Lessons Learned per Milestone 8

Milestone 8

• Raise awareness among the general public to make informed choices and have an active social participation to further push the new initiatives;
• Focus on good enforcement of already existing legislation mechanisms rather than reinventing others from scratch and adjust legislation as necessary;
• Coordinate collaborative activities and tools to push RRI forward;
• Train policymakers through communication tools and adapt legislation to facilitate the creation of a dynamic knowledge-sharing mechanism;
• Organise regular follow-up workshops by involving more decision makers to anchor change;
• 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;
• Use the media and science mediators to make society aware about research and innovation results;
• Advocate on the necessity of creating specific funding schemes to support the development of the targeted sector based on RRI principles;
• Create funding mechanisms to promote RRI in research and innovation in the innovative sectors;
• 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;
• Encourage scientific knowledge and professional growth that have fundamental roles in supporting innovative sectors;
• Involve "Ambassadors" or " figures" at regional level (navigators, high level sportsman, known well-respected public figures of all kinds);
• Establish policies that are favourable for ecological investments in sustainable development;
• Use funding programs dedicated to citizens, aimed at replacing old goods and polluting with new and environmentally friendly ones;
• Involve citizens in public consultations and decision–making processes for local and national/ EU regulations;
• Attract private investments and develop national projects;
• 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;
• Provide strong incentives to promote the circular economy;
• 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;
• Raise awareness and embed RRI into educational curricula;
• Facilitate fruitful discussions and widely disseminate conclusions to third parties;
• Ensure the policies are socially inclusive and are widely known;
• To develop a sector, develop a legal framework promoting and regulating its development;
• Plan periodic meetings on the same topic, with old and new participants, to create ownership of the process, intensify the effort and ensure follow-up;
• 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;
• Translate in easy-to-understand messages research outputs and results for better dissemination. Consider using science mediators.

See also...

RRI Roadmap Milestones