Lessons Learned for Sea Transportation

A

• Advocate on the necessity of creating specific funding schemes to support the development of the targeted sector based on RRI principles;

B

• Be aware of the participants' motivations to attend a workshop such as to learn from others participants;
• Business stakeholders are mostly interested in the policy agendas;

C

• Continue to engage the stakeholders for knowledge exchange after the workshop;
• Create platforms where industry and academic leaders can disseminate accurate and influential information which can be accessible by the general public;
• Create procedures for an open access to data and data exchange, to allow for multiple feedbacks from end-users and the policy-makers;

D

• Develop information exchange systems between government, industry and the universities;
• Develop information-based decision support tools, with automated intervention systems;
• Disseminate widely local and regional regulations and type approvals since the businesses often have significant knowledge gaps;

E

• Engage government and lawmakers 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;
• Ethical issues are highly important in maintaining the sustainable operation of the vessels while safeguarding the environment;

F

• Facilitate fruitful discussions and widely disseminate conclusions to third parties;

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 legislation;
• Improving education/training;
• Increase environmental and science education to promote societal understanding and participation;
• Increasing use of LNG fuel for ships;
• 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;

M

• Make marine issues visible and understandable to the public;
• Make ports hubs of sustainability;
• Make scientific information reliable and easily accessible to citizens and stakeholders;
• Make the workshops highly participatory and interactive;
• Motivate to receive ahead of the workshop and on time the participants' action ideas and to attract participants from all stakeholders’ groups;

N

• National and international organizations must balance economic profit and a competitive market with the goal of preserving the natural environment of our seas cannot;

P

• Provide Open Access to data for a proactive response to societal challenges;
• 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 for multi-stakeholders' representation and input from all relevant actors;
• Push participants to move beyond exchanging ideas and to start co-creating a vision;

R

• Raise awareness and embed RRI into educational curricula;
• 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;

S

• Start measuring and collecting marine scientific data on board different non-scientific vessels;
• Start specific economic changes (investment, taxation) to support the goal of efficient and sustainable ports and ships;

T

• Take measures to develop and further enhance the engagement and cooperation between different stakeholders;

W

• While interpreting the results consider that participants can have different information and data about the topic: the "real" situation can be difficult to identify;

See also...

Marine Sector