Lessons Learned for Structured Democratic Dialogue Methodology

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Carefully consider the workshop's duration as many participants think that a one day-long workshop is too long;
Changing customer demand requires attractive and sustainable products that provide unique and customised experiences;
Choose a suitable method for the number of participants and the specific of the workshop;
Choose your methodology considering your audience;
Clarify from the start of any process or workshop all terms and acronyms so that all participants from various backgrounds understand them;
Collect participant's post-workshop feedback focusing on the added value workshop points: the participatory method, the topic, the action plan, the common vision, the future participation options;
Communicate broadly and raise wide awareness about the specific initiative to anchor change;
Consider personal e-mails as the recruitment mechanism because it has been proven by far the most effective recruitment mechanism;
Consider the impacts of any activity beforeconsenting which may require the deployments of monitoring technologies to facilitate monitoring and impact assessment;
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;
Create a friendly and relaxed workshop atmosphere for participants to have lively and open discussions;
Create a seafood producers organisation in France to reduce the gap between the producers and consumers;
Create an open access platform with all Deep Sea Mining data available including biological and geological information;
Create an organized knowledge synthesis on Deep Sea Mining;
Create funding mechanisms to promote RRI in research and innovation in the specific sector;
Create higher awareness on technological achievements from challenging and cutting edge successful projects to attract skilled people to work in the sector;
Create innovative tools to guide the consumers, thus inducing public and private stakeholders (including NGOs) to invest in more sustainable directions;
Create platforms where industry and academic leaders can disseminate accurate and influential information which can be accessible by the general public;
Create training programs targeting SMEs and investors by focusing on enablers and barriers;

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Each initiative on sustainable tourism products requires the right expertise (knowledge and skills) and institutional participatory processes that will support stakeholders' succesfull involvement;
Educate all stakeholders about sustainable tourism sustainability to achieve socially and environmentally acceptable goods and services;
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;
Educate planners, civil society leaders, business industry to be more collaborative, responsible and exert place-based leadership;
Educate the public at large in their individual role in marine conservation and sustainability (Public Engagement, Science Education);
Education is necessary for the marine biotechnology development thus the need for developing university educational programmes on marine biotechnology;
Email and telephone were the best communication channels for promoting the workshop;
Empower citizens beyond data collection, in decision making and governance;
Empower European citizens, business representatives, researchers and policy makers to take informed decisions on the high seas through science education;
Engage government and law makers in order to make sustainable change in ports and ship;
Engage researchers with the industry for the development of appropriate technologies since there is a discrepancy between the academia and the industry needs;
Engage the public, involve governance bodies at various levels to generated ideas with ethical components, are sustainable, inclusive and of social justice;
Engage young potential "citizen scientists" in schools to promote the issue at hand;
Enhance coastal and maritime tourism by adapting to demographic changes, while maintaining the original vocation and atmosphere of the coastal cities;
Ensure that the process of co-generating an action plan is concluded during the workshop;
Ensure you have some big institutions newsletter to disseminate your workshop for recruitment and spread of the results;
Establish cooperation among diverse stakeholders (researchers, innovative businesses, politicians and citizens) even when it's challenging;
Establish transparent, efficient and effective democratic mechanisms amongst all involved and throughout all the phases to create trust;
Explain at the start of the workshop the different phases that participants will go through;
Explain RRI and innovation tools and how to embed them in policy agendas as participants find it useful;
Explain the workshop topic in an inclusive, strategic and broad manner for involving all types of participants;
Explain clearly the workshop methodology and how the outputs will be used at the beginning of the workshop and include some warm-up activity;

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Identify and invite the right number of participants representing all necessary science fields to create a viable action plan. Participant recruiting is time-consuming and must be planned well in advance of the workshop;
Identify what are the society perceptions and knowledge gaps to be considered in future planning of Deep Sea Mining research and innovation initiatives;
Implement innovative and responsive policies to face climate change effects and assure a balanced competitiveness, growth and sustainability of the maritime tourism sites;
Implement RRI in real situations, with many participants proposing many actions, are not suitable with a one-day SDDP;
Improve governance by defining a shared and common vision by involving citizens and business networks for clean and green industries to attract tourists and investments;
Increase awareness in the use of raw materials and their importance on our society;
Increase awareness in the youngest about the (local) marine issues to create a new generation of people that are aware of the problems and want to engage themselves, to take action also through a political career;
Increase environmental and science education to promote societal understanding and participation;
Increase knowledge on deep sea minerals occurrences and their economic;
Increasing use of LNG fuel for ships;
Initiate open access through public offices also to non-governmental stakeholders;
Initiate target awareness campaigns towards all stakeholders through a specific media campaigns;
Invest in communication campaign from professionals, work with marketing societies to translate the scientific results into clear messages that can reach in particular young people;
Invite additional stakeholders and communities to join the MARINA knowledge sharing platform and direct them to the results and materials related to Deep Sea Mining;
Involve a multitude of stakeholders and implement actions as widely as possible, even globally, in order for adopted policies and solutions to be as relevant as possible, resulting in more support to implement the changes by all sides;
Involve politicians and municipality representatives in workshops to increase its effectiveness;
Involving customers ranked the most favourable cluster with specific actions including the adoption of the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) business model;