Lessons Learned per Citizens and CSO's

Milestone 2

• Raise awareness of the general public on the environmental impact of offshore installations at all stages (building, exploitation, dismantling);
• Raise citizen and business awareness about the environmental protection and sustainability.

Milestone 3

• Use both phone and email for citizen recruitment;
• Bring people and particularly the young on location where they can have transformative experiences that they will seek to relieve throughout their lives;
• Engage young potential "citizen scientists" in schools to promote the issue at hand;
• Take into consideration that despite participants' willingness to participate, often practical barriers impede their attendance in participative workshops;
• Consider having virtual discussions to help some stakeholder groups (e.g. citizens) to attend participatory workshops and events;
• Increase awareness in the youngest about the (local) marine issues to create a new generation of people that are aware of the problems and want to engage themselves, to take action also through a political career;
• Involve students when possible.

Milestone 5

• Empower citizens beyond data collection through involvement in decision-making and governance;
• Promote local communities and their traditions for societal relevance of the scientific outputs.

Milestone 6

• Develop societal awareness about water and advantages of use of renewable energy sources in general and offshore wind farms in particular;
• Involve citizens in the political/technical systems;
• Educate the public at large in their individual role in marine conservation and sustainability (Public Engagement, Science Education);
• Use citizen observatories through mobile phones to report pollution sites and inappropriate environmental behaviour;
• Educate citizens about the value of the sea in their daily lives is necessary to raise ocean awareness and literacy.

Milestone 7

• Involving customers ranked the most favourable cluster with specific actions including the adoption of the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) business model.

Milestone 8

• Raise awareness among the general public to make informed choices and have an active social participation to further push the new initiatives;
• Promote a greater participation of general public in projects financed by European funds to help filling the gap between science and society;
• Equip urban open areas for open debates where local communities can meet frequently in order to exercise the rights guaranteed by the Aarhus convention to develop sustainable decisions in a collective and legal manner.-;
• Encourage scientific knowledge and professional growth that have fundamental roles in supporting innovative sectors;
• Involve "Ambassadors" or " figures" at regional level (navigators, high level sportsman, known well-respected public figures of all kinds);
• Start a regional programme and raise awareness of tourism actors to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with marine biotechnologies;
• Provide scientific education in all the scholar cycles: it is crucial;
• Put in place an effective communication about green washing, so to improve the critical sense of the public against "fake" green activities.

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