Lessons Learned per Governance

Milestone 1

• Realize a complete inventory of local skills needed for the topic of academic actors, start-ups or companies already established in the region;
• Keep in mind the local context to answer local needs and specificities;
• Be careful of possible competition of other events happening as the same time in the same city or on the same topic;
• Start a survey to establish the relationship between local communities and the coastal areas and share results with politicians to put marine biotechnologies on the national agenda as an economic and sustainable opportunity;
• There is a strong need for redefining and refocusing the business model of tourism.

Milestone 2

• Promote the involvement of public authorities on local, national and European levels;
• Identify motives for policy makers and implementers to participate in the workshops as they are reluctant in participating;
• Explain RRI and innovation tools and how to embed them in policy agendas as participants find it useful;
• Be aware that policy-makers are not easy to engage unless they see a specific benefit that fits their agenda.

Milestone 3

• Construct a good collaboration among project partners from the beginning of the project to its legacy to ensure a wider take-up of the results by all partners;
• Consider carefully legislation and cultural differences between project participants in the discussion prior to the project proposal to avoid possible understanding of feasability barriers;
• Develop concrete examples that stakeholders can understand and get involved;
• Involve politicians and municipality representatives in workshops to increase its effectiveness;
• Identify or create a unique Body entrusted with the control of a process to ensure coordination and synergy of all stakeholders involved.

Milestone 4

• Focus on environmental aspects through a multi-stakeholder approach to ensure stability and availability of resources;
• Stakeholders are concerned that the authorities and the private companies will decide to advance with Deep Sea Mining without proper public consultation and without knowing sufficient about the deep sea;
• The society believes that RRI will never be in full effect without strong political will;
• Provide the participants with the legislative aspects related to the topic. If possible ensure the attendance of an expert.

Milestone 5

• Implement a coherent national monitoring programme;
• Apply a long-term and crosscutting strategic planning by defining SMART common vision and actions;
• Engage local communities in awareness raising event;
• Develop a common vision and an action plan with a more narrow focus combining development milestones and follow-up workshops;
• Consider the RRI principles as guidelines to construct the project processes for a sound management of the projects;
• Provide a quality framework in which all stakeholders can work toward a solution thanks to a good governance;
• Plan what to do with buildings/installations which have been created while building wind farms; * Develop new methods of governance for engaging citizens through public awareness and politics;
• Include key local stakeholders in the planning and implementation of local strategies;
• Improve governance by defining a shared and common vision by involving citizens and business networks for clean and green industries;
• Claim for an alignment between legislation and the changing scientific situation and technological innovations.

Milestone 6

• Consider Governance as a common responsibility of citizens and decision makers;
• Develop sustainable and long-term solutions even if they do not entirely focus on technical and/or economic aspects, but add lifestyle qualities and/or facilities;
• Put in place a policy-oriented, holistic and integrated approach to tackle complex issues;
• Make restaurants aware restaurants and the public about the potential offered by the blue biotechnologies;
• Develop a "Social and Solidarity Economy" type of framework in the field of marine biotechnologies;
• Develop new model of governance for marine biotechnology development including the engagement of the society;
• Build a network to report challenges to politicians to put marine biotechnologies on the national agenda as an economic and sustainable opportunity;
• Push for broad vision for industrial harbour development by local governments inviting non-harbour stakeholders to contribute in new ways;
• Adapt local policies and strategies in order to be in agreement with research outcomes;
• Plan local actions in agreement with its local circumstances instead of promoting larger-scale policies;
• Support local and international decision-makers in charge of evaluating if, when, how, by who and for what should Deep Sea Mining ever take place;
• Develop campaigns for promoting sustainable fishing methods and techniques through protecting resources and other incentives/compensation;
• Use of the outcomes of the national monitoring programme as part of a targeted national awareness raising campaign;
• Push governmental bodies for high-tier governance on local initiatives to have the biggest impact;
• Create procedures for an open access to data and data exchange, to allow for multiple feedbacks from end-users and policy-makers;
• Business stakeholders are mostly interested on the policy agendas;
• 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;
• The greater majority of actions relate to more than one RRI dimension; this shows that actions are multidisciplinary and involve multiple stakeholders;
• Implement innovative and responsive policies to face climate change effects and assure a balanced competitiveness, growth and sustainability;
• Develop information-based decision support tools, with automated intervention systems.

Milestone 7

Milestone 8

See also...

RRI Dimension