Lessons Learned from Belgium MML workshops

B

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

D

• Develop messages that make the problem tangible for everybody for instance by translating facts and figures into something simple and impactful;

E

• Empower European citizens, business representatives, researchers and policy makers to take informed decisions on the high seas through science education;
• Ensure that all participants stay until the end of the workshop to have coherent results;

F

• Focus on making a good enforcement of already existing legislation mechanism rather than reinventing one from scratches;
• Focus the workshop on a topic relevant for the participants and related to their daily lives;

H

• Have participants rank the priorities and discuss from the highest to the lowest to co-construct a common vision;
• Hook RRI abstract subjects to a topic related to participants lives and interests;

L

• Look for participants open to dialogue, but who don't usually interact with each other;

M

• Make the high seas more visible to all stakeholders, the benefits for all and the issues at stake;

P

• Provide a quality framework in which all stakeholders can work toward a solution thanks to a good governance;
• Put in place a mutli-stakeholder dialogue to efficiently reduce plastic pollution;

S

• Send a personalised invitation to ensure a better buy-in of targeted participants;
• Share data for a better cooperation and public engagement on the high seas;
• Start with a roundtable process so that everybody know each-other, and everyone can share their personal perspective of the subject;

U

• Use the SMART action format to ease the follow up of the workshop;

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