Lessons Learned from Denmark MML workshops

• Provide the high-tier governance from governmental bodies for local initiatives to have the biggest impact;
• Push for 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 governance by defining a shared and common vision by involving citizens and business networks for clean and green industries to attract tourists and investments;
• Enhance coastal and maritime tourism by adapting to demographic changes, while maintaining the original vocation and atmosphere of the coastal cities;
• Moderate the workshop with an experienced facilitator to avoid "Groupthink" and the "Erroneous Priorities Effect";
• 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;
• Make urban planning and tourism development collaborative and democratic by involving citizens and business in envisioning urban futures and resolve negative environmental impacts;
• Educate planners, civil society leaders, business industry to be more collaborative, responsible and exert place-based leadership;
• 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;
• Engage the public, involve governance bodies at various levels to generated ideas with ethical components, are sustainable, inclusive and of social justice;
• Joined stakeholder involvement produces ideas with integrated and holistic focus requiring synergy and collaboration;
• Develop efficient monitoring systems and assess the environmental impacts of best/worst policy practice;
• 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;
• Organise carefully the workshop phases for successfully meeting the objectives and for engaging all participants;
• Define a clear plan for the future engagement of the workshop's participants to keep the community active;
• Define a workshop triggering question that is short, clear and easily understood by all stakeholders;
• Ask participants's 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;
• Focus not only on high-level ideas, but also on required research and innovation actions needed to execute them;
• Explain the workshop topic in an inclusive, strategic and broad manner for involving all types of participants;
• 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;
• Develop a common vision and an action plan with a more narrow focus combining development milestones and follow-up workshops;
• Follow-up with all participants with the results regularly and engage them in post-workshop knowledge sharing and networking through an online platform;
• Communicate broadly and raise wide awareness about the specific initiative to anchor change;
• Organise follow-up workshops by involving more decision makers to anchor change;
• Consider personal e-mails as the recruitment mechanism because it has been proven by far the most effective recruitment mechanism;
• Collect participant's post-workshop feedback focusing on the added value workshop points: the participatory method, the topic,the action paln, the common vision, the future participation options;
• Define SMART common vision and actions towards a specific goal and project;
• Make sure that funding will be secured for action plan execution and workshop follow up actions;
• 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;
• Contribute with knowledge and conceptual frameworks that support interaction, collaboration and holistic recommendations based on research based experience;
• Identify easy-to-implement solutions to attract people and harbour-related businesses in innovative harbour development;
• Push for broad vision for industrial harbour development by local governments inviting non-harbour stakeholders to contribute in new ways;
• 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;
• Develop attractive places dedicated for pop-up events hosted by harbour industries;
• Describe the workshop topic with clear and concrete examples of the subject using storyteling;
• Allocate sufficient time for discussions and to involve all participants interests and ideas;
• Identify common working initiatives between municipalities and the civil societies, so that citizens may be actively involved;
• Engage all interested stakeholders in harbour development;
• 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 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;
• Involve citizens in the political/technical systems;
• Create new models for evaluating risks and economic issues;
• To allocate time for every participant to present his/her own idea and to discuss it in plenum;
• The immersive climate change symbolizes a new age with new complicated needs and demands;
• 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 concrete examples that stakeholders can understand and get involved;
• Make the MARINA platform a case study platform where collaborative coastal climate solution projects are presented;
• Activate citizens as a resourceful group of action that could lead to a more innovative and including society;
• Use dialog for initiating collaboration among private landowners and municipalities;
• Allow different perspectives on the subject, which will lead to a common background for further discussion;
• Allocate more time for group discussions during workshops;
• Address a specific subject that concerns multidisciplinary stakeholders;
• Adapt the workshop schedule and structure according to the specifics and program of the stakeholders you want to attend.

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