Lessons Learned per Science Education

Milestone 1

• Make lists of actions and players, record skills, know-how and economic potential, identify best practices and make full use of them to put the chosen topic on the national agenda.

Milestone 2

• Present the RRI concept with clear examples;
• Provide enough time for the presentation of science outcomes and sharing knowledge from research point of view;
• Make the high seas more visible to all stakeholders, the benefits for all and the issues at stake;
• Raise awareness of the general public on the environmental impact of offshore installations at all stages (building, exploitation, dismantling);
• Make the MARINA platform a case study platform where collaborative coastal climate solution projects are presented;
• Improve science literacy and research applicability to increase awareness on the specific issue;
• Explain clearly the MARINA project goals;
• Make marine issues visible and understandable to the public;
• Run awareness campaigns so that the issue problem is clearly understood by all stakeholders;
• Raise citizen and business awareness about the environmental protection and sustainability.

Milestone 3

• Empower European citizens, business representatives, researchers and policy makers to take informed decisions on the high seas through science education;
• Invite stakeholders to provide their feedback about workshop;
• Provide as much information as possible to the subject before the workshop;
• The education of young people and the use of exchange programs between schools will lead to active citizenship respectful of the environment;
• All relevant stakeholders need to be involved in the process of developing sustainable tourism ventures within Marine Protected Areas (MPAs);
• Engage researchers with the industry for the development of appropriate technologies since there is a discrepancy between the academia and the industry needs;
• Raise awareness among pupils and students about environmental protection through informational programs as well as promote the specific sector as a means of employability.

Milestone 4

• Develop partnerships for science outreach actions;
• Promote the societal challenge as a hot topic and the workshop's results (media, partners, stakeholders, etc);
• Increase the level of awareness of Marine Spatial Planning process and it's implication in coastal communities and for all stakeholders;
• Capture the content in a way that is more free-flowing which is later interpreted by the workshop team;
• Multidisciplinary research considers the sustainability vector is key.

Milestone 5

• Focus not only on high-level ideas, but also on required research and innovation actions needed to execute them;
• Encourage the production of socially and environmentally acceptable solutions and services with the science education of business and industry professionals;
• Develop case studies on how municipalities work with climate change projects and community driven innovation;
• Include more education aspects of citizenship, sustainability and ecology in schools;
• Increase knowledge on deep sea minerals occurrences and their economic;
• Work together (science, law, economics, policy) to give advice on seabed mining issues;
• Increase awareness in the use of raw materials and their importance on our society;
• Create an organized knowledge synthesis on Deep Sea Mining;
• Identify what are the society's perceptions and knowledge gaps for consideration in future planning of Deep Sea Mining research and innovation initiatives;
• Develop new capacities for studying and a performing monitoring;
• Conduct studies of renewable energy on the Black Sea coastal area;
• Promote the meaning of the term "renewable energy systems";
• Develop educational programs to prepare specialists in the "renewable energy systems" field;
• Raise public awareness on the real problems;
• Develop and implement awareness and educational campaigns and engage local communities;
• Provide the results on MARINA platform;
• Learn from education, rather than experience, is necessary to avoid climate changes impact;
• Include marine/environmental education in school curricula;
• Developing a spatial plan specific to zoning of areas of offshore renewables;
• Develop a GIS information database;
• Develop a clear communications strategy;
• Develop a national strategy for coastal management and coastal protection;
• Develop a coastal protection strategy that is fit for purpose by all stakeholders;
• 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 for adjust rules to allow open access to relevant sector research results;
• Raise awareness through education for developing/supporting new technologies for responsible maritime transport;
• Open access, i.e. giving free online access to the results of publicly-funded research data will boost innovation and increase the use of scientific results by all societal actors;
• While interpreting the results consider that participants can have different information and data about the topic: the "reality" can be difficult to identify.

Milestone 6

• Facilitate collaboration between research and industry/market to create a dynamic knowledge-sharing mechanism;
• Convince investors to facilitate the creation of a dynamic knowledge-sharing mechanism;
• Increase environmental and science education to promote societal understanding and participation;
• Create training programs targeting SMEs and investors by focusing on enablers and barriers;
• 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;
• Share data for a better cooperation and public engagement on the high seas;
• Raise awareness and spread information about marine biotechnologies to the different groups of stakeholders;
• Raise awareness on aquaculture in the Azores;
• 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;
• 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;
• Organise Open Days in companies to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with marine biotechnologies;
• Involve senior/retired scientific experts to communicate on marine biotechnologies in layman's terms to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with the topic;
• Promote researchers qualifications to find new bio applications for products answering societal needs;
• Implement training and guidance for careers around marine biotechnologies to reduce marine pollution;
• Contribute with knowledge and conceptual frameworks that support interaction, collaboration and holistic recommendations based on research experience;
• Create new models for evaluating risks and economic issues;
• Create an open access platform with all Deep Sea Mining data available including biological and geological information;
• Educate children on the importance of biodiversity and how to think about the environment responsibly;
• Create a common DATABASE – for centralizing all the data and studies regarding biodiversity;
• Disseminate the results on MARINA platform;
• Use public-private partnerships as a new economical instrument;
• Raise public awareness regarding the benefits of renewable energy by promoting the renewable energy methods;
• Offer open access to the specialized information and share knowledge;
• Send the final results of the workshop to the participants;
• Promote and develop responsible and sustainable tourism in a changing environment;
• 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;
• Development of an educational platform for changing knowledge between public and private institutions;
• Open data for all interested stakeholders;
• Inform and educate wider society of the impacts, challenges and potential solutions for coastal protection;
• Assess / quantify the social, economic and environmental risk;
• Succeed with public engagement through science education and open access in policy;
• Educate all stakeholders about sustainable tourism sustainability to achieve socially and environmentally acceptable goods and services;
• Science & Education and Open Access have a vital role in achieving success in the development of sustainable tourism ventures within Marine Protected Areas;
• Consider the impacts of any activity before consenting which may require the deployments of monitoring technologies to facilitate monitoring and impact assessment;
• Initiate open access through public offices also to non-governmental stakeholders;
• Educate citizens about the value of the sea in their daily lives is necessary to raise ocean awareness and literacy;
• Develop information exchange systems between government, industry and the universities;
• Start measuring and collecting marine scientific data on board different non-scientific vessels.

Milestone 7

• Use Open access to boost innovation and increase the use of scientific results by all societal actors as well as to develop public trust and engagement;
• Consider the distinction between the actions of making information available and the actions of making the information understandable by its potential users when dealing with Open Access;
• Develop real-time information systems, training activities and incentives to share knowledge and information for avoiding tendencies of local governments and businesses to downplay negative consequences;
• Develop new collaborations for new means of communication;
• Collect and share information and good practices to raise awareness on marine biotech and to reduce marine pollution;
• Take into consideration new types of ownership forms in order to kick-start of development;
• Analyse the impact of plumes and waste produced by Deep Sea Mining exploitation;
• Distinguish between occurrences and resources, in order to know what exists and its potential economic value;
• Develop efficient monitoring systems and assess the environmental impacts of best/worst policy practice;
• Build capacity through education by developing local and national programmes for secondary schools and outreach programmes through citizen projects utilising real-time data from monitoring equipment.

Milestone 8

• Raise awareness among the general public to make informed choices and have an active social participation to further push the new initiatives;
• Use the media and science mediators to make society aware about research and innovation results;
• Encourage scientific knowledge and professional growth that have fundamental roles in supporting innovative sectors;
• Increase the impact of projects' results thanks to open access;
• Involve "Ambassadors" or " figures" at regional level (navigators, high level sportsman, known well-respected public figures of all kinds);
• Promote education, training and more equal incomes for fishermen in the Azores;
• Beware that the high level of qualification needed in aquaculture and the small scale of the region market are two constraints of the synergies between the fisheries and aquaculture sectors in the Azores;
• 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;
• Implement program of innovative research in relation to the effectiveness of the constructions of towers and generators to ensure sustainable development of renewable energy;
• Start a regional programme and raise awareness of tourism actors to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with marine biotechnologies;
• Train educators and information relays on marine biotechnologies to develop them in the field of marine pollution;
• Educate policy-makers to science to reinforce policies and adopt coherent legislative frameworks of economic competitiveness and sustainability of offshore wind energy;
• Add marine biotechnologies in school programmes to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with marine biotechnologies;
• Try to develop stronger engagement among schools and the local authorities for the maintenance of basic infrastructure;
• Attract students into engineering courses;
• Educate planners, civil society leaders, business industry to be more collaborative, responsible and exert place-based leadership;
• Communicate broadly and raise wide awareness about the specific initiative to anchor change;
• Raise the attractiveness of science studies by illustrating the application of science in societal issues;
• Improve marine education provided in medium and higher education;
• Create higher awareness on technological achievements from challenging and cutting edge successful projects to attract skilled people to work in the sector;
• Reliable scientific information is not easily accessible for sectorial actors;
• Focus on Science Education in sustainable development and marine resources management as a critical part of local culture and coastal tourism;
• Ethical issues are highly important in maintaining the sustainable operation of the vessels while safeguarding the environment;
• Raise awareness and embed RRI into educational curricula;
• Use of technology as an instrument to both monitor the regulations and to disseminate data in near real-time;
• Education is necessary for the marine biotechnology development thus the need for developing university educational programmes on marine biotechnology;
• Invest in communication campaign by professionals, work with marketing societies to translate the scientific results into clear messages that can reach in particular young people;
• Provide free and easier access to the results of the studies;
• Translate in easy-to-understand messages research outputs and results for better dissemination. Consider using science mediators;
• Provide scientific education in all the scholar cycles: it is crucial;
• Improving education/training;
• Claim for an international coordination to identify the possible impacts of innovations.

See also...

RRI Dimension