Lessons Learned per Secure, clean and efficient energy

Milestone 1

• Attract different stakeholders in order to have a diversity and complementarity to obtain inputs as complete as possible;
• Plan the stakeholders carefully to ensure that the right people, stakeholder groups and organisations are in the room;
• Involve all interested stakeholders;
• Recruit participants based on their interest, research, business or experience related to the workshop topic;
• Offer an incentive for citizens in order to attract people to attend at the workshop.

Milestone 2

• Raise awareness of the general public on the environmental impact of offshore installations at all stages (building, exploitation, dismantling);
• Inform in a wider manner all societal actors about the issue.

Milestone 3

• Use methods that offer to the participants the opportunity to interact and to have open discussions;
• Explain the participatory method used to the participants as clearly and in a shorter time;
• Empower all stakeholder groups to co-create sustainable value propositions that reflect societal needs and support healthy marine environments thanks to RRI dimensions;
• Encouraged all the participants to work on all the solutions during the session;
• Create the opportunity to network and discuss, in order to identify the key marine and societal challenges for the Wave Energy Sector;
• Make a clear presentation of the debated issue and its current status;
• Use of different communications platforms/technologies to communicate with stakeholders and make data accessible;
• Use new communications channels and IT technologies as opportunities to engage with communities;
• Develop webinars for cross-sectorial stakeholder engagement.

Milestone 4

• Use a method that encourages participants to work together in order to have an interactive group;
• Try to approach of potential participants and their engagement in convergent discussions with the future topic of the event;
• Have proactive public participation from stakeholders, in particular from government and industry;
• Encourage and promote marine involvement for all stakeholders;
• Increase the level of awareness of Marine Spatial Planning process and it's implication in coastal communities and for all stakeholders;
• Promote best practice cross sectorial stakeholder engagement processes through webinars;
• Multidisciplinary research considers the sustainability vector is key.

Milestone 5

• Have a discussion phase that is long enough for all participants to be fully aware of all the implications of the proposed ideas without extending the duration of the workshop;
• Develop a stakeholder engagement plan;
• Encourage the production of socially and environmentally acceptable solutions and services with the science education of business and industry professionals;
• Plan what to do with buildings/installations which have been created while building wind farms;
• 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;
• Developing a spatial plan specific to zoning of areas of offshore renewables;
• Develop a GIS information database;
• Develop a clear communications strategy;
• Use of research and data sets to ensure that decisions are made to safeguard the interests of all stakeholders.

Milestone 6

• Consider Governance as a common responsibility of citizens and decision makers;
• 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;
• Develop societal awareness about water and advantages of use of renewable energy sources in general and offshore wind farms in particular;
• Use public-private partnerships as a new economical instrument;
• Raise public awareness regarding the benefits of renewable energy by promoting the renewable energy methods;
• Develop a clear understanding around Marine Spacial Planning (MSP) and what its implications are for all stakeholders groups including offshore wind;
• Open data for all interested stakeholders.

Milestone 7

• Build a coastal protection system that can harness the wave energy.

Milestone 8

• 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;
• Establish policies that are favourable for ecological investments in sustainable development;
• Educate policy-makers to science to reinforce policies and adopt coherent legislative frameworks of economic competitiveness and sustainability of offshore wind energy;
• Improve the legislative framework to encourage the capitalization process of renewable energy;
• Upgrade the transport infrastructure for renewable energy;
• Attract private investments and develop national projects;
• Attract students into engineering courses;
• Build the appropriate infrastructure and technology for the Wave Energy Sector;
• Create higher awareness on technological achievements from challenging and cutting edge successful projects to attract skilled people to work in the sector.

See also...

Societal Challenge