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* Activate citizens as a resourceful group of action that could lead to a more innovative and including society;
* Adjust legislation to allow open access to marine-related research;
* Adapt the workshop schedule and structure according to the specifics and program of the stakeholders you want to attend;
* Address a specific subject that concerns multidisciplinary stakeholders;
* Allocate more time for group discussions during workshops;
* Allocate sufficient time for discussions and to involve all participants interests and ideas;
* Allocate time for every participant to present his/her idea and to discuss it in plenum;
* Allow different perspectives on the subject, which will lead to a common background for further discussion;
* Assess / quantify the social, economic and environmental risks;
* 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 multi-disciplinarity;
* Attract private investment and develop national projects;
* Attract students into engineering courses;
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* Be aware about the participants motivations to attend a workshop such as to learn from others participants;
* Be aware that it is challenging to persuade people to participate in workshops.
* Be inclusive in the words used so that non scientists participants can understand and contribute to the discussion without being overwhelmed by scientific language;
* Be aware that only about half of the participants are likely to use the knowledge gained at the workshop;
* Build the appropriate infrastructure and technology for the Wave Energy Sector;
* Business stakeholders are mostly interested on the policy agendas;
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* Capture the content in a way that is more free-flowing which is later interpreted by the workshop team.
* Carry out studies on potential impact of the investment in offshore wind energy to develop them;
* Carry the project with "Ambassadors" or " figures" at regional level (navigators, high level sportsman, divers, swimmer);
* Change unsustainable patterns of consumption and production, in order to reduce the amount of waste;
* Choose a familiar methodology for participants;
* Choose a method which will produce a large amount of data on a topic in a short time;
* Consider Governance as a common responsibility of citizens and decision makers;
* Continue to engage the stakeholders for knowledge exchange after the workshop;
* Contribute with knowledge and conceptual frameworks that support  interaction,  collaboration and holistic recommendations based on research based experience;
* Coordinate and develop industrial, academic and political linkages to boost funding around marine biotech;
* Create a path to open information on climate changes topic and related data;
* Create an award the best Blue (bio)technologies innovation or product to make maritime biotech a sustianable economic opportunity;
* Create new models for evaluating risks and economic issues;
* Create of a one-stop shop for the Institute of (Bio) Blue Technologies with short and long-term strategies;
* Create procedures for an open access to data and data exchange, to allow for multiple feedback from end-users and the policy-makers;
* Create the opportunity to network and discuss, in order to identify the key marine and societal challenges for the Wave Energy Sector;
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'''D'''
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* Define and update the legislation to prevent climate changes for Black Sea area;
* Define a clear triggering question highlighting the issue and goal to be addressed at the workshop;
* Describe the workshop topic with clear and concrete examples of the subject using storyteling;
* Develop a clear communications strategy;
* Develop a clear understanding around MSP and what its implications are for all stakeholders groups including offshore wind;
* Develop a GIS information database;
* Develop a stakeholder engagement plan;
* Develop campaigns for promoting sustainable fishing methods and techniques through protecting resources and other incentives/compensation;
* Develop case studies on how municipalities work with climate change projects and community driven innovation;
* Develop concrete examples that stakeholders can understand and get involved;
* Develop new collaborations for new means of communication;
* Develop new methods of governance for engaging citizens through public awareness and politics;
* Develop new mode of governance for marine biotechnology development including the engagement of the society;
* 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 societal awareness about water and advantages of use of renewable energy sources in general and offshore wind farms in particular;
* 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 tools for engaging citizens in urban development and communicate them broadly to inspire local communities;
* Develop webinars for cross-sectoral stakeholder engagement;
* Developing a spatial plan specific to zoning of areas of offshore renewables;
* Development of an educational platform for changing knowledge between public and private institutions;
* Disseminate widely local and regional regulations and type approvals since the businesses often have significant knowledge gaps;
* Don't interfere too much with the topic which participants chose to focus on, it mostly depends on individual needs/experience and knowledge;  
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* Educate children to environmental issues as well as renewable energy profits to create a new wiser society;
* Embed governance in legislation through accountability to ensure the sustainability of marine sectors;
* Educate policy-makers to science to reinforce policies and adopt coherent legislative frameworks of economic competitiveness and sustainability of offshore wind energy;
* Enable workshops participants to create networks and communities of interest to further research and identify solutions for the studied issue;
* Education is the most important aspect that can accelerate social change and climate change mitigation;
* Encourage researchers to voice their opinions on marine issues in the media focusing on economic, environmental and social needs to enable the uptake of new technologies;
* Empower all stakeholder groups to co-create sustainable value propositions that reflect societal needs and sustain healthy marine environments thanks to RRI dimensions;
* Engage participants via emails and phone calls, since it has been proven as the most effective means of recruitment;
* Encourage and promote marine involvement for all stakeholders;
* Encourage scientists and NGOS to popularize the different aspects of marine biotechnology through science café, forums, open days etc;
* Encourage the production of socially and environmentally acceptable solutions and services with the science education of business and industry professionals;
* Engage all interested stakeholders in harbour development;
* Engage local communities at awareness raising events;
* Engage participants to apply RRI principles in daily work and daily life;
* Engage stakeholders from different sectors of activity;
* Establish laws which are favorable for ecological investments in sustainable development of renewable energy;
* Ethical issues are highly important in maintaining the sustainable operation of the vessels while safeguarding the environment;
* Exchange with star chefs on new products from the transformation of marine resources to provide the opportunity to sensibillize a wider audience;
* Explain the method used to the participants as clearly and in a shorter time;
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* Facilitate fruitful discussions and widely disseminate conclusions to third parties;
* Focus on environmental aspects through a multi-stakeholder approach to ensure stability and availability of resources;
* Find a topic which will attract different stakeholders;
* Find the best way to incorporate the multi-disciplinary element into the organisation of the workshop;
* Focus on the concept and its tools when explaining RRI to participants;
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* Give to all of the participants the opportunity to discuss and generate ideas;
* Governance should strive for active engagement of the key public and private stakeholder bodies for the development and impact of maritime transportation;
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* Have proactive public participation from stakeholders, in particular from governance and industry;
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* Identify common working initiatives between municipalities and the civil societies, so that citizens may be actively involved;
* Improve marine education provided in medium and higher education;
* Identify easy-to-implement solutions to attract people and harbour-related businesses in innovative harbour development;
* Involve the private sector, policymakers, the scientific community and the local and national community for the definition of ideas, needs and solutions;
* Implement program of innovative research in relation to the effectiveness of the constructions of towers and generators to  to ensure sustainable development of renewable energy;
* Improve port reception facilities and services for processing over waste from ships;
* Including marine/environmental education in school curricula;
* Increase the level of awareness of Marine Spatial Planning process and it's implication in coastal communities and for all stakeholders;
* Inform and educate wider society of the impacts, challenges and potential solutions for coastal protection;
* Invite and encourage different stakeholders to participate at this kind of workshops;
* Involve all the interested stakeholders;
* Involve citizens in public consultations and decision – making for local regulations;
* Involve citizens in the political/technical systems;
* It's difficult to deliver a coastal protection strategy that is fit for purpose by all stakeholders;
* It's necessary the implementation of a coherent national monitoring programme;
* It's necessary to develop a long-term and cross-cutting strategic planning;
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* Keep in mind the local context when preparing the event to answer local needs and specificities;
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* Learn from education, rather than experience, is necessary to avoid climate changes impact;
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* Make a clear presentation of the debated issue and its current status;
* Make marine issues visible and understandable to the public;
* Make regulations for developers and investors for securing more liveable areas in harbour transformations;
* Make scientific information reliable and easily accessible to citizens and stakeholders;
* Make the MARINA platform a case study platform  where collaborative coastal climate solution projects are presented;
* Make the workshops highly participatory and interactive;
* Multiply events where researchers from academia and industry exchange with a broader community to enhance this community and its visibility;
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* Offer a clear explanation of the methodology used in order to be as clear as possible for the participants;
* Participatory workshops provide good opportunities for better discovering developments and problems of the studied industry;
* Offer an incentive for citizens in order to attract people to attend at the workshop;
* Provide tax reductions or other benefits to businesses for massively applying marine protection legislature and procedures and for making use of innovative marine technologies;
* Open data for all interested stakeholders;
* Push participants to move beyond exchanging ideas and to start co-creating a vision;
* Open university faculties, strongly connected with wind farms to help the sustainable development of renewable energy;
* Organize of a Marine biotech day at the regional level including different actors to make the general public aware on the marine biotechnology sector and its potential;
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* Plan the programme to encourage as much opportunity for interactions between participants;
* Plan the stakeholders carefully to ensure that the right people, stakeholder groups and organisations are in the room;
* Plan what to do with buildings/installations which have been created while building wind farm;
* Present the MML and RRI approach;
* Present the topic approached from the beginning of the workshop;
* Promote and develop responsible and sustainable tourism in a changing environment;
* Promote best practice cross sectoral stakeholder engagement processes through webinars;
* Provide a good incentive / personal benefits to motivate people to attend the workshop;
* Push for broad vision for industrial harbour development by local governments inviting non-harbour stakeholders to contribute in new ways;
* Push for multi-stakeholders' representation and input from all relevant actors;
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* Raise awareness and embed RRI into educational curricula;
* Raise awareness through education for developing/supporting new technologies for responsible maritime transport;
* Raise awareness of the general public on the environmental impact of offshore installations at all stages (building,  exploitation, dismantling);
* Raise the attractiveness of science studies by illustrating the application of science in societal issues such as responsible shipbuilding and harbours;
* Realize a complete inventory of local skills on marine biotech of academic actors, start-ups or companies already established in the region;
* Recruit participants based on their interest, research, business or private experience in Marine Spatial Planning MSP and or Offshore Energy.
* 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;
* Restructuring different mechanisms in order to prevent pollution and to apply polluter sanctions, to ensure the transparency of legislative processes;
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* Scale up research and bring responses to sustainable development of offshore wind farms with Science education;
* Sensibilize restaurants and the public about the potential offered by the blue biotech;
* Stimulate and ensure open dialogue among the attendees;
* Such workshop make participants convinced about RRI, but doesn't tend to help them in the concrete application of RRI in their daily work;  
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* Take into consideration new types of ownership forms in order to kick-start of development;
* The reversed science cafe method motivates participants to express their opinions and views in a structured, inclusive, yet open manner;
* The immersive climate change symbolizes a new age with new complicated needs and demands;
* The need for a good collaboration and interaction between civil society, policy makers, researchers, business sector and citizens, in all the Black Sea coastal countries;
* The need for a national strategy for coastal management in general, and coastal protection in specific, to overcome current fragmentation;
* To allocate time for every participant to present his/her own idea and to discuss it in plenum;
* Try to obtain clear actions from people from different areas of interest, but with a common purpose;
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* Use a method that gives the opportunity to all of the participants to express their opinion;
* Use dialog for initiating collaboration among private landowners and municipalities;
* Use funding programs dedicated to citizens, aimed at replacing old goods and polluting with new and environmentally friendly ones;
* Use methods that offer to the participants the opportunity to interact and to have open discussions;
* Use new communications channels and IT technologies as opportunities to engage with communities;
* Use of different communications platforms/technologies to communicate with stakeholders and make data accessible ;
* Use of research and data sets to ensure that decisions are made to safeguard the interests of all stakeholders;
* Use of the outcomes of the national monitoring programme as part of a targeted national awareness raising campaign;
* Use rational the natural resources, with maximum economy;
 
 




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A

  • Adjust legislation to allow open access to marine-related research;

B

  • Be aware that it is challenging to persuade people to participate in workshops.
  • Be aware that only about half of the participants are likely to use the knowledge gained at the workshop;

D

  • Define a clear triggering question highlighting the issue and goal to be addressed at the workshop;

E

  • Embed governance in legislation through accountability to ensure the sustainability of marine sectors;
  • Enable workshops participants to create networks and communities of interest to further research and identify solutions for the studied issue;
  • Encourage researchers to voice their opinions on marine issues in the media focusing on economic, environmental and social needs to enable the uptake of new technologies;
  • Engage participants via emails and phone calls, since it has been proven as the most effective means of recruitment;

F

  • Focus on environmental aspects through a multi-stakeholder approach to ensure stability and availability of resources;

G

  • Governance should strive for active engagement of the key public and private stakeholder bodies for the development and impact of maritime transportation;

I

  • Improve marine education provided in medium and higher education;
  • Involve the private sector, policymakers, the scientific community and the local and national community for the definition of ideas, needs and solutions;

M

  • Make marine issues visible and understandable to the public;

P

  • Participatory workshops provide good opportunities for better discovering developments and problems of the studied industry;
  • Provide tax reductions or other benefits to businesses for massively applying marine protection legislature and procedures and for making use of innovative marine technologies;
  • Push participants to move beyond exchanging ideas and to start co-creating a vision;

R

  • Raise awareness through education for developing/supporting new technologies for responsible maritime transport;
  • Raise the attractiveness of science studies by illustrating the application of science in societal issues such as responsible shipbuilding and harbours;

T

  • The reversed science cafe method motivates participants to express their opinions and views in a structured, inclusive, yet open manner;


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Workshop Methodology

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