Lessons Learned from Romania MML workshops

• Develop new capacities for studying and a performant monitoring system of water quality;
• Take actions in order to update the actual legislation;
• Attract participants by sending invitations via e‐mail, followed by phone calls;
• Present and explain of the method used;
• Increase awareness regarding water quality;
• Create a common DATABASE – for centralizing all the data and studies regarding biodiversity;
• Develop partnership between different stakeholders;
• Disseminate the results on MARINA platform;
• Develop a network of common interest;
• Create links between participants for future partnerships;
• Conduct studies of renewable energy on the Black Sea coastal area;
• Improve the legislative framework to encourage the capitalization process of renewable energy;
• Upgrade the transport infrastructure for renewable energy;
• Use public-private partnerships as a new economical instrument;
• Promote the meaning of the term "renewable energy systems;
• Build a coastal protection system that can harness the wave energy;
• Develop educational programs to prepare specialists in the "renewable energy systems" field;
• Rising the public awareness regarding the benefits of renewable energy by promoting the renewable energy methods;
• Encouraged all the participants to work on all the solutions during the session;
• Use a method that encourages participants to work together in order to have an interactive group;
• Attract different stakeholders in order to have a homogeneity and complementarity of the group, to obtained complex inputs;
• Try to approach of potential participants and their engagement in convergent discussions with the future topic of the event;
• Consider a discussion phase that is long enough for all participants to be fully aware of all the implications of the proposed ideas without adding to much overall time to the duration of the workshop;
• Present the topic approached from the beginning of the workshop;
• Explain clearly the MARINA project goals;
• Present the RRI concept with clearly examples and learn about RRI;
• 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 and giving them the opportunity to express their opinions;
• Raise public awareness on the real problems;
• Mobilize stakeholders for active involvement;
• Promote the hot topic and the results (media, partners, stakeholders, etc);
• Develop and implement awareness and educational campaigns;
• Provide as much information as possible to the subject before the workshop;
• Provide the results on MARINA platform;
• Offer free access to the specialized information and share knowledge;
• Send the final results of the workshop to the participants;
• 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 for local regulations;
• Improve port reception facilities and services for processing over waste from ships;
• Restructuring different mechanisms in order to prevent pollution and to apply polluter sanctions, to ensure the transparency of legislative processes;
• Engage stakeholders from different sectors of activity;
• Promote and develop responsible and sustainable tourism in a changing environment;
• Use rational the natural resources, with maximum economy;
• The need for a good collaboration and interaction between civil society, policy makers, researchers, business sector and citizens, in all the Black Sea coastal countries;
• Learn from education, rather than experience, is necessary to avoid climate changes impact;
• Education is the most important aspect that can accelerate social change and climate change mitigation;
• Including marine/environmental education in school curricula;
• 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;
• Choose a method which will produce a large amount of data on a topic in a short time;
• Give to all of the participants the opportunity to discuss and generate ideas;
• Try to obtain clear actions from people from different areas of interest, but with a common purpose;
• Present the topic approached from the beginning of the workshop;
• Offer a clear explanation of the methodology used in order to be as clear as possible for the participants;
• Allocate time for every participant to present his/her idea and to discuss it in plenum;
• Invite and encourage different stakeholders to participate at this kind of workshops.

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