Lessons Learned per Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies

RRI Roadmap Milestone 1

• Bring researchers from ‘non-conventional’ areas related to Deep Sea Mining.

RRI Roadmap Milestone 2

• 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.

RRI Roadmap Milestone 3

• Moderate the workshop with an experienced facilitator to avoid "Groupthink" and the "Erroneous Priorities Effect";
• 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;
• 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;
• 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.

RRI Roadmap Milestone 4

• 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;
• 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;
• 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;
• Actively introduce Gender Equality into discussions and ideas, as most often is a non considered aspect.

RRI Roadmap Milestone 5

• 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;
• Empower citizens beyond data collection through involvement in decision-making and governance;
• Have business and industry professionals consider producing socially and environmentally acceptable marine bio-based goods and services;
• Identify easy-to-implement solutions to attract people and harbour-related businesses in innovative harbour development;
• 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;
• Improve efficient communication, generate plural debates and disseminate reliable data and information to convert vision into reality;
• 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.

RRI Roadmap Milestone 6

• Identify common working initiatives between municipalities and the civil societies, so that citizens may be actively involved;
• Put in place a policy-oriented, holistic and integrated approach to tackle complex issues;
• 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;
• 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;
• Follow-up on motivated participants of how that used the knowledge obtained in workshops for third private and professional projects;
• Educate citizens about the value of the sea in their daily lives is necessary to raise ocean awareness and literacy;
• Implement innovative and responsive policies to face climate change effects and assure a balanced competitiveness, growth and sustainability.

RRI Roadmap Milestone 7

• 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;
• 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;
• Create innovative tools to guide the consumers, thus inducing public and private stakeholders (including NGOs) to invest in more sustainable directions.

RRI Roadmap Milestone 8

• Raise awareness among the general public to make informed choices and have an active social participation to further push the new initiatives;
• 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;
• Engage all interested stakeholders in harbour development;
• 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;
• 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;
• Provide strong incentives to promote the circular economy;
• 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;
• 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;
• 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;
• 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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