Lessons Learned per Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials

RRI Roadmap Milestone 1

• Be careful of possible competition of other events happening as the same time in the same city or on the same topic.

RRI Roadmap Milestone 2

• 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;
• 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;
• Improve science literacy and research applicability to increase awareness on the specific issue.

RRI Roadmap Milestone 3

• Offer a clear explanation of the methodology used in order to be as clear as possible for the participants;
• Empower European citizens, business representatives, researchers and policy makers to take informed decisions on the high seas through science education;
• Develop concrete examples that stakeholders can understand and get involved;
• Invite stakeholders to provide their feedback about workshop;
• Provide as much information as possible to the subject before the workshop.

RRI Roadmap Milestone 4

• Allocate time for every participant to present his/her idea and to discuss it in plenum;
• Put in place a multi-stakeholder dialogue to efficiently reduce plastic pollution;
• Develop partnerships for science outreach actions;
• Promote the societal challenge as a hot topic and the workshop's results (media, partners, stakeholders, etc);
• 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.

RRI Roadmap Milestone 5

• 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;
• Provide a quality framework in which all stakeholders can work toward a solution thanks to a good governance;
• 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;
• Include key local stakeholders in the planning and implementation of local strategies;
• Include more education aspects of citizenship, sustainability and ecology in schools;
• Develop new capacities for studying and a performing monitoring;
• Increase awareness regarding water quality;
• 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;
• Develop a national strategy for coastal management and coastal protection;
• Develop a coastal protection strategy that is fit for purpose by all stakeholders.

RRI Roadmap Milestone 6

• 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;
• 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;
• 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;
• Implement training and guidance for careers around marine biotechnologies to reduce marine pollution;
• Involve citizens in the political/technical systems;
• Create new models for evaluating risks and economic issues;
• 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;
• Disseminate the results on MARINA platform;
• Offer open access to the specialized information and share knowledge;
• 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;
• 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 protection;
• Assess / quantify the social, economic and environmental risk.

RRI Roadmap Milestone 7

• 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;
• Collect and share information and good practices to raise awareness on marine biotech and to reduce marine pollution;
• Restructuring different mechanisms in order to prevent pollution and to apply polluter sanctions, to ensure the transparency of legislative processes;
• Develop efficient monitoring systems and assess the environmental impacts of best/worst policy practice.

RRI Roadmap Milestone 8

• Focus on good enforcement of already existing legislation mechanisms rather than reinventing others from scratch and adjust legislation as necessary;
• 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;
• 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;
• 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;
• 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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Societal Challenge