Lessons Learned per Governance

RRI Roadmap Milestone 1

• Realize a complete inventory of local skills needed for the topic of academic actors, start-ups or companies already established in the region;
• Keep in mind the local context to answer local needs and specificities;
• Be careful of possible competition of other events happening as the same time in the same city or on the same topic;
• Start a survey to establish the relationship between local communities and the coastal areas and share results with politicians to put marine biotechnologies on the national agenda as an economic and sustainable opportunity;
• There is a strong need for redefining and refocusing the business model of tourism.

RRI Roadmap Milestone 2

• Promote the involvement of public authorities on local, national and European levels;
• Identify motives for policy makers and implementers to participate in the workshops as they are reluctant in participating;
• Explain RRI and innovation tools and how to embed them in policy agendas as participants find it useful;
• Be aware that policy-makers are not easy to engage unless they see a specific benefit that fits their agenda.

RRI Roadmap Milestone 3

• Construct a good collaboration among project partners from the beginning of the project to its legacy to ensure a wider take-up of the results by all partners;
• Consider carefully legislation and cultural differences between project participants in the discussion prior to the project proposal to avoid possible understanding of feasability barriers;
• Develop concrete examples that stakeholders can understand and get involved;
• Involve politicians and municipality representatives in workshops to increase its effectiveness;
• Identify or create a unique Body entrusted with the control of a process to ensure coordination and synergy of all stakeholders involved.

RRI Roadmap Milestone 4

• Focus on environmental aspects through a multi-stakeholder approach to ensure stability and availability of resources;
• Stakeholders are concerned that the authorities and the private companies will decide to advance with Deep Sea Mining without proper public consultation and without knowing sufficient about the deep sea;
• The society believes that RRI will never be in full effect without strong political will;
• Provide the participants with the legislative aspects related to the topic. If possible ensure the attendance of an expert.

RRI Roadmap Milestone 5

• Implement a coherent national monitoring programme;
• Apply a long-term and crosscutting strategic planning by defining SMART common vision and actions;
• Engage local communities in awareness raising event;
• Develop a common vision and an action plan with a more narrow focus combining development milestones and follow-up workshops;
• Consider the RRI principles as guidelines to construct the project processes for a sound management of the projects;
• Provide a quality framework in which all stakeholders can work toward a solution thanks to a good governance;
• Plan what to do with buildings/installations which have been created while building wind farms; * Develop new methods of governance for engaging citizens through public awareness and politics;
• Include key local stakeholders in the planning and implementation of local strategies;
• Improve governance by defining a shared and common vision by involving citizens and business networks for clean and green industries;
• Claim for an alignment between legislation and the changing scientific situation and technological innovations.

RRI Roadmap Milestone 6

• Consider Governance as a common responsibility of citizens and decision makers;
• 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;
• Put in place a policy-oriented, holistic and integrated approach to tackle complex issues;
• Make restaurants aware restaurants and the public about the potential offered by the blue biotechnologies;
• Develop a "Social and Solidarity Economy" type of framework in the field of marine biotechnologies;
• Develop new model of governance for marine biotechnology development including the engagement of the society;
• Build a network to report challenges to politicians to put marine biotechnologies on the national agenda as an economic and sustainable opportunity;
• Push for broad vision for industrial harbour development by local governments inviting non-harbour stakeholders to contribute in new ways;
• Adapt local policies and strategies in order to be in agreement with research outcomes;
• Plan local actions in agreement with its local circumstances instead of promoting larger-scale policies;
• Support local and international decision-makers in charge of evaluating if, when, how, by who and for what should Deep Sea Mining ever take place;
• Develop campaigns for promoting sustainable fishing methods and techniques through protecting resources and other incentives/compensation;
• Use of the outcomes of the national monitoring programme as part of a targeted national awareness raising campaign;
• Push governmental bodies for high-tier governance on local initiatives to have the biggest impact;
• Create procedures for an open access to data and data exchange, to allow for multiple feedbacks from end-users and policy-makers;
• Business stakeholders are mostly interested on the policy agendas;
• Coordinate all activities related to policy, planning and regulation in the best possible way to reduce conflict and help meet environmental, economic and social objectives;
• The greater majority of actions relate to more than one RRI dimension; this shows that actions are multidisciplinary and involve multiple stakeholders;
• Implement innovative and responsive policies to face climate change effects and assure a balanced competitiveness, growth and sustainability;
• Develop information-based decision support tools, with automated intervention systems.

RRI Roadmap Milestone 7

• Governance should strive for active engagement of the key public and private stakeholder bodies for the development and impact on the societal challenge;
• The ultimate aim should be to develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts and to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products;
• Get media cover and social media presence to influence policy and decision makers;
• Organise a European "Grenelle" of bioethics to do an inventory of knowledge, regulations and current projects and processes as well as to define indicators and good practices for the development of marine. biotech;
• Make regulations for developers and investors for securing more liveable areas in harbour transformations;
• Build a coastal protection system that can harness the wave energy;
• Restructuring different mechanisms in order to prevent pollution and to apply polluter sanctions, to ensure the transparency of legislative processes;
• Create innovative tools to guide the consumers, thus inducing public and private stakeholders (including NGOs) to invest in more sustainable directions;
• Start specific economic changes (investment, taxation) to support the goal of efficient and sustainable activities.

RRI Roadmap Milestone 8

• Focus on good enforcement of already existing legislation mechanisms rather than reinventing others from scratch and adjust legislation as necessary;
• Train policymakers through communication tools and adapt legislation to facilitate the creation of a dynamic knowledge-sharing mechanism;
• Ensure that funding will be secured for action plan execution and follow up actions;
• Embed governance in legislation through accountability to ensure the sustainability and to address societal challenges;
• Provide tax reductions or other benefits to businesses for massively applying environmental protection legislature and procedures and for making use of innovative technologies;
• Push for the adoption of common processes for accessibility of results of European projects that would allow a comparison of results through time and creation of broader synergies among past and present projects;
• Put in place effective pathways for communicating policy recommandations to EU and to national bodies as part of the global process of the project;
• Create of a one-stop shop for the Institute of blue bio-technologies with short and long-term strategies;
• Create an award for the best blue bio-technologies innovation or product to make maritime biotechnologies a sustainable economic opportunity;
• Put in place a certification label of projects to draw guidelines for the sustainable development of marine biotechnologies;
• Promote the reinforcement of policies and adoption of coherent legislative frameworks to develop marine biotechnology;
• Establish policies that are favourable for ecological investments in sustainable development;
• Train and convince policymakers, implementers, and investors to develop biotechnologies;
• Make environmental impact assessment mandatory for Deep Sea Mining within the EU;
• Oblige companies by contract to use 10% of their investment in an investigation in engineering design for mitigation of Deep Sea Mining during all the operation;
• Improve the legislative framework to encourage the capitalization process of renewable energy;
• Upgrade the transport infrastructure for renewable energy;
• 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;
• Improve port reception facilities and services for processing over waste from ships;
• Build the appropriate infrastructure and technology for the Wave Energy Sector;
• Promote Sustainable Tourism policies to improve coastal and marine ecosystems, minimise pollution and create economic growth by combining efforts at national, regional and local levels and creating green funding schemes and incentives;
• Enhance coastal and maritime tourism by adapting to demographic changes, while maintaining the original vocation and atmosphere of the coastal cities;
• Protect the deep sea from mining, create laws that impose that deep sea mining is a non-profit activity and concert the deep sea into world heritage site;
• Provide strong incentives to promote the circular economy;
• Promote governance arrangements and practices to favour sustainable tourism and seafood consumption;
• Ensure the policies are socially inclusive and are widely known;
• Push for governance and ethics to be required in business registration requirements for creating awareness on sustainability;
• To develop a sector, develop a legal framework promoting and regulating its development;
• Ensure a ministerial umbrella to facilitate the educative process in school by scientists or scientific mediators;
• Engage government and law makers in order to make sustainable change in ports and ship;
• Consider that National and International organizations must balance economic profit and a competitive market with the goal of preserving the natural environment of our seas;
• Improve regulations and legislations about the release of bacteria at sea;
• Improve legislation to deal with climate change and coastal errosion.

See also...

RRI Dimension