Lessons Learned for Focus Groups Methodology

• 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;
• 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.

See also...

Workshop Methodology