Lessons Learned per Milestone 5

Milestone 5

• Ensure that all participants stay until the end of the workshop to have coherent results;
• Have participants rank the priorities and discuss from the highest to the lowest to co-construct a common vision;
• Foster stakeholder engagement, capacity building, behavioural changes and production and consumption pattern shift with Science education;
• Use the SMART action format to ease the follow up of the workshop;
• Have a discussion phase that is long enough for all participants to be fully aware of all the implications of the proposed ideas without extending the duration of the workshop;
• Develop a stakeholder engagement plan;
• Apply a long-term and crosscutting strategic planning by defining SMART common vision and actions;
• Define a clear plan for the future engagement of the workshop's participants to keep the community active;
• Focus not only on high-level ideas, but also on required research and innovation actions needed to execute them;
• 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;
• Check carefully the voting process of the actions, to avoid selfish or non correct behaviours which could distort the results;
• Translate workshop results in something short and friendly in short time and disseminate among the participants and others, not to loose momentum;
• Check carefully the voting process, to avoid selfish or improper behaviours, which could distort the results;
• Empower citizens beyond data collection through involvement in decision-making and governance;
• Prepare take home tools and methods that participants can implement in their jobs;
• Encourage the production of socially and environmentally acceptable solutions and services with the science education of business and industry professionals;
• Include more education aspects of citizenship, sustainability and ecology in schools;
• Organize more science dissemination events targeting the general public;
• Develop new capacities for studying and a performing monitoring;
• Develop and implement awareness and educational campaigns and engage local communities;
• Include marine/environmental education in school curricula;
• Try to obtain clear actions from people from different areas of interest, but targeting the common vision;
• Improve governance by defining a shared and common vision by involving citizens and business networks for clean and green industries;
• 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;
• Push participants to move beyond exchanging ideas and to start co-creating a vision;
• Allocate a good part of the workshop for creating a clear common action plan;
• 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;
• Choose the most effective methodology to build a common vision and give space to many different voices;
• Ask the participants to obtain in advance the necessary authorization from the Institutions they represent, to propose actions during the workshop;
• Consider the best way of collecting votes for the purpose such as the number of votes available for each participant, the rounds of votes, etc.

See also...

RRI Roadmap Milestones