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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 1''' | |||
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* Keep in mind the local context to answer local needs and specificities; | |||
* Plan the stakeholders carefully to ensure that the right people, stakeholder groups and organisations are in the room; | |||
* Realize a complete inventory of local skills needed for the topic of academic actors, start-ups or companies already established in the region; | |||
* Offer an incentive for citizens in order to attract people to attend at the workshop; | |||
* Find a topic which will attract different stakeholders; | |||
* Use dialog for initiating collaboration among private landowners and municipalities; | |||
* Involve all interested stakeholders; | |||
* Recruit participants based on their interest, research, business or experience related to the workshop topic. | |||
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 2''' | |||
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* Provide a good incentive and personal benefits to motivate people to attend the workshop(s) and processes; | |||
* Present the topic approached from the beginning of the workshop; | |||
* Use using storytelling to describe the challenge with clear and concrete examples; | |||
* Address a specific subject that concerns multidisciplinary stakeholders; | |||
* Make the MARINA platform a case study platform where collaborative coastal climate solution projects are presented; | |||
* Present the Mobilisation and Mutual Learning and RRI approach; | |||
* Be aware about the participants motivations to attend a workshop such as to learn from others participants; | |||
* Raise awareness of the general public on the environmental impact of offshore installations at all stages (building, exploitation, dismantling). | |||
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 3''' | |||
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* Allocate more time for group discussions during workshops; | |||
* Use methods that offer to the participants the opportunity to interact and to have open discussions; | |||
* Explain the participatory method used to the participants as clearly and in a shorter time; | |||
* Choose a familiar methodology for participants; | |||
* Offer a clear explanation of the methodology used in order to be as clear as possible for the participants; | |||
* Use a method that gives the opportunity to all participants to express their opinion; | |||
* Continue to engage the stakeholders for knowledge exchange after the workshop; | |||
* Make the workshops highly participatory and interactive; | |||
* Allocate sufficient time for discussions and to involve all participants interests and ideas; | |||
* Engage stakeholders from different sectors of activity; | |||
* Remember that apart from being scientists, teachers, policy-makers, they are all citizens of coastal cities who want to care for the environment as a private person; | |||
* Adapt the workshop schedule and structure according to the specifics and program of the stakeholders you want to attend; | |||
* Use common words so that non scientists participants can understand and contribute to the discussion without being overwhelmed by scientific language; | |||
* Choose a method which will produce a large amount of data on a topic in a short time; | |||
* Invite and encourage different stakeholders to participate at this kind of workshops; | |||
* Develop concrete examples that stakeholders can understand and get involved; | |||
* Create the opportunity to network and discuss, in order to identify the key marine and societal challenges for the Wave Energy Sector; | |||
* Assign participants to a specific table according to gender, type of organization/institution, type of expertise in the field, main interest in general to ensure multidisciplinarity; | |||
* Make a clear presentation of the debated issue and its current status; | |||
* Stimulate and ensure open dialogue among the attendees; | |||
* Use of different communications platforms/technologies to communicate with stakeholders and make data accessible; | |||
* Use new communications channels and IT technologies as opportunities to engage with communities; | |||
* Push for multi-stakeholders' representation and input from all relevant actors; | |||
* Develop webinars for cross-sectorial stakeholder engagement; | |||
* Workshops may participants convince about RRI, but doesn't tend to help them in the concrete application of RRI in their daily work; | |||
* Plan the programme to encourage as much opportunity for interactions between participants; | |||
* Multiply events where researchers from academia and industry exchange with a broader community to enhance this community and its visibility; | |||
* Empower all stakeholder groups to co-create sustainable value propositions that reflect societal needs and support healthy marine environments thanks to RRI dimensions. | |||
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 4''' | |||
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* Let different perspectives on the subject, which will lead to a common background for further discussion; | |||
* Give all participants the opportunity to discuss and generate ideas; | |||
* Allocate time for every participant to present his/her idea and to discuss it in plenum; | |||
* Allocate time for every participant to present his/her own idea and to discuss it in plenum; | |||
* Do not interfere too much with the topics participants chose to focus on, it mostly depends on individual needs/experience and knowledge; | |||
* Find the best way to incorporate the multi-disciplinary element into the organisation of the workshop; | |||
* Capture the content in a way that is more free-flowing which is later interpreted by the workshop team; | |||
* Activate citizens as a resourceful group of action that could lead to a more innovative and including society; | |||
* Increase the level of awareness of Marine Spatial Planning process and it's implication in coastal communities and for all stakeholders; | |||
* Have proactive public participation from stakeholders, in particular from government and industry; | |||
* Encourage and promote marine involvement for all stakeholders; | |||
* Promote best practice cross sectorial stakeholder engagement processes through webinars; | |||
* Focus on the concept and its tools when explaining RRI to participants. | |||
</div> | |||
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 5''' | |||
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* Implement a coherent national monitoring programme; | |||
* Engage local communities in awareness raising event; | |||
* Apply a long-term and crosscutting strategic planning by defining SMART common vision and actions; | |||
* Develop a stakeholder engagement plan; | |||
* Learn from education, rather than experience, is necessary to avoid climate changes impact; | |||
* Include marine/environmental education in school curricula; | |||
* Try to obtain clear actions from people from different areas of interest, but targeting the common vision; | |||
* 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 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; | |||
* Develop a national strategy for coastal management and coastal protection; | |||
* Develop a coastal protection strategy that is fit for purpose by all stakeholders; | |||
* Developing a spatial plan specific to zoning of areas of offshore renewables; | |||
* Develop a clear communications strategy; | |||
* Develop a GIS information database; | |||
* Use of research and data sets to ensure that decisions are made to safeguard the interests of all stakeholders; | |||
* Identify easy-to-implement solutions to attract people and harbour-related businesses in innovative harbour development; | |||
* Plan what to do with buildings/installations which have been created while building wind farms; | |||
* Encourage the production of socially and environmentally acceptable solutions and services with the science education of business and industry professionals. | |||
</div> | |||
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 6''' | |||
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* 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; | |||
* Identify common working initiatives between municipalities and the civil societies, so that citizens may be actively involved; | |||
* Consider Governance as a common responsibility of citizens and decision makers; | |||
* Promote and develop responsible and sustainable tourism in a changing environment; | |||
* Use rational the natural resources, with maximum economy; | |||
* Education is the most important aspect that can accelerate social change and climate change mitigation; | |||
* 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; | |||
* Create new models for evaluating risks and economic issues; | |||
* Involve citizens in the political/technical systems; | |||
* Inform and educate wider society of the impacts, challenges and potential solutions for coastal protection; | |||
* Make scientific information reliable and easily accessible to citizens and stakeholders; | |||
* Assess / quantify the social, economic and environmental risk; | |||
* Create procedures for an open access to data and data exchange, to allow for multiple feedbacks from end-users and policy-makers; | |||
* Use of the outcomes of the national monitoring programme as part of a targeted national awareness raising campaign; | |||
* Disseminate widely local and regional regulations and type approvals since the businesses often have significant knowledge gaps; | |||
* Make restaurants aware restaurants and the public about the potential offered by the blue biotechnologies; | |||
* Develop a clear understanding around Marine Spacial Planning (MSP) and what its implications are for all stakeholders groups including offshore wind; | |||
* Exchange with star chefs on new products from the transformation of marine resources to provide the opportunity to make the audience aware a wider audience; | |||
* Business stakeholders are mostly interested on the policy agendas; | |||
* Open data for all interested stakeholders; | |||
* Organize of a marine biotechnology day at the regional level including different actors to make the general public aware on the marine biotechnology sector and its potential; | |||
* Encourage scientists and NGO's to popularize the different aspects of marine biotechnology through science café, forums, open days etc; | |||
* Develop a new model of governance for marine biotechnology development including the engagement of the society; | |||
* Push for broad vision for industrial harbour development by local governments inviting non-harbour stakeholders to contribute in new ways; | |||
* Contribute with knowledge and conceptual frameworks that support interaction, collaboration and holistic recommendations based on research experience; | |||
* Develop societal awareness about water and advantages of use of renewable energy sources in general and offshore wind farms in particular; | |||
* Carry out studies on potential impact of the investment in offshore wind energy to develop them; | |||
* Educate children to environmental issues as well as renewable energy profits to create a new wiser society. | |||
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 7''' | |||
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* Restructuring different mechanisms in order to prevent pollution and to apply polluter sanctions, to ensure the transparency of legislative processes; | |||
* It's necessary a good collaboration and interaction between civil society, policy makers, researchers, business sector and citizens, in all the Black Sea coastal countries; | |||
* Develop new collaborations for new means of communication; | |||
* Take into consideration new types of ownership forms in order to kick-start of development; | |||
* Make regulations for developers and investors for securing more liveable areas in harbour transformations. | |||
</div> | |||
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'''RRI Roadmap Milestone 8''' | |||
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* Improve port reception facilities and services for processing over waste from ships; | |||
* 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 processes for local and national/ EU regulations; | |||
* Raise awareness and embed RRI into educational curricula; | |||
* Ethical issues are highly important in maintaining the sustainable operation of the vessels while safeguarding the environment; | |||
* Attract private investments and develop national projects; | |||
* Create of a one-stop shop for the Institute of blue bio-technologies with short and long-term strategies; | |||
* Attract students into engineering courses; | |||
* Create an award for the best blue bio-technologies innovation or product to make maritime biotechnologies a sustainable economic opportunity; | |||
* Build the appropriate infrastructure and technology for the Wave Energy Sector; | |||
* Coordinate and develop industrial, academic and political linkages to boost funding around marine biotechnologies; | |||
* Involve "Ambassadors" or " figures" at regional level (navigators, high level sportsman, known well-respected public figures of all kinds); | |||
* Facilitate fruitful discussions and widely disseminate conclusions to third parties; | |||
* Engage all interested stakeholders in harbour development; | |||
* Implement program of innovative research in relation to the effectiveness of the constructions of towers and generators to ensure sustainable development of renewable energy; | |||
* Establish policies that are favourable for ecological investments in sustainable development; | |||
* Open university faculties, strongly connected with wind farms to help the sustainable development of renewable energy; | |||
* Scale up research and bring responses to sustainable development of offshore wind farms with Science education; | |||
* Educate policy-makers to science to reinforce policies and adopt coherent legislative frameworks of economic competitiveness and sustainability of offshore wind energy. | |||
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==See also...== | |||
[[Workshop Methodology]] | |||
[[Category: Lessons Learned]] |
Latest revision as of 02:39, 18 February 2019
RRI Roadmap Milestone 1
- Keep in mind the local context to answer local needs and specificities;
- Plan the stakeholders carefully to ensure that the right people, stakeholder groups and organisations are in the room;
- Realize a complete inventory of local skills needed for the topic of academic actors, start-ups or companies already established in the region;
- Offer an incentive for citizens in order to attract people to attend at the workshop;
- Find a topic which will attract different stakeholders;
- Use dialog for initiating collaboration among private landowners and municipalities;
- Involve all interested stakeholders;
- Recruit participants based on their interest, research, business or experience related to the workshop topic.
RRI Roadmap Milestone 2
- Provide a good incentive and personal benefits to motivate people to attend the workshop(s) and processes;
- Present the topic approached from the beginning of the workshop;
- Use using storytelling to describe the challenge with clear and concrete examples;
- Address a specific subject that concerns multidisciplinary stakeholders;
- Make the MARINA platform a case study platform where collaborative coastal climate solution projects are presented;
- Present the Mobilisation and Mutual Learning and RRI approach;
- Be aware about the participants motivations to attend a workshop such as to learn from others participants;
- Raise awareness of the general public on the environmental impact of offshore installations at all stages (building, exploitation, dismantling).
RRI Roadmap Milestone 3
- Allocate more time for group discussions during workshops;
- Use methods that offer to the participants the opportunity to interact and to have open discussions;
- Explain the participatory method used to the participants as clearly and in a shorter time;
- Choose a familiar methodology for participants;
- Offer a clear explanation of the methodology used in order to be as clear as possible for the participants;
- Use a method that gives the opportunity to all participants to express their opinion;
- Continue to engage the stakeholders for knowledge exchange after the workshop;
- Make the workshops highly participatory and interactive;
- Allocate sufficient time for discussions and to involve all participants interests and ideas;
- Engage stakeholders from different sectors of activity;
- Remember that apart from being scientists, teachers, policy-makers, they are all citizens of coastal cities who want to care for the environment as a private person;
- Adapt the workshop schedule and structure according to the specifics and program of the stakeholders you want to attend;
- Use common words so that non scientists participants can understand and contribute to the discussion without being overwhelmed by scientific language;
- Choose a method which will produce a large amount of data on a topic in a short time;
- Invite and encourage different stakeholders to participate at this kind of workshops;
- Develop concrete examples that stakeholders can understand and get involved;
- Create the opportunity to network and discuss, in order to identify the key marine and societal challenges for the Wave Energy Sector;
- Assign participants to a specific table according to gender, type of organization/institution, type of expertise in the field, main interest in general to ensure multidisciplinarity;
- Make a clear presentation of the debated issue and its current status;
- Stimulate and ensure open dialogue among the attendees;
- Use of different communications platforms/technologies to communicate with stakeholders and make data accessible;
- Use new communications channels and IT technologies as opportunities to engage with communities;
- Push for multi-stakeholders' representation and input from all relevant actors;
- Develop webinars for cross-sectorial stakeholder engagement;
- Workshops may participants convince about RRI, but doesn't tend to help them in the concrete application of RRI in their daily work;
- Plan the programme to encourage as much opportunity for interactions between participants;
- Multiply events where researchers from academia and industry exchange with a broader community to enhance this community and its visibility;
- Empower all stakeholder groups to co-create sustainable value propositions that reflect societal needs and support healthy marine environments thanks to RRI dimensions.
RRI Roadmap Milestone 4
- Let different perspectives on the subject, which will lead to a common background for further discussion;
- Give all participants the opportunity to discuss and generate ideas;
- Allocate time for every participant to present his/her idea and to discuss it in plenum;
- Allocate time for every participant to present his/her own idea and to discuss it in plenum;
- Do not interfere too much with the topics participants chose to focus on, it mostly depends on individual needs/experience and knowledge;
- Find the best way to incorporate the multi-disciplinary element into the organisation of the workshop;
- Capture the content in a way that is more free-flowing which is later interpreted by the workshop team;
- Activate citizens as a resourceful group of action that could lead to a more innovative and including society;
- Increase the level of awareness of Marine Spatial Planning process and it's implication in coastal communities and for all stakeholders;
- Have proactive public participation from stakeholders, in particular from government and industry;
- Encourage and promote marine involvement for all stakeholders;
- Promote best practice cross sectorial stakeholder engagement processes through webinars;
- Focus on the concept and its tools when explaining RRI to participants.
RRI Roadmap Milestone 5
- Implement a coherent national monitoring programme;
- Engage local communities in awareness raising event;
- Apply a long-term and crosscutting strategic planning by defining SMART common vision and actions;
- Develop a stakeholder engagement plan;
- Learn from education, rather than experience, is necessary to avoid climate changes impact;
- Include marine/environmental education in school curricula;
- Try to obtain clear actions from people from different areas of interest, but targeting the common vision;
- 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 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;
- Develop a national strategy for coastal management and coastal protection;
- Develop a coastal protection strategy that is fit for purpose by all stakeholders;
- Developing a spatial plan specific to zoning of areas of offshore renewables;
- Develop a clear communications strategy;
- Develop a GIS information database;
- Use of research and data sets to ensure that decisions are made to safeguard the interests of all stakeholders;
- Identify easy-to-implement solutions to attract people and harbour-related businesses in innovative harbour development;
- Plan what to do with buildings/installations which have been created while building wind farms;
- Encourage the production of socially and environmentally acceptable solutions and services with the science education of business and industry professionals.
RRI Roadmap Milestone 6
- 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;
- Identify common working initiatives between municipalities and the civil societies, so that citizens may be actively involved;
- Consider Governance as a common responsibility of citizens and decision makers;
- Promote and develop responsible and sustainable tourism in a changing environment;
- Use rational the natural resources, with maximum economy;
- Education is the most important aspect that can accelerate social change and climate change mitigation;
- 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;
- Create new models for evaluating risks and economic issues;
- Involve citizens in the political/technical systems;
- Inform and educate wider society of the impacts, challenges and potential solutions for coastal protection;
- Make scientific information reliable and easily accessible to citizens and stakeholders;
- Assess / quantify the social, economic and environmental risk;
- Create procedures for an open access to data and data exchange, to allow for multiple feedbacks from end-users and policy-makers;
- Use of the outcomes of the national monitoring programme as part of a targeted national awareness raising campaign;
- Disseminate widely local and regional regulations and type approvals since the businesses often have significant knowledge gaps;
- Make restaurants aware restaurants and the public about the potential offered by the blue biotechnologies;
- Develop a clear understanding around Marine Spacial Planning (MSP) and what its implications are for all stakeholders groups including offshore wind;
- Exchange with star chefs on new products from the transformation of marine resources to provide the opportunity to make the audience aware a wider audience;
- Business stakeholders are mostly interested on the policy agendas;
- Open data for all interested stakeholders;
- Organize of a marine biotechnology day at the regional level including different actors to make the general public aware on the marine biotechnology sector and its potential;
- Encourage scientists and NGO's to popularize the different aspects of marine biotechnology through science café, forums, open days etc;
- Develop a new model of governance for marine biotechnology development including the engagement of the society;
- Push for broad vision for industrial harbour development by local governments inviting non-harbour stakeholders to contribute in new ways;
- Contribute with knowledge and conceptual frameworks that support interaction, collaboration and holistic recommendations based on research experience;
- Develop societal awareness about water and advantages of use of renewable energy sources in general and offshore wind farms in particular;
- Carry out studies on potential impact of the investment in offshore wind energy to develop them;
- Educate children to environmental issues as well as renewable energy profits to create a new wiser society.
RRI Roadmap Milestone 7
- Restructuring different mechanisms in order to prevent pollution and to apply polluter sanctions, to ensure the transparency of legislative processes;
- It's necessary a good collaboration and interaction between civil society, policy makers, researchers, business sector and citizens, in all the Black Sea coastal countries;
- Develop new collaborations for new means of communication;
- Take into consideration new types of ownership forms in order to kick-start of development;
- Make regulations for developers and investors for securing more liveable areas in harbour transformations.
RRI Roadmap Milestone 8
- Improve port reception facilities and services for processing over waste from ships;
- 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 processes for local and national/ EU regulations;
- Raise awareness and embed RRI into educational curricula;
- Ethical issues are highly important in maintaining the sustainable operation of the vessels while safeguarding the environment;
- Attract private investments and develop national projects;
- Create of a one-stop shop for the Institute of blue bio-technologies with short and long-term strategies;
- Attract students into engineering courses;
- Create an award for the best blue bio-technologies innovation or product to make maritime biotechnologies a sustainable economic opportunity;
- Build the appropriate infrastructure and technology for the Wave Energy Sector;
- Coordinate and develop industrial, academic and political linkages to boost funding around marine biotechnologies;
- Involve "Ambassadors" or " figures" at regional level (navigators, high level sportsman, known well-respected public figures of all kinds);
- Facilitate fruitful discussions and widely disseminate conclusions to third parties;
- Engage all interested stakeholders in harbour development;
- Implement program of innovative research in relation to the effectiveness of the constructions of towers and generators to ensure sustainable development of renewable energy;
- Establish policies that are favourable for ecological investments in sustainable development;
- Open university faculties, strongly connected with wind farms to help the sustainable development of renewable energy;
- Scale up research and bring responses to sustainable development of offshore wind farms with Science education;
- Educate policy-makers to science to reinforce policies and adopt coherent legislative frameworks of economic competitiveness and sustainability of offshore wind energy.