Lessons Learned per Policy Makers

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;
• 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.

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;
• Be aware that policy-makers are not easy to engage unless they see a specific benefit that fits their agenda.

Milestone 3

• 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

• Have proactive public participation from stakeholders, in particular from government and industry;
• 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.

Milestone 5

• Apply a long-term and crosscutting strategic planning by defining SMART common vision and actions;
• Plan what to do with buildings/installations which have been created while building wind farms;
• Consider ethics when dealing with the legal frameworks to assure marine biotechnologies sustainability and social awareness;
• Identify easy-to-implement solutions to attract people and harbour-related businesses in innovative harbour development;
• Develop case studies on how municipalities work with climate change projects and community driven innovation;
• Develop tools for engaging citizens in urban development and communicate them broadly to inspire local communities;
• Improve governance by defining a shared and common vision by involving citizens and business networks for clean and green industries;
• Push for adjust rules to allow open access to relevant sector research results;
• 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;
• Identify common working initiatives between municipalities and the civil societies, so that citizens may be actively involved;
• Take actions in order to update the actual legislation;
• 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;
• Educate children to environmental issues as well as renewable energy profits to create a new wiser society;
• Organize of a marine biotechnology day at the regional level including different actors to make the general public aware on the marine biotechnology sector and its potential;
• 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;
• 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;
• Succeed with public engagement through science education and open access in policy;
• Create procedures for an open access to data and data exchange, to allow for multiple feedbacks from end-users and policy-makers;
• Disseminate widely local and regional regulations and type approvals since the businesses often have significant knowledge gaps;
• Develop information exchange systems between government, industry and the universities;
• 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

• Get media cover and social media presence to influence policy and decision makers;
• Organise a European "Grenelle" of bioethics to do an inventory of knowledge, regulations and current projects and processes as well as to define indicators and good practices for the development of marine. biotech;
• Make regulations for developers and investors for securing more liveable areas in harbour transformations;
• Create innovative tools to guide the consumers, thus inducing public and private stakeholders (including NGOs) to invest in more sustainable directions;
• Start specific economic changes (investment, taxation) to support the goal of efficient and sustainable activities.

Milestone 8

• Focus on good enforcement of already existing legislation mechanisms rather than reinventing others from scratch and adjust legislation as necessary;
• Train policymakers through communication tools and adapt legislation to facilitate the creation of a dynamic knowledge-sharing mechanism;
• 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;
• Advocate on the necessity of creating specific funding schemes to support the development of the targeted sector based on RRI principles;
• Put in place effective pathways for communicating policy recommandations to EU and to national bodies as part of the global process of the project;
• Create of a one-stop shop for the Institute of blue bio-technologies with short and long-term strategies;
• Create an award for the best blue bio-technologies innovation or product to make maritime biotechnologies a sustainable economic opportunity;
• Promote the reinforcement of policies and adoption of coherent legislative frameworks to develop marine biotechnology;
• Establish policies that are favourable for ecological investments in sustainable development;
• Educate policy-makers to science to reinforce policies and adopt coherent legislative frameworks of economic competitiveness and sustainability of offshore wind energy;
• Coordinate and develop industrial, academic and political linkages to boost funding around marine biotechnologies;
• Train and convince policymakers, implementers, and investors to develop biotechnologies;
• Add marine biotechnologies in school programmes to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with marine biotechnologies;
• Try to develop stronger engagement among schools and the local authorities for the maintenance of basic infrastructure;
• Make environmental impact assessment mandatory for Deep Sea Mining within the EU;
• Improve the legislative framework to encourage the capitalization process of renewable energy;
• Use funding programs dedicated to citizens, aimed at replacing old goods and polluting with new and environmentally friendly ones;
• Define and update the legislation to prevent climate changes for Black Sea area;
• Involve citizens in public consultations and decision–making processes for local and national/ EU regulations;
• Build the appropriate infrastructure and technology for the Wave Energy Sector;
• 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;
• Improve marine education provided in medium and higher education;
• Protect the deep sea from mining, create laws that impose that deep sea mining is a non-profit activity and concert the deep sea into world heritage site;
• Provide strong incentives to promote the circular economy;
• Promote governance arrangements and practices to favour sustainable tourism and seafood consumption;
• Raise awareness and embed RRI into educational curricula;
• Ensure the policies are socially inclusive and are widely known;
• Push for governance and ethics to be required in business registration requirements for creating awareness on sustainability;
• To develop a sector, develop a legal framework promoting and regulating its development;
• Ensure a ministerial umbrella to facilitate the educative process in school by scientists or scientific mediators;
• Engage government and law makers in order to make sustainable change in ports and ship;
• Consider that National and International organizations must balance economic profit and a competitive market with the goal of preserving the natural environment of our seas;
• Make ports hubs of sustainability;
• Improve regulations and legislations about the release of bacteria at sea;
• Improve legislation to deal with climate change and coastal errosion.

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