Lessons Learned per Creating new opportunities

Milestone 1

• Use dialog for initiating collaboration among private landowners and municipalities;
• Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) can help to overcome the current marine and societal challenges and unlock the potential for Blue Growth.

Milestone 2

• Raise citizen and business awareness about the environmental protection and sustainability.

Milestone 3

• Create the opportunity to network and discuss, in order to identify the key marine and societal challenges for the Wave Energy Sector;
• The education of young people and the use of exchange programs between schools will lead to active citizenship respectful of the environment.

Milestone 4

• The absence of gender equality reveals a critical gap in access to opportunities and resources and decision-making power for women and men.

Milestone 5

• 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 and organize more actions, in order that different stakeholders meet and discuss their ideas more often and get used to think outside their boxes.

Milestone 6

• Create new models for evaluating risks and economic issues;
• Use citizen observatories through mobile phones to report pollution sites and inappropriate environmental behaviour;
• Educate children on the importance of biodiversity and how to think about the environment responsibly;
• Educate citizens about the value of the sea in their daily lives is necessary to raise ocean awareness and literacy;
• Create links among participants for future partnerships and develop a network of common interest;
• Follow up with the participants with periodic workshops using the same methodology.

Milestone 7

• 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;
• Try to engage volunteer groups/stakeholders who use the specific environment on a regular basis.

Milestone 8

• Ensure that funding will be secured for action plan execution and follow up actions;
• 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;
• 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;
• Ensure a ministerial umbrella to facilitate the educative process in school by scientists or scientific mediators.

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Workshop Definition & Execution