful group of action that could lead to a more innovative and including society;
* 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;
* Focus on the concept and its tools when explaining RRI to participants;
* Focus on environmental aspects through a multi-stakeholder approach to ensure stability and availability of resources;
* Encourage researchers to voice their opinions on marine issues in the media focusing on economic, environmental and social needs to enable the uptake of new technologies..;
* The SDD method allows for integrating contributions from individuals with diverse views, backgrounds and perspectives through a process that is structured, inclusive and collaborative;
* Mobilise stakeholders early in the process to develop viable and sustainable business models;
* A structured participatory method like SDD helps participants converge their opinions towards a common vision and a common action plan;
* Multidisciplinary research considers the sustainability vector is key;
* Avoiding "Groupthink" and the "Erroneous Priorities Effect": taking measures for the protection of the authenticity of all ideas;
* Plan well the workshop so that participants provide their ideas in an active way;
* Collect participant's post-workshop feedback focusing on the added value workshop points: the participatory method, the topic, the action plan, the common vision, the future participation options;
* Stakeholders are concerned that the authorities and the private companies will decide to advance with Deep Sea Mining without proper public consultation and without knowing sufficient about the deep sea;
* The society believes that RRI will never be in full effect without strong political will;
* Use a method that encourages participants to work together in order to have an interactive group;
* Develop partnerships for science outreach actions;
* Make an inventory of innovations and tools, and facilitate collaboration and networking for the development of biotechnologies in France;
* Provide the participants with the legislative aspects related to the topic. If possible ensure the attendance of an expert;
* Promote the societal challenge as a hot topic and the workshop's results (media, partners, stakeholders, etc);
* Give participants more time to contribute to the ideas at other tables.
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* Implement a coherent national monitoring programme;
* Engage local communities in awareness raising event;
* Apply a long-term and crosscutting strategic planning by defining SMART common vision and actions;
* Focus not only on high-level ideas, but also on required research and innovation actions needed to execute them;
* Develop a common vision and an action plan with a more narrow focus combining development milestones and follow-up workshops;
* Create decision-making processes that are participative, transparent and allow for public deliberation;
* 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;
* Have participants rank the priorities and discuss from the highest to the lowest to co-construct a common vision;
* Ensure that all participants stay until the end of the workshop to have coherent results;
* Foster stakeholder engagement, capacity building, behavioural changes and production and consumption pattern shift with Science education;
* Learn from education, rather than experience, is necessary to avoid climate changes impact;
* Include marine/environmental education in school curricula;
* Try to obtain clear actions from people from different areas of interest, but targeting the common vision;
* Develop new models and ways of collaborating on climate change in order to create common knowledge and more awareness of climate change in public mind;
* Develop a national strategy for coastal management and coastal protection;
* Develop a coastal protection strategy that is fit for purpose by all stakeholders;
* Developing a spatial plan specific to zoning of areas of offshore renewables;
* Develop a clear communications strategy;
* Develop a GIS information database;
* Use of research and data sets to ensure that decisions are made to safeguard the interests of all stakeholders;
* Plan what to do with buildings/installations which have been created while building wind farms;
* Encourage the production of socially and environmentally acceptable solutions and services with the science education of business and industry professionals;
* Prepare take home tools and methods that participants can implement in their jobs;
* Raise awareness through education for developing/supporting new technologies for responsible maritime transport;
* Push for adjust rules to allow open access to relevant sector research results;
* Work together (science, law, economics, policy) to give advice on seabed mining issues;
* Awareness and education are fundamental in changing mind-sets;
* Increase awareness in the use of raw materials and their importance on our society;
* Increase knowledge on deep sea minerals occurrences and their economic;
* Create an organized knowledge synthesis on Deep Sea Mining;
* Open access, i.e. giving free online access to the results of publicly-funded research data will boost innovation and increase the use of scientific results by all societal actors;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: a) simple, short title; one line describing the idea and one-two lines (minimum) explaining and clarifying the idea;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: b) think who would be responsible for implementing the proposed action and how to engage the person or organisation;
* Focus on RRI issues by prompting participants to talk more about how researchers can be enrolled in all actions generated and how other stakeholders can be useful to researchers;
* Define SMART common vision and actions towards a specific goal and project;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: c) timing (when could such an idea be implemented);
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: d) resources (how would the idea be implemented);
* Increase awareness regarding water quality;
* Improve efficient communication, generate plural debates and disseminate reliable data and information to convert vision into reality;
* Include more education aspects of citizenship, sustainability and ecology in schools;
* Promote the meaning of the term "renewable energy systems";
* Develop educational programs to prepare specialists in the "renewable energy systems" field;
* Conduct studies of renewable energy on the Black Sea coastal area;
* Choose the most effective methodology to build a common vision and give space to many different voices;
* Raise public awareness on the real problems;
* Have business and industry professionals consider producing socially and environmentally acceptable marine bio-based goods and services;
* While interpreting the results consider that participants can have different information and data about the topic: the "reality" can be difficult to identify;
* Ask the participants to obtain in advance the necessary authorization from the Institutions they represent, to propose actions during the workshop.
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* Involve some stakeholders in the creation or validation of the scientific processes to improve theur acceptance of the final results, even if it can be seen as a time-consuming process;
* Increase environmental and science education to promote societal understanding and participation;
* Create training programs targeting SMEs and investors by focusing on enablers and barriers;
* Take actions in order to update the actual legislation;
* Promote and develop responsible and sustainable tourism in a changing environment;
* Use rational the natural resources, with maximum economy;
* Education is the most important aspect that can accelerate social change and climate change mitigation;
* Create a path to open information on climate changes topic and related data;
* Change unsustainable patterns of consumption and production, in order to reduce the amount of waste;
* Develop campaigns for promoting sustainable fishing methods and techniques through protecting resources and other incentives/compensation;
* Development of an educational platform for changing knowledge between public and private institutions;
* Engage participants to apply RRI principles in daily work and daily life;
* Create new models for evaluating risks and economic issues;
* Involve citizens in the political/technical systems;
* Inform and educate wider society of the impacts, challenges and potential solutions for coastal protection;
* Make scientific information reliable and easily accessible to citizens and stakeholders;
* Assess / quantify the social, economic and environmental risk;
* Create procedures for an open access to data and data exchange, to allow for multiple feedbacks from end-users and policy-makers;
* Disseminate widely local and regional regulations and type approvals since the businesses often have significant knowledge gaps;
* Develop a clear understanding around Marine Spacial Planning (MSP) and what its implications are for all stakeholders groups including offshore wind;
* Exchange with star chefs on new products from the transformation of marine resources to provide the opportunity to make the audience aware a wider audience;
* Open data for all interested stakeholders;
* Organize of a marine biotechnology day at the regional level including different actors to make the general public aware on the marine biotechnology sector and its potential;
* Encourage scientists and NGO's to popularize the different aspects of marine biotechnology through science café, forums, open days etc;
* Contribute with knowledge and conceptual frameworks that support interaction, collaboration and holistic recommendations based on research experience;
* Develop societal awareness about water and advantages of use of renewable energy sources in general and offshore wind farms in particular;
* Carry out studies on potential impact of the investment in offshore wind energy to develop them;
* Educate all stakeholders about sustainable tourism sustainability to achieve socially and environmentally acceptable goods and services;
* Create an open access platform with all Deep Sea Mining data available including biological and geological information;
* Share data for a better cooperation and public engagement on the high seas;
* Educate children on the importance of biodiversity and how to think about the environment responsibly;
* Educate citizens about the value of the sea in their daily lives is necessary to raise ocean awareness and literacy;
* Promote public engagement actions to raise awareness to the urgency of deep sea mapping;
* Initiate open access through public offices also to non-governmental stakeholders;
* Push for cooperation among academic institutions and the industry, as it is crucial;
* The greater majority of actions relate to more than one RRI dimension; this shows that actions are multidisciplinary and involve multiple stakeholders;
* Provide Open Access to data for a proactive response to societal challenges;
* Develop information exchange systems between government, industry and the universities;
* Educate the public at large in their individual role in marine conservation and sustainability (Public Engagement, Science Education);
* Consider the impacts of any activity before consenting which may require the deployments of monitoring technologies to facilitate monitoring and impact assessment;
* Coordinate all activities related to policy, planning and regulation in the best possible way to reduce conflict and help meet environmental, economic and social objectives;
* Start measuring and collecting marine scientific data on board different non-scientific vessels;
* Use public-private partnerships as a new economical instrument;
* Raise public awareness regarding the benefits of renewable energy by promoting the renewable energy methods;
* Organise Open Days in companies to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with marine biotechnologies;
* Promote researchers qualifications to find new bio applications for products answering societal needs;
* Raise awareness on aquaculture in the Azores;
* Raise awareness and spread information about marine biotechnologies to the different groups of stakeholders;
* Develop information-based decision support tools, with automated intervention systems;
* Implement training and guidance for careers around marine biotechnologies to reduce marine pollution;
* Develop new tools and infrastructures of research on marine resources, particularly in inaccessible depths, but also for monitoring the marine environment, stocks of biomass or still unwanted algae.
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* Governance should strive for active engagement of the key public and private stakeholder bodies for the development and impact on the societal challenge;
* The ultimate aim should be to develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts and to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products;
* Develop real-time information systems, training activities and incentives to share knowledge and information for avoiding tendencies of local governments and businesses to downplay negative consequences;
* Consider the distinction between the actions of making information available and the actions of making the information understandable by its potential users when dealing with Open Access;
* Restructuring different mechanisms in order to prevent pollution and to apply polluter sanctions, to ensure the transparency of legislative processes;
* It's necessary a good collaboration and interaction between civil society, policy makers, researchers, business sector and citizens, in all the Black Sea coastal countries;
* Take into consideration new types of ownership forms in order to kick-start of development;
* Analyse the impact of plumes and waste produced by Deep Sea Mining exploitation;
* Develop efficient monitoring systems and assess the environmental impacts of best/worst policy practice;
* Build capacity through education by developing local and national programmes for secondary schools and outreach programmes through citizen projects utilising real-time data from monitoring equipment;
* Start specific economic changes (investment, taxation) to support the goal of efficient and sustainable activities;
* Build a coastal protection system that can harness the wave energy;
* Get media cover and social media presence to influence policy and decision makers;
* Enhance control mechanisms of research and innovation outputs, according to ethical rules;
* Collect and share information and good practices to raise awareness on marine biotech and to reduce marine pollution;
* Organise a European "Grenelle" of bioethics to do an inventory of knowledge, regulations and current projects and processes as well as to define indicators and good practices for the development of marine biotech.
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* Coordinate collaborative activities and tools to push RRI forward;
* Increase the impact of projects' results thanks to open access;
* Push for the adoption of common processes for accessibility of results of European projects that would allow a comparison of results through time and creation of broader synergies among past and present projects;
* Put in place effective pathways for communicating policy recommandations to EU and to national bodies as part of the global process of the project;
* Be aware that the knowledge transfer to other sectors and general public is a great challenge faced by partners of european projects;
* Embed governance in legislation through accountability to ensure the sustainability and to address societal challenges;
* Use the media and science mediators to make society aware about research and innovation results;
* Advocate on the necessity of creating specific funding schemes to support the development of the targeted sector based on RRI principles;
* Encourage scientific knowledge and professional growth that have fundamental roles in supporting innovative sectors;
* Raise awareness among the general public to make informed choices and have an active social participation to further push the new initiatives;
* Improve port reception facilities and services for processing over waste from ships;
* Use funding programs dedicated to citizens, aimed at replacing old goods and polluting with new and environmentally friendly ones;
* Define and update the legislation to prevent climate changes for Black Sea area;
* Raise awareness and embed RRI into educational curricula;
* Attract students into engineering courses;
* Build the appropriate infrastructure and technology for the Wave Energy Sector;
* Involve "Ambassadors" or " figures" at regional level (navigators, high level sportsman, known well-respected public figures of all kinds);
* 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;
* Educate policy-makers to science to reinforce policies and adopt coherent legislative frameworks of economic competitiveness and sustainability of offshore wind energy;
* Raise the attractiveness of science studies by illustrating the application of science in societal issues;
* Improve marine education provided in medium and higher education;
* Enhance coastal and maritime tourism by adapting to demographic changes, while maintaining the original vocation and atmosphere of the coastal cities;
* Educate planners, civil society leaders, business industry to be more collaborative, responsible and exert place-based leadership;
* Oblige companies by contract to use 10% of their investment in an investigation in engineering design for mitigation of Deep Sea Mining during all the operation;
* Reliable scientific information is not easily accessible for sectorial actors;
* To develop a sector, develop a legal framework promoting and regulating its development;
* Create higher awareness on technological achievements from challenging and cutting edge successful projects to attract skilled people to work in the sector;
* Education is necessary for the marine biotechnology development thus the need for developing university educational programmes on marine biotechnology;
* Create platforms where industry and academic leaders can disseminate accurate and influential information which can be accessible by the general public;
* Focus on Science Education in sustainable development and marine resources management as a critical part of local culture and coastal tourism;
* Use of technology as an instrument to both monitor the regulations and to disseminate data in near real-time;
* Put in place an effective communication about green washing, so to improve the critical sense of the public against "fake" green activities;
* Promote governance arrangements and practices to favour sustainable tourism and seafood consumption;
* Communicate broadly and raise wide awareness about the specific initiative to anchor change;
* Engage government and law makers in order to make sustainable change in ports and ship;
* Consider that National and International organizations must balance economic profit and a competitive market with the goal of preserving the natural environment of our seas;
* Increase the usage of alternative fuels for ships as for instance Liquefide Naturaò Gas;
* Disseminate information about opportunities, threats and risks on the studied topic;
* Protect the deep sea from mining, create laws that impose that deep sea mining is a non-profit activity and concert the deep sea into world heritage site;
* Provide strong incentives to promote the circular economy;
* Improve the legislative framework to encourage the capitalization process of renewable energy;
* Upgrade the transport infrastructure for renewable energy;
* Provide scientific education in all the scholar cycles: it is crucial;
* Provide free and easier access to the results of the studies;
* Translate in easy-to-understand messages research outputs and results for better dissemination. Consider using science mediators;
* Improve legislation to deal with climate change and coastal errosion;
* Improving education/training;
* Claim for an international coordination to identify the possible impacts of innovations;
* Use your participatory event as a flywheel to organize other similar events;
* Train educators and information relays on marine biotechnologies to develop them in the field of marine pollution;
* Improve regulations and legislations about the release of bacteria at sea.
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==See also...==
[[Stakeholder Motivation]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Normative: Democratic responsibility to engage citizens: "Creating new opportunities"

2019-02-18T09:56:59Z

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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 1'''
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* Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) can help to overcome the current marine and societal challenges and unlock the potential for Blue Growth.
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* Develop messages that make the problem tangible for everybody for instance by translating facts and figures into something simple and impactful;
* Explain the challenge in an inclusive, strategic and broad manner for involving all types of participants;
* Promote the involvement of public authorities on local, national and European levels;
* Explain RRI and innovation tools and how to embed them in policy agendas as participants find it useful;
* Be aware of the motivational factor that workshop participants may feel because they like the fact that an interdisciplinary group representing all society's niches is invited to brainstorming for resolving the problem;
* Consider societal challenges (as defined by the EC) during the participative events, in order for the results to be easily related to them.
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* Allocate sufficient time for discussions and to involve all participants interests and ideas;
* Continue to engage the stakeholders for knowledge exchange after the workshop;
* Adapt the presentation of projects information to the specific needs of respective stakeholders groups;
* Consider carefully legislation and cultural differences between project participants in the discussion prior to the project proposal to avoid possible understanding of feasability barriers;
* Help participants become active in the workshop by helping them understand the importance of the Marine Hot Topic;
* Remember that apart from being scientists, teachers, policy-makers, they are all citizens of coastal cities who want to care for the environment as a private person;
* Mobilize stakeholders for active involvement;
* Provide as much information as possible to the subject before the workshop;
* Ask participants' to state their workshop expectations because experience shows that some find the workshop and its participatory method intriguing, others were interested In how to develop a shared vision, some had an interest in being inspired and build networks;
* Enable workshops participants to create networks and communities of interest to further research and identify solutions for the studied issue;
* The education of young people and the use of exchange programs between schools will lead to active citizenship respectful of the environment;
* Raise awareness among pupils and students about environmental protection through informational programs as well as promote the specific sector as a means of employability;
* Use new participatory methodologies to attract participants;
* Take into consideration that despite participants' willingness to participate, often practical barriers impede their attendance in participative workshops;
* Consider having virtual discussions to help some stakeholder groups (e.g. citizens) to attend participatory workshops and events;
* Identify or create a unique Body entrusted with the control of a process to ensure coordination and synergy of all stakeholders involved;
* Increase awareness in the youngest about the (local) marine issues to create a new generation of people that are aware of the problems and want to engage themselves, to take action also through a political career;
* Define the length of the workshop according with your foreseen audience and local habits.
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* Enable each group to take the floor to present their results;
* Put in place a multi-stakeholder dialogue to efficiently reduce plastic pollution;
* Establish cooperation among diverse stakeholders (researchers, innovative businesses, politicians and citizens) even when it's challenging;
* Joined stakeholder involvement produces ideas with integrated and holistic focus based on synergy and collaboration;
* The absence of gender equality reveals a critical gap in access to opportunities and resources and decision-making power for women and men;
* Actively introduce Gender Equality into discussions and ideas, as most often is a non considered aspect.
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* Use the SMART action format to ease the follow up of the workshop;
* Develop a stakeholder engagement plan;
* Empower citizens beyond data collection through involvement in decision-making and governance;
* Provide a quality framework in which all stakeholders can work toward a solution thanks to a good governance;
* Consider ethics when dealing with the legal frameworks to assure marine biotechnologies sustainability and social awareness;
* Identify easy-to-implement solutions to attract people and harbour-related businesses in innovative harbour development;
* Develop new methods of governance for engaging citizens through public awareness and politics;
* Develop case studies on how municipalities work with climate change projects and community driven innovation;
* Develop tools for engaging citizens in urban development and communicate them broadly to inspire local communities;
* Develop new capacities for studying and a performing monitoring;
* Develop and implement awareness and educational campaigns and engage local communities;
* Push participants to move beyond exchanging ideas and to start co-creating a vision;
* Allocate a good part of the workshop for creating a clear common action plan;
* Claim for an alignment between legislation and the changing scientific situation and technological innovations;
* Promote local communities and their traditions for societal relevance of the scientific outputs.
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* Consider Governance as a common responsibility of citizens and decision makers;
* Identify common working initiatives between municipalities and the civil societies, so that citizens may be actively involved;
* Develop sustainable and long-term solutions even if they do not entirely focus on technical and/or economic aspects, but add lifestyle qualities and/or facilities;
* Put in place a policy-oriented, holistic and integrated approach to tackle complex issues;
* Follow up with the participants with periodic workshops using the same methodology;
* Make restaurants aware restaurants and the public about the potential offered by the blue biotechnologies;
* Educate children to environmental issues as well as renewable energy profits to create a new wiser society;
* Involve senior/retired scientific experts to communicate on marine biotechnologies in layman's terms to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with the topic;
* Develop new model of governance for marine biotechnology development including the engagement of the society;
* Push for broad vision for industrial harbour development by local governments inviting non-harbour stakeholders to contribute in new ways;
* Adapt local policies and strategies in order to be in agreement with research outcomes;
* Plan local actions in agreement with its local circumstances instead of promoting larger-scale policies;
* Create a common DATABASE – for centralizing all the data and studies regarding biodiversity;
* Develop partnership between different stakeholders;
* Use of the outcomes of the national monitoring programme as part of a targeted national awareness raising campaign;
* Push governmental bodies for high-tier governance on local initiatives to have the biggest impact;
* Make urban planning and tourism development collaborative and democratic by involving citizens and business in envisioning urban futures and resolve negative environmental impacts;
* Follow-up on motivated participants of how that used the knowledge obtained in workshops for third private and professional projects;
* Changing customer demand requires attractive and sustainable products that provide unique and customised experiences;
* Action and follow-up the co-defined action plan;
* Business stakeholders are mostly interested on the policy agendas;
* Each initiative on sustainable tourism products requires the right expertise (knowledge and skills) and institutional participatory processes that will support stakeholders' successful involvement;
* Use citizen observatories through mobile phones to report pollution sites and inappropriate environmental behaviour;
* Implement innovative and responsive policies to face climate change effects and assure a balanced competitiveness, growth and sustainability.
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* Use Open access to boost innovation and increase the use of scientific results by all societal actors as well as to develop public trust and engagement;
* Follow-up with all participants and monitor results regularly and engage them in post-workshop knowledge sharing and networking through an online platform;
* Make regulations for developers and investors for securing more liveable areas in harbour transformations;
* Be aware that only about half of the participants are likely to use the knowledge gained at the workshop;
* Try to engage volunteer groups/stakeholders who use the specific environment on a regular basis;
* Create innovative tools to guide the consumers, thus inducing public and private stakeholders (including NGOs) to invest in more sustainable directions.
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* Focus on good enforcement of already existing legislation mechanisms rather than reinventing others from scratch and adjust legislation as necessary;
* Train policymakers through communication tools and adapt legislation to facilitate the creation of a dynamic knowledge-sharing mechanism;
* Organise regular follow-up workshops by involving more decision makers to anchor change;
* Provide tax reductions or other benefits to businesses for massively applying environmental protection legislature and procedures and for making use of innovative technologies;
* Create funding mechanisms to promote RRI in research and innovation in the innovative sectors;
* Promote a greater participation of general public in projects financed by European funds to help filling the gap between science and society;
* Equip urban open areas for open debates where local communities can meet frequently in order to exercise the rights guaranteed by the Aarhus convention to develop sustainable decisions in a collective and legal manner;
* Promote education, training and more equal incomes for fishermen in the Azores;
* Consider opportunities of synergies between the fisheries and aquaculture sectors in the Azores;
* Beware that the high level of qualification needed in aquaculture and the small scale of the region market are two constraints of the synergies between the fisheries and aquaculture sectors in the Azores;
* Implement program of innovative research in relation to the effectiveness of the constructions of towers and generators to ensure sustainable development of renewable energy;
* Create of a one-stop shop for the Institute of blue bio-technologies with short and long-term strategies;
* Create an award for the best blue bio-technologies innovation or product to make maritime biotechnologies a sustainable economic opportunity;
* Start a regional programme and raise awareness of tourism actors to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with marine biotechnologies;
* Put in place a certification label of projects to draw guidelines for the sustainable development of marine biotechnologies;
* Promote the reinforcement of policies and adoption of coherent legislative frameworks to develop marine biotechnology;
* Establish policies that are favourable for ecological investments in sustainable development;
* Train and convince policymakers, implementers, and investors to develop biotechnologies;
* Add marine biotechnologies in school programmes to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with marine biotechnologies;
* Engage all interested stakeholders in harbour development;
* Make environmental impact assessment mandatory for Deep Sea Mining within the EU;
* Involve citizens in public consultations and decision–making processes for local and national/ EU regulations;
* Promote Sustainable Tourism policies to improve coastal and marine ecosystems, minimise pollution and create economic growth by combining efforts at national, regional and local levels and creating green funding schemes and incentives;
* Create a seafood producers organisation in France to reduce the gap between the producers and consumers;
* Ensure a ministerial umbrella to facilitate the educative process in school by scientists or scientific mediators;
* Invest in communication campaign by professionals, work with marketing societies to translate the scientific results into clear messages that can reach in particular young people;
* Involve a multitude of stakeholders and implement actions as widely as possible, even globally, in order for adopted policies and solutions to be as relevant as possible, resulting in more support to implement the changes by all sides.
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==See also...==
[[Stakeholder Motivation]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Instrumental: Creating good relationships and building trust: "Network Building"

2019-02-18T09:51:05Z

Jordankent:

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* Realize a complete inventory of local skills needed for the topic of academic actors, start-ups or companies already established in the region;
* Keep in mind the local context to answer local needs and specificities;
* 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;
* Organise carefully the workshop phases for successfully meeting the objectives and for engaging all participants;
* Be careful of possible competition of other events happening as the same time in the same city or on the same topic;
* Offer an incentive for citizens in order to attract people to attend at the workshop;
* Find a topic which will attract different stakeholders;
* Explore the questions that are relevant to the real-life concerns of the group.
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* Provide a good incentive and personal benefits to motivate people to attend the workshop(s) and processes;
* Use using storytelling to describe the challenge with clear and concrete examples;
* Use diverse communication channels (e-mail, telephone, face-to-face and word of mouth) for recruiting participants;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstandings during the event;
* Define the date, finalise the workshop topic and have communication material two months ahead;
* Focus the workshop and the RRI presentation on a topic relevant for the participants and related to their daily lives;
* Contact directly the person to recruit via e-mails or telephone;
* Address a specific subject that concerns multidisciplinary stakeholders;
* Invite additional stakeholders and communities to join the MARINA knowledge sharing platform and direct them to the results and materials related to Deep Sea Mining;
* Present the Mobilisation and Mutual Learning and RRI approach;
* Consider personal e-mails as the recruitment mechanism because it has been proven by far the most effective recruitment mechanism;
* Identify motives for policy makers and implementers to participate in the workshops as they are reluctant in participating;
* Perform an analysis of publics' behaviours before engaging the public engagement;
* Use audience targeted communication for all types stakeholders to engage them;
* Motivate to receive ahead of the workshop and on time the participants' action ideas and to attract participants from all stakeholders’ groups;
* Be aware that policy-makers are not easy to engage unless they see a specific benefit that fits their agenda;
* Carefully consider the workshop's duration as many participants think that a one day-long workshop is too long;
* Prepare a concise information corpus for participants.
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* Create a relaxing but effective work experience and joint decision-making with the world café methodology;
* Send a personalised and direct (e-mail or telephone) invitation to ensure a better buy-in of targeted participants;
* Allocate more time for group discussions during workshops;
* Adopt participative methods tested in MARINA in other initiatives including stakeholders;
* Attract participants by sending invitations via e‐mail, followed by phone calls;
* Present the topic approached from the beginning of the workshop;
* Use methods for involving the active participation of the public by giving them the opportunity to express their opinions;
* Offer a clear explanation of the methodology used in order to be as clear as possible for the participants;
* 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;
* Choose a familiar methodology for participants;
* Use a method that gives the opportunity to all participants to express their opinion;
* Explain at the start of the workshop the different phases that participants will go through;
* Make the workshops highly participatory and interactive;
* Give the participants sufficient time to present themselves and their work/field of interest, in order to facilitate connection and co-operation after the workshop;
* Plan an in-depth and varied engagement with stakeholders at all stages of the projects;
* Construct a good collaboration among project partners from the beginning of the project to its legacy to ensure a wider take-up of the results by all partners;
* Collaborate with your local partners, which can be great allies;
* Adapt the workshop methodology to the local culture;
* Assign participants to a specific table according to gender, type of organization/institution, type of expertise in the field, main interest in general to ensure multidisciplinarity;
* Multiply events where researchers from academia and industry exchange with a broader community to enhance this community and its visibility;
* Ensure that participants can exchange knowledge and meet new people;
* Look for participants open to dialogue, but who don't usually interact with each other;
* Start with a roundtable process so that everybody know each-other, and everyone can share their personal perspective of the subject;
* Empower all stakeholder groups to co-create sustainable value propositions that reflect societal needs and support healthy marine environments thanks to RRI dimensions;
* Hook RRI abstract subjects to a topic related to participants lives and has interests in it;
* Recruit participants by telephone to ensure a great effectiveness of recruitment;
* Adapt the workshop schedule and structure according to the specifics and program of the stakeholders you want to attend;
* Invite stakeholders to provide their feedback about workshop;
* Implement RRI in real situations, with many participants proposing many actions;
* Choose a suitable method for the number of participants and the specific of the workshop;
* Present and explain the method used;
* Engage stakeholders from different sectors of activity;
* Choose a method which will produce a large amount of data on a topic in a short time;
* Create the opportunity to network and discuss, in order to identify the key marine and societal challenges for the Wave Energy Sector;
* Stimulate and ensure open dialogue among the attendees;
* Plan the programme to encourage as much opportunity for interactions between participants;
* Identify and invite the right number of participants representing all necessary science fields to create a viable action plan. Participant recruiting is time-consuming and must be planned well in advance of the workshop;
* Engage participants via emails and phone calls, since it has been proven as the most effective means of recruitment;
* Be aware that it is challenging to persuade people to participate in workshops;
* Use both phone and email for citizen recruitment;
* Establish transparent, efficient and effective democratic mechanisms amongst all involved and throughout all the phases to create trust;
* Keep the workshop's duration short and engage an experienced facilitator;
* Involve politicians and municipality representatives in workshops to increase its effectiveness;
* Email and telephone were the best communication channels for promoting the workshop;
* Plan well the participant groups so that all stakeholders are sufficiently represented;
* Promote the workshop through websites and a poster campaigns;
* Bring people and particularly the young on location where they can have transformative experiences that they will seek to relieve throughout their lives;
* Engage young potential "citizen scientists" in schools to promote the issue at hand;
* Achieve positive engagement with all types of local stakeholders including relevant government agencies, local businesses, regulators, NGOs, CSOs, researchers and citizens;
* Explain clearly the workshop methodology and how the outputs will be used at the beginning of the workshop and include some warm-up activity;
* Choose well the workshop methodology to allow participants contribute to the discussion and to strengthen the links among them;
* Ensure the comfort of the room (space around the tables, temperature, light etc.) to reduce the stress and fatigue of the participants and to improve the results. Provide some small "gift" or surprise them somehow, to create a friendly environment for the discussion;
* Define a clear agenda and respect it, but do not hesitate to be flexible and modify the schedule to reach the final results;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
* Participants do not subscribe gladly to the platform, they don't have time and/or willingness to learn using another tool;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
* Ensure you have some big institution's newsletter to disseminate your workshop for recruitment and spreading of the results;
* Choose your methodology considering your audience;
* Dedicate the needed time to discuss and clarify the methodology and the agenda with the facilitator - and among the organizing group;
* Involve students when possible;
* Stream only the most crucial sections of the workshop, disseminate the streaming agenda;
* Provide a synthetic, max 5 pages, info pack about the topic before the workshop;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
* Send an official invitation letter signed by the director/president of the institute organizing the workshop to facilitate the recruitment;
* Apply different participatory methods during the event to maintain a high level of attention.
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* Ensure that all voices have an equal footing in the debate during the workshop;
* Request participants keep trying to think from other stakeholders' position;
* Allocate time for every participant to present his/her own idea and to discuss it in plenum;
* Find moderators with experience on methods used for event moderation;
* 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;
* Create a friendly and relaxed workshop atmosphere for participants to have lively and open discussions;
* Give tight bounds to participants about the shape of the contributions they have to provide, so they will not have other option than provide what is needed;
* Check the discussion and gently but firmly ask the participants not to lose focus on the final purpose, to speed up and keep up with the timing or not to go too deep or too specific;
* One day is not enough for SDD.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 5'''
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* Define a clear plan for the future engagement of the workshop's participants to keep the community active;
* Check carefully the voting process of the actions, to avoid selfish or non correct behaviours which could distort the results;
* Translate workshop results in something short and friendly in short time and disseminate among the participants and others, not to loose momentum;
* Check carefully the voting process, to avoid selfish or improper behaviours, which could distort the results;
* Consider the RRI principles as guidelines to construct the project processes for a sound management of the projects;
* Achieve success through multi-stakeholder engagement and consensus;
* Ensure that the process of co-generating an action plan is concluded during the workshop;
* While interpreting the results consider the location of the workshop: statistically most of the participants will come from the area where the workshop is held;
* Consider the best way of collecting votes for the purpose such as the number of votes available for each participant, the rounds of votes, etc.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 6'''
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* Facilitate collaboration between research and industry/market to create a dynamic knowledge-sharing mechanism;
* Convince investors to facilitate the creation of a dynamic knowledge-sharing mechanism;
* Develop a "Social and Solidarity Economy" type of framework in the field of marine biotechnologies;
* Build a network to report challenges to politicians to put marine biotechnologies on the national agenda as an economic and sustainable opportunity;
* Support local and international decision-makers in charge of evaluating if, when, how, by who and for what should Deep Sea Mining ever take place;
* Disseminate the results on MARINA platform;
* Create links among participants for future partnerships and develop a network of common interest;
* Offer open access to the specialized information and share knowledge;
* Send the final results of the workshop to the participants;
* Succeed with public engagement through science education and open access in policy;
* Science & Education and Open Access have a vital role in achieving success in the development of sustainable tourism ventures within Marine Protected Areas.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 7'''
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* To measure success, define clear and achievable objectives;
* Develop new collaborations for new means of communication;
* Distinguish between occurrences and resources, in order to know what exists and its potential economic value;
* Involving customers ranked the most favourable cluster with specific actions including the adoption of the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) business model;
* The participants did not follow-up on the platform as they declared they were willing to do: there are too many platforms, they get lost or do not have time to explore another one.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 8'''
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* Ensure that funding will be secured for action plan execution and follow up actions;
* Coordinate and develop industrial, academic and political linkages to boost funding around marine biotechnologies;
* Try to develop stronger engagement among schools and the local authorities for the maintenance of basic infrastructure;
* Attract private investments and develop national projects;
* Disseminate research and innovation outcomes that have societal relevance for ethical acceptability;
* Ethical issues are highly important in maintaining the sustainable operation of the vessels while safeguarding the environment;
* Facilitate fruitful discussions and widely disseminate conclusions to third parties;
* Ensure the policies are socially inclusive and are widely known;
* Push for governance and ethics to be required in business registration requirements for creating awareness on sustainability;
* Plan periodic meetings on the same topic, with old and new participants, to create ownership of the process, intensify the effort and ensure follow-up;
* Make ports hubs of sustainability.
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==See also...==
[[Stakeholder Motivation]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Workshop Results

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* Realize a complete inventory of local skills needed for the topic of academic actors, start-ups or companies already established in the region;
* Make lists of actions and players, record skills, know-how and economic potential, identify best practices and make full use of them to put the chosen topic on the national agenda;
* Start a survey to establish the relationship between local communities and the coastal areas and share results with politicians to put marine biotechnologies on the national agenda as an economic and sustainable opportunity;
* Bring researchers from ‘non-conventional’ areas related to Deep Sea Mining;
* Recruit participants based on their interest, research, business or experience related to the workshop topic;
* There is a strong need for redefining and refocusing the business model of tourism.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 2'''
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* Develop messages that make the problem tangible for everybody for instance by translating facts and figures into something simple and impactful;
* Promote the involvement of public authorities on local, national and European levels;
* Make the high seas more visible to all stakeholders, the benefits for all and the issues at stake;
* Raise awareness of the general public on the environmental impact of offshore installations at all stages (building, exploitation, dismantling);
* Improve science literacy and research applicability to increase awareness on the specific issue;
* Make marine issues visible and understandable to the public;
* Perform an analysis of publics' behaviours before engaging the public engagement;
* Use audience targeted communication for all types stakeholders to engage them;
* Consider societal challenges (as defined by the EC) during the participative events, in order for the results to be easily related to them;
* Inform in a wider manner all societal actors about the issue.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 3'''
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* Ensure a good representation of professionals (industry related to the topic, policy makers, journalists) to have a balanced dialogue;
* Involve the private sector, policymakers, the scientific community and the local and national community for the definition of ideas, needs and solutions;
* Plan an in-depth and varied engagement with stakeholders at all stages of the projects;
* Adapt the presentation of projects information to the specific needs of respective stakeholders groups;
* Use common words so that non scientists participants can understand and contribute to the discussion without being overwhelmed by scientific language;
* Empower European citizens, business representatives, researchers and policy makers to take informed decisions on the high seas through science education;
* Connect all stakeholders through education and communication;
* Foster collaboration among companies in the marine biotechnologies value chain and social and environmental actors;
* Mobilize stakeholders for active involvement;
* 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;
* Enable workshops participants to create networks and communities of interest to further research and identify solutions for the studied issue;
* Engage researchers with the industry for the development of appropriate technologies since there is a discrepancy between the academia and the industry needs;
* Raise awareness among pupils and students about environmental protection through informational programs as well as promote the specific sector as a means of employability;
* Identify or create a unique Body entrusted with the control of a process to ensure coordination and synergy of all stakeholders involved;
* Increase awareness in the youngest about the (local) marine issues to create a new generation of people that are aware of the problems and want to engage themselves, to take action also through a political career.
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* Take measures to develop and further enhance the engagement and cooperation between different stakeholders;
* Make an inventory of innovations and tools, and facilitate collaboration and networking for the development of biotechnologies in France;
* Put in place a multi-stakeholder dialogue to efficiently reduce plastic pollution;
* Activate citizens as a resourceful group of action that could lead to a more innovative and including society;
* Promote the societal challenge as a hot topic and the workshop's results (media, partners, stakeholders, etc);
* 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;
* Mobilise stakeholders early in the process to develop viable and sustainable business models;
* Joined stakeholder involvement produces ideas with integrated and holistic focus based on synergy and collaboration;
* Collect participant's post-workshop feedback focusing on the added value workshop points: the participatory method, the topic, the action plan, the common vision, the future participation options;
* Encourage researchers to voice their opinions on marine issues in the media focusing on economic, environmental and social needs to enable the uptake of new technologies;
* Focus on environmental aspects through a multi-stakeholder approach to ensure stability and availability of resources;
* Stakeholders are concerned that the authorities and the private companies will decide to advance with Deep Sea Mining without proper public consultation and without knowing sufficient about the deep sea;
* The society believes that RRI will never be in full effect without strong political will;
* Multidisciplinary research considers the sustainability vector is key;
* Actively introduce Gender Equality into discussions and ideas, as most often is a non considered aspect.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 5'''
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* Foster stakeholder engagement, capacity building, behavioural changes and production and consumption pattern shift with Science education;
* Develop a stakeholder engagement plan;
* Implement a coherent national monitoring programme;
* Apply a long-term and crosscutting strategic planning by defining SMART common vision and actions;
* Engage local communities in awareness raising event;
* Focus not only on high-level ideas, but also on required research and innovation actions needed to execute them;
* Develop a common vision and an action plan with a more narrow focus combining development milestones and follow-up workshops;
* Create decision-making processes that are participative, transparent and allow for public deliberation;
* Check carefully the voting process of the actions, to avoid selfish or non correct behaviours which could distort the results;
* Check carefully the voting process, to avoid selfish or improper behaviours, which could distort the results;
* Empower citizens beyond data collection through involvement in decision-making and governance;
*Prepare take home tools and methods that participants can implement in their jobs;
* Provide a quality framework in which all stakeholders can work toward a solution thanks to a good governance;
* Encourage the production of socially and environmentally acceptable solutions and services with the science education of business and industry professionals;
* Have business and industry professionals consider producing socially and environmentally acceptable marine bio-based goods and services;
* Plan what to do with buildings/installations which have been created while building wind farms;
* Consider ethics when dealing with the legal frameworks to assure marine biotechnologies sustainability and social awareness;
* Identify easy-to-implement solutions to attract people and harbour-related businesses in innovative harbour development;
* Develop new methods of governance for engaging citizens through public awareness and politics;
* Develop case studies on how municipalities work with climate change projects and community driven innovation;
* Develop tools for engaging citizens in urban development and communicate them broadly to inspire local communities;
* Include key local stakeholders in the planning and implementation of local strategies;
* Include more education aspects of citizenship, sustainability and ecology in schools;
* Organize more science dissemination events targeting the general public;
* Increase knowledge on deep sea minerals occurrences and their economic;
* Work together (science, law, economics, policy) to give advice on seabed mining issues;
* Increase awareness in the use of raw materials and their importance on our society;
* Identify what are the society's perceptions and knowledge gaps for consideration in future planning of Deep Sea Mining research and innovation initiatives;
* Develop new capacities for studying and a performing monitoring;
* Increase awareness regarding water quality;
* 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
* Raise public awareness on the real problems;
* Develop and implement awareness and educational campaigns and engage local communities;
* Learn from education, rather than experience, is necessary to avoid climate changes impact;
* Include marine/environmental education in school curricula;
* 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;
* Develop a national strategy for coastal management and coastal protection;
* Develop a coastal protection strategy that is fit for purpose by all stakeholders;
* Engage the public and involve governing bodies at various levels to generate ideas that are ethical, sustainable, inclusive and of social justice;
* Focus on RRI issues by prompting participants to talk more about how researchers can be enrolled in all actions generated and how other stakeholders can be useful to researchers;
* Define SMART common vision and actions towards a specific goal and project;
* Push for adjust rules to allow open access to relevant sector research results;
* Raise awareness through education for developing/supporting new technologies for responsible maritime transport;
* Push participants to move beyond exchanging ideas and to start co-creating a vision;
* Awareness and education are fundamental in changing mind-sets;
* Open access, i.e. giving free online access to the results of publicly-funded research data will boost innovation and increase the use of scientific results by all societal actors;
* While interpreting the results consider the location of the workshop: statistically most of the participants will come from the area where the workshop is held;
* Claim for an alignment between legislation and the changing scientific situation and technological innovations;
* Promote local communities and their traditions for societal relevance of the scientific outputs;
* Choose the most effective methodology to build a common vision and give space to many different voices.
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* Consider Governance as a common responsibility of citizens and decision makers;
* Facilitate collaboration between research and industry/market to create a dynamic knowledge-sharing mechanism;
* Convince investors to facilitate the creation of a dynamic knowledge-sharing mechanism;
* Identify common working initiatives between municipalities and the civil societies, so that citizens may be actively involved;
* Develop sustainable and long-term solutions even if they do not entirely focus on technical and/or economic aspects, but add lifestyle qualities and/or facilities;
* Take actions in order to update the actual legislation;
* Increase environmental and science education to promote societal understanding and participation;
* Create training programs targeting SMEs and investors by focusing on enablers and barriers;
* Put in place a policy-oriented, holistic and integrated approach to tackle complex issues;
* Exchange with star chefs on new products from the transformation of marine resources to provide the opportunity to make the audience aware a wider audience;
* Develop new tools and infrastructures of research on marine resources, particularly in inaccessible depths, but also for monitoring the marine environment, stocks of biomass or still unwanted algae;
* Make restaurants aware restaurants and the public about the potential offered by the blue biotechnologies;
* Share data for a better cooperation and public engagement on the high seas;
* Raise awareness and spread information about marine biotechnologies to the different groups of stakeholders;
* Develop a "Social and Solidarity Economy" type of framework in the field of marine biotechnologies;
* Raise awareness on aquaculture in the Azores;
* 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;
* Organize of a marine biotechnology day at the regional level including different actors to make the general public aware on the marine biotechnology sector and its potential;
* Encourage scientists and NGO's to popularize the different aspects of marine biotechnology through science café, forums, open days etc;
* Organise Open Days in companies to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with marine biotechnologies;
* Involve senior/retired scientific experts to communicate on marine biotechnologies in layman's terms to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with the topic;
* Promote researchers qualifications to find new bio applications for products answering societal needs;
* Develop new model of governance for marine biotechnology development including the engagement of the society;
* Build a network to report challenges to politicians to put marine biotechnologies on the national agenda as an economic and sustainable opportunity;
* Implement training and guidance for careers around marine biotechnologies to reduce marine pollution;
* Contribute with knowledge and conceptual frameworks that support interaction, collaboration and holistic recommendations based on research experience;
* Push for broad vision for industrial harbour development by local governments inviting non-harbour stakeholders to contribute in new ways;
* Involve citizens in the political/technical systems;
* Adapt local policies and strategies in order to be in agreement with research outcomes;
* Plan local actions in agreement with its local circumstances instead of promoting larger-scale policies;
* Support local and international decision-makers in charge of evaluating if, when, how, by who and for what should Deep Sea Mining ever take place;
* Create an open access platform with all Deep Sea Mining data available including biological and geological information;
* Promote public engagement actions to raise awareness to the urgency of deep sea mapping;
* Create a common DATABASE – for centralizing all the data and studies regarding biodiversity;
* Develop partnership between different stakeholders;
* Use public-private partnerships as a new economical instrument;
* Raise public awareness regarding the benefits of renewable energy by promoting the renewable energy methods;
* Promote and develop responsible and sustainable tourism in a changing environment;
* Use rational the natural resources, with maximum economy;
* Education is the most important aspect that can accelerate social change and climate change mitigation;
* Create a path to open information on climate changes topic and related data;
* Change unsustainable patterns of consumption and production, in order to reduce the amount of waste;
* Develop campaigns for promoting sustainable fishing methods and techniques through protecting resources and other incentives/compensation;
* Development of an educational platform for changing knowledge between public and private institutions;
* 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;
* Use of the outcomes of the national monitoring programme as part of a targeted national awareness raising campaign;
* Inform and educate wider society of the impacts, challenges and potential solutions for coastal protectio;
* Assess / quantify the social, economic and environmental risk;
* Push governmental bodies for high-tier governance on local initiatives to have the biggest impact;
* Follow-up on motivated participants of how that used the knowledge obtained in workshops for third private and professional projects;
* Educate the public at large in their individual role in marine conservation and sustainability (Public Engagement, Science Education);
* Educate all stakeholders about sustainable tourism sustainability to achieve socially and environmentally acceptable goods and services;
* Changing customer demand requires attractive and sustainable products that provide unique and customised experiences;
* Action and follow-up the co-defined action plan;
* Make scientific information reliable and easily accessible to citizens and stakeholders;
* Create procedures for an open access to data and data exchange, to allow for multiple feedbacks from end-users and policy-makers;
* Disseminate widely local and regional regulations and type approvals since the businesses often have significant knowledge gaps;
* Business stakeholders are mostly interested on the policy agendas;
* Consider the impacts of any activity before consenting which may require the deployments of monitoring technologies to facilitate monitoring and impact assessment;
* Coordinate all activities related to policy, planning and regulation in the best possible way to reduce conflict and help meet environmental, economic and social objectives;
* Provide Open Access to data for a proactive response to societal challenges;
* Develop information exchange systems between government, industry and the universities;
* Push for cooperation among academic institutions and the industry, as it is crucial;
* The greater majority of actions relate to more than one RRI dimension; this shows that actions are multidisciplinary and involve multiple stakeholders;
* Implement innovative and responsive policies to face climate change effects and assure a balanced competitiveness, growth and sustainability;
* Start measuring and collecting marine scientific data on board different non-scientific vessels;
* Develop information-based decision support tools, with automated intervention systems.
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* Follow-up with all participants and monitor results regularly and engage them in post-workshop knowledge sharing and networking through an online platform;
* Governance should strive for active engagement of the key public and private stakeholder bodies for the development and impact on the societal challenge;
* The ultimate aim should be to develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts and to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products;
* Be aware that only about half of the participants are likely to use the knowledge gained at the workshop;
* Build capacity through education by developing local and national programmes for secondary schools and outreach programmes through citizen projects utilising real-time data from monitoring equipment;
* Create innovative tools to guide the consumers, thus inducing public and private stakeholders (including NGOs) to invest in more sustainable directions;
* Start specific economic changes (investment, taxation) to support the goal of efficient and sustainable activities;
* Enhance control mechanisms of research and innovation outputs, according to ethical rules.
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*Raise awareness among the general public to make informed choices and have an active social participation to further push the new initiatives;
* Focus on good enforcement of already existing legislation mechanisms rather than reinventing others from scratch and adjust legislation as necessary;
* Train policymakers through communication tools and adapt legislation to facilitate the creation of a dynamic knowledge-sharing mechanism;
* Embed governance in legislation through accountability to ensure the sustainability and to address societal challenges;
* Provide tax reductions or other benefits to businesses for massively applying environmental protection legislature and procedures and for making use of innovative technologies;
* Advocate on the necessity of creating specific funding schemes to support the development of the targeted sector based on RRI principles;
* Create funding mechanisms to promote RRI in research and innovation in the innovative sectors;
* Encourage scientific knowledge and professional growth that have fundamental roles in supporting innovative sectors;
* Increase the impact of projects' results thanks to open access;
* Push for the adoption of common processes for accessibility of results of European projects that would allow a comparison of results through time and creation of broader synergies among past and present projects;
* Involve "Ambassadors" or " figures" at regional level (navigators, high level sportsman, known well-respected public figures of all kinds);
* Promote education, training and more equal incomes for fishermen in the Azores;
* Consider opportunities of synergies between the fisheries and aquaculture sectors in the Azores;
* Beware that the high level of qualification needed in aquaculture and the small scale of the region market are two constraints of the synergies between the fisheries and aquaculture sectors in the Azores;
* 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;
* Create of a one-stop shop for the Institute of blue bio-technologies with short and long-term strategies;
* Create an award for the best blue bio-technologies innovation or product to make maritime biotechnologies a sustainable economic opportunity;
* Start a regional programme and raise awareness of tourism actors to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with marine biotechnologies;
* Put in place a certification label of projects to draw guidelines for the sustainable development of marine biotechnologies;
* Train educators and information relays on marine biotechnologies to develop them in the field of marine pollution;
* Promote the reinforcement of policies and adoption of coherent legislative frameworks to develop marine biotechnology;
* 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;
* Coordinate and develop industrial, academic and political linkages to boost funding around marine biotechnologies;
* Train and convince policymakers, implementers, and investors to develop biotechnologies;
* Add marine biotechnologies in school programmes to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with marine biotechnologies;
* Try to develop stronger engagement among schools and the local authorities for the maintenance of basic infrastructure;
* Make environmental impact assessment mandatory for Deep Sea Mining within the EU;
* Oblige companies by contract to use 10% of their investment in an investigation in engineering design for mitigation of Deep Sea Mining during all the operation;
* Improve the legislative framework to encourage the capitalization process of renewable energy;
* Upgrade the transport infrastructure for renewable energy;
* Use funding programs dedicated to citizens, aimed at replacing old goods and polluting with new and environmentally friendly ones;
* Define and update the legislation to prevent climate changes for Black Sea area;
* Involve citizens in public consultations and decision–making processes for local and national/ EU regulations;
* Improve port reception facilities and services for processing over waste from ships;
* Attract private investments and develop national projects;
* Build the appropriate infrastructure and technology for the Wave Energy Sector;
* Enhance coastal and maritime tourism by adapting to demographic changes, while maintaining the original vocation and atmosphere of the coastal cities;
* Raise the attractiveness of science studies by illustrating the application of science in societal issues;
* Improve marine education provided in medium and higher education;
* Protect the deep sea from mining, create laws that impose that deep sea mining is a non-profit activity and concert the deep sea into world heritage site;
* Provide strong incentives to promote the circular economy;
* Promote governance arrangements and practices to favour sustainable tourism and seafood consumption;
* Reliable scientific information is not easily accessible for sectorial actors;
* Create a seafood producers organisation in France to reduce the gap between the producers and consumers;
* Focus on Science Education in sustainable development and marine resources management as a critical part of local culture and coastal tourism;
* Ethical issues are highly important in maintaining the sustainable operation of the vessels while safeguarding the environment;
* Raise awareness and embed RRI into educational curricula;
* Ensure the policies are socially inclusive and are widely known;
* Push for governance and ethics to be required in business registration requirements for creating awareness on sustainability;
* Create platforms where industry and academic leaders can disseminate accurate and influential information which can be accessible by the general public;
* To develop a sector, develop a legal framework promoting and regulating its development;
* Education is necessary for the marine biotechnology development thus the need for developing university educational programmes on marine biotechnology;
* Invest in communication campaign by professionals, work with marketing societies to translate the scientific results into clear messages that can reach in particular young people;
* Provide free and easier access to the results of the studies;
* Translate in easy-to-understand messages research outputs and results for better dissemination. Consider using science mediators;
* Provide scientific education in all the scholar cycles: it is crucial;
* Put in place an effective communication about green washing, so to improve the critical sense of the public against "fake" green activities;
* Engage government and law makers in order to make sustainable change in ports and ship;
* Consider that National and International organizations must balance economic profit and a competitive market with the goal of preserving the natural environment of our seas;
* Make ports hubs of sustainability;
* Increase the usage of alternative fuels for ships as for instance Liquefide Naturaò Gas;
* Involve a multitude of stakeholders and implement actions as widely as possible, even globally, in order for adopted policies and solutions to be as relevant as possible, resulting in more support to implement the changes by all sides;
* Improve regulations and legislations about the release of bacteria at sea;
* Improving education/training;
* Improve legislation to deal with climate change and coastal errosion;
* Claim for an international coordination to identify the possible impacts of innovations.
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==See also...==
[[Workshop Definition & Execution]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Workshop Organisation

2019-02-18T09:48:44Z

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Lessons Learned per Results Dissemination

2019-02-18T09:48:04Z

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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 2'''
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* Make the MARINA platform a case study platform where collaborative coastal climate solution projects are presented;
* Initiate target awareness campaigns towards all stakeholders through a specific media;
* Invite additional stakeholders and communities to join the MARINA knowledge sharing platform and direct them to the results and materials related to Deep Sea Mining;
* Run awareness campaigns so that the issue problem is clearly understood by all stakeholders.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 3'''
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* Invite stakeholders to provide their feedback about workshop.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 5'''
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* Translate workshop results in something short and friendly in short time and disseminate among the participants and others, not to loose momentum;
* Improve efficient communication, generate plural debates and disseminate reliable data and information to convert vision into reality;
* Provide the results on MARINA platform.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 6'''
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* Involve some stakeholders in the creation or validation of the scientific processes to improve theur acceptance of the final results, even if it can be seen as a time-consuming process;
* Engage participants to apply RRI principles in daily work and daily life;
* Initiate open access through public offices also to non-governmental stakeholders;
* Succeed with public engagement through science education and open access in policy;
* Disseminate the results on MARINA platform;
* Send the final results of the workshop to the participants.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 8'''
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* Put in place effective pathways for communicating policy recommandations to EU and to national bodies as part of the global process of the project;
* Be aware that the knowledge transfer to other sectors and general public is a great challenge faced by partners of european projects;
* Use the media and science mediators to make society aware about research and innovation results;
* Facilitate fruitful discussions and widely disseminate conclusions to third parties;
* Create higher awareness on technological achievements from challenging and cutting edge successful projects to attract skilled people to work in the sector;
* Use of technology as an instrument to both monitor the regulations and to disseminate data in near real-time;
* Disseminate research and innovation outcomes that have societal relevance for ethical acceptability;
* Communicate broadly and raise wide awareness about the specific initiative to anchor change.
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==See also...==
[[Workshop Definition & Execution]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Defining Workshop Goal

2019-02-18T09:47:33Z

Jordankent:

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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 1'''
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* Explore the questions that are relevant to the real-life concerns of the group.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 2'''
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* Define a clear triggering question highlighting the issue and goal to be addressed at the workshop;
* Define the initiative's broad goals from a policy, social / cultural, economic, technological perspective;
* Explain the challenge in an inclusive, strategic and broad manner for involving all types of participants;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstandings during the event;
* Focus the challenge with relevant examples for the participants and related to their daily lives;
* Focus the workshop and the RRI presentation on a topic relevant for the participants and related to their daily lives;
* Explain RRI and innovation tools and how to embed them in policy agendas as participants find it useful.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 3'''
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* Offer a clear explanation of the methodology used to be as clear as possible to the participants;
* Workshops may participants convince about RRI, but doesn't tend to help them in the concrete application of RRI in their daily work;
* Empower all stakeholder groups to co-create sustainable value propositions that reflect societal needs and support healthy marine environments thanks to RRI dimensions;
* Adapt the workshop methodology to the local culture;
* Participatory workshops provide good opportunities for better discovering developments and problems of the studied industry;
* Hook RRI abstract subjects to a topic related to participants lives and has interests in it;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
* Ask participants' to state their workshop expectations because experience shows that some find the workshop and its participatory method intriguing, others were interested In how to develop a shared vision, some had an interest in being inspired and build networks;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
* Choose well the workshop methodology to allow participants contribute to the discussion and to strengthen the links among them;
* Use new participatory methodologies to attract participants.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 4'''
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* Request participants keep trying to think from other stakeholders' position;
* Do not interfere too much with the topics participants chose to focus on, it mostly depends on individual needs/experience and knowledge;
* Focus on the concept and its tools when explaining RRI to participants;
* Provide the participants with the legislative aspects related to the topic. If possible ensure the attendance of an expert.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 5'''
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* Have participants rank the priorities and discuss from the highest to the lowest to co-construct a common vision;
* Create an organized knowledge synthesis on Deep Sea Mining;
* Achieve success through multi-stakeholder engagement and consensus;
* Consider the best way of collecting votes for the purpose such as the number of votes available for each participant, the rounds of votes, etc.
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==See also...==
[[Workshop Definition & Execution]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Creating new opportunities

2019-02-18T09:46:59Z

Jordankent:

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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 1'''
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* Use dialog for initiating collaboration among private landowners and municipalities;
* Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) can help to overcome the current marine and societal challenges and unlock the potential for Blue Growth.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 2'''
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* Raise citizen and business awareness about the environmental protection and sustainability.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 3'''
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* Create the opportunity to network and discuss, in order to identify the key marine and societal challenges for the Wave Energy Sector;
* The education of young people and the use of exchange programs between schools will lead to active citizenship respectful of the environment.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 4'''
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* The absence of gender equality reveals a critical gap in access to opportunities and resources and decision-making power for women and men.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 5'''
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* Develop new models and ways of collaborating on climate change in order to create common knowledge and more awareness of climate change in public mind;
* Develop and organize more actions, in order that different stakeholders meet and discuss their ideas more often and get used to think outside their boxes.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 6'''
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* Create new models for evaluating risks and economic issues;
* Use citizen observatories through mobile phones to report pollution sites and inappropriate environmental behaviour;
* Educate children on the importance of biodiversity and how to think about the environment responsibly;
* Educate citizens about the value of the sea in their daily lives is necessary to raise ocean awareness and literacy;
* Create links among participants for future partnerships and develop a network of common interest;
* Follow up with the participants with periodic workshops using the same methodology.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 7'''
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* Develop real-time information systems, training activities and incentives to share knowledge and information for avoiding tendencies of local governments and businesses to downplay negative consequences;
* Try to engage volunteer groups/stakeholders who use the specific environment on a regular basis.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 8'''
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* Ensure that funding will be secured for action plan execution and follow up actions;
* Promote a greater participation of general public in projects financed by European funds to help filling the gap between science and society;
* Equip urban open areas for open debates where local communities can meet frequently in order to exercise the rights guaranteed by the Aarhus convention to develop sustainable decisions in a collective and legal manner;
* Promote Sustainable Tourism policies to improve coastal and marine ecosystems, minimise pollution and create economic growth by combining efforts at national, regional and local levels and creating green funding schemes and incentives;
* Ensure a ministerial umbrella to facilitate the educative process in school by scientists or scientific mediators.
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==See also...==
[[Workshop Definition & Execution]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Creating Community

2019-02-18T09:46:18Z

Jordankent:

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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 1'''
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* Involve all interested stakeholders.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 3'''
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* Continue to engage the stakeholders for knowledge exchange after the workshop;
* Construct a good collaboration among project partners from the beginning of the project to its legacy to ensure a wider take-up of the results by all partners;
* Give the participants sufficient time to present themselves and their work/field of interest, in order to facilitate connection and co-operation after the workshop;
* Develop concrete examples that stakeholders can understand and get involved;
* Multiply events where researchers from academia and industry exchange with a broader community to enhance this community and its visibility;
* All relevant stakeholders need to be involved in the process of developing sustainable tourism ventures within Marine Protected Areas (MPAs);
* Participants do not subscribe gladly to the platform, they don't have time and/or willingness to learn using another tool;
* Establish transparent, efficient and effective democratic mechanisms amongst all involved and throughout all the phases to create trust;
* Bring people and particularly the young on location where they can have transformative experiences that they will seek to relieve throughout their lives;
* Engage young potential "citizen scientists" in schools to promote the issue at hand;
* Start with a roundtable process so that everybody know each-other, and everyone can share their personal perspective of the subject;
* Ensure that participants can exchange knowledge and meet new people.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 4'''
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* Establish cooperation among diverse stakeholders (researchers, innovative businesses, politicians and citizens) even when it's challenging;
* Develop partnerships for science outreach actions.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 5'''
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* Consider the RRI principles as guidelines to construct the project processes for a sound management of the projects;
* Define a clear plan for the future engagement of the workshop's participants to keep the community active;
* Improve governance by defining a shared and common vision by involving citizens and business networks for clean and green industries;
* Develop a network of common interest;
* Promote citizen science to involve the general public on research;
* Develop more partnerships with the Media and NGOs in order to reach bigger audiences;
* While interpreting the results consider that participants can have different information and data about the topic: the "reality" can be difficult to identify.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 6'''
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* Science & Education and Open Access have a vital role in achieving success in the development of sustainable tourism ventures within Marine Protected Areas;
* Each initiative on sustainable tourism products requires the right expertise (knowledge and skills) and institutional participatory processes that will support stakeholders' successful involvement;
* Make urban planning and tourism development collaborative and democratic by involving citizens and business in envisioning urban futures and resolve negative environmental impacts;
* Offer open access to the specialized information and share knowledge.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 7'''
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* Involving customers ranked the most favourable cluster with specific actions including the adoption of the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) business model;
* The participants did not follow-up on the platform as they declared they were willing to do: there are too many platforms, they get lost or do not have time to explore another one.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 8'''
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* Organise regular follow-up workshops by involving more decision makers to anchor change;
* Attract students into engineering courses;
* Engage all interested stakeholders in harbour development;
* Educate planners, civil society leaders, business industry to be more collaborative, responsible and exert place-based leadership;
* Plan periodic meetings on the same topic, with old and new participants, to create ownership of the process, intensify the effort and ensure follow-up.
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==See also...==
[[Workshop Definition & Execution]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned for Other Methodology

2019-02-18T09:45:36Z

Jordankent:

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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 2'''
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* Contact directly the person to recruit via e-mails or telephone;
* Provide enough time for the presentation of science outcomes and sharing knowledge from research point of view.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 3'''
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* Plan an in-depth and varied engagement with stakeholders at all stages of the projects;
* Adapt the presentation of projects information to the specific needs of respective stakeholders groups;
* Construct a good collaboration among project partners from the beginning of the project to its legacy to ensure a wider take-up of the results by all partners;
* Consider carefully legislation and cultural differences between project participants in the discussion prior to the project proposal to avoid possible understanding of feasability barriers;
* Collaborate with your local partners, which can be great allies;
* Help participants become active in the workshop by helping them understand the importance of the Marine Hot Topic;
* Use role play and "Decide" game to integrate difficult concepts in workshop discussion;
* Adapt the workshop methodology to the local culture.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 4'''
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* Request participants keep trying to think from other stakeholders' position.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 5'''
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* Consider the RRI principles as guidelines to construct the project processes for a sound management of the projects;
* Prepare take home tools and methods that participants can implement in their jobs.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 6'''
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* Involve some stakeholders in the creation or validation of the scientific processes to improve theur acceptance of the final results, even if it can be seen as a time-consuming process.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 8'''
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* Coordinate collaborative activities and tools to push RRI forward;
* Increase the impact of projects' results thanks to open access;
* Push for the adoption of common processes for accessibility of results of European projects that would allow a comparison of results
through time and creation of broader synergies among past and present projects;
* Put in place effective pathways for communicating policy recommandations to EU and to national bodies as part of the global process of the project;
* Be aware that the knowledge transfer to other sectors and general public is a great challenge faced by partners of european projects.
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==See also...==
[[Workshop Methodology]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned for Structured Democratic Dialogue Methodology

2019-02-18T09:45:02Z

Jordankent:

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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 1'''
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* Organise carefully the workshop phases for successfully meeting the objectives and for engaging all participants;
*Be careful of possible competition of other events happening as the same time in the same city or on the same topic;
*Bring researchers from ‘non-conventional’ areas related to Deep Sea Mining;
*Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) can help to overcome the current marine and societal challenges and unlock the potential for Blue Growth;
*There is a strong need for redefining and refocusing the business model of tourism.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 2'''
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* Explain the challenge in an inclusive, strategic and broad manner for involving all types of participants;
*Use diverse communication channels (e-mail, telephone, face-to-face and word of mouth) for recruiting participants;
* Define the initiative's broad goals from a policy, social / cultural, economic, technological perspective;
*Focus the workshop and the RRI presentation on a topic relevant for the participants and related to their daily lives;
* Make the high seas more visible to all stakeholders, the benefits for all and the issues at stake;
* Invite additional stakeholders and communities to join the MARINA knowledge sharing platform and direct them to the results and materials related to Deep Sea Mining;
*Define a workshop triggering question that is short, clear and easily understood by all stakeholders;
*Consider personal e-mails as the recruitment mechanism because it has been proven by far the most effective recruitment mechanism;
* Explain RRI and innovation tools and how to embed them in policy agendas as participants find it useful;
* Run awareness campaigns so that the issue problem is clearly understood by all stakeholders;
*Be aware of the motivational factor that workshop participants may feel because they like the fact that an interdisciplinary group representing all society's niches is invited to brainstorming for resolving the problem;
*Perform an analysis of publics' behaviours before engaging the public engagement;
* Use audience targeted communication for all types stakeholders to engage them;
* Raise citizen and business awareness about the environmental protection and sustainability;
* Initiate target awareness campaigns towards all stakeholders through a specific media;
* Motivate to receive ahead of the workshop and on time the participants' action ideas and to attract participants from all stakeholders’ groups;
* Be aware that policy-makers are not easy to engage unless they see a specific benefit that fits their agenda;
* Start planning at least 4 months in advance the organisation of a workshop as it is very time consuming task;
* Carefully consider the workshop's duration as many participants think that a one day-long workshop is too long.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 3'''
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* Adopt participative methods tested in MARINA in other initiatives including stakeholders;
* Moderate the workshop with an experienced facilitator to avoid "Groupthink" and the "Erroneous Priorities Effect";
* Explain at the start of the workshop the different phases that participants will go through;
*Empower European citizens, business representatives, researchers and policy makers to take informed decisions on the high seas through science education;
* Look for participants open to dialogue, but who don't usually interact with each other;
* Hook RRI abstract subjects to a topic related to participants lives and has interests in it;
* Implement RRI in real situations, with many participants proposing many actions;
* Choose a suitable method for the number of participants and the specific of the workshop;
*The SDD dialogue is a rigorous and efficient participatory methodology, but also time-consuming, leaving no time for the interpretation of the presented ideas in terms of their RRI dimensions by the participants during the workshop;
* Ask participants' to state their workshop expectations because experience shows that some find the workshop and its participatory method intriguing, others were interested In how to develop a shared vision, some had an interest in being inspired and build networks;
* Identify and invite the right number of participants representing all necessary science fields to create a viable action plan. Participant recruiting is time-consuming and must be planned well in advance of the workshop;
* Use both phone and email for citizen recruitment;
* Establish transparent, efficient and effective democratic mechanisms amongst all involved and throughout all the phases to create trust;
* Keep the workshop's duration short and engage an experienced facilitator;
* Involve politicians and municipality representatives in workshops to increase its effectiveness;
*Email and telephone were the best communication channels for promoting the workshop;
* The SDD method was evaluated as very well structured, inclusive, productive, scientific, interesting and dynamic;
* The education of young people and the use of exchange programs between schools will lead to active citizenship respectful of the environment;
*Plan well the participant groups so that all stakeholders are sufficiently represented;
* Promote the workshop through websites and a poster campaigns;
*Bring people and particularly the young on location where they can have transformative experiences that they will seek to relieve throughout their lives;
* Engage young potential "citizen scientists" in schools to promote the issue at hand;
* All relevant stakeholders need to be involved in the process of developing sustainable tourism ventures within Marine Protected Areas (MPAs);
* Achieve positive engagement with all types of local stakeholders including relevant government agencies, local businesses, regulators, NGOs, CSOs, researchers and citizens;
* Clarify from the start of any process or workshop all terms and acronyms so that all participants from various backgrounds understand them;
* Explain clearly the workshop methodology and how the outputs will be used at the beginning of the workshop and include some warm-up activity;
* Engage researchers with the industry for the development of appropriate technologies since there is a discrepancy between the academia and the industry needs;
* Raise awareness among pupils and students about environmental protection through informational programs as well as promote the specific sector as a means of employability;
* Learn about participatory methods and how to use them;
* Help the participants with examples to understand how to embed RRI principles when discussing a sector and societal challenges;
* Participants do not subscribe gladly to the platform, they don't have time and/or willingness to learn using another tool;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
* Ensure you have some big institution's newsletter to disseminate your workshop for recruitment and spreading of the results;
* Increase awareness in the youngest about the (local) marine issues to create a new generation of people that are aware of the problems and want to engage themselves, to take action also through a political career;
* Be flexible with the methodology adopted in order to finalize the process, even if not in the way you planned;
* Choose your methodology considering your audience;
* Dedicate the needed time to discuss and clarify the methodology and the agenda with the facilitator - and among the organizing group;
* Stream only the most crucial sections of the workshop, disseminate the streaming agenda.
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* Take measures to develop and further enhance the engagement and cooperation between different stakeholders;
* Request the participants to state their ideas in the form of action statements in order to “push” them to think in practical terms;
*Establish cooperation among diverse stakeholders (researchers, innovative businesses, politicians and citizens) even when it's challenging;
* Mobilise stakeholders early in the process to develop viable and sustainable business models;
* Joined stakeholder involvement produces ideas with integrated and holistic focus based on synergy and collaboration;
* Collect participant's post-workshop feedback focusing on the added value workshop points: the participatory method, the topic, the action plan, the common vision, the future participation options;
* Multidisciplinary research considers the sustainability vector is key;
* Create a friendly and relaxed workshop atmosphere for participants to have lively and open discussions;
* The absence of gender equality reveals a critical gap in access to opportunities and resources and decision-making power for women and men;
* Plan well the workshop so that participants provide their ideas in an active way;
* The SDD method allows for integrating contributions from individuals with diverse views, backgrounds and perspectives through a process that is structured, inclusive and collaborative;
* Avoiding "Groupthink" and the "Erroneous Priorities Effect": taking measures for the protection of the authenticity of all ideas;
* A structured participatory method like SDD helps participants converge their opinions towards a common vision and a common action plan;
* Give tight bounds to participants about the shape of the contributions they have to provide, so they will not have other option than provide what is needed;
* Actively introduce Gender Equality into discussions and ideas, as most often is a non considered aspect;
*One day is not enough for SDD.
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* Use the SMART action format to ease the follow up of the workshop;
* Define a clear plan for the future engagement of the workshop's participants to keep the community active;
* Focus not only on high-level ideas, but also on required research and innovation actions needed to execute them;
* Develop a common vision and an action plan with a more narrow focus combining development milestones and follow-up workshops;
* Translate workshop results in something short and friendly in short time and disseminate among the participants and others, not to loose momentum;
* Empower citizens beyond data collection through involvement in decision-making and governance.
*Provide a quality framework in which all stakeholders can work toward a solution thanks to a good governance;
*Increase knowledge on deep sea minerals occurrences and their economic;
* Work together (science, law, economics, policy) to give advice on seabed mining issues;
* Increase awareness in the use of raw materials and their importance on our society;
* Create an organized knowledge synthesis on Deep Sea Mining;
* Identify what are the society's perceptions and knowledge gaps for consideration in future planning of Deep Sea Mining research and innovation initiatives;
* Improve governance by defining a shared and common vision by involving citizens and business networks for clean and green industries;
* Engage the public and involve governing bodies at various levels to generate ideas that are ethical, sustainable, inclusive and of social justice;
*Focus on RRI issues by prompting participants to talk more about how researchers can be enrolled in all actions generated and how other stakeholders can be useful to researchers;
* Define SMART common vision and actions towards a specific goal and project;
* Achieve success through multi-stakeholder engagement and consensus;
* Awareness and education are fundamental in changing mind-sets;
* Open access, i.e. giving free online access to the results of publicly-funded research data will boost innovation and increase the use of scientific results by all societal actors;
* Allocate a good part of the workshop for creating a clear common action plan;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: a) simple, short title; one line describing the idea and one-two lines (minimum) explaining and clarifying the idea;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: b) think who would be responsible for implementing the proposed action and how to engage the person or organisation;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: c) timing (when could such an idea be implemented);
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: d) resources (how would the idea be implemented);
* Ensure that the process of co-generating an action plan is concluded during the workshop;
*While interpreting the results consider the location of the workshop: statistically most of the participants will come from the area where the workshop is held.
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* Increase environmental and science education to promote societal understanding and participation;
* Create training programs targeting SMEs and investors by focusing on enablers and barriers;
* Put in place a policy-oriented, holistic and integrated approach to tackle complex issues;
* Share data for a better cooperation and public engagement on the high seas;
* Support local and international decision-makers in charge of evaluating if, when, how, by who and for what should Deep Sea Mining ever take place;
* Create an open access platform with all Deep Sea Mining data available including biological and geological information;
* Educate children on the importance of biodiversity and how to think about the environment responsibly;
* Promote public engagement actions to raise awareness to the urgency of deep sea mapping;
* Push governmental bodies for high-tier governance on local initiatives to have the biggest impact;
* Make urban planning and tourism development collaborative and democratic by involving citizens and business in envisioning urban futures and resolve negative environmental impacts;
* Succeed with public engagement through science education and open access in policy;
* Educate the public at large in their individual role in marine conservation and sustainability (Public Engagement, Science Education);
* Educate all stakeholders about sustainable tourism sustainability to achieve socially and environmentally acceptable goods and services;
* Changing customer demand requires attractive and sustainable products that provide unique and customised experiences;
* Action and follow-up the co-defined action plan;
* Science & Education and Open Access have a vital role in achieving success in the development of sustainable tourism ventures within Marine Protected Areas;
* Each initiative on sustainable tourism products requires the right expertise (knowledge and skills) and institutional participatory processes that will support stakeholders' successful involvement;
* Consider the impacts of any activity before consenting which may require the deployments of monitoring technologies to facilitate monitoring and impact assessment;
* Coordinate all activities related to policy, planning and regulation in the best possible way to reduce conflict and help meet environmental, economic and social objectives;
* Initiate open access through public offices also to non-governmental stakeholders;
* Use citizen observatories through mobile phones to report pollution sites and inappropriate environmental behaviour;
* Educate citizens about the value of the sea in their daily lives is necessary to raise ocean awareness and literacy;
* Provide Open Access to data for a proactive response to societal challenges;
* Develop information exchange systems between government, industry and the universities;
*Push for cooperation among academic institutions and the industry, as it is crucial;
* The greater majority of actions relate to more than one RRI dimension; this shows that actions are multidisciplinary and involve multiple stakeholders;
* Implement innovative and responsive policies to face climate change effects and assure a balanced competitiveness, growth and sustainability;
*Start measuring and collecting marine scientific data on board different non-scientific vessels.
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* Develop real-time information systems, training activities and incentives to share knowledge and information for avoiding tendencies of local governments and businesses to downplay negative consequences;
* Follow-up with all participants and monitor results regularly and engage them in post-workshop knowledge sharing and networking through an online platform;
* To measure success, define clear and achievable objectives;
* The ultimate aim should be to develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts and to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products;
* Analyse the impact of plumes and waste produced by Deep Sea Mining exploitation;
* Distinguish between occurrences and resources, in order to know what exists and its potential economic value;
* Develop efficient monitoring systems and assess the environmental impacts of best/worst policy practice;
* Involving customers ranked the most favourable cluster with specific actions including the adoption of the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) business model;
* Build capacity through education by developing local and national programmes for secondary schools and outreach programmes through citizen projects utilising real-time data from monitoring equipment;
* Try to engage volunteer groups/stakeholders who use the specific environment on a regular basis;
* Create innovative tools to guide the consumers, thus inducing public and private stakeholders (including NGOs) to invest in more sustainable directions;
* Start specific economic changes (investment, taxation) to support the goal of efficient and sustainable activities.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 8'''
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*Focus on good enforcement of already existing legislation mechanisms rather than reinventing others from scratch and adjust legislation as necessary;
* Organise regular follow-up workshops by involving more decision makers to anchor change;
* Ensure that funding will be secured for action plan execution and follow up actions;
* Use the media and science mediators to make society aware about research and innovation results;
* Advocate on the necessity of creating specific funding schemes to support the development of the targeted sector based on RRI principles;
* Create funding mechanisms to promote RRI in research and innovation in the innovative sectors;
* Encourage scientific knowledge and professional growth that have fundamental roles in supporting innovative sectors;
* Try to develop stronger engagement among schools and the local authorities for the maintenance of basic infrastructure;
* Make environmental impact assessment mandatory for Deep Sea Mining within the EU;
* Oblige companies by contract to use 10% of their investment in an investigation in engineering design for mitigation of Deep Sea Mining during all the operation;
* Promote Sustainable Tourism policies to improve coastal and marine ecosystems, minimise pollution and create economic growth by combining efforts at national, regional and local levels and creating green funding schemes and incentives;
* Enhance coastal and maritime tourism by adapting to demographic changes, while maintaining the original vocation and atmosphere of the coastal cities;
* Educate planners, civil society leaders, business industry to be more collaborative, responsible and exert place-based leadership;
* Communicate broadly and raise wide awareness about the specific initiative to anchor change;
* Create higher awareness on technological achievements from challenging and cutting edge successful projects to attract skilled people to work in the sector;
* Disseminate research and innovation outcomes that have societal relevance for ethical acceptability;
* Promote governance arrangements and practices to favour sustainable tourism and seafood consumption;
* Reliable scientific information is not easily accessible for sectorial actors;
* Create a seafood producers organisation in France to reduce the gap between the producers and consumers;
* Focus on Science Education in sustainable development and marine resources management as a critical part of local culture and coastal tourism;
* Ensure the policies are socially inclusive and are widely known;
* Use of technology as an instrument to both monitor the regulations and to disseminate data in near real-time;
* Push for governance and ethics to be required in business registration requirements for creating awareness on sustainability;
* Create platforms where industry and academic leaders can disseminate accurate and influential information which can be accessible by the general public;
* To develop a sector, develop a legal framework promoting and regulating its development;
* Education is necessary for the marine biotechnology development thus the need for developing university educational programmes on marine biotechnology;
* Invest in communication campaign by professionals, work with marketing societies to translate the scientific results into clear messages that can reach in particular young people;
* Put in place an effective communication about green washing, so to improve the critical sense of the public against "fake" green activities;
* Engage government and law makers in order to make sustainable change in ports and ship;
* Consider that National and International organizations must balance economic profit and a competitive market with the goal of preserving the natural environment of our seas;
* Make ports hubs of sustainability;
* Increase the usage of alternative fuels for ships as for instance Liquefide Naturaò Gas;
* Involve a multitude of stakeholders and implement actions as widely as possible, even globally, in order for adopted policies and solutions to be as relevant as possible, resulting in more support to implement the changes by all sides.
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==See also...==
[[Workshop Methodology]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned for Science Café Methodology

2019-02-18T09:44:00Z

Jordankent:

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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 2'''
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* Define a clear triggering question highlighting the issue and goal to be addressed at the workshop;
* Make marine issues visible and understandable to the public.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 3'''
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* Involve the private sector, policymakers, the scientific community and the local and national community for the definition of ideas, needs and solutions;
* The reversed science cafe method motivates participants to express their opinions and views in a structured, inclusive, yet open manner;
* Participatory workshops provide good opportunities for better discovering developments and problems of the studied industry;
* Enable workshops participants to create networks and communities of interest to further research and identify solutions for the studied issue;
* Engage participants via emails and phone calls, since it has been proven as the most effective means of recruitment;
* Be aware that it is challenging to persuade people to participate in workshops.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 4'''
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* Focus on environmental aspects through a multi-stakeholder approach to ensure stability and availability of resources;
* Encourage researchers to voice their opinions on marine issues in the media focusing on economic, environmental and social needs to enable the uptake of new technologies.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 5'''
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* Raise awareness through education for developing/supporting new technologies for responsible maritime transport;
* Push for adjust rules to allow open access to relevant sector research results;
* Push participants to move beyond exchanging ideas and to start co-creating a vision.
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* Governance should strive for active engagement of the key public and private stakeholder bodies for the development and impact on the societal challenge;
* Be aware that only about half of the participants are likely to use the knowledge gained at the workshop.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 8'''
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* Embed governance in legislation through accountability to ensure the sustainability and to address societal challenges;
* Provide tax reductions or other benefits to businesses for massively applying environmental protection legislature and procedures and for making use of innovative technologies;
* Raise the attractiveness of science studies by illustrating the application of science in societal issues;
* Improve marine education provided in medium and higher education.
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==See also...==
[[Workshop Methodology]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned for World Café Methodology

2019-02-18T09:43:24Z

Jordankent:

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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 1'''
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* Attract different stakeholders in order to have a diversity and complementarity to obtain inputs as complete as possible.
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* Identify motives for policy makers and implementers to participate in the workshops as they are reluctant in participating;
* Improve science literacy and research applicability to increase awareness on the specific issue.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 3'''
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* Attract participants by sending invitations via e‐mail, followed by phone calls;
* Present and explain the method used;
* Encouraged all the participants to work on all the solutions during the session;
* Invite stakeholders to provide their feedback about workshop.
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 4'''
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* Stakeholders are concerned that the authorities and the private companies will decide to advance with Deep Sea Mining without proper public consultation and without knowing sufficient about the deep sea;
* The society believes that RRI will never be in full effect without strong political will;
* Use a method that encourages participants to work together in order to have an interactive group;
* Find moderators with experience on methods used for event moderation;
* Try to approach of potential participants and their engagement in convergent discussions with the future topic of the event;
* Develop partnerships for science outreach actions.
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* Create decision-making processes that are participative, transparent and allow for public deliberation;
* 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;
* Increase awareness regarding water quality;
* Develop new capacities for studying and a performing monitoring;
* Develop a network of common interest;
* Improve efficient communication, generate plural debates and disseminate reliable data and information to convert vision into reality;
* Include key local stakeholders in the planning and implementation of local strategies;
* Include more education aspects of citizenship, sustainability and ecology in schools;
* Organize more science dissemination events targeting the general public;
* Promote citizen science to involve the general public on research;
* Develop more partnerships with the Media and NGOs in order to reach bigger audiences;
* Develop and organize more actions, in order that different stakeholders meet and discuss their ideas more often and get used to think outside their boxes;
* Promote the meaning of the term "renewable energy systems";
* Develop educational programs to prepare specialists in the "renewable energy systems" field;
* Conduct studies of renewable energy on the Black Sea coastal area.
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* Take actions in order to update the actual legislation;
* Follow-up on motivated participants of how that used the knowledge obtained in workshops for third private and professional projects;
* Create a common DATABASE – for centralizing all the data and studies regarding biodiversity;
* Develop partnership between different stakeholders;
* Disseminate the results on MARINA platform;
* Create links among participants for future partnerships and develop a network of common interest;
* Plan local actions in agreement with its local circumstances instead of promoting larger-scale policies;
* Adapt local policies and strategies in order to be in agreement with research outcomes;
* Use public-private partnerships as a new economical instrument;
* Raise public awareness regarding the benefits of renewable energy by promoting the renewable energy methods.
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* Build a coastal protection system that can harness the wave energy.
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* Disseminate information about opportunities, threats and risks on the studied topic;
* Protect the deep sea from mining, create laws that impose that deep sea mining is a non-profit activity and concert the deep sea into world heritage site;
* Provide strong incentives to promote the circular economy;
* Improve the legislative framework to encourage the capitalization process of renewable energy;
* Upgrade the transport infrastructure for renewable energy.
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==See also...==
[[Workshop Methodology]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned for Focus Groups Methodology

2019-02-18T09:39:25Z

Jordankent:

Lessons Learned Relating to all marine sectors

2019-02-15T11:48:19Z

Jordankent:

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* Keep in mind the local context to answer local needs and specificities;
* Organise carefully the workshop phases for successfully meeting the objectives and for engaging all participants;
* Be careful of possible competition of other events happening as the same time in the same city or on the same topic;
* Use dialog for initiating collaboration among private landowners and municipalities;
* Find a topic which will attract different stakeholders;
* Explore the questions that are relevant to the real-life concerns of the group.
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* Provide a good incentive and personal benefits to motivate people to attend the workshop(s) and processes;
* Use using storytelling to describe the challenge with clear and concrete examples;
* Present the topic approached from the beginning of the workshop;
* Explain the challenge in an inclusive, strategic and broad manner for involving all types of participants;
* Define a clear triggering question highlighting the issue and goal to be addressed at the workshop;
* Use diverse communication channels (e-mail, telephone, face-to-face and word of mouth) for recruiting participants;
* Define the initiative's broad goals from a policy, social / cultural, economic, technological perspective;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstandings during the event;
* Focus the challenge with relevant examples for the participants and related to their daily lives;
* Provide enough time for the presentation of science outcomes and sharing knowledge from research point of view; * Use keynote speakers to introduce the topic for example specialists, but their speech must be in simple language and avoid using difficult terminology;
* Define the date, finalise the workshop topic and have communication material two months ahead;
* Focus the workshop and the RRI presentation on a topic relevant for the participants and related to their daily lives;
* Make the high seas more visible to all stakeholders, the benefits for all and the issues at stake;
* Contact directly the person to recruit via e-mails or telephone;
* Address a specific subject that concerns multidisciplinary stakeholders;
* Explain clearly the MARINA project goals;
* Present the Mobilisation and Mutual Learning and RRI approach;
* Define a workshop triggering question that is short, clear and easily understood by all stakeholders;
* Consider personal e-mails as the recruitment mechanism because it has been proven by far the most effective recruitment mechanism;
* Identify motives for policy makers and implementers to participate in the workshops as they are reluctant in participating;
* Explain RRI and innovation tools and how to embed them in policy agendas as participants find it useful;
* Be aware of the motivational factor that workshop participants may feel because they like the fact that an interdisciplinary group representing all society's niches is invited to brainstorming for resolving the problem;
* Perform an analysis of publics' behaviours before engaging the public engagement;
* Use audience targeted communication for all types stakeholders to engage them;
* Prepare a concise information corpus for participants;
* Consider societal challenges (as defined by the EC) during the participative events, in order for the results to be easily related to them.
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* Create a relaxing but effective work experience and joint decision-making with the world café methodology;
* Ensure a good representation of professionals (industry related to the topic, policy makers, journalists) to have a balanced dialogue;
* Send a personalised and direct (e-mail or telephone) invitation to ensure a better buy-in of targeted participants;
* Allocate sufficient time for discussions and to involve all participants interests and ideas;
* Allocate more time for group discussions during workshops;
* Adopt participative methods tested in MARINA in other initiatives including stakeholders;
* Attract participants by sending invitations via e‐mail, followed by phone calls;
* Present the topic approached from the beginning of the workshop;
* Offer a clear explanation of the methodology used to be as clear as possible to the participants;
* Use methods for involving the active participation of the public by giving them the opportunity to express their opinions;
* Offer a clear explanation of the methodology used in order to be as clear as possible for the participants;
* Choose a familiar methodology for participants;
* Use a method that gives the opportunity to all participants to express their opinion;
* Moderate the workshop with an experienced facilitator to avoid "Groupthink" and the "Erroneous Priorities Effect;
* Involve the private sector, policymakers, the scientific community and the local and national community for the definition of ideas, needs and solutions;
* Explain at the start of the workshop the different phases that participants will go through;
* Give the participants sufficient time to present themselves and their work/field of interest, in order to facilitate connection and co-operation after the workshop;
* Plan an in-depth and varied engagement with stakeholders at all stages of the projects;
* Adapt the presentation of projects information to the specific needs of respective stakeholders groups;
* Construct a good collaboration among project partners from the beginning of the project to its legacy to ensure a wider take-up of the results by all partners;
* Consider carefully legislation and cultural differences between project participants in the discussion prior to the project proposal to avoid possible understanding of feasability barriers.;
* Help participants become active in the workshop by helping them understand the importance of the Marine Hot Topic;
* Collaborate with your local partners, which can be great allies;
* Use role play and "Decide" game to integrate difficult concepts in workshop discussion;
* Adapt the workshop methodology to the local culture;
* Remember that apart from being scientists, teachers, policy-makers, they are all citizens of coastal cities who want to care for the environment as a private person;
* Use common words so that non scientists participants can understand and contribute to the discussion without being overwhelmed by scientific language;
* Ensure that participants can exchange knowledge and meet new people;
* Empower European citizens, business representatives, researchers and policy makers to take informed decisions on the high seas through science education;
* Look for participants open to dialogue, but who don't usually interact with each other;
* Start with a roundtable process so that everybody know each-other, and everyone can share their personal perspective of the subject;
* Hook RRI abstract subjects to a topic related to participants lives and has interests in it;
* Recruit participants by telephone to ensure a great effectiveness of recruitment;
* Adapt the workshop schedule and structure according to the specifics and program of the stakeholders you want to attend;
* Invite stakeholders to provide their feedback about workshop;
* Implement RRI in real situations, with many participants proposing many actions;
* Choose a suitable method for the number of participants and the specific of the workshop;
* Present and explain the method used;
* Mobilize stakeholders for active involvement;
* Engage stakeholders from different sectors of activity;
* Choose a method which will produce a large amount of data on a topic in a short time;
* Invite and encourage different stakeholders to participate at this kind of workshops;
* Stimulate and ensure open dialogue among the attendees;
* Plan the programme to encourage as much opportunity for interactions between participants;
* The SDD dialogue is a rigorous and efficient participatory methodology, but also time-consuming, leaving no time for the interpretation of the presented ideas in terms of their RRI dimensions by the participants during the workshop;
* Ask participants' to state their workshop expectations because experience shows that some find the workshop and its participatory method intriguing, others were interested In how to develop a shared vision, some had an interest in being inspired and build networks;
* Identify and invite the right number of participants representing all necessary science fields to create a viable action plan. Participant recruiting is time-consuming and must be planned well in advance of the workshop;
* The reversed science cafe method motivates participants to express their opinions and views in a structured, inclusive, yet open manner;
* Participatory workshops provide good opportunities for better discovering developments and problems of the studied industry;
* Enable workshops participants to create networks and communities of interest to further research and identify solutions for the studied issue;
* Engage participants via emails and phone calls, since it has been proven as the most effective means of recruitment;
* Be aware that it is challenging to persuade people to participate in workshops;
* Use both phone and email for citizen recruitment;
* Establish transparent, efficient and effective democratic mechanisms amongst all involved and throughout all the phases to create trust;
* Keep the workshop's duration short and engage an experienced facilitator;
* Involve politicians and municipality representatives in workshops to increase its effectiveness;
* Email and telephone were the best communication channels for promoting the workshop;
* The SDD method was evaluated as very well structured, inclusive, productive, scientific, interesting and dynamic;
* Plan well the participant groups so that all stakeholders are sufficiently represented;
* Promote the workshop through websites and a poster campaigns;
* Bring people and particularly the young on location where they can have transformative experiences that they will seek to relieve throughout their lives;
* Engage young potential "citizen scientists" in schools to promote the issue at hand;
* Achieve positive engagement with all types of local stakeholders including relevant government agencies, local businesses, regulators, NGOs, CSOs, researchers and citizens;
* Clarify from the start of any process or workshop all terms and acronyms so that all participants from various backgrounds understand them;
* Explain clearly the workshop methodology and how the outputs will be used at the beginning of the workshop and include some warm-up activity;
* Choose well the workshop methodology to allow participants contribute to the discussion and to strengthen the links among them;
* Ensure the comfort of the room (space around the tables, temperature, light etc.) to reduce the stress and fatigue of the participants and to improve the results. Provide some small "gift" or surprise them somehow, to create a friendly environment for the discussion;
* Define a clear agenda and respect it, but do not hesitate to be flexible and modify the schedule to reach the final results;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
* Participants do not subscribe gladly to the platform, they don't have time and/or willingness to learn using another tool;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
* Ensure you have some big institution's newsletter to disseminate your workshop for recruitment and spreading of the results;
* Use new participatory methodologies to attract participants;
* Take into consideration that despite participants' willingness to participate, often practical barriers impede their attendance in participative workshops;
* Consider having virtual discussions to help some stakeholder groups (e.g. citizens) to attend participatory workshops and events;
* Be flexible with the methodology adopted in order to finalize the process, even if not in the way you planned;
* Choose your methodology considering your audience;
* Dedicate the needed time to discuss and clarify the methodology and the agenda with the facilitator - and among the organizing group;
* Define the length of the workshop according with your foreseen audience and local habits;
* Involve students when possible;
* Stream only the most crucial sections of the workshop, disseminate the streaming agenda;
* Provide a synthetic, max 5 pages, info pack about the topic before the workshop;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
* Send an official invitation letter signed by the director/president of the institute organizing the workshop to facilitate the recruitment;
* Apply different participatory methods during the event to maintain a high level of attention.
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'''Milestone 4'''
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* Ensure that all voices have an equal footing in the debate during the workshop;
* Request participants keep trying to think from other stakeholders' position;
* Allocate time for every participant to present his/her own idea and to discuss it in plenu;
* Let different perspectives on the subject, which will lead to a common background for further discussion;
* Give all participants the opportunity to discuss and generate ideas;
* Allocate time for every participant to present his/her idea and to discuss it in plenum;
* Request the participants to state their ideas in the form of action statements in order to “push” them to think in practical terms;
* Do not interfere too much with the topics participants chose to focus on, it mostly depends on individual needs/experience and knowledge;
* Give participants more time to contribute to the ideas at other tables;
* Enable each group to take the floor to present their results;
* Activate citizens as a resourceful group of action that could lead to a more innovative and including society;
* Find moderators with experience on methods used for event moderation;
* Find the best way to incorporate the multi-disciplinary element into the organisation of the workshop;
* Establish cooperation among diverse stakeholders (researchers, innovative businesses, politicians and citizens) even when it's challenging;
* Mobilise stakeholders early in the process to develop viable and sustainable business models;
* Collect participant's post-workshop feedback focusing on the added value workshop points: the participatory method, the topic, the action plan, the common vision, the future participation options;
* Encourage researchers to voice their opinions on marine issues in the media focusing on economic, environmental and social needs to enable the uptake of new technologies;
* Focus on environmental aspects through a multi-stakeholder approach to ensure stability and availability of resources;
* Create a friendly and relaxed workshop atmosphere for participants to have lively and open discussions;
* Plan well the workshop so that participants provide their ideas in an active way;
* The SDD method allows for integrating contributions from individuals with diverse views, backgrounds and perspectives through a process that is structured, inclusive and collaborative;
* Avoiding "Groupthink" and the "Erroneous Priorities Effect": taking measures for the protection of the authenticity of all ideas;
* A structured participatory method like SDD helps participants converge their opinions towards a common vision and a common action plan;
* Give tight bounds to participants about the shape of the contributions they have to provide, so they will not have other option than provide what is needed;
* Actively introduce Gender Equality into discussions and ideas, as most often is a non considered aspect;
* Provide the participants with the legislative aspects related to the topic. If possible ensure the attendance of an expert;
* Check the discussion and gently but firmly ask the participants not to lose focus on the final purpose, to speed up and keep up with the timing or not to go too deep or too specific;
* One day is not enough for SDD.
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'''Milestone 5'''
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* Ensure that all participants stay until the end of the workshop to have coherent results;
* Have participants rank the priorities and discuss from the highest to the lowest to co-construct a common vision;
* Use the SMART action format to ease the follow up of the workshop;
* Define a clear plan for the future engagement of the workshop's participants to keep the community active;
* Focus not only on high-level ideas, but also on required research and innovation actions needed to execute them;
* Develop a common vision and an action plan with a more narrow focus combining development milestones and follow-up workshops;
* Check carefully the voting process of the actions, to avoid selfish or non correct behaviours which could distort the results;
* Translate workshop results in something short and friendly in short time and disseminate among the participants and others, not to loose momentum;
* Check carefully the voting process, to avoid selfish or improper behaviours, which could distort the results;
* Consider the RRI principles as guidelines to construct the project processes for a sound management of the projects;
* Prepare take home tools and methods that participants can implement in their jobs;
* Provide a quality framework in which all stakeholders can work toward a solution thanks to a good governance;
* Develop tools for engaging citizens in urban development and communicate them broadly to inspire local communities;
* Develop new models and ways of collaborating on climate change in order to create common knowledge and more awareness of climate change in public mind;
* Organize more science dissemination events targeting the general public;
* Promote citizen science to involve the general public on research;
* Develop more partnerships with the Media and NGOs in order to reach bigger audiences;
* Develop and organize more actions, in order that different stakeholders meet and discuss their ideas more often and get used to think outside their boxes;
* Develop a network of common interest;
* Try to obtain clear actions from people from different areas of interest, but targeting the common vision;
* Focus on RRI issues by prompting participants to talk more about how researchers can be enrolled in all actions generated and how other stakeholders can be useful to researchers;
* Define SMART common vision and actions towards a specific goal and project;
* Push for adjust rules to allow open access to relevant sector research results;
* Achieve success through multi-stakeholder engagement and consensus;
* Awareness and education are fundamental in changing mind-sets;
* Allocate a good part of the workshop for creating a clear common action plan;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: a) simple, short title; one line describing the idea and one-two lines (minimum) explaining and clarifying the idea;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: b) think who would be responsible for implementing the proposed action and how to engage the person or organisation;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: c) timing (when could such an idea be implemented);
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: d) resources (how would the idea be implemented);
* Ensure that the process of co-generating an action plan is concluded during the workshop;
* Choose the most effective methodology to build a common vision and give space to many different voices;
* Ask the participants to obtain in advance the necessary authorization from the Institutions they represent, to propose actions during the workshop;
* Consider the best way of collecting votes for the purpose such as the number of votes available for each participant, the rounds of votes, etc.
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'''Milestone 6'''
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* Take actions in order to update the actual legislation;
* Involve some stakeholders in the creation or validation of the scientific processes to improve theur acceptance of the final results, even if it can be seen as a time-consuming process;
* Follow up with the participants with periodic workshops using the same methodology;
* Share data for a better cooperation and public engagement on the high seas;
* Develop partnership between different stakeholders;
* Create links among participants for future partnerships and develop a network of common interest;
* Send the final results of the workshop to the participants;
* Engage participants to apply RRI principles in daily work and daily life;
* Succeed with public engagement through science education and open access in policy;
* Action and follow-up the co-defined action plan;
* Consider the impacts of any activity before consenting which may require the deployments of monitoring technologies to facilitate monitoring and impact assessment;
* Coordinate all activities related to policy, planning and regulation in the best possible way to reduce conflict and help meet environmental, economic and social objectives;
* Initiate open access through public offices also to non-governmental stakeholders.
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'''Milestone 7'''
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* Follow-up with all participants and monitor results regularly and engage them in post-workshop knowledge sharing and networking through an online platform;
* To measure success, define clear and achievable objectives;
* It's necessary a good collaboration and interaction between civil society, policy makers, researchers, business sector and citizens, in all the Black Sea coastal countries;
* Be aware that only about half of the participants are likely to use the knowledge gained at the workshop;
* Build capacity through education by developing local and national programmes for secondary schools and outreach programmes through citizen projects utilising real-time data from monitoring equipment;
* Try to engage volunteer groups/stakeholders who use the specific environment on a regular basis;
* The participants did not follow-up on the platform as they declared they were willing to do: there are too many platforms, they get lost or do not have time to explore another one;
* Enhance control mechanisms of research and innovation outputs, according to ethical rules.
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'''Milestone 8'''
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* Focus on good enforcement of already existing legislation mechanisms rather than reinventing others from scratch and adjust legislation as necessary;
* Coordinate collaborative activities and tools to push RRI forward;
* Organise regular follow-up workshops by involving more decision makers to anchor change;
* Ensure that funding will be secured for action plan execution and follow up actions;
* Embed governance in legislation through accountability to ensure the sustainability and to address societal challenges;
* Use the media and science mediators to make society aware about research and innovation results;
* Promote a greater participation of general public in projects financed by European funds to help filling the gap between science and society;
* Equip urban open areas for open debates where local communities can meet frequently in order to exercise the rights guaranteed by the Aarhus convention to develop sustainable decisions in a collective and legal manner;
* Increase the impact of projects' results thanks to open access;
* Push for the adoption of common processes for accessibility of results of European projects that would allow a comparison of result through time and creation of broader synergies among past and present projects;
* Put in place effective pathways for communicating policy recommandations to EU and to national bodies as part of the global process of the project;
* Be aware that the knowledge transfer to other sectors and general public is a great challenge faced by partners of European projects;
* Communicate broadly and raise wide awareness about the specific initiative to anchor change;
* Improve marine education provided in medium and higher education;
* Disseminate information about opportunities, threats and risks on the studied topic;
* Disseminate research and innovation outcomes that have societal relevance for ethical acceptability;
* Ensure the policies are socially inclusive and are widely known;
* Use of technology as an instrument to both monitor the regulations and to disseminate data in near real-time;
* Plan periodic meetings on the same topic, with old and new participants, to create ownership of the process, intensify the effort and ensure follow-up;
* Use your participatory event as a flywheel to organize other similar events.
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==See also...==
[[Marine Sector]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned Relating to all marine sectors

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Jordankent:

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'''Milestone 1'''
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* Keep in mind the local context to answer local needs and specificities;
* Organise carefully the workshop phases for successfully meeting the objectives and for engaging all participants;
* Be careful of possible competition of other events happening as the same time in the same city or on the same topic;
* Use dialog for initiating collaboration among private landowners and municipalities;
* Find a topic which will attract different stakeholders;
* Explore the questions that are relevant to the real-life concerns of the group.
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'''Milestone 2'''
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* Provide a good incentive and personal benefits to motivate people to attend the workshop(s) and processes;
* Use using storytelling to describe the challenge with clear and concrete examples;
* Present the topic approached from the beginning of the workshop;
* Explain the challenge in an inclusive, strategic and broad manner for involving all types of participants;
* Define a clear triggering question highlighting the issue and goal to be addressed at the workshop;
* Use diverse communication channels (e-mail, telephone, face-to-face and word of mouth) for recruiting participants;
* Define the initiative's broad goals from a policy, social / cultural, economic, technological perspective
During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstandings during the event;
* Focus the challenge with relevant examples for the participants and related to their daily lives;
* Provide enough time for the presentation of science outcomes and sharing knowledge from research point of view; * Use keynote speakers to introduce the topic for example specialists, but their speech must be in simple language and avoid using difficult terminology;
* Define the date, finalise the workshop topic and have communication material two months ahead;
* Focus the workshop and the RRI presentation on a topic relevant for the participants and related to their daily lives;
* Make the high seas more visible to all stakeholders, the benefits for all and the issues at stake;
* Contact directly the person to recruit via e-mails or telephone;
* Address a specific subject that concerns multidisciplinary stakeholders;
* Explain clearly the MARINA project goals;
* Present the Mobilisation and Mutual Learning and RRI approach;
* Define a workshop triggering question that is short, clear and easily understood by all stakeholders;
* Consider personal e-mails as the recruitment mechanism because it has been proven by far the most effective recruitment mechanism;
* Identify motives for policy makers and implementers to participate in the workshops as they are reluctant in participating;
* Explain RRI and innovation tools and how to embed them in policy agendas as participants find it useful;
* Be aware of the motivational factor that workshop participants may feel because they like the fact that an interdisciplinary group representing all society's niches is invited to brainstorming for resolving the problem;
* Perform an analysis of publics' behaviours before engaging the public engagement;
* Use audience targeted communication for all types stakeholders to engage them;
* Prepare a concise information corpus for participants;
* Consider societal challenges (as defined by the EC) during the participative events, in order for the results to be easily related to them.
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'''Milestone 3'''
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* Create a relaxing but effective work experience and joint decision-making with the world café methodology;
* Ensure a good representation of professionals (industry related to the topic, policy makers, journalists) to have a balanced dialogue;
* Send a personalised and direct (e-mail or telephone) invitation to ensure a better buy-in of targeted participants;
* Allocate sufficient time for discussions and to involve all participants interests and ideas;
* Allocate more time for group discussions during workshops;
* Adopt participative methods tested in MARINA in other initiatives including stakeholders;
* Attract participants by sending invitations via e‐mail, followed by phone calls;
* Present the topic approached from the beginning of the workshop;
* Offer a clear explanation of the methodology used to be as clear as possible to the participants;
* Use methods for involving the active participation of the public by giving them the opportunity to express their opinions;
* Offer a clear explanation of the methodology used in order to be as clear as possible for the participants;
* Choose a familiar methodology for participants;
* Use a method that gives the opportunity to all participants to express their opinion;
* Moderate the workshop with an experienced facilitator to avoid "Groupthink" and the "Erroneous Priorities Effect";
* Involve the private sector, policymakers, the scientific community and the local and national community for the definition of ideas, needs and solutions;
* Explain at the start of the workshop the different phases that participants will go through;
* Give the participants sufficient time to present themselves and their work/field of interest, in order to facilitate connection and co-operation after the workshop;
* Plan an in-depth and varied engagement with stakeholders at all stages of the projects;
* Adapt the presentation of projects information to the specific needs of respective stakeholders groups;
* Construct a good collaboration among project partners from the beginning of the project to its legacy to ensure a wider take-up of the results by all partners;
* Consider carefully legislation and cultural differences between project participants in the discussion prior to the project proposal to avoid possible understanding of feasability barriers.;
* Help participants become active in the workshop by helping them understand the importance of the Marine Hot Topic;
* Collaborate with your local partners, which can be great allies;
* Use role play and "Decide" game to integrate difficult concepts in workshop discussion;
* Adapt the workshop methodology to the local culture;
* Remember that apart from being scientists, teachers, policy-makers, they are all citizens of coastal cities who want to care for the environment as a private person;
* Use common words so that non scientists participants can understand and contribute to the discussion without being overwhelmed by scientific language;
* Ensure that participants can exchange knowledge and meet new people;
* Empower European citizens, business representatives, researchers and policy makers to take informed decisions on the high seas through science education;
* Look for participants open to dialogue, but who don't usually interact with each other;
* Start with a roundtable process so that everybody know each-other, and everyone can share their personal perspective of the subject;
* Hook RRI abstract subjects to a topic related to participants lives and has interests in it;
* Recruit participants by telephone to ensure a great effectiveness of recruitment;
* Adapt the workshop schedule and structure according to the specifics and program of the stakeholders you want to attend;
* Invite stakeholders to provide their feedback about workshop;
* Implement RRI in real situations, with many participants proposing many actions;
* Choose a suitable method for the number of participants and the specific of the workshop;
* Present and explain the method used;
* Mobilize stakeholders for active involvement;
* Engage stakeholders from different sectors of activity;
* Choose a method which will produce a large amount of data on a topic in a short time;
* Invite and encourage different stakeholders to participate at this kind of workshops;
* Stimulate and ensure open dialogue among the attendees;
* Plan the programme to encourage as much opportunity for interactions between participants;
* The SDD dialogue is a rigorous and efficient participatory methodology, but also time-consuming, leaving no time for the interpretation of the presented ideas in terms of their RRI dimensions by the participants during the workshop;
* Ask participants' to state their workshop expectations because experience shows that some find the workshop and its participatory method intriguing, others were interested In how to develop a shared vision, some had an interest in being inspired and build networks;
* Identify and invite the right number of participants representing all necessary science fields to create a viable action plan. Participant recruiting is time-consuming and must be planned well in advance of the workshop;
* The reversed science cafe method motivates participants to express their opinions and views in a structured, inclusive, yet open manner;
* Participatory workshops provide good opportunities for better discovering developments and problems of the studied industry;
* Enable workshops participants to create networks and communities of interest to further research and identify solutions for the studied issue;
* Engage participants via emails and phone calls, since it has been proven as the most effective means of recruitment;
* Be aware that it is challenging to persuade people to participate in workshops;
* Use both phone and email for citizen recruitment;
* Establish transparent, efficient and effective democratic mechanisms amongst all involved and throughout all the phases to create trust;
* Keep the workshop's duration short and engage an experienced facilitator;
* Involve politicians and municipality representatives in workshops to increase its effectiveness;
* Email and telephone were the best communication channels for promoting the workshop;
* The SDD method was evaluated as very well structured, inclusive, productive, scientific, interesting and dynamic;
* Plan well the participant groups so that all stakeholders are sufficiently represented;
* Promote the workshop through websites and a poster campaigns;
* Bring people and particularly the young on location where they can have transformative experiences that they will seek to relieve throughout their lives;
* Engage young potential "citizen scientists" in schools to promote the issue at hand;
* Achieve positive engagement with all types of local stakeholders including relevant government agencies, local businesses, regulators, NGOs, CSOs, researchers and citizens;
* Clarify from the start of any process or workshop all terms and acronyms so that all participants from various backgrounds understand them;
* Explain clearly the workshop methodology and how the outputs will be used at the beginning of the workshop and include some warm-up activity;
* Choose well the workshop methodology to allow participants contribute to the discussion and to strengthen the links among them;
* Ensure the comfort of the room (space around the tables, temperature, light etc.) to reduce the stress and fatigue of the participants and to improve the results. Provide some small "gift" or surprise them somehow, to create a friendly environment for the discussion;
* Define a clear agenda and respect it, but do not hesitate to be flexible and modify the schedule to reach the final results;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
* Participants do not subscribe gladly to the platform, they don't have time and/or willingness to learn using another tool;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
* Ensure you have some big institution's newsletter to disseminate your workshop for recruitment and spreading of the results;
* Use new participatory methodologies to attract participants;
* Take into consideration that despite participants' willingness to participate, often practical barriers impede their attendance in participative workshops;
* Consider having virtual discussions to help some stakeholder groups (e.g. citizens) to attend participatory workshops and events;
* Be flexible with the methodology adopted in order to finalize the process, even if not in the way you planned.
Choose your methodology considering your audience;
* Dedicate the needed time to discuss and clarify the methodology and the agenda with the facilitator - and among the organizing group;
* Define the length of the workshop according with your foreseen audience and local habits;
* Involve students when possible;
* Stream only the most crucial sections of the workshop, disseminate the streaming agenda;
* Provide a synthetic, max 5 pages, info pack about the topic before the workshop;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
* Send an official invitation letter signed by the director/president of the institute organizing the workshop to facilitate the recruitment;
* Apply different participatory methods during the event to maintain a high level of attention.
</div>
</div>
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'''Milestone 4'''
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* Ensure that all voices have an equal footing in the debate during the workshop;
* Request participants keep trying to think from other stakeholders' position;
* Allocate time for every participant to present his/her own idea and to discuss it in plenu;
* Let different perspectives on the subject, which will lead to a common background for further discussion;
* Give all participants the opportunity to discuss and generate ideas;
* Allocate time for every participant to present his/her idea and to discuss it in plenum;
* Request the participants to state their ideas in the form of action statements in order to “push” them to think in practical terms;
* Do not interfere too much with the topics participants chose to focus on, it mostly depends on individual needs/experience and knowledge;
* Give participants more time to contribute to the ideas at other tables;
* Enable each group to take the floor to present their results;
* Activate citizens as a resourceful group of action that could lead to a more innovative and including society;
* Find moderators with experience on methods used for event moderation;
* Find the best way to incorporate the multi-disciplinary element into the organisation of the workshop;
* Establish cooperation among diverse stakeholders (researchers, innovative businesses, politicians and citizens) even when it's challenging;
* Mobilise stakeholders early in the process to develop viable and sustainable business models;
* Collect participant's post-workshop feedback focusing on the added value workshop points: the participatory method, the topic, the action plan, the common vision, the future participation options;
* Encourage researchers to voice their opinions on marine issues in the media focusing on economic, environmental and social needs to enable the uptake of new technologies;
* Focus on environmental aspects through a multi-stakeholder approach to ensure stability and availability of resources;
* Create a friendly and relaxed workshop atmosphere for participants to have lively and open discussions;
* Plan well the workshop so that participants provide their ideas in an active way;
* The SDD method allows for integrating contributions from individuals with diverse views, backgrounds and perspectives through a process that is structured, inclusive and collaborative;
* Avoiding "Groupthink" and the "Erroneous Priorities Effect": taking measures for the protection of the authenticity of all ideas;
* A structured participatory method like SDD helps participants converge their opinions towards a common vision and a common action plan;
* Give tight bounds to participants about the shape of the contributions they have to provide, so they will not have other option than provide what is needed;
* Actively introduce Gender Equality into discussions and ideas, as most often is a non considered aspect;
* Provide the participants with the legislative aspects related to the topic. If possible ensure the attendance of an expert;
* Check the discussion and gently but firmly ask the participants not to lose focus on the final purpose, to speed up and keep up with the timing or not to go too deep or too specific;
* One day is not enough for SDD.
</div>
</div>
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'''Milestone 5'''
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* Ensure that all participants stay until the end of the workshop to have coherent results;
* Have participants rank the priorities and discuss from the highest to the lowest to co-construct a common vision;
* Use the SMART action format to ease the follow up of the workshop;
* Define a clear plan for the future engagement of the workshop's participants to keep the community active;
* Focus not only on high-level ideas, but also on required research and innovation actions needed to execute them;
* Develop a common vision and an action plan with a more narrow focus combining development milestones and follow-up workshops;
* Check carefully the voting process of the actions, to avoid selfish or non correct behaviours which could distort the results;
* Translate workshop results in something short and friendly in short time and disseminate among the participants and others, not to loose momentum;
* Check carefully the voting process, to avoid selfish or improper behaviours, which could distort the results;
* Consider the RRI principles as guidelines to construct the project processes for a sound management of the projects;
* Prepare take home tools and methods that participants can implement in their jobs;
* Provide a quality framework in which all stakeholders can work toward a solution thanks to a good governance;
* Develop tools for engaging citizens in urban development and communicate them broadly to inspire local communities;
* Develop new models and ways of collaborating on climate change in order to create common knowledge and more awareness of climate change in public mind;
* Organize more science dissemination events targeting the general public;
* Promote citizen science to involve the general public on research;
* Develop more partnerships with the Media and NGOs in order to reach bigger audiences;
* Develop and organize more actions, in order that different stakeholders meet and discuss their ideas more often and get used to think outside their boxes;
* Develop a network of common interest;
* Try to obtain clear actions from people from different areas of interest, but targeting the common vision;
* Focus on RRI issues by prompting participants to talk more about how researchers can be enrolled in all actions generated and how other stakeholders can be useful to researchers;
* Define SMART common vision and actions towards a specific goal and project;
* Push for adjust rules to allow open access to relevant sector research results;
* Achieve success through multi-stakeholder engagement and consensus
Awareness and education are fundamental in changing mind-sets;
* Allocate a good part of the workshop for creating a clear common action plan.
Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: a) simple, short title; one line describing the idea and one-two lines (minimum) explaining and clarifying the idea;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: b) think who would be responsible for implementing the proposed action and how to engage the person or organisation;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: c) timing (when could such an idea be implemented);
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: d) resources (how would the idea be implemented);
* Ensure that the process of co-generating an action plan is concluded during the workshop;
* Choose the most effective methodology to build a common vision and give space to many different voices;
* Ask the participants to obtain in advance the necessary authorization from the Institutions they represent, to propose actions during the workshop;
* Consider the best way of collecting votes for the purpose such as the number of votes available for each participant, the rounds of votes, etc.
</div>
</div>
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'''Milestone 6'''
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* Take actions in order to update the actual legislation;
* Involve some stakeholders in the creation or validation of the scientific processes to improve theur acceptance of the final results, even if it can be seen as a time-consuming process;
* Follow up with the participants with periodic workshops using the same methodology;
* Share data for a better cooperation and public engagement on the high seas;
* Develop partnership between different stakeholders;
* Create links among participants for future partnerships and develop a network of common interest;
* Send the final results of the workshop to the participants;
* Engage participants to apply RRI principles in daily work and daily life;
* Succeed with public engagement through science education and open access in policy;
* Action and follow-up the co-defined action plan;
* Consider the impacts of any activity before consenting which may require the deployments of monitoring technologies to facilitate monitoring and impact assessment;
* Coordinate all activities related to policy, planning and regulation in the best possible way to reduce conflict and help meet environmental, economic and social objectives;
* Initiate open access through public offices also to non-governmental stakeholders.
</div>
</div>
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'''Milestone 7'''
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* Follow-up with all participants and monitor results regularly and engage them in post-workshop knowledge sharing and networking through an online platform;
* To measure success, define clear and achievable objectives;
* It's necessary a good collaboration and interaction between civil society, policy makers, researchers, business sector and citizens, in all the Black Sea coastal countries;
* Be aware that only about half of the participants are likely to use the knowledge gained at the workshop;
* Build capacity through education by developing local and national programmes for secondary schools and outreach programmes through citizen projects utilising real-time data from monitoring equipment;
* Try to engage volunteer groups/stakeholders who use the specific environment on a regular basis;
* The participants did not follow-up on the platform as they declared they were willing to do: there are too many platforms, they get lost or do not have time to explore another one;
* Enhance control mechanisms of research and innovation outputs, according to ethical rules.
</div>
</div>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border-radius: 5px; border: 2px solid #33abdf;">
'''Milestone 8'''
<div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:justify">
* Focus on good enforcement of already existing legislation mechanisms rather than reinventing others from scratch and adjust legislation as necessary;
* Coordinate collaborative activities and tools to push RRI forward;
* Organise regular follow-up workshops by involving more decision makers to anchor change;
* Ensure that funding will be secured for action plan execution and follow up actions.
Embed governance in legislation through accountability to ensure the sustainability and to address societal challenges;
* Use the media and science mediators to make society aware about research and innovation results;
* Promote a greater participation of general public in projects financed by European funds to help filling the gap between science and society;
* Equip urban open areas for open debates where local communities can meet frequently in order to exercise the rights guaranteed by the Aarhus convention to develop sustainable decisions in a collective and legal manner;
* Increase the impact of projects' results thanks to open access;
* Push for the adoption of common processes for accessibility of results of European projects that would allow a comparison of result through time and creation of broader synergies among past and present projects;
* Put in place effective pathways for communicating policy recommandations to EU and to national bodies as part of the global process of the project;
* Be aware that the knowledge transfer to other sectors and general public is a great challenge faced by partners of European projects;
* Communicate broadly and raise wide awareness about the specific initiative to anchor change;
* Improve marine education provided in medium and higher education;
* Disseminate information about opportunities, threats and risks on the studied topic;
* Disseminate research and innovation outcomes that have societal relevance for ethical acceptability;
* Ensure the policies are socially inclusive and are widely known;
* Use of technology as an instrument to both monitor the regulations and to disseminate data in near real-time;
* Plan periodic meetings on the same topic, with old and new participants, to create ownership of the process, intensify the effort and ensure follow-up;
* Use your participatory event as a flywheel to organize other similar events.
</div>
</div>

==See also...==
[[Marine Sector]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Governance

2019-02-15T11:20:35Z

Jordankent:

<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border-radius: 5px; border: 2px solid #33abdf;">
'''Milestone 1'''
<div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:justify">
* Realize a complete inventory of local skills needed for the topic of academic actors, start-ups or companies already established in the region;
* Keep in mind the local context to answer local needs and specificities;
* Be careful of possible competition of other events happening as the same time in the same city or on the same topic;
* Start a survey to establish the relationship between local communities and the coastal areas and share results with politicians to put marine biotechnologies on the national agenda as an economic and sustainable opportunity;
* There is a strong need for redefining and refocusing the business model of tourism.
</div>
</div>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border-radius: 5px; border: 2px solid #33abdf;">
'''Milestone 2'''
<div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:justify">
* Promote the involvement of public authorities on local, national and European levels;
* Identify motives for policy makers and implementers to participate in the workshops as they are reluctant in participating;
* Explain RRI and innovation tools and how to embed them in policy agendas as participants find it useful;
* Be aware that policy-makers are not easy to engage unless they see a specific benefit that fits their agenda.
</div>
</div>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border-radius: 5px; border: 2px solid #33abdf;">
'''Milestone 3'''
<div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:justify">
* Construct a good collaboration among project partners from the beginning of the project to its legacy to ensure a wider take-up of the results by all partners;
* Consider carefully legislation and cultural differences between project participants in the discussion prior to the project proposal to avoid possible understanding of feasability barriers;
* Develop concrete examples that stakeholders can understand and get involved;
* Involve politicians and municipality representatives in workshops to increase its effectiveness;
* Identify or create a unique Body entrusted with the control of a process to ensure coordination and synergy of all stakeholders involved.
</div>
</div>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border-radius: 5px; border: 2px solid #33abdf;">
'''Milestone 4'''
<div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:justify">
* Focus on environmental aspects through a multi-stakeholder approach to ensure stability and availability of resources;
* Stakeholders are concerned that the authorities and the private companies will decide to advance with Deep Sea Mining without proper public consultation and without knowing sufficient about the deep sea;
* The society believes that RRI will never be in full effect without strong political will;
* Provide the participants with the legislative aspects related to the topic. If possible ensure the attendance of an expert.
</div>
</div>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border-radius: 5px; border: 2px solid #33abdf;">
'''Milestone 5'''
<div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:justify">
* Implement a coherent national monitoring programme;
* Apply a long-term and crosscutting strategic planning by defining SMART common vision and actions;
* Engage local communities in awareness raising event;
* Develop a common vision and an action plan with a more narrow focus combining development milestones and follow-up workshops;
* Consider the RRI principles as guidelines to construct the project processes for a sound management of the projects;
* Provide a quality framework in which all stakeholders can work toward a solution thanks to a good governance;
* Plan what to do with buildings/installations which have been created while building wind farms; * Develop new methods of governance for engaging citizens through public awareness and politics;
* Include key local stakeholders in the planning and implementation of local strategies;
* Improve governance by defining a shared and common vision by involving citizens and business networks for clean and green industries;
* Claim for an alignment between legislation and the changing scientific situation and technological innovations.
</div>
</div>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border-radius: 5px; border: 2px solid #33abdf;">
'''Milestone 6'''
<div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:justify">
* Consider Governance as a common responsibility of citizens and decision makers;
* Develop sustainable and long-term solutions even if they do not entirely focus on technical and/or economic aspects, but add lifestyle qualities and/or facilities;
* Put in place a policy-oriented, holistic and integrated approach to tackle complex issues;
* Make restaurants aware restaurants and the public about the potential offered by the blue biotechnologies;
* Develop a "Social and Solidarity Economy" type of framework in the field of marine biotechnologies;
* Develop new model of governance for marine biotechnology development including the engagement of the society;
* Build a network to report challenges to politicians to put marine biotechnologies on the national agenda as an economic and sustainable opportunity;
* Push for broad vision for industrial harbour development by local governments inviting non-harbour stakeholders to contribute in new ways;
* Adapt local policies and strategies in order to be in agreement with research outcomes;
* Plan local actions in agreement with its local circumstances instead of promoting larger-scale policies;
* Support local and international decision-makers in charge of evaluating if, when, how, by who and for what should Deep Sea Mining ever take place;
* Develop campaigns for promoting sustainable fishing methods and techniques through protecting resources and other incentives/compensation;
* Use of the outcomes of the national monitoring programme as part of a targeted national awareness raising campaign;
* Push governmental bodies for high-tier governance on local initiatives to have the biggest impact;
* Create procedures for an open access to data and data exchange, to allow for multiple feedbacks from end-users and policy-makers;
* Business stakeholders are mostly interested on the policy agendas;
* Coordinate all activities related to policy, planning and regulation in the best possible way to reduce conflict and help meet environmental, economic and social objectives;
* The greater majority of actions relate to more than one RRI dimension; this shows that actions are multidisciplinary and involve multiple stakeholders;
* Implement innovative and responsive policies to face climate change effects and assure a balanced competitiveness, growth and sustainability;
* Develop information-based decision support tools, with automated intervention systems.
</div>
</div>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border-radius: 5px; border: 2px solid #33abdf;">
'''Milestone 7'''
<div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:justify">
* Governance should strive for active engagement of the key public and private stakeholder bodies for the development and impact on the societal challenge;
* The ultimate aim should be to develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts and to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products;
* Get media cover and social media presence to influence policy and decision makers;
* Organise a European "Grenelle" of bioethics to do an inventory of knowledge, regulations and current projects and processes as well as to define indicators and good practices for the development of marine. biotech;
* Make regulations for developers and investors for securing more liveable areas in harbour transformations;
* Build a coastal protection system that can harness the wave energy;
* Restructuring different mechanisms in order to prevent pollution and to apply polluter sanctions, to ensure the transparency of legislative processes;
* Create innovative tools to guide the consumers, thus inducing public and private stakeholders (including NGOs) to invest in more sustainable directions;
* Start specific economic changes (investment, taxation) to support the goal of efficient and sustainable activities.
</div>
</div>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border-radius: 5px; border: 2px solid #33abdf;">
'''Milestone 8'''
<div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:justify">
* Focus on good enforcement of already existing legislation mechanisms rather than reinventing others from scratch and adjust legislation as necessary;
* Train policymakers through communication tools and adapt legislation to facilitate the creation of a dynamic knowledge-sharing mechanism;
* Ensure that funding will be secured for action plan execution and follow up actions;
* Embed governance in legislation through accountability to ensure the sustainability and to address societal challenges;
* Provide tax reductions or other benefits to businesses for massively applying environmental protection legislature and procedures and for making use of innovative technologies;
* Push for the adoption of common processes for accessibility of results of European projects that would allow a comparison of results through time and creation of broader synergies among past and present projects;
* Put in place effective pathways for communicating policy recommandations to EU and to national bodies as part of the global process of the project;
* Create of a one-stop shop for the Institute of blue bio-technologies with short and long-term strategies;
* Create an award for the best blue bio-technologies innovation or product to make maritime biotechnologies a sustainable economic opportunity;
* Put in place a certification label of projects to draw guidelines for the sustainable development of marine biotechnologies;
* Promote the reinforcement of policies and adoption of coherent legislative frameworks to develop marine biotechnology;
* Establish policies that are favourable for ecological investments in sustainable development;
* Train and convince policymakers, implementers, and investors to develop biotechnologies;
* Make environmental impact assessment mandatory for Deep Sea Mining within the EU;
* Oblige companies by contract to use 10% of their investment in an investigation in engineering design for mitigation of Deep Sea Mining during all the operation;
* Improve the legislative framework to encourage the capitalization process of renewable energy;
* Upgrade the transport infrastructure for renewable energy;
* Use funding programs dedicated to citizens, aimed at replacing old goods and polluting with new and environmentally friendly ones;
* Define and update the legislation to prevent climate changes for Black Sea area;
* Involve citizens in public consultations and decision–making processes for local and national/ EU regulations;
* Improve port reception facilities and services for processing over waste from ships;
* Build the appropriate infrastructure and technology for the Wave Energy Sector;
* Promote Sustainable Tourism policies to improve coastal and marine ecosystems, minimise pollution and create economic growth by combining efforts at national, regional and local levels and creating green funding schemes and incentives;
* Enhance coastal and maritime tourism by adapting to demographic changes, while maintaining the original vocation and atmosphere of the coastal cities;
* Protect the deep sea from mining, create laws that impose that deep sea mining is a non-profit activity and concert the deep sea into world heritage site;
* Provide strong incentives to promote the circular economy;
* Promote governance arrangements and practices to favour sustainable tourism and seafood consumption;
* Ensure the policies are socially inclusive and are widely known;
* Push for governance and ethics to be required in business registration requirements for creating awareness on sustainability;
* To develop a sector, develop a legal framework promoting and regulating its development;
* Ensure a ministerial umbrella to facilitate the educative process in school by scientists or scientific mediators;
* Engage government and law makers in order to make sustainable change in ports and ship;
* Consider that National and International organizations must balance economic profit and a competitive market with the goal of preserving the natural environment of our seas;
* Improve regulations and legislations about the release of bacteria at sea;
* Improve legislation to deal with climate change and coastal errosion.
</div>
</div>

==See also...==
[[RRI Dimension]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Governance

2019-02-15T11:19:46Z

Jordankent:

<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border-radius: 5px; border: 2px solid #33abdf;">
'''Milestone 1'''
<div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:justify">
* Realize a complete inventory of local skills needed for the topic of academic actors, start-ups or companies already established in the region;
* Keep in mind the local context to answer local needs and specificities;
* Be careful of possible competition of other events happening as the same time in the same city or on the same topic;
* Start a survey to establish the relationship between local communities and the coastal areas and share results with politicians to put marine biotechnologies on the national agenda as an economic and sustainable opportunity;
* There is a strong need for redefining and refocusing the business model of tourism.
</div>
</div>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border-radius: 5px; border: 2px solid #33abdf;">
'''Milestone 2'''
<div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:justify">
* Promote the involvement of public authorities on local, national and European levels;
* Identify motives for policy makers and implementers to participate in the workshops as they are reluctant in participating;
* Explain RRI and innovation tools and how to embed them in policy agendas as participants find it useful;
* Be aware that policy-makers are not easy to engage unless they see a specific benefit that fits their agenda.
</div>
</div>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border-radius: 5px; border: 2px solid #33abdf;">
'''Milestone 3'''
<div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:justify">
* Construct a good collaboration among project partners from the beginning of the project to its legacy to ensure a wider take-up of the results by all partners;
* Consider carefully legislation and cultural differences between project participants in the discussion prior to the project proposal to avoid possible understanding of feasability barriers;
* Develop concrete examples that stakeholders can understand and get involved;
* Involve politicians and municipality representatives in workshops to increase its effectiveness;
* Identify or create a unique Body entrusted with the control of a process to ensure coordination and synergy of all stakeholders involved.
</div>
</div>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border-radius: 5px; border: 2px solid #33abdf;">
'''Milestone 4'''
<div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:justify">
* Focus on environmental aspects through a multi-stakeholder approach to ensure stability and availability of resources;
* Stakeholders are concerned that the authorities and the private companies will decide to advance with Deep Sea Mining without proper public consultation and without knowing sufficient about the deep sea;
* The society believes that RRI will never be in full effect without strong political will;
* Provide the participants with the legislative aspects related to the topic. If possible ensure the attendance of an expert.
</div>
</div>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border-radius: 5px; border: 2px solid #33abdf;">
'''Milestone 5'''
<div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:justify">
* Implement a coherent national monitoring programme;
* Apply a long-term and crosscutting strategic planning by defining SMART common vision and actions;
* Engage local communities in awareness raising event;
* Develop a common vision and an action plan with a more narrow focus combining development milestones and follow-up workshops;
* Consider the RRI principles as guidelines to construct the project processes for a sound management of the projects;
* Provide a quality framework in which all stakeholders can work toward a solution thanks to a good governance;
* Plan what to do with buildings/installations which have been created while building wind farms; * Develop new methods of governance for engaging citizens through public awareness and politics;
* Include key local stakeholders in the planning and implementation of local strategies;
* Improve governance by defining a shared and common vision by involving citizens and business networks for clean and green industries;
* Claim for an alignment between legislation and the changing scientific situation and technological innovations.
</div>
</div>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border-radius: 5px; border: 2px solid #33abdf;">
'''Milestone 6'''
<div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:justify">
* Consider Governance as a common responsibility of citizens and decision makers;
* Develop sustainable and long-term solutions even if they do not entirely focus on technical and/or economic aspects, but add lifestyle qualities and/or facilities;
* Put in place a policy-oriented, holistic and integrated approach to tackle complex issues;
* Make restaurants aware restaurants and the public about the potential offered by the blue biotechnologies;
* Develop a "Social and Solidarity Economy" type of framework in the field of marine biotechnologies;
* Develop new model of governance for marine biotechnology development including the engagement of the society;
* Build a network to report challenges to politicians to put marine biotechnologies on the national agenda as an economic and sustainable opportunity;
* Push for broad vision for industrial harbour development by local governments inviting non-harbour stakeholders to contribute in new ways;
* Adapt local policies and strategies in order to be in agreement with research outcomes;
* Plan local actions in agreement with its local circumstances instead of promoting larger-scale policies;
* Support local and international decision-makers in charge of evaluating if, when, how, by who and for what should Deep Sea Mining ever take place;
* Develop campaigns for promoting sustainable fishing methods and techniques through protecting resources and other incentives/compensation;
* Use of the outcomes of the national monitoring programme as part of a targeted national awareness raising campaign;
* Push governmental bodies for high-tier governance on local initiatives to have the biggest impact;
* Create procedures for an open access to data and data exchange, to allow for multiple feedbacks from end-users and policy-makers;
* Business stakeholders are mostly interested on the policy agendas;
* Coordinate all activities related to policy, planning and regulation in the best possible way to reduce conflict and help meet environmental, economic and social objectives;
* The greater majority of actions relate to more than one RRI dimension; this shows that actions are multidisciplinary and involve multiple stakeholders;
* Implement innovative and responsive policies to face climate change effects and assure a balanced competitiveness, growth and sustainability;
* Develop information-based decision support tools, with automated intervention systems.
</div>
</div>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border-radius: 5px; border: 2px solid #33abdf;">
'''Milestone 7'''
<div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:justify">
* Governance should strive for active engagement of the key public and private stakeholder bodies for the development and impact on the societal challenge;
* The ultimate aim should be to develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts and to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products;
* Get media cover and social media presence to influence policy and decision makers;
* Organise a European "Grenelle" of bioethics to do an inventory of knowledge, regulations and current projects and processes as well as to define indicators and good practices for the development of marine. biotech;
* Make regulations for developers and investors for securing more liveable areas in harbour transformations;
* Build a coastal protection system that can harness the wave energy;
* Restructuring different mechanisms in order to prevent pollution and to apply polluter sanctions, to ensure the transparency of legislative processes;
* Create innovative tools to guide the consumers, thus inducing public and private stakeholders (including NGOs) to invest in more sustainable directions;
* Start specific economic changes (investment, taxation) to support the goal of efficient and sustainable activities.
</div>
</div>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border-radius: 5px; border: 2px solid #33abdf;">
'''Milestone 8'''
<div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:justify">
* Focus on good enforcement of already existing legislation mechanisms rather than reinventing others from scratch and adjust legislation as necessary;
* Train policymakers through communication tools and adapt legislation to facilitate the creation of a dynamic knowledge-sharing mechanism;
* Ensure that funding will be secured for action plan execution and follow up actions;
* Embed governance in legislation through accountability to ensure the sustainability and to address societal challenges;
* Provide tax reductions or other benefits to businesses for massively applying environmental protection legislature and procedures and for making use of innovative technologies;
* Push for the adoption of common processes for accessibility of results of European projects that would allow a comparison of results through time and creation of broader synergies among past and present projects;
* Put in place effective pathways for communicating policy recommandations to EU and to national bodies as part of the global process of the project;
* Create of a one-stop shop for the Institute of blue bio-technologies with short and long-term strategies;
* Create an award for the best blue bio-technologies innovation or product to make maritime biotechnologies a sustainable economic opportunity;
* Put in place a certification label of projects to draw guidelines for the sustainable development of marine biotechnologies;
* Promote the reinforcement of policies and adoption of coherent legislative frameworks to develop marine biotechnology;
* Establish policies that are favourable for ecological investments in sustainable development;
* Train and convince policymakers, implementers, and investors to develop biotechnologies;
* Make environmental impact assessment mandatory for Deep Sea Mining within the EU;
* Oblige companies by contract to use 10% of their investment in an investigation in engineering design for mitigation of Deep Sea Mining during all the operation
Improve the legislative framework to encourage the capitalization process of renewable energy;
* Upgrade the transport infrastructure for renewable energy;
* Use funding programs dedicated to citizens, aimed at replacing old goods and polluting with new and environmentally friendly ones;
* Define and update the legislation to prevent climate changes for Black Sea area;
* Involve citizens in public consultations and decision–making processes for local and national/ EU regulations;
* Improve port reception facilities and services for processing over waste from ships;
* Build the appropriate infrastructure and technology for the Wave Energy Sector;
* Promote Sustainable Tourism policies to improve coastal and marine ecosystems, minimise pollution and create economic growth by combining efforts at national, regional and local levels and creating green funding schemes and incentives;
* Enhance coastal and maritime tourism by adapting to demographic changes, while maintaining the original vocation and atmosphere of the coastal cities;
* Protect the deep sea from mining, create laws that impose that deep sea mining is a non-profit activity and concert the deep sea into world heritage site;
* Provide strong incentives to promote the circular economy;
* Promote governance arrangements and practices to favour sustainable tourism and seafood consumption;
* Ensure the policies are socially inclusive and are widely known;
* Push for governance and ethics to be required in business registration requirements for creating awareness on sustainability;
* To develop a sector, develop a legal framework promoting and regulating its development;
* Ensure a ministerial umbrella to facilitate the educative process in school by scientists or scientific mediators
Engage government and law makers in order to make sustainable change in ports and ship;
* Consider that National and International organizations must balance economic profit and a competitive market with the goal of preserving the natural environment of our seas;
* Improve regulations and legislations about the release of bacteria at sea;
* Improve legislation to deal with climate change and coastal errosion.
</div>
</div>

==See also...==
[[RRI Dimension]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Governance

2019-02-15T10:47:05Z

Jordankent:

<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border-radius: 5px; border: 2px solid #33abdf;">
'''Milestone 1'''
<div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:justify">
* Realize a complete inventory of local skills needed for the topic of academic actors, start-ups or companies already established in the region;
* Keep in mind the local context to answer local needs and specificities;
* Be careful of possible competition of other events happening as the same time in the same city or on the same topic;
* Start a survey to establish the relationship between local communities and the coastal areas and share results with politicians to put marine biotechnologies on the national agenda as an economic and sustainable opportunity;
* There is a strong need for redefining and refocusing the business model of tourism.
</div>
</div>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border-radius: 5px; border: 2px solid #33abdf;">
'''Milestone 2'''
<div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:justify">
* Promote the involvement of public authorities on local, national and European levels;
* Identify motives for policy makers and implementers to participate in the workshops as they are reluctant in participating;
* Explain RRI and innovation tools and how to embed them in policy agendas as participants find it useful;
* Be aware that policy-makers are not easy to engage unless they see a specific benefit that fits their agenda.
</div>
</div>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border-radius: 5px; border: 2px solid #33abdf;">
'''Milestone 3'''
<div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:justify">
* Construct a good collaboration among project partners from the beginning of the project to its legacy to ensure a wider take-up of the results by all partners;
* Consider carefully legislation and cultural differences between project participants in the discussion prior to the project proposal to avoid possible understanding of feasability barriers;
* Develop concrete examples that stakeholders can understand and get involved;
* Involve politicians and municipality representatives in workshops to increase its effectiveness;
* Identify or create a unique Body entrusted with the control of a process to ensure coordination and synergy of all stakeholders involved.
</div>
</div>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border-radius: 5px; border: 2px solid #33abdf;">
'''Milestone 4'''
<div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:justify">
* Focus on environmental aspects through a multi-stakeholder approach to ensure stability and availability of resources;
* Stakeholders are concerned that the authorities and the private companies will decide to advance with Deep Sea Mining without proper public consultation and without knowing sufficient about the deep sea;
* The society believes that RRI will never be in full effect without strong political will;
* Provide the participants with the legislative aspects related to the topic. If possible ensure the attendance of an expert.
</div>
</div>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border-radius: 5px; border: 2px solid #33abdf;">
'''Milestone 5'''
<div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:justify">
* Implement a coherent national monitoring programme;
* Apply a long-term and crosscutting strategic planning by defining SMART common vision and actions;
* Engage local communities in awareness raising event;
* Develop a common vision and an action plan with a more narrow focus combining development milestones and follow-up workshops;
* Consider the RRI principles as guidelines to construct the project processes for a sound management of the projects;
* Provide a quality framework in which all stakeholders can work toward a solution thanks to a good governance;
* Plan what to do with buildings/installations which have been created while building wind farms; * Develop new methods of governance for engaging citizens through public awareness and politics;
* Include key local stakeholders in the planning and implementation of local strategies;
* Improve governance by defining a shared and common vision by involving citizens and business networks for clean and green industries;
* Claim for an alignment between legislation and the changing scientific situation and technological innovations.
</div>
</div>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border-radius: 5px; border: 2px solid #33abdf;">
'''Milestone 6'''
<div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:justify">
* Consider Governance as a common responsibility of citizens and decision makers;
* Develop sustainable and long-term solutions even if they do not entirely focus on technical and/or economic aspects, but add lifestyle qualities and/or facilities;
* Put in place a policy-oriented, holistic and integrated approach to tackle complex issues;
* Make restaurants aware restaurants and the public about the potential offered by the blue biotechnologies;
* Develop a "Social and Solidarity Economy" type of framework in the field of marine biotechnologies;
* Develop new model of governance for marine biotechnology development including the engagement of the society;
* Build a network to report challenges to politicians to put marine biotechnologies on the national agenda as an economic and sustainable opportunity;
* Push for broad vision for industrial harbour development by local governments inviting non-harbour stakeholders to contribute in new ways;
* Adapt local policies and strategies in order to be in agreement with research outcomes;
* Plan local actions in agreement with its local circumstances instead of promoting larger-scale policies;
* Support local and international decision-makers in charge of evaluating if, when, how, by who and for what should Deep Sea Mining ever take place;
* Develop campaigns for promoting sustainable fishing methods and techniques through protecting resources and other incentives/compensation;
* Use of the outcomes of the national monitoring programme as part of a targeted national awareness raising campaign;
* Push governmental bodies for high-tier governance on local initiatives to have the biggest impact;
* Create procedures for an open access to data and data exchange, to allow for multiple feedbacks from end-users and policy-makers;
* Business stakeholders are mostly interested on the policy agendas;
* Coordinate all activities related to policy, planning and regulation in the best possible way to reduce conflict and help meet environmental, economic and social objectives;
* The greater majority of actions relate to more than one RRI dimension; this shows that actions are multidisciplinary and involve multiple stakeholders;
* Implement innovative and responsive policies to face climate change effects and assure a balanced competitiveness, growth and sustainability;
* Develop information-based decision support tools, with automated intervention systems.
</div>
</div>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border-radius: 5px; border: 2px solid #33abdf;">
'''Milestone 7'''
<div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:justify">
*
</div>
</div>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border-radius: 5px; border: 2px solid #33abdf;">
'''Milestone 8'''
<div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:justify">
*
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==See also...==
[[RRI Dimension]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Open Access

2019-02-15T10:28:37Z

Jordankent:

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'''Milestone 2'''
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* Present the RRI concept with clear examples;
* Raise awareness of the general public on the environmental impact of offshore installations at all stages (building, exploitation, dismantling);
* Improve science literacy and research applicability to increase awareness on the specific issue;
* Make marine issues visible and understandable to the public.
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'''Milestone 3'''
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* Invite stakeholders to provide their feedback about workshop;
* Provide as much information as possible to the subject before the workshop;
* Engage researchers with the industry for the development of appropriate technologies since there is a discrepancy between the academia and the industry needs.
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'''Milestone 4'''
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* Develop partnerships for science outreach actions;
* Capture the content in a way that is more free-flowing which is later interpreted by the workshop team.
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'''Milestone 5'''
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* Focus not only on high-level ideas, but also on required research and innovation actions needed to execute them;
* Increase knowledge on deep sea minerals occurrences and their economic;
* Work together (science, law, economics, policy) to give advice on seabed mining issues;
* Create an organized knowledge synthesis on Deep Sea Mining;
* Develop new capacities for studying and a performing monitoring;
* Conduct studies of renewable energy on the Black Sea coastal area;
* Provide the results on MARINA platform;
* Developing a spatial plan specific to zoning of areas of offshore renewables;
* Develop a GIS information database;
* Develop a clear communications strategy;
* Push for adjust rules to allow open access to relevant sector research results;
* Open access, i.e. giving free online access to the results of publicly-funded research data will boost innovation and increase the use of scientific results by all societal actors;
* While interpreting the results consider that participants can have different information and data about the topic: the "reality" can be difficult to identify.
</div>
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'''Milestone 6'''
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* Share data for a better cooperation and public engagement on the high seas;
* 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;
* Promote researchers qualifications to find new bio applications for products answering societal needs;
* Contribute with knowledge and conceptual frameworks that support interaction, collaboration and holistic recommendations based on research experience;
* Create an open access platform with all Deep Sea Mining data available including biological and geological information;
* Create a common DATABASE – for centralizing all the data and studies regarding biodiversity;
* Disseminate the results on MARINA platform;
* Use public-private partnerships as a new economical instrument;
* Offer open access to the specialized information and share knowledge;
* Send the final results of the workshop to the participants;
* Create a path to open information on climate changes topic and related data;
* Open data for all interested stakeholders;
* Succeed with public engagement through science education and open access in policy;
* Initiate open access through public offices also to non-governmental stakeholders;
* Develop information exchange systems between government, industry and the universities;
* Start measuring and collecting marine scientific data on board different non-scientific vessels.
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'''Milestone 7'''
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* Develop real-time information systems, training activities and incentives to share knowledge and information for avoiding tendencies of local governments and businesses to downplay negative consequences;
* Collect and share information and good practices to raise awareness on marine biotech and to reduce marine pollution;
* Take into consideration new types of ownership forms in order to kick-start of development;
* Analyse the impact of plumes and waste produced by Deep Sea Mining exploitation.
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'''Milestone 8'''
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* Use the media and science mediators to make society aware about research and innovation results;
* Increase the impact of projects' results thanks to open access;
* Implement program of innovative research in relation to the effectiveness of the constructions of towers and generators to ensure sustainable development of renewable energy;
* Communicate broadly and raise wide awareness about the specific initiative to anchor change;
* Create higher awareness on technological achievements from challenging and cutting edge successful projects to attract skilled people to work in the sector;
* Reliable scientific information is not easily accessible for sectorial actors;
* Ethical issues are highly important in maintaining the sustainable operation of the vessels while safeguarding the environment;
* Raise awareness and embed RRI into educational curricula;
* Provide free and easier access to the results of the studies;
* Claim for an international coordination to identify the possible impacts of innovations.
</div>
</div>

==See also...==
[[RRI Dimension]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Open Access

2019-02-15T10:27:35Z

Jordankent:

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'''Milestone 2'''
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* Present the RRI concept with clear examples;
* Raise awareness of the general public on the environmental impact of offshore installations at all stages (building, exploitation, dismantling);
* Improve science literacy and research applicability to increase awareness on the specific issue;
* Make marine issues visible and understandable to the public.
</div>
</div>
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'''Milestone 3'''
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* Invite stakeholders to provide their feedback about workshop;
* Provide as much information as possible to the subject before the workshop;
* Engage researchers with the industry for the development of appropriate technologies since there is a discrepancy between the academia and the industry needs.
</div>
</div>
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'''Milestone 4'''
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* Develop partnerships for science outreach actions;
* Capture the content in a way that is more free-flowing which is later interpreted by the workshop team.
</div>
</div>
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'''Milestone 5'''
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* Focus not only on high-level ideas, but also on required research and innovation actions needed to execute them;
* Increase knowledge on deep sea minerals occurrences and their economic;
* Work together (science, law, economics, policy) to give advice on seabed mining issues;
* Create an organized knowledge synthesis on Deep Sea Mining;
* Develop new capacities for studying and a performing monitoring;
* Conduct studies of renewable energy on the Black Sea coastal area;
* Provide the results on MARINA platform;
* Developing a spatial plan specific to zoning of areas of offshore renewables;
* Develop a GIS information database;
* Develop a clear communications strategy;
* Push for adjust rules to allow open access to relevant sector research results;
* Open access, i.e. giving free online access to the results of publicly-funded research data will boost innovation and increase the use of scientific results by all societal actors;
* While interpreting the results consider that participants can have different information and data about the topic: the "reality" can be difficult to identify.
</div>
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'''Milestone 6'''
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* Share data for a better cooperation and public engagement on the high seas;
* 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;
* Promote researchers qualifications to find new bio applications for products answering societal needs;
* Contribute with knowledge and conceptual frameworks that support interaction, collaboration and holistic recommendations based on research experience;
* Create an open access platform with all Deep Sea Mining data available including biological and geological information;
* Create a common DATABASE – for centralizing all the data and studies regarding biodiversity;
* Disseminate the results on MARINA platform
Use public-private partnerships as a new economical instrument;
* Offer open access to the specialized information and share knowledge;
* Send the final results of the workshop to the participants;
* Create a path to open information on climate changes topic and related data;
* Open data for all interested stakeholders;
* Succeed with public engagement through science education and open access in policy;
* Initiate open access through public offices also to non-governmental stakeholders;
* Develop information exchange systems between government, industry and the universities;
* Start measuring and collecting marine scientific data on board different non-scientific vessels.
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'''Milestone 7'''
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* Develop real-time information systems, training activities and incentives to share knowledge and information for avoiding tendencies of local governments and businesses to downplay negative consequences;
* Collect and share information and good practices to raise awareness on marine biotech and to reduce marine pollution;
* Take into consideration new types of ownership forms in order to kick-start of development;
* Analyse the impact of plumes and waste produced by Deep Sea Mining exploitation.
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'''Milestone 8'''
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* Use the media and science mediators to make society aware about research and innovation results;
* Increase the impact of projects' results thanks to open access;
* Implement program of innovative research in relation to the effectiveness of the constructions of towers and generators to ensure sustainable development of renewable energy;
* Communicate broadly and raise wide awareness about the specific initiative to anchor change;
* Create higher awareness on technological achievements from challenging and cutting edge successful projects to attract skilled people to work in the sector;
* Reliable scientific information is not easily accessible for sectorial actors;
* Ethical issues are highly important in maintaining the sustainable operation of the vessels while safeguarding the environment;
* Raise awareness and embed RRI into educational curricula;
* Provide free and easier access to the results of the studies;
* Claim for an international coordination to identify the possible impacts of innovations.
</div>
</div>

==See also...==
[[Open Access]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Public Engagement

2019-02-15T10:20:22Z

Jordankent:

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'''Milestone 1'''
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* 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;
* Organise carefully the workshop phases for successfully meeting the objectives and for engaging all participants;
* Use dialog for initiating collaboration among private landowners and municipalities;
* Bring researchers from ‘non-conventional’ areas related to Deep Sea Mining;
* 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;
* Find a topic which will attract different stakeholders;
* Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) can help to overcome the current marine and societal challenges and unlock the potential for Blue Growth;
* Explore the questions that are relevant to the real-life concerns of the group.
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'''Milestone 2'''
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* Develop messages that make the problem tangible for everybody for instance by translating facts and figures into something simple and impactful;
* Provide a good incentive and personal benefits to motivate people to attend the workshop(s) and processes;
* Use using storytelling to describe the challenge with clear and concrete examples;
* Present the topic approached from the beginning of the workshop;
* Explain the challenge in an inclusive, strategic and broad manner for involving all types of participants;
* Define a clear triggering question highlighting the issue and goal to be addressed at the workshop;
* Use diverse communication channels (e-mail, telephone, face-to-face and word of mouth) for recruiting participants;
* Define the initiative's broad goals from a policy, social / cultural, economic, technological perspective;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstandings during the event;
* Focus the challenge with relevant examples for the participants and related to their daily lives;
* Use keynote speakers to introduce the topic for example specialists, but their speech must be in simple language and avoid using difficult terminology;
* Define the date, finalise the workshop topic and have communication material two months ahead;
* Focus the workshop and the RRI presentation on a topic relevant for the participants and related to their daily lives;
* Contact directly the person to recruit via e-mails or telephone;
* Address a specific subject that concerns multidisciplinary stakeholders;
* Invite additional stakeholders and communities to join the MARINA knowledge sharing platform and direct them to the results and materials related to Deep Sea Mining;
* Present the Mobilisation and Mutual Learning and RRI approach;
* Define a workshop triggering question that is short, clear and easily understood by all stakeholders;
* Consider personal e-mails as the recruitment mechanism because it has been proven by far the most effective recruitment mechanism;
* Be aware of the motivational factor that workshop participants may feel because they like the fact that an interdisciplinary group representing all society's niches is invited to brainstorming for resolving the problem;
* Be aware about the participants motivations to attend a workshop such as to learn from others participants;
* Perform an analysis of publics' behaviours before engaging the public engagement;
* Use audience targeted communication for all types stakeholders to engage them;
* Initiate target awareness campaigns towards all stakeholders through a specific media;
* Motivate to receive ahead of the workshop and on time the participants' action ideas and to attract participants from all stakeholders’ groups;
* Carefully consider the workshop's duration as many participants think that a one day-long workshop is too long;
* Prepare a concise information corpus for participants;
* Consider societal challenges (as defined by the EC) during the participative events, in order for the results to be easily related to them;
* Inform in a wider manner all societal actors about the issue.
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'''Milestone 3'''
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* Create a relaxing but effective work experience and joint decision-making with the world café methodology;
* Ensure a good representation of professionals (industry related to the topic, policy makers, journalists) to have a balanced dialogue;
* Send a personalised and direct (e-mail or telephone) invitation to ensure a better buy-in of targeted participants;
* Allocate sufficient time for discussions and to involve all participants interests and ideas;
* Allocate more time for group discussions during workshops;
* Adopt participative methods tested in MARINA in other initiatives including stakeholders;
* Attract participants by sending invitations via e‐mail, followed by phone calls;
* Present the topic approached from the beginning of the workshop;
* Offer a clear explanation of the methodology used to be as clear as possible to the participants;
* Use methods for involving the active participation of the public by giving them the opportunity to express their opinions;
* Offer a clear explanation of the methodology used in order to be as clear as possible for the participants;
* 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;
* Choose a familiar methodology for participants;
* Use a method that gives the opportunity to all participants to express their opinion;
* Moderate the workshop with an experienced facilitator to avoid "Groupthink" and the "Erroneous Priorities Effect";
* Explain at the start of the workshop the different phases that participants will go through;
* Continue to engage the stakeholders for knowledge exchange after the workshop;
* Make the workshops highly participatory and interactive;
* Give the participants sufficient time to present themselves and their work/field of interest, in order to facilitate connection and co-operation after the workshop;
* Plan an in-depth and varied engagement with stakeholders at all stages of the projects;
* Adapt the presentation of projects information to the specific needs of respective stakeholders groups;
* Help participants become active in the workshop by helping them understand the importance of the Marine Hot Topic;
* Collaborate with your local partners, which can be great allies.;
* Use role play and "Decide" game to integrate difficult concepts in workshop discussion;
* Adapt the workshop methodology to the local culture;
* Remember that apart from being scientists, teachers, policy-makers, they are all citizens of coastal cities who want to care for the environment as a private person;
* Use common words so that non scientists participants can understand and contribute to the discussion without being overwhelmed by scientific language;
* Assign participants to a specific table according to gender, type of organization/institution, type of expertise in the field, main interest in general to ensure multidisciplinarity;
* Multiply events where researchers from academia and industry exchange with a broader community to enhance this community and its visibility;
* Ensure that participants can exchange knowledge and meet new people;
* Look for participants open to dialogue, but who don't usually interact with each other;
* Start with a roundtable process so that everybody know each-other, and everyone can share their personal perspective of the subject;
* Empower all stakeholder groups to co-create sustainable value propositions that reflect societal needs and support healthy marine environments thanks to RRI dimensions;
* Connect all stakeholders through education and communication;
* Foster collaboration among companies in the marine biotechnologies value chain and social and environmental actors;
* Hook RRI abstract subjects to a topic related to participants lives and has interests in it;
* Recruit participants by telephone to ensure a great effectiveness of recruitment;
* Workshops may participants convince about RRI, but doesn't tend to help them in the concrete application of RRI in their daily work;
* Adapt the workshop schedule and structure according to the specifics and program of the stakeholders you want to attend;
* Implement RRI in real situations, with many participants proposing many actions;
* Choose a suitable method for the number of participants and the specific of the workshop;
* Present and explain the method used;
* Encouraged all the participants to work on all the solutions during the session;
* Mobilize stakeholders for active involvement;
* Engage stakeholders from different sectors of activity;
* Choose a method which will produce a large amount of data on a topic in a short time;
* Invite and encourage different stakeholders to participate at this kind of workshops;
* 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;
* Stimulate and ensure open dialogue among the attendees;
* 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;
* Plan the programme to encourage as much opportunity for interactions between participants;
* The SDD dialogue is a rigorous and efficient participatory methodology, but also time-consuming, leaving no time for the interpretation of the presented ideas in terms of their RRI dimensions by the participants during the workshop;
* Ask participants' to state their workshop expectations because experience shows that some find the workshop and its participatory method intriguing, others were interested In how to develop a shared vision, some had an interest in being inspired and build networks;
* Identify and invite the right number of participants representing all necessary science fields to create a viable action plan. Participant recruiting is time-consuming and must be planned well in advance of the workshop;
* The reversed science cafe method motivates participants to express their opinions and views in a structured, inclusive, yet open manner;
* Participatory workshops provide good opportunities for better discovering developments and problems of the studied industry;
* Enable workshops participants to create networks and communities of interest to further research and identify solutions for the studied issue;
* Engage participants via emails and phone calls, since it has been proven as the most effective means of recruitment;
* Be aware that it is challenging to persuade people to participate in workshops;
* Use both phone and email for citizen recruitment;
* Establish transparent, efficient and effective democratic mechanisms amongst all involved and throughout all the phases to create trust;
* Keep the workshop's duration short and engage an experienced facilitator;
* Email and telephone were the best communication channels for promoting the workshop;
* The SDD method was evaluated as very well structured, inclusive, productive, scientific, interesting and dynamic;
* Plan well the participant groups so that all stakeholders are sufficiently represented;
* Promote the workshop through websites and a poster campaigns;
* Push for multi-stakeholders' representation and input from all relevant actors;
* Bring people and particularly the young on location where they can have transformative experiences that they will seek to relieve throughout their lives;
* Engage young potential "citizen scientists" in schools to promote the issue at hand;
* Achieve positive engagement with all types of local stakeholders including relevant government agencies, local businesses, regulators, NGOs, CSOs, researchers and citizens;
* Clarify from the start of any process or workshop all terms and acronyms so that all participants from various backgrounds understand them;
* Explain clearly the workshop methodology and how the outputs will be used at the beginning of the workshop and include some warm-up activity;
* Learn about participatory methods and how to use them;
* Choose well the workshop methodology to allow participants contribute to the discussion and to strengthen the links among them;
* Ensure the comfort of the room (space around the tables, temperature, light etc.) to reduce the stress and fatigue of the participants and to improve the results. Provide some small "gift" or surprise them somehow, to create a friendly environment for the discussion;
* Define a clear agenda and respect it, but do not hesitate to be flexible and modify the schedule to reach the final results;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
* Participants do not subscribe gladly to the platform, they don't have time and/or willingness to learn using another tool;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
* Ensure you have some big institution's newsletter to disseminate your workshop for recruitment and spreading of the results;
* Use new participatory methodologies to attract participants;
* Take into consideration that despite participants' willingness to participate, often practical barriers impede their attendance in participative workshops;
* Consider having virtual discussions to help some stakeholder groups (e.g. citizens) to attend participatory workshops and events;
* Increase awareness in the youngest about the (local) marine issues to create a new generation of people that are aware of the problems and want to engage themselves, to take action also through a political career;
* Be flexible with the methodology adopted in order to finalize the process, even if not in the way you planned;
* Choose your methodology considering your audience;
* Dedicate the needed time to discuss and clarify the methodology and the agenda with the facilitator - and among the organizing group;
* Define the length of the workshop according with your foreseen audience and local habits;
* Involve students when possible;
* Stream only the most crucial sections of the workshop, disseminate the streaming agenda;
* Provide a synthetic, max 5 pages, info pack about the topic before the workshop;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
* Send an official invitation letter signed by the director/president of the institute organizing the workshop to facilitate the recruitment;
* Apply different participatory methods during the event to maintain a high level of attention.
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'''Milestone 4'''
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* Ensure that all voices have an equal footing in the debate during the workshop;
* Request participants keep trying to think from other stakeholders' position.;
* Allocate time for every participant to present his/her own idea and to discuss it in plenum;
* Let different perspectives on the subject, which will lead to a common background for further discussion;
* Give all participants the opportunity to discuss and generate ideas;
* Allocate time for every participant to present his/her idea and to discuss it in plenum;
* Take measures to develop and further enhance the engagement and cooperation between different stakeholders;
* Request the participants to state their ideas in the form of action statements in order to “push” them to think in practical terms;
* Make an inventory of innovations and tools, and facilitate collaboration and networking for the development of biotechnologies in France;
* Do not interfere too much with the topics participants chose to focus on, it mostly depends on individual needs/experience and knowledge;
* Give participants more time to contribute to the ideas at other tables;
* Enable each group to take the floor to present their results;
* Put in place a multi-stakeholder dialogue to efficiently reduce plastic pollution;
* Activate citizens as a resourceful group of action that could lead to a more innovative and including society;
* Find moderators with experience on methods used for event moderation;
* 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;
* Promote best practice cross sectorial stakeholder engagement processes through webinars;
* Find the best way to incorporate the multi-disciplinary element into the organisation of the workshop;
* Establish cooperation among diverse stakeholders (researchers, innovative businesses, politicians and citizens) even when it's challenging;
* Mobilise stakeholders early in the process to develop viable and sustainable business models;
* Joined stakeholder involvement produces ideas with integrated and holistic focus based on synergy and collaboration;
* Collect participant's post-workshop feedback focusing on the added value workshop points: the participatory method, the topic, the action plan, the common vision, the future participation options;
* Create a friendly and relaxed workshop atmosphere for participants to have lively and open discussions;
* Plan well the workshop so that participants provide their ideas in an active way;
* Avoiding "Groupthink" and the "Erroneous Priorities Effect": taking measures for the protection of the authenticity of all ideas;
* Give tight bounds to participants about the shape of the contributions they have to provide, so they will not have other option than provide what is needed;
* Check the discussion and gently but firmly ask the participants not to lose focus on the final purpose, to speed up and keep up with the timing or not to go too deep or too specific;
* One day is not enough for SDD.
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'''Milestone 5'''
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* Ensure that all participants stay until the end of the workshop to have coherent results;
* Have participants rank the priorities and discuss from the highest to the lowest to co-construct a common vision;
* Foster stakeholder engagement, capacity building, behavioural changes and production and consumption pattern shift with Science education;
* Use the SMART action format to ease the follow up of the workshop;
* 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;
* Define a clear plan for the future engagement of the workshop's participants to keep the community active;
* Create decision-making processes that are participative, transparent and allow for public deliberation;
* Check carefully the voting process of the actions, to avoid selfish or non correct behaviours which could distort the results;
* Translate workshop results in something short and friendly in short time and disseminate among the participants and others, not to loose momentum;
* Check carefully the voting process, to avoid selfish or improper behaviours, which could distort the results;
* Empower citizens beyond data collection through involvement in decision-making and governance;
* Prepare take home tools and methods that participants can implement in their jobs;
* Identify easy-to-implement solutions to attract people and harbour-related businesses in innovative harbour development;
* Develop tools for engaging citizens in urban development and communicate them broadly to inspire local communities;
* Develop new models and ways of collaborating on climate change in order to create common knowledge and more awareness of climate change in public mind;
* Organize more science dissemination events targeting the general public;
* Promote citizen science to involve the general public on research;
* Develop more partnerships with the Media and NGOs in order to reach bigger audiences;
* Develop and organize more actions, in order that different stakeholders meet and discuss their ideas more often and get used to think outside their boxes;
* Increase awareness regarding water quality;
* Develop a network of common interest;
* Try to obtain clear actions from people from different areas of interest, but targeting the common vision;
* Engage the public and involve governing bodies at various levels to generate ideas that are ethical, sustainable, inclusive and of social justice;
* Push participants to move beyond exchanging ideas and to start co-creating a vision;
* Improve efficient communication, generate plural debates and disseminate reliable data and information to convert vision into reality;
* Achieve success through multi-stakeholder engagement and consensus;
* Awareness and education are fundamental in changing mind-sets;
* Allocate a good part of the workshop for creating a clear common action plan;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: a) simple, short title; one line describing the idea and one-two lines (minimum) explaining and clarifying the idea;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: b) think who would be responsible for implementing the proposed action and how to engage the person or organisation;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: c) timing (when could such an idea be implemented);
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: d) resources (how would the idea be implemented);
* Ensure that the process of co-generating an action plan is concluded during the workshop;
* While interpreting the results consider the location of the workshop: statistically most of the participants will come from the area where the workshop is held;
* Choose the most effective methodology to build a common vision and give space to many different voices;
* Ask the participants to obtain in advance the necessary authorization from the Institutions they represent, to propose actions during the workshop;
* Consider the best way of collecting votes for the purpose such as the number of votes available for each participant, the rounds of votes, etc.
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* Identify common working initiatives between municipalities and the civil societies, so that citizens may be actively involved;
* Take actions in order to update the actual legislation;
* Involve some stakeholders in the creation or validation of the scientific processes to improve their acceptance of the final results, even if it can be seen as a time-consuming process;
* Follow up with the participants with periodic workshops using the same methodology;
* Develop new tools and infrastructures of research on marine resources, particularly in inaccessible depths, but also for monitoring the marine environment, stocks of biomass or still unwanted algae;
* Develop societal awareness about water and advantages of use of renewable energy sources in general and offshore wind farms in particular;
* Promote public engagement actions to raise awareness to the urgency of deep sea mapping;
* Develop partnership between different stakeholders;
* Create links among participants for future partnerships and develop a network of common interest;
* Engage participants to apply RRI principles in daily work and daily life;
* Develop a clear understanding around Marine Spacial Planning (MSP) and what its implications are for all stakeholders groups including offshore wind;
* Make urban planning and tourism development collaborative and democratic by involving citizens and business in envisioning urban futures and resolve negative environmental impacts;
* Follow-up on motivated participants of how that used the knowledge obtained in workshops for third private and professional projects;
* Educate the public at large in their individual role in marine conservation and sustainability (Public Engagement, Science Education);
* Action and follow-up the co-defined action plan;
* Make scientific information reliable and easily accessible to citizens and stakeholders;
* Use citizen observatories through mobile phones to report pollution sites and inappropriate environmental behaviour;
* Provide Open Access to data for a proactive response to societal challenges.
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'''Milestone 7'''
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* Follow-up with all participants and monitor results regularly and engage them in post-workshop knowledge sharing and networking through an online platform;
* It's necessary a good collaboration and interaction between civil society, policy makers, researchers, business sector and citizens, in all the Black Sea coastal countries;
* Be aware that only about half of the participants are likely to use the knowledge gained at the workshop;
* Involving customers ranked the most favourable cluster with specific actions including the adoption of the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) business model;
* Try to engage volunteer groups/stakeholders who use the specific environment on a regular basis;
* The participants did not follow-up on the platform as they declared they were willing to do: there are too many platforms, they get lost or do not have time to explore another one.
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'''Milestone 8'''
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* Coordinate collaborative activities and tools to push RRI forward;
* Organise regular follow-up workshops by involving more decision makers to anchor change;
* Promote a greater participation of general public in projects financed by European funds to help filling the gap between science and society;
* Equip urban open areas for open debates where local communities can meet frequently in order to exercise the rights guaranteed by the Aarhus convention to develop sustainable decisions in a collective and legal manner;
* Be aware that the knowledge transfer to other sectors and general public is a great challenge faced by partners of European projects;
* Consider opportunities of synergies between the fisheries and aquaculture sectors in the Azores;
* Coordinate and develop industrial, academic and political linkages to boost funding around marine biotechnologies;
* Engage all interested stakeholders in harbour development;
* Attract private investments and develop national projects;
* Disseminate information about opportunities, threats and risks on the studied topic;
* Create a seafood producers organisation in France to reduce the gap between the producers and consumers;
* Facilitate fruitful discussions and widely disseminate conclusions to third parties;
* Create platforms where industry and academic leaders can disseminate accurate and influential information which can be accessible by the general public;
* Plan periodic meetings on the same topic, with old and new participants, to create ownership of the process, intensify the effort and ensure follow-up;
* Involve a multitude of stakeholders and implement actions as widely as possible, even globally, in order for adopted policies and solutions to be as relevant as possible, resulting in more support to implement the changes by all sides;
* Use your participatory event as a flywheel to organize other similar events.
</div>
</div>

==See also...==
[[RRI Dimension]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Public Engagement

2019-02-15T10:19:01Z

Jordankent: /* See also... */

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'''Milestone 1'''
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* 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;
* Organise carefully the workshop phases for successfully meeting the objectives and for engaging all participants;
* Use dialog for initiating collaboration among private landowners and municipalities;
* Bring researchers from ‘non-conventional’ areas related to Deep Sea Mining;
* 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;
* Find a topic which will attract different stakeholders;
* Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) can help to overcome the current marine and societal challenges and unlock the potential for Blue Growth;
* Explore the questions that are relevant to the real-life concerns of the group.
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'''Milestone 2'''
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* Develop messages that make the problem tangible for everybody for instance by translating facts and figures into something simple and impactful;
* Provide a good incentive and personal benefits to motivate people to attend the workshop(s) and processes;
* Use using storytelling to describe the challenge with clear and concrete examples;
* Present the topic approached from the beginning of the workshop;
* Explain the challenge in an inclusive, strategic and broad manner for involving all types of participants;
* Define a clear triggering question highlighting the issue and goal to be addressed at the workshop;
* Use diverse communication channels (e-mail, telephone, face-to-face and word of mouth) for recruiting participants;
* Define the initiative's broad goals from a policy, social / cultural, economic, technological perspective;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstandings during the event;
* Focus the challenge with relevant examples for the participants and related to their daily lives;
* Use keynote speakers to introduce the topic for example specialists, but their speech must be in simple language and avoid using difficult terminology;
* Define the date, finalise the workshop topic and have communication material two months ahead;
* Focus the workshop and the RRI presentation on a topic relevant for the participants and related to their daily lives;
* Contact directly the person to recruit via e-mails or telephone;
* Address a specific subject that concerns multidisciplinary stakeholders;
* Invite additional stakeholders and communities to join the MARINA knowledge sharing platform and direct them to the results and materials related to Deep Sea Mining;
* Present the Mobilisation and Mutual Learning and RRI approach;
* Define a workshop triggering question that is short, clear and easily understood by all stakeholders;
* Consider personal e-mails as the recruitment mechanism because it has been proven by far the most effective recruitment mechanism;
* Be aware of the motivational factor that workshop participants may feel because they like the fact that an interdisciplinary group representing all society's niches is invited to brainstorming for resolving the problem;
* Be aware about the participants motivations to attend a workshop such as to learn from others participants;
* Perform an analysis of publics' behaviours before engaging the public engagement;
* Use audience targeted communication for all types stakeholders to engage them;
* Initiate target awareness campaigns towards all stakeholders through a specific media;
* Motivate to receive ahead of the workshop and on time the participants' action ideas and to attract participants from all stakeholders’ groups;
* Carefully consider the workshop's duration as many participants think that a one day-long workshop is too long;
* Prepare a concise information corpus for participants;
* Consider societal challenges (as defined by the EC) during the participative events, in order for the results to be easily related to them;
* Inform in a wider manner all societal actors about the issue.
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'''Milestone 3'''
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* Create a relaxing but effective work experience and joint decision-making with the world café methodology;
* Ensure a good representation of professionals (industry related to the topic, policy makers, journalists) to have a balanced dialogue;
& Send a personalised and direct (e-mail or telephone) invitation to ensure a better buy-in of targeted participants;
* Allocate sufficient time for discussions and to involve all participants interests and ideas;
* Allocate more time for group discussions during workshops;
* Adopt participative methods tested in MARINA in other initiatives including stakeholders;
* Attract participants by sending invitations via e‐mail, followed by phone calls;
* Present the topic approached from the beginning of the workshop;
* Offer a clear explanation of the methodology used to be as clear as possible to the participants;
* Use methods for involving the active participation of the public by giving them the opportunity to express their opinions;
* Offer a clear explanation of the methodology used in order to be as clear as possible for the participants;
* 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;
* Choose a familiar methodology for participants;
* Use a method that gives the opportunity to all participants to express their opinion;
* Moderate the workshop with an experienced facilitator to avoid "Groupthink" and the "Erroneous Priorities Effect";
* Explain at the start of the workshop the different phases that participants will go through;
* Continue to engage the stakeholders for knowledge exchange after the workshop;
* Make the workshops highly participatory and interactive;
* Give the participants sufficient time to present themselves and their work/field of interest, in order to facilitate connection and co-operation after the workshop;
* Plan an in-depth and varied engagement with stakeholders at all stages of the projects;
* Adapt the presentation of projects information to the specific needs of respective stakeholders groups;
* Help participants become active in the workshop by helping them understand the importance of the Marine Hot Topic;
* Collaborate with your local partners, which can be great allies.;
* Use role play and "Decide" game to integrate difficult concepts in workshop discussion;
* Adapt the workshop methodology to the local culture;
* Remember that apart from being scientists, teachers, policy-makers, they are all citizens of coastal cities who want to care for the environment as a private person;
* Use common words so that non scientists participants can understand and contribute to the discussion without being overwhelmed by scientific language;
* Assign participants to a specific table according to gender, type of organization/institution, type of expertise in the field, main interest in general to ensure multidisciplinarity;
* Multiply events where researchers from academia and industry exchange with a broader community to enhance this community and its visibility;
* Ensure that participants can exchange knowledge and meet new people;
* Look for participants open to dialogue, but who don't usually interact with each other;
* Start with a roundtable process so that everybody know each-other, and everyone can share their personal perspective of the subject;
* Empower all stakeholder groups to co-create sustainable value propositions that reflect societal needs and support healthy marine environments thanks to RRI dimensions;
* Connect all stakeholders through education and communication;
* Foster collaboration among companies in the marine biotechnologies value chain and social and environmental actors;
* Hook RRI abstract subjects to a topic related to participants lives and has interests in it;
* Recruit participants by telephone to ensure a great effectiveness of recruitment;
* Workshops may participants convince about RRI, but doesn't tend to help them in the concrete application of RRI in their daily work;
* Adapt the workshop schedule and structure according to the specifics and program of the stakeholders you want to attend;
* Implement RRI in real situations, with many participants proposing many actions;
* Choose a suitable method for the number of participants and the specific of the workshop;
* Present and explain the method used;
* Encouraged all the participants to work on all the solutions during the session;
* Mobilize stakeholders for active involvement;
* Engage stakeholders from different sectors of activity;
* Choose a method which will produce a large amount of data on a topic in a short time;
* Invite and encourage different stakeholders to participate at this kind of workshops;
* 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;
* Stimulate and ensure open dialogue among the attendees;
* 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;
* Plan the programme to encourage as much opportunity for interactions between participants;
* The SDD dialogue is a rigorous and efficient participatory methodology, but also time-consuming, leaving no time for the interpretation of the presented ideas in terms of their RRI dimensions by the participants during the workshop;
* Ask participants' to state their workshop expectations because experience shows that some find the workshop and its participatory method intriguing, others were interested In how to develop a shared vision, some had an interest in being inspired and build networks;
* Identify and invite the right number of participants representing all necessary science fields to create a viable action plan. Participant recruiting is time-consuming and must be planned well in advance of the workshop;
* The reversed science cafe method motivates participants to express their opinions and views in a structured, inclusive, yet open manner;
* Participatory workshops provide good opportunities for better discovering developments and problems of the studied industry;
* Enable workshops participants to create networks and communities of interest to further research and identify solutions for the studied issue;
* Engage participants via emails and phone calls, since it has been proven as the most effective means of recruitment;
* Be aware that it is challenging to persuade people to participate in workshops;
* Use both phone and email for citizen recruitment;
* Establish transparent, efficient and effective democratic mechanisms amongst all involved and throughout all the phases to create trust;
* Keep the workshop's duration short and engage an experienced facilitator;
* Email and telephone were the best communication channels for promoting the workshop;
* The SDD method was evaluated as very well structured, inclusive, productive, scientific, interesting and dynamic;
* Plan well the participant groups so that all stakeholders are sufficiently represented;
* Promote the workshop through websites and a poster campaigns;
* Push for multi-stakeholders' representation and input from all relevant actors;
* Bring people and particularly the young on location where they can have transformative experiences that they will seek to relieve throughout their lives;
* Engage young potential "citizen scientists" in schools to promote the issue at hand;
* Achieve positive engagement with all types of local stakeholders including relevant government agencies, local businesses, regulators, NGOs, CSOs, researchers and citizens;
* Clarify from the start of any process or workshop all terms and acronyms so that all participants from various backgrounds understand them;
* Explain clearly the workshop methodology and how the outputs will be used at the beginning of the workshop and include some warm-up activity;
* Learn about participatory methods and how to use them;
* Choose well the workshop methodology to allow participants contribute to the discussion and to strengthen the links among them;
* Ensure the comfort of the room (space around the tables, temperature, light etc.) to reduce the stress and fatigue of the participants and to improve the results. Provide some small "gift" or surprise them somehow, to create a friendly environment for the discussion;
* Define a clear agenda and respect it, but do not hesitate to be flexible and modify the schedule to reach the final results;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
* Participants do not subscribe gladly to the platform, they don't have time and/or willingness to learn using another tool;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
* Ensure you have some big institution's newsletter to disseminate your workshop for recruitment and spreading of the results;
* Use new participatory methodologies to attract participants;
* Take into consideration that despite participants' willingness to participate, often practical barriers impede their attendance in participative workshops;
* Consider having virtual discussions to help some stakeholder groups (e.g. citizens) to attend participatory workshops and events;
* Increase awareness in the youngest about the (local) marine issues to create a new generation of people that are aware of the problems and want to engage themselves, to take action also through a political career;
* Be flexible with the methodology adopted in order to finalize the process, even if not in the way you planned;
* Choose your methodology considering your audience;
* Dedicate the needed time to discuss and clarify the methodology and the agenda with the facilitator - and among the organizing group;
* Define the length of the workshop according with your foreseen audience and local habits;
* Involve students when possible;
* Stream only the most crucial sections of the workshop, disseminate the streaming agenda;
* Provide a synthetic, max 5 pages, info pack about the topic before the workshop;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
* Send an official invitation letter signed by the director/president of the institute organizing the workshop to facilitate the recruitment;
* Apply different participatory methods during the event to maintain a high level of attention.
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* Ensure that all voices have an equal footing in the debate during the workshop;
* Request participants keep trying to think from other stakeholders' position.;
* Allocate time for every participant to present his/her own idea and to discuss it in plenum;
* Let different perspectives on the subject, which will lead to a common background for further discussion;
* Give all participants the opportunity to discuss and generate ideas;
* Allocate time for every participant to present his/her idea and to discuss it in plenum;
* Take measures to develop and further enhance the engagement and cooperation between different stakeholders;
* Request the participants to state their ideas in the form of action statements in order to “push” them to think in practical terms;
* Make an inventory of innovations and tools, and facilitate collaboration and networking for the development of biotechnologies in France;
* Do not interfere too much with the topics participants chose to focus on, it mostly depends on individual needs/experience and knowledge;
* Give participants more time to contribute to the ideas at other tables;
* Enable each group to take the floor to present their results;
* Put in place a multi-stakeholder dialogue to efficiently reduce plastic pollution;
* Activate citizens as a resourceful group of action that could lead to a more innovative and including society;
* Find moderators with experience on methods used for event moderation;
* 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;
* Promote best practice cross sectorial stakeholder engagement processes through webinars;
* Find the best way to incorporate the multi-disciplinary element into the organisation of the workshop;
* Establish cooperation among diverse stakeholders (researchers, innovative businesses, politicians and citizens) even when it's challenging;
* Mobilise stakeholders early in the process to develop viable and sustainable business models;
* Joined stakeholder involvement produces ideas with integrated and holistic focus based on synergy and collaboration;
* Collect participant's post-workshop feedback focusing on the added value workshop points: the participatory method, the topic, the action plan, the common vision, the future participation options;
* Create a friendly and relaxed workshop atmosphere for participants to have lively and open discussions;
* Plan well the workshop so that participants provide their ideas in an active way;
* Avoiding "Groupthink" and the "Erroneous Priorities Effect": taking measures for the protection of the authenticity of all ideas;
* Give tight bounds to participants about the shape of the contributions they have to provide, so they will not have other option than provide what is needed;
* Check the discussion and gently but firmly ask the participants not to lose focus on the final purpose, to speed up and keep up with the timing or not to go too deep or too specific;
* One day is not enough for SDD.
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'''Milestone 5'''
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* Ensure that all participants stay until the end of the workshop to have coherent results;
* Have participants rank the priorities and discuss from the highest to the lowest to co-construct a common vision;
* Foster stakeholder engagement, capacity building, behavioural changes and production and consumption pattern shift with Science education;
* Use the SMART action format to ease the follow up of the workshop;
* 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;
* Define a clear plan for the future engagement of the workshop's participants to keep the community active;
* Create decision-making processes that are participative, transparent and allow for public deliberation;
* Check carefully the voting process of the actions, to avoid selfish or non correct behaviours which could distort the results;
* Translate workshop results in something short and friendly in short time and disseminate among the participants and others, not to loose momentum;
* Check carefully the voting process, to avoid selfish or improper behaviours, which could distort the results;
* Empower citizens beyond data collection through involvement in decision-making and governance;
* Prepare take home tools and methods that participants can implement in their jobs;
* Identify easy-to-implement solutions to attract people and harbour-related businesses in innovative harbour development;
* Develop tools for engaging citizens in urban development and communicate them broadly to inspire local communities;
* Develop new models and ways of collaborating on climate change in order to create common knowledge and more awareness of climate change in public mind;
* Organize more science dissemination events targeting the general public;
* Promote citizen science to involve the general public on research;
* Develop more partnerships with the Media and NGOs in order to reach bigger audiences;
* Develop and organize more actions, in order that different stakeholders meet and discuss their ideas more often and get used to think outside their boxes;
* Increase awareness regarding water quality;
* Develop a network of common interest;
* Try to obtain clear actions from people from different areas of interest, but targeting the common vision;
* Engage the public and involve governing bodies at various levels to generate ideas that are ethical, sustainable, inclusive and of social justice;
* Push participants to move beyond exchanging ideas and to start co-creating a vision;
* Improve efficient communication, generate plural debates and disseminate reliable data and information to convert vision into reality;
* Achieve success through multi-stakeholder engagement and consensus;
* Awareness and education are fundamental in changing mind-sets;
* Allocate a good part of the workshop for creating a clear common action plan;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: a) simple, short title; one line describing the idea and one-two lines (minimum) explaining and clarifying the idea;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: b) think who would be responsible for implementing the proposed action and how to engage the person or organisation;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: c) timing (when could such an idea be implemented);
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: d) resources (how would the idea be implemented);
* Ensure that the process of co-generating an action plan is concluded during the workshop;
* While interpreting the results consider the location of the workshop: statistically most of the participants will come from the area where the workshop is held;
* Choose the most effective methodology to build a common vision and give space to many different voices;
* Ask the participants to obtain in advance the necessary authorization from the Institutions they represent, to propose actions during the workshop;
* Consider the best way of collecting votes for the purpose such as the number of votes available for each participant, the rounds of votes, etc.
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'''Milestone 6'''
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* Identify common working initiatives between municipalities and the civil societies, so that citizens may be actively involved;
* Take actions in order to update the actual legislation;
* Involve some stakeholders in the creation or validation of the scientific processes to improve their acceptance of the final results, even if it can be seen as a time-consuming process;
* Follow up with the participants with periodic workshops using the same methodology;
* Develop new tools and infrastructures of research on marine resources, particularly in inaccessible depths, but also for monitoring the marine environment, stocks of biomass or still unwanted algae;
* Develop societal awareness about water and advantages of use of renewable energy sources in general and offshore wind farms in particular;
* Promote public engagement actions to raise awareness to the urgency of deep sea mapping;
* Develop partnership between different stakeholders;
* Create links among participants for future partnerships and develop a network of common interest;
* Engage participants to apply RRI principles in daily work and daily life;
* Develop a clear understanding around Marine Spacial Planning (MSP) and what its implications are for all stakeholders groups including offshore wind;
* Make urban planning and tourism development collaborative and democratic by involving citizens and business in envisioning urban futures and resolve negative environmental impacts;
* Follow-up on motivated participants of how that used the knowledge obtained in workshops for third private and professional projects;
* Educate the public at large in their individual role in marine conservation and sustainability (Public Engagement, Science Education);
* Action and follow-up the co-defined action plan;
* Make scientific information reliable and easily accessible to citizens and stakeholders;
* Use citizen observatories through mobile phones to report pollution sites and inappropriate environmental behaviour;
* Provide Open Access to data for a proactive response to societal challenges.
</div>
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'''Milestone 7'''
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* Follow-up with all participants and monitor results regularly and engage them in post-workshop knowledge sharing and networking through an online platform;
* It's necessary a good collaboration and interaction between civil society, policy makers, researchers, business sector and citizens, in all the Black Sea coastal countries;
* Be aware that only about half of the participants are likely to use the knowledge gained at the workshop;
* Involving customers ranked the most favourable cluster with specific actions including the adoption of the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) business model;
* Try to engage volunteer groups/stakeholders who use the specific environment on a regular basis;
* The participants did not follow-up on the platform as they declared they were willing to do: there are too many platforms, they get lost or do not have time to explore another one.
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'''Milestone 8'''
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* Coordinate collaborative activities and tools to push RRI forward;
* Organise regular follow-up workshops by involving more decision makers to anchor change;
* Promote a greater participation of general public in projects financed by European funds to help filling the gap between science and society;
* Equip urban open areas for open debates where local communities can meet frequently in order to exercise the rights guaranteed by the Aarhus convention to develop sustainable decisions in a collective and legal manner;
* Be aware that the knowledge transfer to other sectors and general public is a great challenge faced by partners of European projects;
* Consider opportunities of synergies between the fisheries and aquaculture sectors in the Azores;
* Coordinate and develop industrial, academic and political linkages to boost funding around marine biotechnologies;
* Engage all interested stakeholders in harbour development;
* Attract private investments and develop national projects;
* Disseminate information about opportunities, threats and risks on the studied topic;
* Create a seafood producers organisation in France to reduce the gap between the producers and consumers;
* Facilitate fruitful discussions and widely disseminate conclusions to third parties;
* Create platforms where industry and academic leaders can disseminate accurate and influential information which can be accessible by the general public;
* Plan periodic meetings on the same topic, with old and new participants, to create ownership of the process, intensify the effort and ensure follow-up;
* Involve a multitude of stakeholders and implement actions as widely as possible, even globally, in order for adopted policies and solutions to be as relevant as possible, resulting in more support to implement the changes by all sides;
* Use your participatory event as a flywheel to organize other similar events.
</div>
</div>

==See also...==
[[RRI Dimension]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Public Engagement

2019-02-15T10:18:21Z

Jordankent:

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'''Milestone 1'''
<div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:justify">
* 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;
* Organise carefully the workshop phases for successfully meeting the objectives and for engaging all participants;
* Use dialog for initiating collaboration among private landowners and municipalities;
* Bring researchers from ‘non-conventional’ areas related to Deep Sea Mining;
* 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;
* Find a topic which will attract different stakeholders;
* Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) can help to overcome the current marine and societal challenges and unlock the potential for Blue Growth;
* Explore the questions that are relevant to the real-life concerns of the group.
</div>
</div>
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'''Milestone 2'''
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* Develop messages that make the problem tangible for everybody for instance by translating facts and figures into something simple and impactful;
* Provide a good incentive and personal benefits to motivate people to attend the workshop(s) and processes;
* Use using storytelling to describe the challenge with clear and concrete examples;
* Present the topic approached from the beginning of the workshop;
* Explain the challenge in an inclusive, strategic and broad manner for involving all types of participants;
* Define a clear triggering question highlighting the issue and goal to be addressed at the workshop;
* Use diverse communication channels (e-mail, telephone, face-to-face and word of mouth) for recruiting participants;
* Define the initiative's broad goals from a policy, social / cultural, economic, technological perspective;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstandings during the event;
* Focus the challenge with relevant examples for the participants and related to their daily lives;
* Use keynote speakers to introduce the topic for example specialists, but their speech must be in simple language and avoid using difficult terminology;
* Define the date, finalise the workshop topic and have communication material two months ahead;
* Focus the workshop and the RRI presentation on a topic relevant for the participants and related to their daily lives;
* Contact directly the person to recruit via e-mails or telephone;
* Address a specific subject that concerns multidisciplinary stakeholders;
* Invite additional stakeholders and communities to join the MARINA knowledge sharing platform and direct them to the results and materials related to Deep Sea Mining;
* Present the Mobilisation and Mutual Learning and RRI approach;
* Define a workshop triggering question that is short, clear and easily understood by all stakeholders;
* Consider personal e-mails as the recruitment mechanism because it has been proven by far the most effective recruitment mechanism;
* Be aware of the motivational factor that workshop participants may feel because they like the fact that an interdisciplinary group representing all society's niches is invited to brainstorming for resolving the problem;
* Be aware about the participants motivations to attend a workshop such as to learn from others participants;
* Perform an analysis of publics' behaviours before engaging the public engagement;
* Use audience targeted communication for all types stakeholders to engage them;
* Initiate target awareness campaigns towards all stakeholders through a specific media;
* Motivate to receive ahead of the workshop and on time the participants' action ideas and to attract participants from all stakeholders’ groups;
* Carefully consider the workshop's duration as many participants think that a one day-long workshop is too long;
* Prepare a concise information corpus for participants;
* Consider societal challenges (as defined by the EC) during the participative events, in order for the results to be easily related to them;
* Inform in a wider manner all societal actors about the issue.
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* Create a relaxing but effective work experience and joint decision-making with the world café methodology;
* Ensure a good representation of professionals (industry related to the topic, policy makers, journalists) to have a balanced dialogue;
& Send a personalised and direct (e-mail or telephone) invitation to ensure a better buy-in of targeted participants;
* Allocate sufficient time for discussions and to involve all participants interests and ideas;
* Allocate more time for group discussions during workshops;
* Adopt participative methods tested in MARINA in other initiatives including stakeholders;
* Attract participants by sending invitations via e‐mail, followed by phone calls;
* Present the topic approached from the beginning of the workshop;
* Offer a clear explanation of the methodology used to be as clear as possible to the participants;
* Use methods for involving the active participation of the public by giving them the opportunity to express their opinions;
* Offer a clear explanation of the methodology used in order to be as clear as possible for the participants;
* 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;
* Choose a familiar methodology for participants;
* Use a method that gives the opportunity to all participants to express their opinion;
* Moderate the workshop with an experienced facilitator to avoid "Groupthink" and the "Erroneous Priorities Effect";
* Explain at the start of the workshop the different phases that participants will go through;
* Continue to engage the stakeholders for knowledge exchange after the workshop;
* Make the workshops highly participatory and interactive;
* Give the participants sufficient time to present themselves and their work/field of interest, in order to facilitate connection and co-operation after the workshop;
* Plan an in-depth and varied engagement with stakeholders at all stages of the projects;
* Adapt the presentation of projects information to the specific needs of respective stakeholders groups;
* Help participants become active in the workshop by helping them understand the importance of the Marine Hot Topic;
* Collaborate with your local partners, which can be great allies.;
* Use role play and "Decide" game to integrate difficult concepts in workshop discussion;
* Adapt the workshop methodology to the local culture;
* Remember that apart from being scientists, teachers, policy-makers, they are all citizens of coastal cities who want to care for the environment as a private person;
* Use common words so that non scientists participants can understand and contribute to the discussion without being overwhelmed by scientific language;
* Assign participants to a specific table according to gender, type of organization/institution, type of expertise in the field, main interest in general to ensure multidisciplinarity;
* Multiply events where researchers from academia and industry exchange with a broader community to enhance this community and its visibility;
* Ensure that participants can exchange knowledge and meet new people;
* Look for participants open to dialogue, but who don't usually interact with each other;
* Start with a roundtable process so that everybody know each-other, and everyone can share their personal perspective of the subject;
* Empower all stakeholder groups to co-create sustainable value propositions that reflect societal needs and support healthy marine environments thanks to RRI dimensions;
* Connect all stakeholders through education and communication;
* Foster collaboration among companies in the marine biotechnologies value chain and social and environmental actors;
* Hook RRI abstract subjects to a topic related to participants lives and has interests in it;
* Recruit participants by telephone to ensure a great effectiveness of recruitment;
* Workshops may participants convince about RRI, but doesn't tend to help them in the concrete application of RRI in their daily work;
* Adapt the workshop schedule and structure according to the specifics and program of the stakeholders you want to attend;
* Implement RRI in real situations, with many participants proposing many actions;
* Choose a suitable method for the number of participants and the specific of the workshop;
* Present and explain the method used;
* Encouraged all the participants to work on all the solutions during the session;
* Mobilize stakeholders for active involvement;
* Engage stakeholders from different sectors of activity;
* Choose a method which will produce a large amount of data on a topic in a short time;
* Invite and encourage different stakeholders to participate at this kind of workshops;
* 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;
* Stimulate and ensure open dialogue among the attendees;
* 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;
* Plan the programme to encourage as much opportunity for interactions between participants;
* The SDD dialogue is a rigorous and efficient participatory methodology, but also time-consuming, leaving no time for the interpretation of the presented ideas in terms of their RRI dimensions by the participants during the workshop;
* Ask participants' to state their workshop expectations because experience shows that some find the workshop and its participatory method intriguing, others were interested In how to develop a shared vision, some had an interest in being inspired and build networks;
* Identify and invite the right number of participants representing all necessary science fields to create a viable action plan. Participant recruiting is time-consuming and must be planned well in advance of the workshop;
* The reversed science cafe method motivates participants to express their opinions and views in a structured, inclusive, yet open manner;
* Participatory workshops provide good opportunities for better discovering developments and problems of the studied industry;
* Enable workshops participants to create networks and communities of interest to further research and identify solutions for the studied issue;
* Engage participants via emails and phone calls, since it has been proven as the most effective means of recruitment;
* Be aware that it is challenging to persuade people to participate in workshops;
* Use both phone and email for citizen recruitment;
* Establish transparent, efficient and effective democratic mechanisms amongst all involved and throughout all the phases to create trust;
* Keep the workshop's duration short and engage an experienced facilitator;
* Email and telephone were the best communication channels for promoting the workshop;
* The SDD method was evaluated as very well structured, inclusive, productive, scientific, interesting and dynamic;
* Plan well the participant groups so that all stakeholders are sufficiently represented;
* Promote the workshop through websites and a poster campaigns;
* Push for multi-stakeholders' representation and input from all relevant actors;
* Bring people and particularly the young on location where they can have transformative experiences that they will seek to relieve throughout their lives;
* Engage young potential "citizen scientists" in schools to promote the issue at hand;
* Achieve positive engagement with all types of local stakeholders including relevant government agencies, local businesses, regulators, NGOs, CSOs, researchers and citizens;
* Clarify from the start of any process or workshop all terms and acronyms so that all participants from various backgrounds understand them;
* Explain clearly the workshop methodology and how the outputs will be used at the beginning of the workshop and include some warm-up activity;
* Learn about participatory methods and how to use them;
* Choose well the workshop methodology to allow participants contribute to the discussion and to strengthen the links among them;
* Ensure the comfort of the room (space around the tables, temperature, light etc.) to reduce the stress and fatigue of the participants and to improve the results. Provide some small "gift" or surprise them somehow, to create a friendly environment for the discussion;
* Define a clear agenda and respect it, but do not hesitate to be flexible and modify the schedule to reach the final results;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
* Participants do not subscribe gladly to the platform, they don't have time and/or willingness to learn using another tool;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
* Ensure you have some big institution's newsletter to disseminate your workshop for recruitment and spreading of the results;
* Use new participatory methodologies to attract participants;
* Take into consideration that despite participants' willingness to participate, often practical barriers impede their attendance in participative workshops;
* Consider having virtual discussions to help some stakeholder groups (e.g. citizens) to attend participatory workshops and events;
* Increase awareness in the youngest about the (local) marine issues to create a new generation of people that are aware of the problems and want to engage themselves, to take action also through a political career;
* Be flexible with the methodology adopted in order to finalize the process, even if not in the way you planned;
* Choose your methodology considering your audience;
* Dedicate the needed time to discuss and clarify the methodology and the agenda with the facilitator - and among the organizing group;
* Define the length of the workshop according with your foreseen audience and local habits;
* Involve students when possible;
* Stream only the most crucial sections of the workshop, disseminate the streaming agenda;
* Provide a synthetic, max 5 pages, info pack about the topic before the workshop;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
* Send an official invitation letter signed by the director/president of the institute organizing the workshop to facilitate the recruitment;
* Apply different participatory methods during the event to maintain a high level of attention.
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* Ensure that all voices have an equal footing in the debate during the workshop;
* Request participants keep trying to think from other stakeholders' position.;
* Allocate time for every participant to present his/her own idea and to discuss it in plenum;
* Let different perspectives on the subject, which will lead to a common background for further discussion;
* Give all participants the opportunity to discuss and generate ideas;
* Allocate time for every participant to present his/her idea and to discuss it in plenum;
* Take measures to develop and further enhance the engagement and cooperation between different stakeholders;
* Request the participants to state their ideas in the form of action statements in order to “push” them to think in practical terms;
* Make an inventory of innovations and tools, and facilitate collaboration and networking for the development of biotechnologies in France;
* Do not interfere too much with the topics participants chose to focus on, it mostly depends on individual needs/experience and knowledge;
* Give participants more time to contribute to the ideas at other tables;
* Enable each group to take the floor to present their results;
* Put in place a multi-stakeholder dialogue to efficiently reduce plastic pollution;
* Activate citizens as a resourceful group of action that could lead to a more innovative and including society;
* Find moderators with experience on methods used for event moderation;
* 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;
* Promote best practice cross sectorial stakeholder engagement processes through webinars;
* Find the best way to incorporate the multi-disciplinary element into the organisation of the workshop;
* Establish cooperation among diverse stakeholders (researchers, innovative businesses, politicians and citizens) even when it's challenging;
* Mobilise stakeholders early in the process to develop viable and sustainable business models;
* Joined stakeholder involvement produces ideas with integrated and holistic focus based on synergy and collaboration;
* Collect participant's post-workshop feedback focusing on the added value workshop points: the participatory method, the topic, the action plan, the common vision, the future participation options;
* Create a friendly and relaxed workshop atmosphere for participants to have lively and open discussions;
* Plan well the workshop so that participants provide their ideas in an active way;
* Avoiding "Groupthink" and the "Erroneous Priorities Effect": taking measures for the protection of the authenticity of all ideas;
* Give tight bounds to participants about the shape of the contributions they have to provide, so they will not have other option than provide what is needed;
* Check the discussion and gently but firmly ask the participants not to lose focus on the final purpose, to speed up and keep up with the timing or not to go too deep or too specific;
* One day is not enough for SDD.
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* Ensure that all participants stay until the end of the workshop to have coherent results;
* Have participants rank the priorities and discuss from the highest to the lowest to co-construct a common vision;
* Foster stakeholder engagement, capacity building, behavioural changes and production and consumption pattern shift with Science education;
* Use the SMART action format to ease the follow up of the workshop;
* 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;
* Define a clear plan for the future engagement of the workshop's participants to keep the community active;
* Create decision-making processes that are participative, transparent and allow for public deliberation;
* Check carefully the voting process of the actions, to avoid selfish or non correct behaviours which could distort the results;
* Translate workshop results in something short and friendly in short time and disseminate among the participants and others, not to loose momentum;
* Check carefully the voting process, to avoid selfish or improper behaviours, which could distort the results;
* Empower citizens beyond data collection through involvement in decision-making and governance;
* Prepare take home tools and methods that participants can implement in their jobs;
* Identify easy-to-implement solutions to attract people and harbour-related businesses in innovative harbour development;
* Develop tools for engaging citizens in urban development and communicate them broadly to inspire local communities;
* Develop new models and ways of collaborating on climate change in order to create common knowledge and more awareness of climate change in public mind;
* Organize more science dissemination events targeting the general public;
* Promote citizen science to involve the general public on research;
* Develop more partnerships with the Media and NGOs in order to reach bigger audiences;
* Develop and organize more actions, in order that different stakeholders meet and discuss their ideas more often and get used to think outside their boxes;
* Increase awareness regarding water quality;
* Develop a network of common interest;
* Try to obtain clear actions from people from different areas of interest, but targeting the common vision;
* Engage the public and involve governing bodies at various levels to generate ideas that are ethical, sustainable, inclusive and of social justice;
* Push participants to move beyond exchanging ideas and to start co-creating a vision;
* Improve efficient communication, generate plural debates and disseminate reliable data and information to convert vision into reality;
* Achieve success through multi-stakeholder engagement and consensus;
* Awareness and education are fundamental in changing mind-sets;
* Allocate a good part of the workshop for creating a clear common action plan;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: a) simple, short title; one line describing the idea and one-two lines (minimum) explaining and clarifying the idea;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: b) think who would be responsible for implementing the proposed action and how to engage the person or organisation;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: c) timing (when could such an idea be implemented);
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: d) resources (how would the idea be implemented);
* Ensure that the process of co-generating an action plan is concluded during the workshop;
* While interpreting the results consider the location of the workshop: statistically most of the participants will come from the area where the workshop is held;
* Choose the most effective methodology to build a common vision and give space to many different voices;
* Ask the participants to obtain in advance the necessary authorization from the Institutions they represent, to propose actions during the workshop;
* Consider the best way of collecting votes for the purpose such as the number of votes available for each participant, the rounds of votes, etc.
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* Identify common working initiatives between municipalities and the civil societies, so that citizens may be actively involved;
* Take actions in order to update the actual legislation;
* Involve some stakeholders in the creation or validation of the scientific processes to improve their acceptance of the final results, even if it can be seen as a time-consuming process;
* Follow up with the participants with periodic workshops using the same methodology;
* Develop new tools and infrastructures of research on marine resources, particularly in inaccessible depths, but also for monitoring the marine environment, stocks of biomass or still unwanted algae;
* Develop societal awareness about water and advantages of use of renewable energy sources in general and offshore wind farms in particular;
* Promote public engagement actions to raise awareness to the urgency of deep sea mapping;
* Develop partnership between different stakeholders;
* Create links among participants for future partnerships and develop a network of common interest;
* Engage participants to apply RRI principles in daily work and daily life;
* Develop a clear understanding around Marine Spacial Planning (MSP) and what its implications are for all stakeholders groups including offshore wind;
* Make urban planning and tourism development collaborative and democratic by involving citizens and business in envisioning urban futures and resolve negative environmental impacts;
* Follow-up on motivated participants of how that used the knowledge obtained in workshops for third private and professional projects;
* Educate the public at large in their individual role in marine conservation and sustainability (Public Engagement, Science Education);
* Action and follow-up the co-defined action plan;
* Make scientific information reliable and easily accessible to citizens and stakeholders;
* Use citizen observatories through mobile phones to report pollution sites and inappropriate environmental behaviour;
* Provide Open Access to data for a proactive response to societal challenges.
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* Follow-up with all participants and monitor results regularly and engage them in post-workshop knowledge sharing and networking through an online platform;
* It's necessary a good collaboration and interaction between civil society, policy makers, researchers, business sector and citizens, in all the Black Sea coastal countries;
* Be aware that only about half of the participants are likely to use the knowledge gained at the workshop;
* Involving customers ranked the most favourable cluster with specific actions including the adoption of the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) business model;
* Try to engage volunteer groups/stakeholders who use the specific environment on a regular basis;
* The participants did not follow-up on the platform as they declared they were willing to do: there are too many platforms, they get lost or do not have time to explore another one.
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'''Milestone 8'''
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* Coordinate collaborative activities and tools to push RRI forward;
* Organise regular follow-up workshops by involving more decision makers to anchor change;
* Promote a greater participation of general public in projects financed by European funds to help filling the gap between science and society;
* Equip urban open areas for open debates where local communities can meet frequently in order to exercise the rights guaranteed by the Aarhus convention to develop sustainable decisions in a collective and legal manner;
* Be aware that the knowledge transfer to other sectors and general public is a great challenge faced by partners of European projects;
* Consider opportunities of synergies between the fisheries and aquaculture sectors in the Azores;
* Coordinate and develop industrial, academic and political linkages to boost funding around marine biotechnologies;
* Engage all interested stakeholders in harbour development;
* Attract private investments and develop national projects;
* Disseminate information about opportunities, threats and risks on the studied topic;
* Create a seafood producers organisation in France to reduce the gap between the producers and consumers;
* Facilitate fruitful discussions and widely disseminate conclusions to third parties;
* Create platforms where industry and academic leaders can disseminate accurate and influential information which can be accessible by the general public;
* Plan periodic meetings on the same topic, with old and new participants, to create ownership of the process, intensify the effort and ensure follow-up;
* Involve a multitude of stakeholders and implement actions as widely as possible, even globally, in order for adopted policies and solutions to be as relevant as possible, resulting in more support to implement the changes by all sides;
* Use your participatory event as a flywheel to organize other similar events.
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==See also...==
[[RRI Dimensions]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Co-Creating a Vision

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Jordankent:

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'''Milestone 1'''
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* Realize a complete inventory of local skills needed for the topic of academic actors, start-ups or companies already established in the region;
* Make lists of actions and players, record skills, know-how and economic potential, identify best practices and make full use of them to put the chosen topic on the national agenda;
* Start a survey to establish the relationship between local communities and the coastal areas and share results with politicians to put marine biotechnologies on the national agenda as an economic and sustainable opportunity;
* Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) can help to overcome the current marine and societal challenges and unlock the potential for Blue Growth;
* There is a strong need for redefining and refocusing the business model of tourism.
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'''Milestone 2'''
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* Develop messages that make the problem tangible for everybody for instance by translating facts and figures into something simple and impactful;
* Present the RRI concept with clear examples;
* Present the topic approached from the beginning of the workshop;
* Provide enough time for the presentation of science outcomes and sharing knowledge from research point of view;
* Use keynote speakers to introduce the topic for example specialists, but their speech must be in simple language and avoid using difficult terminology;
* Make the high seas more visible to all stakeholders, the benefits for all and the issues at stake;
* Make the MARINA platform a case study platform where collaborative coastal climate solution projects are presented;
* Explain clearly the MARINA project goals
* Initiate target awareness campaigns towards all stakeholders through a specific media.
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'''Milestone 3'''
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* Use role play and "Decide" game to integrate difficult concepts in workshop discussion;
* Empower European citizens, business representatives, researchers and policy makers to take informed decisions on the high seas through science education;
* Empower all stakeholder groups to co-create sustainable value propositions that reflect societal needs and support healthy marine environments thanks to RRI dimensions;
* Provide as much information as possible to the subject before the workshop;
* Develop webinars for cross-sectorial stakeholder engagement;
* Identify or create a unique Body entrusted with the control of a process to ensure coordination and synergy of all stakeholders involved.
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'''Milestone 4'''
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* Request participants keep trying to think from other stakeholders' position;
* Let different perspectives on the subject, which will lead to a common background for further discussion;
* Activate citizens as a resourceful group of action that could lead to a more innovative and including society;
* Develop partnerships for science outreach actions;
* Promote the societal challenge as a hot topic and the workshop's results (media, partners, stakeholders, etc);
* Increase the level of awareness of Marine Spatial Planning process and it's implication in coastal communities and for all stakeholders;
* A structured participatory method like SDD helps participants converge their opinions towards a common vision and a common action plan;
* Check the discussion and gently but firmly ask the participants not to lose focus on the final purpose, to speed up and keep up with the timing or not to go too deep or too specific.
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'''Milestone 5'''
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* Ensure that all participants stay until the end of the workshop to have coherent results;
* Have participants rank the priorities and discuss from the highest to the lowest to co-construct a common vision;
* Foster stakeholder engagement, capacity building, behavioural changes and production and consumption pattern shift with Science education;
* Identify easy-to-implement solutions to attract people and harbour-related businesses in innovative harbour development;
* Develop tools for engaging citizens in urban development and communicate them broadly to inspire local communities;
* Include more education aspects of citizenship, sustainability and ecology in schools;
* Organize more science dissemination events targeting the general public;
* Promote citizen science to involve the general public on research;
* Provide the results on MARINA platform;
* Learn from education, rather than experience, is necessary to avoid climate changes impact;
* Develop a national strategy for coastal management and coastal protection;
* Develop a coastal protection strategy that is fit for purpose by all stakeholders;
* Improve governance by defining a shared and common vision by involving citizens and business networks for clean and green industries;
* Push participants to move beyond exchanging ideas and to start co-creating a vision;
* While interpreting the results consider the location of the workshop: statistically most of the participants will come from the area where the workshop is held;
* Choose the most effective methodology to build a common vision and give space to many different voices.
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'''Milestone 6'''
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* Consider Governance as a common responsibility of citizens and decision makers;
* Identify common working initiatives between municipalities and the civil societies, so that citizens may be actively involved;
* Make restaurants aware restaurants and the public about the potential offered by the blue biotechnologies;
* Share data for a better cooperation and public engagement on the high seas;
* Develop a "Social and Solidarity Economy" type of framework in the field of marine biotechnologies;
* Educate children to environmental issues as well as renewable energy profits to create a new wiser society;
* Organize of a marine biotechnology day at the regional level including different actors to make the general public aware on the marine biotechnology sector and its potential;
* Encourage scientists and NGO's to popularize the different aspects of marine biotechnology through science café, forums, open days etc;
* Organise Open Days in companies to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with marine biotechnologies;
* Involve senior/retired scientific experts to communicate on marine biotechnologies in layman's terms to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with the topic;
* Contribute with knowledge and conceptual frameworks that support interaction, collaboration and holistic recommendations based on research experience;
* Push for broad vision for industrial harbour development by local governments inviting non-harbour stakeholders to contribute in new ways;
* Educate children on the importance of biodiversity and how to think about the environment responsibly;
* Develop partnership between different stakeholders;
* Disseminate the results on MARINA platform;
* Offer open access to the specialized information and share knowledge;
* Send the final results of the workshop to the participants;
* Develop a clear understanding around Marine Spacial Planning (MSP) and what its implications are for all stakeholders groups including offshore wind;
* Assess / quantify the social, economic and environmental risk;
* Push governmental bodies for high-tier governance on local initiatives to have the biggest impact;
* Educate all stakeholders about sustainable tourism sustainability to achieve socially and environmentally acceptable goods and services.
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* Use Open access to boost innovation and increase the use of scientific results by all societal actors as well as to develop public trust and engagement;
* Consider the distinction between the actions of making information available and the actions of making the information understandable by its potential users when dealing with Open Access;
* Get media cover and social media presence to influence policy and decision makers;
* Collect and share information and good practices to raise awareness on marine biotech and to reduce marine pollution;
* Analyse the impact of plumes and waste produced by Deep Sea Mining exploitation;
* Distinguish between occurrences and resources, in order to know what exists and its potential economic value.
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* Push for the adoption of common processes for accessibility of results of European projects that would allow a comparison of results through time and creation of broader synergies among past and present projects;
* Put in place effective pathways for communicating policy recommandations to EU and to national bodies as part of the global process of the project;
* Be aware that the knowledge transfer to other sectors and general public is a great challenge faced by partners of european projects;
* Involve "Ambassadors" or " figures" at regional level (navigators, high level sportsman, known well-respected public figures of all kinds);
* Create of a one-stop shop for the Institute of blue bio-technologies with short and long-term strategies;
* Create an award for the best blue bio-technologies innovation or product to make maritime biotechnologies a sustainable economic opportunity;
* Start a regional programme and raise awareness of tourism actors to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with marine biotechnologies;
* Add marine biotechnologies in school programmes to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with marine biotechnologies;
* Try to develop stronger engagement among schools and the local authorities for the maintenance of basic infrastructure;
* Improve the legislative framework to encourage the capitalization process of renewable energy;
* Attract students into engineering courses;
* Promote Sustainable Tourism policies to improve coastal and marine ecosystems, minimise pollution and create economic growth by combining efforts at national, regional and local levels and creating green funding schemes and incentives;
* Push for governance and ethics to be required in business registration requirements for creating awareness on sustainability;
* To develop a sector, develop a legal framework promoting and regulating its development;
* Ensure a ministerial umbrella to facilitate the educative process in school by scientists or scientific mediators;
* Improve regulations and legislations about the release of bacteria at sea;
* Improving education/training;
* Improve legislation to deal with climate change and coastal errosion.
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==See also...==
[[Stakeholder Engagement]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Co-Creating a Vision

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* Realize a complete inventory of local skills needed for the topic of academic actors, start-ups or companies already established in the region;
* Make lists of actions and players, record skills, know-how and economic potential, identify best practices and make full use of them to put the chosen topic on the national agenda;
* Start a survey to establish the relationship between local communities and the coastal areas and share results with politicians to put marine biotechnologies on the national agenda as an economic and sustainable opportunity;
* Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) can help to overcome the current marine and societal challenges and unlock the potential for Blue Growth;
* There is a strong need for redefining and refocusing the business model of tourism.
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* Develop messages that make the problem tangible for everybody for instance by translating facts and figures into something simple and impactful;
* Present the RRI concept with clear examples;
* Present the topic approached from the beginning of the workshop;
* Provide enough time for the presentation of science outcomes and sharing knowledge from research point of view;
* Use keynote speakers to introduce the topic for example specialists, but their speech must be in simple language and avoid using difficult terminology;
* Make the high seas more visible to all stakeholders, the benefits for all and the issues at stake;
* Make the MARINA platform a case study platform where collaborative coastal climate solution projects are presented;
* Explain clearly the MARINA project goals
* Initiate target awareness campaigns towards all stakeholders through a specific media.
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* Use role play and "Decide" game to integrate difficult concepts in workshop discussion;
* Empower European citizens, business representatives, researchers and policy makers to take informed decisions on the high seas through science education;
* Empower all stakeholder groups to co-create sustainable value propositions that reflect societal needs and support healthy marine environments thanks to RRI dimensions;
* Provide as much information as possible to the subject before the workshop;
* Develop webinars for cross-sectorial stakeholder engagement;
* Identify or create a unique Body entrusted with the control of a process to ensure coordination and synergy of all stakeholders involved.
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* Request participants keep trying to think from other stakeholders' position;
* Let different perspectives on the subject, which will lead to a common background for further discussion;
* Activate citizens as a resourceful group of action that could lead to a more innovative and including society;
* Develop partnerships for science outreach actions;
* Promote the societal challenge as a hot topic and the workshop's results (media, partners, stakeholders, etc);
* Increase the level of awareness of Marine Spatial Planning process and it's implication in coastal communities and for all stakeholders;
* A structured participatory method like SDD helps participants converge their opinions towards a common vision and a common action plan;
* Check the discussion and gently but firmly ask the participants not to lose focus on the final purpose, to speed up and keep up with the timing or not to go too deep or too specific.
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* Ensure that all participants stay until the end of the workshop to have coherent results;
* Have participants rank the priorities and discuss from the highest to the lowest to co-construct a common vision;
* Foster stakeholder engagement, capacity building, behavioural changes and production and consumption pattern shift with Science education;
* Identify easy-to-implement solutions to attract people and harbour-related businesses in innovative harbour development;
* Develop tools for engaging citizens in urban development and communicate them broadly to inspire local communities;
* Include more education aspects of citizenship, sustainability and ecology in schools;
* Organize more science dissemination events targeting the general public;
* Promote citizen science to involve the general public on research;
* Provide the results on MARINA platform;
* Learn from education, rather than experience, is necessary to avoid climate changes impact;
* Develop a national strategy for coastal management and coastal protection;
* Develop a coastal protection strategy that is fit for purpose by all stakeholders;
* Improve governance by defining a shared and common vision by involving citizens and business networks for clean and green industries;
* Push participants to move beyond exchanging ideas and to start co-creating a vision;
* While interpreting the results consider the location of the workshop: statistically most of the participants will come from the area where the workshop is held;
* Choose the most effective methodology to build a common vision and give space to many different voices.
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* Consider Governance as a common responsibility of citizens and decision makers;
* Identify common working initiatives between municipalities and the civil societies, so that citizens may be actively involved;
* Make restaurants aware restaurants and the public about the potential offered by the blue biotechnologies;
* Share data for a better cooperation and public engagement on the high seas;
* Develop a "Social and Solidarity Economy" type of framework in the field of marine biotechnologies;
* Educate children to environmental issues as well as renewable energy profits to create a new wiser society;
* Organize of a marine biotechnology day at the regional level including different actors to make the general public aware on the marine biotechnology sector and its potential;
* Encourage scientists and NGO's to popularize the different aspects of marine biotechnology through science café, forums, open days etc;
* Organise Open Days in companies to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with marine biotechnologies;
* Involve senior/retired scientific experts to communicate on marine biotechnologies in layman's terms to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with the topic;
* Contribute with knowledge and conceptual frameworks that support interaction, collaboration and holistic recommendations based on research experience;
* Push for broad vision for industrial harbour development by local governments inviting non-harbour stakeholders to contribute in new ways;
* Educate children on the importance of biodiversity and how to think about the environment responsibly;
* Develop partnership between different stakeholders;
* Disseminate the results on MARINA platform
Offer open access to the specialized information and share knowledge;
* Send the final results of the workshop to the participants;
* Develop a clear understanding around Marine Spacial Planning (MSP) and what its implications are for all stakeholders groups including offshore wind;
* Assess / quantify the social, economic and environmental risk;
* Push governmental bodies for high-tier governance on local initiatives to have the biggest impact;
* Educate all stakeholders about sustainable tourism sustainability to achieve socially and environmentally acceptable goods and services.
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* Use Open access to boost innovation and increase the use of scientific results by all societal actors as well as to develop public trust and engagement;
* Consider the distinction between the actions of making information available and the actions of making the information understandable by its potential users when dealing with Open Access;
* Get media cover and social media presence to influence policy and decision makers;
* Collect and share information and good practices to raise awareness on marine biotech and to reduce marine pollution;
* Analyse the impact of plumes and waste produced by Deep Sea Mining exploitation;
* Distinguish between occurrences and resources, in order to know what exists and its potential economic value.
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* Push for the adoption of common processes for accessibility of results of European projects that would allow a comparison of results
through time and creation of broader synergies among past and present projects;
* Put in place effective pathways for communicating policy recommandations to EU and to national bodies as part of the global process of the project;
* Be aware that the knowledge transfer to other sectors and general public is a great challenge faced by partners of european projects;
* Involve "Ambassadors" or " figures" at regional level (navigators, high level sportsman, known well-respected public figures of all kinds);
* Create of a one-stop shop for the Institute of blue bio-technologies with short and long-term strategies;
* Create an award for the best blue bio-technologies innovation or product to make maritime biotechnologies a sustainable economic opportunity;
* Start a regional programme and raise awareness of tourism actors to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with marine biotechnologies;
* Add marine biotechnologies in school programmes to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with marine biotechnologies;
* Try to develop stronger engagement among schools and the local authorities for the maintenance of basic infrastructure;
* Improve the legislative framework to encourage the capitalization process of renewable energy;
* Attract students into engineering courses;
* Promote Sustainable Tourism policies to improve coastal and marine ecosystems, minimise pollution and create economic growth by combining efforts at national, regional and local levels and creating green funding schemes and incentives;
* Push for governance and ethics to be required in business registration requirements for creating awareness on sustainability;
* To develop a sector, develop a legal framework promoting and regulating its development;
* Ensure a ministerial umbrella to facilitate the educative process in school by scientists or scientific mediators;
* Improve regulations and legislations about the release of bacteria at sea;
* Improving education/training;
* Improve legislation to deal with climate change and coastal errosion.
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==See also...==
[[Stakeholder Engagement]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Actively Participating

2019-02-14T14:23:19Z

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* Keep in mind the local context to answer local needs and specificities;
* 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;
* Organise carefully the workshop phases for successfully meeting the objectives and for engaging all participants;
* Be careful of possible competition of other events happening as the same time in the same city or on the same topic;
* Use dialog for initiating collaboration among private landowners and municipalities;
* Bring researchers from ‘non-conventional’ areas related to Deep Sea Mining;
* 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;
* Find a topic which will attract different stakeholders.
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* Provide a good incentive and personal benefits to motivate people to attend the workshop(s) and processes;
* Use using storytelling to describe the challenge with clear and concrete examples;
* Explain the challenge in an inclusive, strategic and broad manner for involving all types of participants;
* Define a clear triggering question highlighting the issue and goal to be addressed at the workshop;
* Use diverse communication channels (e-mail, telephone, face-to-face and word of mouth) for recruiting participants;
* Define the initiative's broad goals from a policy, social / cultural, economic, technological perspective;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstandings during the event;
* Focus the challenge with relevant examples for the participants and related to their daily lives;
* Define the date, finalise the workshop topic and have communication material two months ahead;
* Focus the workshop and the RRI presentation on a topic relevant for the participants and related to their daily lives;
* Promote the involvement of public authorities on local, national and European levels;
* Raise awareness of the general public on the environmental impact of offshore installations at all stages (building, exploitation, dismantling);
* Contact directly the person to recruit via e-mails or telephone;
* Address a specific subject that concerns multidisciplinary stakeholders;
* Invite additional stakeholders and communities to join the MARINA knowledge sharing platform and direct them to the results and materials related to Deep Sea Mining;
* Present the Mobilisation and Mutual Learning and RRI approach;
* Define a workshop triggering question that is short, clear and easily understood by all stakeholders;
* Consider personal e-mails as the recruitment mechanism because it has been proven by far the most effective recruitment mechanism;
* Make marine issues visible and understandable to the public;
* Identify motives for policy makers and implementers to participate in the workshops as they are reluctant in participating;
* Explain RRI and innovation tools and how to embed them in policy agendas as participants find it useful;
* Run awareness campaigns so that the issue problem is clearly understood by all stakeholders;
* Be aware of the motivational factor that workshop participants may feel because they like the fact that an interdisciplinary group representing all society's niches is invited to brainstorming for resolving the problem;
* Be aware about the participants motivations to attend a workshop such as to learn from others participants;
* Perform an analysis of publics' behaviours before engaging the public engagement;
* Use audience targeted communication for all types stakeholders to engage them;
* Raise citizen and business awareness about the environmental protection and sustainability;
* Motivate to receive ahead of the workshop and on time the participants' action ideas and to attract participants from all stakeholders’ groups;
* Be aware that policy-makers are not easy to engage unless they see a specific benefit that fits their agenda;
* Start planning at least 4 months in advance the organisation of a workshop as it is very time consuming task;
* Carefully consider the workshop's duration as many participants think that a one day-long workshop is too long;
* Prepare a concise information corpus for participants;
* Inform in a wider manner all societal actors about the issue.
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* Create a relaxing but effective work experience and joint decision-making with the world café methodology;
* Send a personalised and direct (e-mail or telephone) invitation to ensure a better buy-in of targeted participants;
* Allocate sufficient time for discussions and to involve all participants interests and ideas;
* Allocate more time for group discussions during workshops;
* Adopt participative methods tested in MARINA in other initiatives including stakeholders;
* Attract participants by sending invitations via e‐mail, followed by phone calls;
* Present the topic approached from the beginning of the workshop;
* Offer a clear explanation of the methodology used to be as clear as possible to the participants;
* Use methods for involving the active participation of the public by giving them the opportunity to express their opinions;
* Offer a clear explanation of the methodology used in order to be as clear as possible for the participants;
* 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;
* Choose a familiar methodology for participants;
* Use a method that gives the opportunity to all participants to express their opinion;
* Moderate the workshop with an experienced facilitator to avoid "Groupthink" and the "Erroneous Priorities Effect";
* Explain at the start of the workshop the different phases that participants will go through;
* Continue to engage the stakeholders for knowledge exchange after the workshop;
* Make the workshops highly participatory and interactive;
* Give the participants sufficient time to present themselves and their work/field of interest, in order to facilitate connection and co-operation after the workshop;
* Plan an in-depth and varied engagement with stakeholders at all stages of the projects;
* Adapt the presentation of projects information to the specific needs of respective stakeholders groups;
* Help participants become active in the workshop by helping them understand the importance of the Marine Hot Topic;
* Adapt the workshop methodology to the local culture;
* Remember that apart from being scientists, teachers, policy-makers, they are all citizens of coastal cities who want to care for the environment as a private person;
* Assign participants to a specific table according to gender, type of organization/institution, type of expertise in the field, main interest in general to ensure multidisciplinarity;
* Multiply events where researchers from academia and industry exchange with a broader community to enhance this community and its visibility;
* Ensure that participants can exchange knowledge and meet new people;
* Look for participants open to dialogue, but who don't usually interact with each other;
* Start with a roundtable process so that everybody know each-other, and everyone can share their personal perspective of the subject;
* Hook RRI abstract subjects to a topic related to participants lives and has interests in it;
* Recruit participants by telephone to ensure a great effectiveness of recruitment;
* Workshops may participants convince about RRI, but doesn't tend to help them in the concrete application of RRI in their daily work;
* Adapt the workshop schedule and structure according to the specifics and program of the stakeholders you want to attend;
* Invite stakeholders to provide their feedback about workshop;
* Choose a suitable method for the number of participants and the specific of the workshop;
* Present and explain the method used;
* Encouraged all the participants to work on all the solutions during the session;
* Engage stakeholders from different sectors of activity;
* Choose a method which will produce a large amount of data on a topic in a short time;
* Invite and encourage different stakeholders to participate at this kind of workshops;
* 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;
* Stimulate and ensure open dialogue among the attendees;
* 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;
* The SDD dialogue is a rigorous and efficient participatory methodology, but also time-consuming, leaving no time for the interpretation of the presented ideas in terms of their RRI dimensions by the participants during the workshop;
* Ask participants' to state their workshop expectations because experience shows that some find the workshop and its participatory method intriguing, others were interested In how to develop a shared vision, some had an interest in being inspired and build networks;
* Identify and invite the right number of participants representing all necessary science fields to create a viable action plan;
* Participant recruiting is time-consuming and must be planned well in advance of the workshop;
* The reversed science cafe method motivates participants to express their opinions and views in a structured, inclusive, yet open manner;
* Participatory workshops provide good opportunities for better discovering developments and problems of the studied industry;
* Enable workshops participants to create networks and communities of interest to further research and identify solutions for the studied issue;
* Engage participants via emails and phone calls, since it has been proven as the most effective means of recruitment;
* Be aware that it is challenging to persuade people to participate in workshops;
* Use both phone and email for citizen recruitment;
* Establish transparent, efficient and effective democratic mechanisms amongst all involved and throughout all the phases to create trust;
* Keep the workshop's duration short and engage an experienced facilitator;
* Involve politicians and municipality representatives in workshops to increase its effectiveness;
* Email and telephone were the best communication channels for promoting the workshop;
* The SDD method was evaluated as very well structured, inclusive, productive, scientific, interesting and dynamic;
* The education of young people and the use of exchange programs between schools will lead to active citizenship respectful of the environment;
* Plan well the participant groups so that all stakeholders are sufficiently represented;
* Promote the workshop through websites and a poster campaigns;
* Push for multi-stakeholders' representation and input from all relevant actors;
* Bring people and particularly the young on location where they can have transformative experiences that they will seek to relieve throughout their lives;
* Engage young potential "citizen scientists" in schools to promote the issue at hand;
* Achieve positive engagement with all types of local stakeholders including relevant government agencies, local businesses, regulators, NGOs, CSOs, researchers and citizens;
* Clarify from the start of any process or workshop all terms and acronyms so that all participants from various backgrounds understand them;
* Explain clearly the workshop methodology and how the outputs will be used at the beginning of the workshop and include some warm-up activity;
* Engage researchers with the industry for the development of appropriate technologies since there is a discrepancy between the academia and the industry needs;
* Raise awareness among pupils and students about environmental protection through informational programs as well as promote the specific sector as a means of employability;
* Learn about participatory methods and how to use them;
* Help the participants with examples to understand how to embed RRI principles when discussing a sector and societal challenges;
* Choose well the workshop methodology to allow participants contribute to the discussion and to strengthen the links among them;
* Ensure the comfort of the room (space around the tables, temperature, light etc.) to reduce the stress and fatigue of the participants and to improve the results. Provide some small "gift" or surprise them somehow, to create a friendly environment for the discussion;
* Define a clear agenda and respect it, but do not hesitate to be flexible and modify the schedule to reach the final results;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
* Participants do not subscribe gladly to the platform, they don't have time and/or willingness to learn using another tool;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
* Ensure you have some big institution's newsletter to disseminate your workshop for recruitment and spreading of the results;
* Use new participatory methodologies to attract participants;
* Take into consideration that despite participants' willingness to participate, often practical barriers impede their attendance in participative workshops;
* Consider having virtual discussions to help some stakeholder groups (e.g. citizens) to attend participatory workshops and events;
* Be flexible with the methodology adopted in order to finalize the process, even if not in the way you planned;
* Choose your methodology considering your audience;
* Dedicate the needed time to discuss and clarify the methodology and the agenda with the facilitator - and among the organizing group;
* Define the length of the workshop according with your foreseen audience and local habits;
* Involve students when possible;
* Stream only the most crucial sections of the workshop, disseminate the streaming agenda;
* Provide a synthetic, max 5 pages, info pack about the topic before the workshop;
* During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
* Send an official invitation letter signed by the director/president of the institute organizing the workshop to facilitate the recruitment;
* Apply different participatory methods during the event to maintain a high level of attention.
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* Ensure that all voices have an equal footing in the debate during the workshop;
* Allocate time for every participant to present his/her own idea and to discuss it in plenum;
* Give all participants the opportunity to discuss and generate ideas;
* Allocate time for every participant to present his/her idea and to discuss it in plenum;
* Take measures to develop and further enhance the engagement and cooperation between different stakeholders;
* Request the participants to state their ideas in the form of action statements in order to “push” them to think in practical terms;
* Make an inventory of innovations and tools, and facilitate collaboration and networking for the development of biotechnologies in France;
* Focus on the concept and its tools when explaining RRI to participants;
* Enable each group to take the floor to present their results;
* Put in place a multi-stakeholder dialogue to efficiently reduce plastic pollution;
* Find moderators with experience on methods used for event moderation;
* Use a method that encourages participants to work together in order to have an interactive group;
* Have proactive public participation from stakeholders, in particular from government and industry;
* Encourage and promote marine involvement for all stakeholders;
* Promote best practice cross sectorial stakeholder engagement processes through webinars;
* Collect participant's post-workshop feedback focusing on the added value workshop points: the participatory method, the topic, the action plan, the common vision, the future participation options;
* Encourage researchers to voice their opinions on marine issues in the media focusing on economic, environmental and social needs to enable the uptake of new technologies;
* The society believes that RRI will never be in full effect without strong political will;
* Multidisciplinary research considers the sustainability vector is key;
* Create a friendly and relaxed workshop atmosphere for participants to have lively and open discussions;
* Plan well the workshop so that participants provide their ideas in an active way;
* Avoiding "Groupthink" and the "Erroneous Priorities Effect": taking measures for the protection of the authenticity of all ideas;
* Provide the participants with the legislative aspects related to the topic. If possible ensure the attendance of an expert;
* Encourage the production of socially and environmentally acceptable solutions and services with the science education of business and industry professionals;
* Have business and industry professionals consider producing socially and environmentally acceptable marine bio-based goods and services;
* Consider ethics when dealing with the legal frameworks to assure marine biotechnologies sustainability and social awareness;
* Develop new methods of governance for engaging citizens through public awareness and politics;
* Develop more partnerships with the Media and NGOs in order to reach bigger audiences;
* Develop and organize more actions, in order that different stakeholders meet and discuss their ideas more often and get used to think outside their boxes;
* Increase knowledge on deep sea minerals occurrences and their economic;
* Increase awareness in the use of raw materials and their importance on our society;
* Identify what are the society's perceptions and knowledge gaps for consideration in future planning of Deep Sea Mining research and innovation initiatives;
* Develop a network of common interest;
* Promote the meaning of the term "renewable energy systems";
* Try to obtain clear actions from people from different areas of interest, but targeting the common vision;
* Focus on RRI issues by prompting participants to talk more about how researchers can be enrolled in all actions generated and how other stakeholders can be useful to researchers;
* Push for adjust rules to allow open access to relevant sector research results;
* Improve efficient communication, generate plural debates and disseminate reliable data and information to convert vision into reality;
* Achieve success through multi-stakeholder engagement and consensus;
* Open access, i.e. giving free online access to the results of publicly-funded research data will boost innovation and increase the use of scientific results by all societal actors;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: a) simple, short title; one line describing the idea and one-two lines (minimum) explaining and clarifying the idea;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: b) think who would be responsible for implementing the proposed action and how to engage the person or organisation;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: c) timing (when could such an idea be implemented);
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: d) resources (how would the idea be implemented);
* Claim for an alignment between legislation and the changing scientific situation and technological innovations;
* Promote local communities and their traditions for societal relevance of the scientific outputs;
* Consider the best way of collecting votes for the purpose such as the number of votes available for each participant, the rounds of votes, etc.
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* Develop a stakeholder engagement plan;
* Engage local communities in awareness raising event;
* Define a clear plan for the future engagement of the workshop's participants to keep the community active;
* Create decision-making processes that are participative, transparent and allow for public deliberation;
* Check carefully the voting process of the actions, to avoid selfish or non correct behaviours which could distort the results;
* Translate workshop results in something short and friendly in short time and disseminate among the participants and others, not to loose momentum;
* Check carefully the voting process, to avoid selfish or improper behaviours, which could distort the results;
* Encourage the production of socially and environmentally acceptable solutions and services with the science education of business and industry professionals;
* Have business and industry professionals consider producing socially and environmentally acceptable marine bio-based goods and services;
* Consider ethics when dealing with the legal frameworks to assure marine biotechnologies sustainability and social awareness;
* Develop new methods of governance for engaging citizens through public awareness and politics;
* Develop more partnerships with the Media and NGOs in order to reach bigger audiences;
* Develop and organize more actions, in order that different stakeholders meet and discuss their ideas more often and get used to think outside their boxes;
* Increase knowledge on deep sea minerals occurrences and their economic;
* Increase awareness in the use of raw materials and their importance on our society;
* Identify what are the society's perceptions and knowledge gaps for consideration in future planning of Deep Sea Mining research and innovation initiatives;
* Develop a network of common interest;
* Promote the meaning of the term "renewable energy systems";
* Try to obtain clear actions from people from different areas of interest, but targeting the common vision;
* Focus on RRI issues by prompting participants to talk more about how researchers can be enrolled in all actions generated and how other stakeholders can be useful to researchers;
* Push for adjust rules to allow open access to relevant sector research results;
* Improve efficient communication, generate plural debates and disseminate reliable data and information to convert vision into reality;
* Achieve success through multi-stakeholder engagement and consensus;
* Open access, i.e. giving free online access to the results of publicly-funded research data will boost innovation and increase the use of scientific results by all societal actors;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: a) simple, short title; one line describing the idea and one-two lines (minimum) explaining and clarifying the idea;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: b) think who would be responsible for implementing the proposed action and how to engage the person or organisation;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: c) timing (when could such an idea be implemented);
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: d) resources (how would the idea be implemented);
* Claim for an alignment between legislation and the changing scientific situation and technological innovations;
* Promote local communities and their traditions for societal relevance of the scientific outputs;
* Consider the best way of collecting votes for the purpose such as the number of votes available for each participant, the rounds of votes, etc.
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* Increase environmental and science education to promote societal understanding and participation;
* Create training programs targeting SMEs and investors by focusing on enablers and barriers;
* Follow up with the participants with periodic workshops using the same methodology;
* Exchange with star chefs on new products from the transformation of marine resources to provide the opportunity to make the audience aware a wider audience;
* Develop new tools and infrastructures of research on marine resources, particularly in inaccessible depths, but also for monitoring the marine environment, stocks of biomass or still unwanted algae;
* Raise awareness and spread information about marine biotechnologies to the different groups of stakeholders;
* Raise awareness on aquaculture in the Azores;
* Develop societal awareness about water and advantages of use of renewable energy sources in general and offshore wind farms in particular;
* Promote researchers qualifications to find new bio applications for products answering societal needs;
* Develop new model of governance for marine biotechnology development including the engagement of the society;
* Build a network to report challenges to politicians to put marine biotechnologies on the national agenda as an economic and sustainable opportunity;
* Implement training and guidance for careers around marine biotechnologies to reduce marine pollution;
* Involve citizens in the political/technical systems;
* Promote public engagement actions to raise awareness to the urgency of deep sea mapping;
* Create links among participants for future partnerships and develop a network of common interest;
* Use public-private partnerships as a new economical instrument;
* Raise public awareness regarding the benefits of renewable energy by promoting the renewable energy methods;
* Promote and develop responsible and sustainable tourism in a changing environment;
* Use rational the natural resources, with maximum economy;
* Education is the most important aspect that can accelerate social change and climate change mitigation;
* Engage participants to apply RRI principles in daily work and daily life;
* Open data for all interested stakeholders;
* Inform and educate wider society of the impacts, challenges and potential solutions for coastal protection;
* Follow-up on motivated participants of how that used the knowledge obtained in workshops for third private and professional projects;
* Succeed with public engagement through science education and open access in policy;
* Make scientific information reliable and easily accessible to citizens and stakeholders;
* Create procedures for an open access to data and data exchange, to allow for multiple feedbacks from end-users and policy-makers;
* Disseminate widely local and regional regulations and type approvals since the businesses often have significant knowledge gaps;
* Business stakeholders are mostly interested on the policy agendas;
* Science & Education and Open Access have a vital role in achieving success in the development of sustainable tourism ventures within Marine Protected Areas;
* Consider the impacts of any activity before consenting which may require the deployments of monitoring technologies to facilitate monitoring and impact assessment;
* Coordinate all activities related to policy, planning and regulation in the best possible way to reduce conflict and help meet environmental, economic and social objectives;
* Use citizen observatories through mobile phones to report pollution sites and inappropriate environmental behaviour;
* Educate citizens about the value of the sea in their daily lives is necessary to raise ocean awareness and literacy;
* Provide Open Access to data for a proactive response to societal challenges;
* Develop information exchange systems between government, industry and the universities.
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* Develop real-time information systems, training activities and incentives to share knowledge and information for avoiding tendencies of local governments and businesses to downplay negative consequences;
* Follow-up with all participants and monitor results regularly and engage them in post-workshop knowledge sharing and networking through an online platform;
* To measure success, define clear and achievable objectives;
* Develop new collaborations for new means of communication;
* Make regulations for developers and investors for securing more liveable areas in harbour transformations;
* It's necessary a good collaboration and interaction between civil society, policy makers, researchers, business sector and citizens, in all the Black Sea coastal countries;
* Develop efficient monitoring systems and assess the environmental impacts of best/worst policy practice;
* Be aware that only about half of the participants are likely to use the knowledge gained at the workshop;
* Involving customers ranked the most favourable cluster with specific actions including the adoption of the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) business model;
* Build capacity through education by developing local and national programmes for secondary schools and outreach programmes through citizen projects utilising real-time data from monitoring equipment;
* Try to engage volunteer groups/stakeholders who use the specific environment on a regular basis;
* The participants did not follow-up on the platform as they declared they were willing to do: there are too many platforms, they get lost or do not have time to explore another one.
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* Raise awareness among the general public to make informed choices and have an active social participation to further push the new initiatives;
* Coordinate collaborative activities and tools to push RRI forward;
* Train policymakers through communication tools and adapt legislation to facilitate the creation of a dynamic knowledge-sharing mechanism;
* Organise regular follow-up workshops by involving more decision makers to anchor change;
* Embed governance in legislation through accountability to ensure the sustainability and to address societal challenges;
* Provide tax reductions or other benefits to businesses for massively applying environmental protection legislature and procedures and for making use of innovative technologies;
* Use the media and science mediators to make society aware about research and innovation results;
* Promote a greater participation of general public in projects financed by European funds to help filling the gap between science and society;
* Equip urban open areas for open debates where local communities can meet frequently in order to exercise the rights guaranteed by the Aarhus convention to develop sustainable decisions in a collective and legal manner;
* Increase the impact of projects' results thanks to open access;
* 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;
* Put in place a certification label of projects to draw guidelines for the sustainable development of marine biotechnologies;
* Train educators and information relays on marine biotechnologies to develop them in the field of marine pollution;
* Promote the reinforcement of policies and adoption of coherent legislative frameworks to develop marine biotechnology;
* Educate policy-makers to science to reinforce policies and adopt coherent legislative frameworks of economic competitiveness and sustainability of offshore wind energy;
* Train and convince policymakers, implementers, and investors to develop biotechnologies;
* Engage all interested stakeholders in harbour development;
* Involve citizens in public consultations and decision–making processes for local and national/ EU regulations;
* Attract private investments and develop national projects;
* Communicate broadly and raise wide awareness about the specific initiative to anchor change;
* Improve marine education provided in medium and higher education;
* Disseminate information about opportunities, threats and risks on the studied topic;
* Create higher awareness on technological achievements from challenging and cutting edge successful projects to attract skilled people to work in the sector;
* Create a seafood producers organisation in France to reduce the gap between the producers and consumers;
* Focus on Science Education in sustainable development and marine resources management as a critical part of local culture and coastal tourism;
* Ethical issues are highly important in maintaining the sustainable operation of the vessels while safeguarding the environment;
* Raise awareness and embed RRI into educational curricula;
* Facilitate fruitful discussions and widely disseminate conclusions to third parties;
* Ensure the policies are socially inclusive and are widely known;
* Use of technology as an instrument to both monitor the regulations and to disseminate data in near real-time;
* Create platforms where industry and academic leaders can disseminate accurate and influential information which can be accessible by the general public;
* Plan periodic meetings on the same topic, with old and new participants, to create ownership of the process, intensify the effort and ensure follow-up;
* Involve a multitude of stakeholders and implement actions as widely as possible, even globally, in order for adopted policies and solutions to be as relevant as possible, resulting in more support to implement the changes by all sides;
* Use your participatory event as a flywheel to organize other similar events.
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==See also...==
[[Stakeholder Engagement]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Actively Participating

2019-02-13T12:52:51Z

Lessons Learned per Co-Defining an Action Plan

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* Explore the questions that are relevant to the real-life concerns of the group.
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* Improve science literacy and research applicability to increase awareness on the specific issue;
* Consider societal challenges (as defined by the EC) during the participative events, in order for the results to be easily related to them.
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* Ensure a good representation of professionals (industry related to the topic, policy makers, journalists) to have a balanced dialogue;
* Involve the private sector, policymakers, the scientific community and the local and national community for the definition of ideas, needs and solutions;
* Construct a good collaboration among project partners from the beginning of the project to its legacy to ensure a wider take-up of the results by all partners;
* Consider carefully legislation and cultural differences between project participants in the discussion prior to the project proposal to avoid possible understanding of feasability barriers;
* Collaborate with your local partners, which can be great allies;
* Use common words so that non scientists participants can understand and contribute to the discussion without being overwhelmed by scientific language;
* Connect all stakeholders through education and communication;
* Foster collaboration among companies in the marine biotechnologies value chain and social and environmental actors;
* Develop concrete examples that stakeholders can understand and get involved;
* Implement RRI in real situations, with many participants proposing many actions;
* Mobilize stakeholders for active involvement;
* Plan the programme to encourage as much opportunity for interactions between participants;
* All relevant stakeholders need to be involved in the process of developing sustainable tourism ventures within Marine Protected Areas (MPAs);
* Increase awareness in the youngest about the (local) marine issues to create a new generation of people that are aware of the problems and want to engage themselves, to take action also through a political career.
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* Do not interfere too much with the topics participants chose to focus on, it mostly depends on individual needs/experience and knowledge;
* Give participants more time to contribute to the ideas at other tables;
* Try to approach of potential participants and their engagement in convergent discussions with the future topic of the event;
* Find the best way to incorporate the multi-disciplinary element into the organisation of the workshop;
* Capture the content in a way that is more free-flowing which is later interpreted by the workshop team;
* Establish cooperation among diverse stakeholders (researchers, innovative businesses, politicians and citizens) even when it's challenging;
* Mobilise stakeholders early in the process to develop viable and sustainable business models;
* Joined stakeholder involvement produces ideas with integrated and holistic focus based on synergy and collaboration;
* Focus on environmental aspects through a multi-stakeholder approach to ensure stability and availability of resources;
* Stakeholders are concerned that the authorities and the private companies will decide to advance with Deep Sea Mining without proper public consultation and without knowing sufficient about the deep sea;
* The absence of gender equality reveals a critical gap in access to opportunities and resources and decision-making power for women and men;
* The SDD method allows for integrating contributions from individuals with diverse views, backgrounds and perspectives through a process that is structured, inclusive and collaborative;
* Give tight bounds to participants about the shape of the contributions they have to provide, so they will not have other option than provide what is needed;
* Actively introduce Gender Equality into discussions and ideas, as most often is a non considered aspect;
* One day is not enough for SDD.
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* Use the SMART action format to ease the follow up of the workshop;
* 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;
* Implement a coherent national monitoring programme;
* Apply a long-term and crosscutting strategic planning by defining SMART common vision and actions; * Focus not only on high-level ideas, but also on required research and innovation actions needed to execute them;
* Develop a common vision and an action plan with a more narrow focus combining development milestones and follow-up workshops;
* Empower citizens beyond data collection through involvement in decision-making and governance;
* Consider the RRI principles as guidelines to construct the project processes for a sound management of the projects;
* Prepare take home tools and methods that participants can implement in their jobs;
* Provide a quality framework in which all stakeholders can work toward a solution thanks to a good governance;
* Plan what to do with buildings/installations which have been created while building wind farms;
* Develop case studies on how municipalities work with climate change projects and community driven innovation;
* Develop new models and ways of collaborating on climate change in order to create common knowledge and more awareness of climate change in public mind;
* Include key local stakeholders in the planning and implementation of local strategies;
* Work together (science, law, economics, policy) to give advice on seabed mining issues;
* Create an organized knowledge synthesis on Deep Sea Mining;
* Develop new capacities for studying and a performing monitoring;
* Increase awareness regarding water quality;
* Conduct studies of renewable energy on the Black Sea coastal area;
* Develop educational programs to prepare specialists in the "renewable energy systems" field;
* Raise public awareness on the real problems;
* Develop and implement awareness and educational campaigns and engage local communities;
* Include marine/environmental education in school curricula;
* 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;
* Engage the public and involve governing bodies at various levels to generate ideas that are ethical, sustainable, inclusive and of social justice;
* Define SMART common vision and actions towards a specific goal and project;
* Raise awareness through education for developing/supporting new technologies for responsible maritime transport;
* Awareness and education are fundamental in changing mind-sets;
* Allocate a good part of the workshop for creating a clear common action plan;
* Ensure that the process of co-generating an action plan is concluded during the workshop;
* While interpreting the results consider that participants can have different information and data about the topic: the "reality" can be difficult to identify;
* Ask the participants to obtain in advance the necessary authorization from the Institutions they represent, to propose actions during the workshop.
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* Facilitate collaboration between research and industry/market to create a dynamic knowledge-sharing mechanism;
* Convince investors to facilitate the creation of a dynamic knowledge-sharing mechanism;
* Develop sustainable and long-term solutions even if they do not entirely focus on technical and/or economic aspects, but add lifestyle qualities and/or facilities;
* Take actions in order to update the actual legislation;
* Put in place a policy-oriented, holistic and integrated approach to tackle complex issues;
* Carry out studies on potential impact of the investment in offshore wind energy to develop them;
* Create new models for evaluating risks and economic issue;
* Adapt local policies and strategies in order to be in agreement with research outcomes;
* Plan local actions in agreement with its local circumstances instead of promoting larger-scale policies;
* Support local and international decision-makers in charge of evaluating if, when, how, by who and for what should Deep Sea Mining ever take place;
* Create an open access platform with all Deep Sea Mining data available including biological and geological information;
* Create a common DATABASE – for centralizing all the data and studies regarding biodiversity;
* Create a path to open information on climate changes topic and related data;
* Change unsustainable patterns of consumption and production, in order to reduce the amount of waste;
* Develop campaigns for promoting sustainable fishing methods and techniques through protecting resources and other incentives/compensation;
* Development of an educational platform for changing knowledge between public and private institutions;
* Use of the outcomes of the national monitoring programme as part of a targeted national awareness raising campaign;
* Make urban planning and tourism development collaborative and democratic by involving citizens and business in envisioning urban futures and resolve negative environmental impacts;
* Educate the public at large in their individual role in marine conservation and sustainability (Public Engagement, Science Education);
* Changing customer demand requires attractive and sustainable products that provide unique and customised experiences;
* Action and follow-up the co-defined action plan;
* Each initiative on sustainable tourism products requires the right expertise (knowledge and skills) and institutional participatory processes that will support stakeholders' successful involvement;
* Initiate open access through public offices also to non-governmental stakeholders;
* Push for cooperation among academic institutions and the industry, as it is crucial;
* The greater majority of actions relate to more than one RRI dimension; this shows that actions are multidisciplinary and involve multiple stakeholders;
* Implement innovative and responsive policies to face climate change effects and assure a balanced competitiveness, growth and sustainability;
* Start measuring and collecting marine scientific data on board different non-scientific vessels;
* Develop information-based decision support tools, with automated intervention systems.
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* Governance should strive for active engagement of the key public and private stakeholder bodies for the development and impact on the societal challenge;
* The ultimate aim should be to develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts and to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products;
* Organise a European "Grenelle" of bioethics to do an inventory of knowledge, regulations and current projects and processes as well as to define indicators and good practices for the development of marine biotech;
* Take into consideration new types of ownership forms in order to kick-start of development;
* Build a coastal protection system that can harness the wave energy;
* Restructuring different mechanisms in order to prevent pollution and to apply polluter sanctions, to ensure the transparency of legislative processes;
* Create innovative tools to guide the consumers, thus inducing public and private stakeholders (including NGOs) to invest in more sustainable directions;
* Start specific economic changes (investment, taxation) to support the goal of efficient and sustainable activities;
* Enhance control mechanisms of research and innovation outputs, according to ethical rules.
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* Focus on good enforcement of already existing legislation mechanisms rather than reinventing others from scratch and adjust legislation as necessary;
* Ensure that funding will be secured for action plan execution and follow up actions;
* Advocate on the necessity of creating specific funding schemes to support the development of the targeted sector based on RRI principles;
* Create funding mechanisms to promote RRI in research and innovation in the innovative sectors;
* Encourage scientific knowledge and professional growth that have fundamental roles in supporting innovative sectors;
* Promote education, training and more equal incomes for fishermen in the Azores;
* Consider opportunities of synergies between the fisheries and aquaculture sectors in the Azores;
* Beware that the high level of qualification needed in aquaculture and the small scale of the region market are two constraints of the synergies between the fisheries and aquaculture sectors in the Azores;
* Open university faculties, strongly connected with wind farms to help the sustainable development of renewable energy;
* Establish policies that are favourable for ecological investments in sustainable development;
* Coordinate and develop industrial, academic and political linkages to boost funding around marine biotechnologies;
* Make environmental impact assessment mandatory for Deep Sea Mining within the EU;
* Oblige companies by contract to use 10% of their investment in an investigation in engineering design for mitigation of Deep Sea Mining during all the operation;
* Upgrade the transport infrastructure for renewable energy;
* Use funding programs dedicated to citizens, aimed at replacing old goods and polluting with new and environmentally friendly ones;
* Define and update the legislation to prevent climate changes for Black Sea area;
* Improve port reception facilities and services for processing over waste from ships;
* Build the appropriate infrastructure and technology for the Wave Energy Sector;
* Enhance coastal and maritime tourism by adapting to demographic changes, while maintaining the original vocation and atmosphere of the coastal cities;
* Educate planners, civil society leaders, business industry to be more collaborative, responsible and exert place-based leadership;
* Raise the attractiveness of science studies by illustrating the application of science in societal issues;
* Protect the deep sea from mining, create laws that impose that deep sea mining is a non-profit activity and concert the deep sea into world heritage site;
* Provide strong incentives to promote the circular economy;
* Disseminate research and innovation outcomes that have societal relevance for ethical acceptability;
* Promote governance arrangements and practices to favour sustainable tourism and seafood consumption;
* Reliable scientific information is not easily accessible for sectorial actors;
* Education is necessary for the marine biotechnology development thus the need for developing university educational programmes on marine biotechnology;
* Invest in communication campaign by professionals, work with marketing societies to translate the scientific results into clear messages that can reach in particular young people;
* Provide free and easier access to the results of the studies;
* Translate in easy-to-understand messages research outputs and results for better dissemination. Consider using science mediators;
* Provide scientific education in all the scholar cycles: it is crucial;
* Put in place an effective communication about green washing, so to improve the critical sense of the public against "fake" green activities;
* Engage government and law makers in order to make sustainable change in ports and ship;
* Consider that National and International organizations must balance economic profit and a competitive market with the goal of preserving the natural environment of our seas;
* Make ports hubs of sustainability;
* Increase the usage of alternative fuels for ships as for instance Liquefide Naturaò Gas;
* Claim for an international coordination to identify the possible impacts of innovations.
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==See also...==
[[Stakeholder Engagement]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned Applying to none of the engagement

2019-01-24T12:30:35Z

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*Involve some stakeholders in the creation or validation of the scientific processes to improve theur acceptance of the final results, even if it can be seen as a time-consuming process.
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==See also...==
[[Stakeholder Engagement]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]

Lessons Learned per Substantive: Knowledge Mobilisation and Knowledge Sharing: "Making better decisions"

2019-01-24T12:27:06Z

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* Use dialog for initiating collaboration among private landowners and municipalities;
* Involve all interested stakeholders;
* Recruit participants based on their interest, research, business or experience related to the workshop topic;
* There is a strong need for redefining and refocusing the business model of tourism;
* Bring researchers from ‘non-conventional’ areas related to Deep Sea Mining;
* Make lists of actions and players, record skills, know-how and economic potential, identify best practices and make full use of them to put the chosen topic on the national agenda;
* Start a survey to establish the relationship between local communities and the coastal areas and share results with politicians to put marine biotechnologies on the national agenda as an economic and sustainable opportunity;
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* Present the topic approached from the beginning of the workshop;
* Define a clear triggering question highlighting the issue and goal to be addressed at the workshop;
* Define the initiative's broad goals from a policy, social / cultural, economic, technological perspective;
* Present the RRI concept with clear examples;
* Focus the challenge with relevant examples for the participants and related to their daily lives;
* Make the MARINA platform a case study platform where collaborative coastal climate solution projects are presented;
* Be aware about the participants motivations to attend a workshop such as to learn from others participants;
* Raise awareness of the general public on the environmental impact of offshore installations at all stages (building, exploitation, dismantling);
* Provide enough time for the presentation of science outcomes and sharing knowledge from research point of view;
* Make marine issues visible and understandable to the public;
* Make the high seas more visible to all stakeholders, the benefits for all and the issues at stake;
* Raise citizen and business awareness about the environmental protection and sustainability;
* Initiate target awareness campaigns towards all stakeholders through a specific media;
* Run awareness campaigns so that the issue problem is clearly understood by all stakeholders;
* Start planning at least 4 months in advance the organisation of a workshop as it is very time consuming task;
* Define a workshop triggering question that is short, clear and easily understood by all stakeholders;
* Improve science literacy and research applicability to increase awareness on the specific issue;
* Explain clearly the MARINA project goals;
* Use keynote speakers to introduce the topic for example specialists, but their speech must be in simple language and avoid using difficult terminology;
* Inform in a wider manner all societal actors about the issue.
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* Involve the private sector, policymakers, the scientific community and the local and national community for the definition of ideas, needs and solutions;
* Moderate the workshop with an experienced facilitator to avoid "Groupthink" and the "Erroneous Priorities Effect";
* Offer a clear explanation of the methodology used to be as clear as possible to the participants;
* Ensure a good representation of professionals (industry related to the topic, policy makers, journalists) to have a balanced dialogue;
* Use common words so that non scientists participants can understand and contribute to the discussion without being overwhelmed by scientific language;
* Invite and encourage different stakeholders to participate at this kind of workshops;
* Develop concrete examples that stakeholders can understand and get involved;
* 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;
* Push for multi-stakeholders' representation and input from all relevant actors;
* Develop webinars for cross-sectorial stakeholder engagement;
* Workshops may participants convince about RRI, but doesn't tend to help them in the concrete application of RRI in their daily work;
* Use role play and "Decide" game to integrate difficult concepts in workshop discussion;
* The reversed science cafe method motivates participants to express their opinions and views in a structured, inclusive, yet open manner;
* Participatory workshops provide good opportunities for better discovering developments and problems of the studied industry;
* Empower European citizens, business representatives, researchers and policy makers to take informed decisions on the high seas through science education;
* All relevant stakeholders need to be involved in the process of developing sustainable tourism ventures within Marine Protected Areas (MPAs);
* The SDD dialogue is a rigorous and efficient participatory methodology, but also time-consuming, leaving no time for the interpretation of the presented ideas in terms of their RRI dimensions by the participants during the workshop;
* The SDD method was evaluated as very well structured, inclusive, productive, scientific, interesting and dynamic;
* Engage researchers with the industry for the development of appropriate technologies since there is a discrepancy between the academia and the industry needs;
* Learn about participatory methods and how to use them;
* Help the participants with examples to understand how to embed RRI principles when discussing a sector and societal challenges;
* Be flexible with the methodology adopted in order to finalize the process, even if not in the way you planned;
* Clarify from the start of any process or workshop all terms and acronyms so that all participants from various backgrounds understand them;
* Encouraged all the participants to work on all the solutions during the session;
* Connect all stakeholders through education and communication;
* Foster collaboration among companies in the marine biotechnologies value chain and social and environmental actors.
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* Let different perspectives on the subject, which will lead to a common background for further discussion;
* Give all participants the opportunity to discuss and generate ideas;
* Allocate time for every participant to present his/her idea and to discuss it in plenum;
* Take measures to develop and further enhance the engagement and cooperation between different stakeholders;
* Request the participants to state their ideas in the form of action statements in order to “push” them to think in practical terms;
* Do not interfere too much with the topics participants chose to focus on, it mostly depends on individual needs/experience and knowledge;
* Find the best way to incorporate the multi-disciplinary element into the organisation of the workshop;
* Capture the content in a way that is more free-flowing which is later interpreted by the workshop team;
* Activate citizens as a resourceful group of action that could lead to a more innovative and including society;
* 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;
* Focus on the concept and its tools when explaining RRI to participants;
* Focus on environmental aspects through a multi-stakeholder approach to ensure stability and availability of resources;
* Encourage researchers to voice their opinions on marine issues in the media focusing on economic, environmental and social needs to enable the uptake of new technologies..;
* The SDD method allows for integrating contributions from individuals with diverse views, backgrounds and perspectives through a process that is structured, inclusive and collaborative;
* Mobilise stakeholders early in the process to develop viable and sustainable business models;
* A structured participatory method like SDD helps participants converge their opinions towards a common vision and a common action plan;
* Multidisciplinary research considers the sustainability vector is key;
* Avoiding "Groupthink" and the "Erroneous Priorities Effect": taking measures for the protection of the authenticity of all ideas;
* Plan well the workshop so that participants provide their ideas in an active way;
* Collect participant's post-workshop feedback focusing on the added value workshop points: the participatory method, the topic, the action plan, the common vision, the future participation options;
* Stakeholders are concerned that the authorities and the private companies will decide to advance with Deep Sea Mining without proper public consultation and without knowing sufficient about the deep sea;
* The society believes that RRI will never be in full effect without strong political will;
* Use a method that encourages participants to work together in order to have an interactive group;
* Develop partnerships for science outreach actions;
* Make an inventory of innovations and tools, and facilitate collaboration and networking for the development of biotechnologies in France;
* Provide the participants with the legislative aspects related to the topic. If possible ensure the attendance of an expert;
* Promote the societal challenge as a hot topic and the workshop's results (media, partners, stakeholders, etc);
* Give participants more time to contribute to the ideas at other tables.
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* Implement a coherent national monitoring programme;
* Engage local communities in awareness raising event;
* Apply a long-term and crosscutting strategic planning by defining SMART common vision and actions;
* Focus not only on high-level ideas, but also on required research and innovation actions needed to execute them;
* Develop a common vision and an action plan with a more narrow focus combining development milestones and follow-up workshops;
* Create decision-making processes that are participative, transparent and allow for public deliberation;
* 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;
* Have participants rank the priorities and discuss from the highest to the lowest to co-construct a common vision;
* Ensure that all participants stay until the end of the workshop to have coherent results;
* Foster stakeholder engagement, capacity building, behavioural changes and production and consumption pattern shift with Science education;
* Learn from education, rather than experience, is necessary to avoid climate changes impact;
* Include marine/environmental education in school curricula;
* Try to obtain clear actions from people from different areas of interest, but targeting the common vision;
* Develop new models and ways of collaborating on climate change in order to create common knowledge and more awareness of climate change in public mind;
* Develop a national strategy for coastal management and coastal protection;
* Develop a coastal protection strategy that is fit for purpose by all stakeholders;
* Developing a spatial plan specific to zoning of areas of offshore renewables;
* Develop a clear communications strategy;
* Develop a GIS information database;
* Use of research and data sets to ensure that decisions are made to safeguard the interests of all stakeholders;
* Plan what to do with buildings/installations which have been created while building wind farms;
* Encourage the production of socially and environmentally acceptable solutions and services with the science education of business and industry professionals;
* Prepare take home tools and methods that participants can implement in their jobs;
* Raise awareness through education for developing/supporting new technologies for responsible maritime transport;
* Push for adjust rules to allow open access to relevant sector research results;
* Work together (science, law, economics, policy) to give advice on seabed mining issues;
* Awareness and education are fundamental in changing mind-sets;
* Increase awareness in the use of raw materials and their importance on our society;
* Increase knowledge on deep sea minerals occurrences and their economic;
* Create an organized knowledge synthesis on Deep Sea Mining;
* Open access, i.e. giving free online access to the results of publicly-funded research data will boost innovation and increase the use of scientific results by all societal actors;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: a) simple, short title; one line describing the idea and one-two lines (minimum) explaining and clarifying the idea;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: b) think who would be responsible for implementing the proposed action and how to engage the person or organisation;
* Focus on RRI issues by prompting participants to talk more about how researchers can be enrolled in all actions generated and how other stakeholders can be useful to researchers;
* Define SMART common vision and actions towards a specific goal and project;
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: c) timing (when could such an idea be implemented);
* Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: d) resources (how would the idea be implemented);
* Increase awareness regarding water quality;
* Improve efficient communication, generate plural debates and disseminate reliable data and information to convert vision into reality;
* Include more education aspects of citizenship, sustainability and ecology in schools;
* Promote the meaning of the term "renewable energy systems";
* Develop educational programs to prepare specialists in the "renewable energy systems" field;
* Conduct studies of renewable energy on the Black Sea coastal area;
* Choose the most effective methodology to build a common vision and give space to many different voices;
* Raise public awareness on the real problems;
* Have business and industry professionals consider producing socially and environmentally acceptable marine bio-based goods and services;
* While interpreting the results consider that participants can have different information and data about the topic: the "reality" can be difficult to identify;
* Ask the participants to obtain in advance the necessary authorization from the Institutions they represent, to propose actions during the workshop.
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* Involve some stakeholders in the creation or validation of the scientific processes to improve theur acceptance of the final results, even if it can be seen as a time-consuming process;
* Increase environmental and science education to promote societal understanding and participation;
* Create training programs targeting SMEs and investors by focusing on enablers and barriers;
* Take actions in order to update the actual legislation;
* Promote and develop responsible and sustainable tourism in a changing environment;
* Use rational the natural resources, with maximum economy;
* Education is the most important aspect that can accelerate social change and climate change mitigation;
* Create a path to open information on climate changes topic and related data;
* Change unsustainable patterns of consumption and production, in order to reduce the amount of waste;
* Develop campaigns for promoting sustainable fishing methods and techniques through protecting resources and other incentives/compensation;
* Development of an educational platform for changing knowledge between public and private institutions;
* Engage participants to apply RRI principles in daily work and daily life;
* Create new models for evaluating risks and economic issues;
* Involve citizens in the political/technical systems;
* Inform and educate wider society of the impacts, challenges and potential solutions for coastal protection;
* Make scientific information reliable and easily accessible to citizens and stakeholders;
* Assess / quantify the social, economic and environmental risk;
* Create procedures for an open access to data and data exchange, to allow for multiple feedbacks from end-users and policy-makers;
* Disseminate widely local and regional regulations and type approvals since the businesses often have significant knowledge gaps;
* Develop a clear understanding around Marine Spacial Planning (MSP) and what its implications are for all stakeholders groups including offshore wind;
* Exchange with star chefs on new products from the transformation of marine resources to provide the opportunity to make the audience aware a wider audience;
* Open data for all interested stakeholders;
* Organize of a marine biotechnology day at the regional level including different actors to make the general public aware on the marine biotechnology sector and its potential;
* Encourage scientists and NGO's to popularize the different aspects of marine biotechnology through science café, forums, open days etc;
* Contribute with knowledge and conceptual frameworks that support interaction, collaboration and holistic recommendations based on research experience;
* Develop societal awareness about water and advantages of use of renewable energy sources in general and offshore wind farms in particular;
* Carry out studies on potential impact of the investment in offshore wind energy to develop them;
* Educate all stakeholders about sustainable tourism sustainability to achieve socially and environmentally acceptable goods and services;
* Create an open access platform with all Deep Sea Mining data available including biological and geological information;
* Share data for a better cooperation and public engagement on the high seas;
* Educate children on the importance of biodiversity and how to think about the environment responsibly;
* Educate citizens about the value of the sea in their daily lives is necessary to raise ocean awareness and literacy;
* Promote public engagement actions to raise awareness to the urgency of deep sea mapping;
* Initiate open access through public offices also to non-governmental stakeholders;
* Push for cooperation among academic institutions and the industry, as it is crucial;
* The greater majority of actions relate to more than one RRI dimension; this shows that actions are multidisciplinary and involve multiple stakeholders;
* Provide Open Access to data for a proactive response to societal challenges;
* Develop information exchange systems between government, industry and the universities;
* Educate the public at large in their individual role in marine conservation and sustainability (Public Engagement, Science Education);
* Consider the impacts of any activity before consenting which may require the deployments of monitoring technologies to facilitate monitoring and impact assessment;
* Coordinate all activities related to policy, planning and regulation in the best possible way to reduce conflict and help meet environmental, economic and social objectives;
* Start measuring and collecting marine scientific data on board different non-scientific vessels;
* Use public-private partnerships as a new economical instrument;
* Raise public awareness regarding the benefits of renewable energy by promoting the renewable energy methods;
* Organise Open Days in companies to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with marine biotechnologies;
* Promote researchers qualifications to find new bio applications for products answering societal needs;
* Raise awareness on aquaculture in the Azores;
* Raise awareness and spread information about marine biotechnologies to the different groups of stakeholders;
* Develop information-based decision support tools, with automated intervention systems;
* Implement training and guidance for careers around marine biotechnologies to reduce marine pollution;
* Develop new tools and infrastructures of research on marine resources, particularly in inaccessible depths, but also for monitoring the marine environment, stocks of biomass or still unwanted algae.
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* Governance should strive for active engagement of the key public and private stakeholder bodies for the development and impact on the societal challenge;
* The ultimate aim should be to develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts and to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products;
* Develop real-time information systems, training activities and incentives to share knowledge and information for avoiding tendencies of local governments and businesses to downplay negative consequences;
* Consider the distinction between the actions of making information available and the actions of making the information understandable by its potential users when dealing with Open Access;
* Restructuring different mechanisms in order to prevent pollution and to apply polluter sanctions, to ensure the transparency of legislative processes;
* It's necessary a good collaboration and interaction between civil society, policy makers, researchers, business sector and citizens, in all the Black Sea coastal countries;
* Take into consideration new types of ownership forms in order to kick-start of development;
* Analyse the impact of plumes and waste produced by Deep Sea Mining exploitation;
* Develop efficient monitoring systems and assess the environmental impacts of best/worst policy practice;
* Build capacity through education by developing local and national programmes for secondary schools and outreach programmes through citizen projects utilising real-time data from monitoring equipment;
* Start specific economic changes (investment, taxation) to support the goal of efficient and sustainable activities;
* Build a coastal protection system that can harness the wave energy;
* Get media cover and social media presence to influence policy and decision makers;
* Enhance control mechanisms of research and innovation outputs, according to ethical rules;
* Collect and share information and good practices to raise awareness on marine biotech and to reduce marine pollution;
* Organise a European "Grenelle" of bioethics to do an inventory of knowledge, regulations and current projects and processes as well as to define indicators and good practices for the development of marine biotech.
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* Coordinate collaborative activities and tools to push RRI forward;
* Increase the impact of projects' results thanks to open access;
* Push for the adoption of common processes for accessibility of results of European projects that would allow a comparison of results through time and creation of broader synergies among past and present projects;
* Put in place effective pathways for communicating policy recommandations to EU and to national bodies as part of the global process of the project;
* Be aware that the knowledge transfer to other sectors and general public is a great challenge faced by partners of european projects;
* Embed governance in legislation through accountability to ensure the sustainability and to address societal challenges;
* Use the media and science mediators to make society aware about research and innovation results;
* Advocate on the necessity of creating specific funding schemes to support the development of the targeted sector based on RRI principles;
* Encourage scientific knowledge and professional growth that have fundamental roles in supporting innovative sectors;
* Raise awareness among the general public to make informed choices and have an active social participation to further push the new initiatives;
* Improve port reception facilities and services for processing over waste from ships;
* Use funding programs dedicated to citizens, aimed at replacing old goods and polluting with new and environmentally friendly ones;
* Define and update the legislation to prevent climate changes for Black Sea area;
* Raise awareness and embed RRI into educational curricula;
* Attract students into engineering courses;
* Build the appropriate infrastructure and technology for the Wave Energy Sector;
* Involve "Ambassadors" or " figures" at regional level (navigators, high level sportsman, known well-respected public figures of all kinds);
* 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;
* Educate policy-makers to science to reinforce policies and adopt coherent legislative frameworks of economic competitiveness and sustainability of offshore wind energy;
* Raise the attractiveness of science studies by illustrating the application of science in societal issues;
* Improve marine education provided in medium and higher education;
* Enhance coastal and maritime tourism by adapting to demographic changes, while maintaining the original vocation and atmosphere of the coastal cities;
* Educate planners, civil society leaders, business industry to be more collaborative, responsible and exert place-based leadership;
* Oblige companies by contract to use 10% of their investment in an investigation in engineering design for mitigation of Deep Sea Mining during all the operation;
* Reliable scientific information is not easily accessible for sectorial actors;
* To develop a sector, develop a legal framework promoting and regulating its development;
* Create higher awareness on technological achievements from challenging and cutting edge successful projects to attract skilled people to work in the sector;
* Education is necessary for the marine biotechnology development thus the need for developing university educational programmes on marine biotechnology;
* Create platforms where industry and academic leaders can disseminate accurate and influential information which can be accessible by the general public;
* Focus on Science Education in sustainable development and marine resources management as a critical part of local culture and coastal tourism;
* Use of technology as an instrument to both monitor the regulations and to disseminate data in near real-time;
* Put in place an effective communication about green washing, so to improve the critical sense of the public against "fake" green activities;
* Promote governance arrangements and practices to favour sustainable tourism and seafood consumption;
* Communicate broadly and raise wide awareness about the specific initiative to anchor change;
* Engage government and law makers in order to make sustainable change in ports and ship;
* Consider that National and International organizations must balance economic profit and a competitive market with the goal of preserving the natural environment of our seas;
* Increase the usage of alternative fuels for ships as for instance Liquefide Naturaò Gas;
* Disseminate information about opportunities, threats and risks on the studied topic;
* Protect the deep sea from mining, create laws that impose that deep sea mining is a non-profit activity and concert the deep sea into world heritage site;
* Provide strong incentives to promote the circular economy;
* Improve the legislative framework to encourage the capitalization process of renewable energy;
* Upgrade the transport infrastructure for renewable energy;
* Provide scientific education in all the scholar cycles: it is crucial;
* Provide free and easier access to the results of the studies;
* Translate in easy-to-understand messages research outputs and results for better dissemination. Consider using science mediators;
* Improve legislation to deal with climate change and coastal errosion;
* Improving education/training;
* Claim for an international coordination to identify the possible impacts of innovations;
* Use your participatory event as a flywheel to organize other similar events;
* Train educators and information relays on marine biotechnologies to develop them in the field of marine pollution;
* Improve regulations and legislations about the release of bacteria at sea.
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==See also...==
[[Stakeholder Motivation]]
[[Category: Lessons Learned]]