Lessons Learned per Workshop Results

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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;
• Make lists of actions and players, record skills, know-how and economic potential, identify best practices and make full use of them to put the chosen topic on the national agenda;
• 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;
• Bring researchers from ‘non-conventional’ areas related to Deep Sea Mining;
• Recruit participants based on their interest, research, business or experience related to the workshop topic;
• There is a strong need for redefining and refocusing the business model of tourism.

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Milestone 2

• Develop messages that make the problem tangible for everybody for instance by translating facts and figures into something simple and impactful;
• Promote the involvement of public authorities on local, national and European levels;
• Make the high seas more visible to all stakeholders, the benefits for all and the issues at stake;
• Raise awareness of the general public on the environmental impact of offshore installations at all stages (building, exploitation, dismantling);
• Improve science literacy and research applicability to increase awareness on the specific issue;
• Make marine issues visible and understandable to the public;
• Perform an analysis of publics' behaviours before engaging the public engagement;
• Use audience targeted communication for all types stakeholders to engage them;
• Consider societal challenges (as defined by the EC) during the participative events, in order for the results to be easily related to them;
• Inform in a wider manner all societal actors about the issue.

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Milestone 3

• Ensure a good representation of professionals (industry related to the topic, policy makers, journalists) to have a balanced dialogue;
• Involve the private sector, policymakers, the scientific community and the local and national community for the definition of ideas, needs and solutions;
• Plan an in-depth and varied engagement with stakeholders at all stages of the projects;
• Adapt the presentation of projects information to the specific needs of respective stakeholders groups;
• Use common words so that non scientists participants can understand and contribute to the discussion without being overwhelmed by scientific language;
• Empower European citizens, business representatives, researchers and policy makers to take informed decisions on the high seas through science education;
• Connect all stakeholders through education and communication;
• Foster collaboration among companies in the marine biotechnologies value chain and social and environmental actors;
• Mobilize stakeholders for active involvement;
• Make a clear presentation of the debated issue and its current status;
• Use of different communications platforms/technologies to communicate with stakeholders and make data accessible;
• Use new communications channels and IT technologies as opportunities to engage with communities;
• Develop webinars for cross-sectorial stakeholder engagement;
• Enable workshops participants to create networks and communities of interest to further research and identify solutions for the studied issue;
• Engage researchers with the industry for the development of appropriate technologies since there is a discrepancy between the academia and the industry needs;
• Raise awareness among pupils and students about environmental protection through informational programs as well as promote the specific sector as a means of employability;
• Identify or create a unique Body entrusted with the control of a process to ensure coordination and synergy of all stakeholders involved;
• 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.

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Milestone 4

• Take measures to develop and further enhance the engagement and cooperation between different stakeholders;
• Make an inventory of innovations and tools, and facilitate collaboration and networking for the development of biotechnologies in France;
• Put in place a multi-stakeholder dialogue to efficiently reduce plastic pollution;
• Activate citizens as a resourceful group of action that could lead to a more innovative and including society;
• Promote the societal challenge as a hot topic and the workshop's results (media, partners, stakeholders, etc);
• Have proactive public participation from stakeholders, in particular from government and industry;
• Encourage and promote marine involvement for all stakeholders;
• Increase the level of awareness of Marine Spatial Planning process and it's implication in coastal communities and for all stakeholders;
• Promote best practice cross sectorial stakeholder engagement processes through webinars;
• Mobilise stakeholders early in the process to develop viable and sustainable business models;
• Joined stakeholder involvement produces ideas with integrated and holistic focus based on synergy and collaboration;
• 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;
• Encourage researchers to voice their opinions on marine issues in the media focusing on economic, environmental and social needs to enable the uptake of new technologies;
• 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;
• Multidisciplinary research considers the sustainability vector is key;
• Actively introduce Gender Equality into discussions and ideas, as most often is a non considered aspect.

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Milestone 5

• Foster stakeholder engagement, capacity building, behavioural changes and production and consumption pattern shift with Science education;
• Develop a stakeholder engagement plan;
• 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;
• Focus not only on high-level ideas, but also on required research and innovation actions needed to execute them;
• Develop a common vision and an action plan with a more narrow focus combining development milestones and follow-up workshops;
• Create decision-making processes that are participative, transparent and allow for public deliberation;
• Check carefully the voting process of the actions, to avoid selfish or non correct behaviours which could distort the results;
• Check carefully the voting process, to avoid selfish or improper behaviours, which could distort the results;
• Empower citizens beyond data collection through involvement in decision-making and governance;
• Prepare take home tools and methods that participants can implement in their jobs;
• Provide a quality framework in which all stakeholders can work toward a solution thanks to a good governance;
• Encourage the production of socially and environmentally acceptable solutions and services with the science education of business and industry professionals;
• Have business and industry professionals consider producing socially and environmentally acceptable marine bio-based goods and services;
• 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 new methods of governance for engaging citizens through public awareness and politics;
• 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;
• Include key local stakeholders in the planning and implementation of local strategies;
• Include more education aspects of citizenship, sustainability and ecology in schools;
• Organize more science dissemination events targeting the general public;
• Increase knowledge on deep sea minerals occurrences and their economic;
• Work together (science, law, economics, policy) to give advice on seabed mining issues;
• Increase awareness in the use of raw materials and their importance on our society;
• Identify what are the society's perceptions and knowledge gaps for consideration in future planning of Deep Sea Mining research and innovation initiatives;
• Develop new capacities for studying and a performing monitoring;
• Increase awareness regarding water quality;
• Conduct studies of renewable energy on the Black Sea coastal area;
• Promote the meaning of the term "renewable energy systems";
• Develop educational programs to prepare specialists in the "renewable energy systems" field
• Raise public awareness on the real problems;
• Develop and implement awareness and educational campaigns and engage local communities;
• Learn from education, rather than experience, is necessary to avoid climate changes impact;
• Include marine/environmental education in school curricula;
• Developing a spatial plan specific to zoning of areas of offshore renewables;
• Develop a GIS information database.

Develop a clear communications strategy;

• Use of research and data sets to ensure that decisions are made to safeguard the interests of all stakeholders;
• Develop a national strategy for coastal management and coastal protection;
• Develop a coastal protection strategy that is fit for purpose by all stakeholders;
• Engage the public and involve governing bodies at various levels to generate ideas that are ethical, sustainable, inclusive and of social justice;
• Focus on RRI issues by prompting participants to talk more about how researchers can be enrolled in all actions generated and how other stakeholders can be useful to researchers;
• Define SMART common vision and actions towards a specific goal and project;
• Push for adjust rules to allow open access to relevant sector research results;
• Raise awareness through education for developing/supporting new technologies for responsible maritime transport;
• Push participants to move beyond exchanging ideas and to start co-creating a vision;
• Awareness and education are fundamental in changing mind-sets;
• Open access, i.e. giving free online access to the results of publicly-funded research data will boost innovation and increase the use of scientific results by all societal actors;
• While interpreting the results consider the location of the workshop: statistically most of the participants will come from the area where the workshop is held;
• Claim for an alignment between legislation and the changing scientific situation and technological innovations;
• Promote local communities and their traditions for societal relevance of the scientific outputs;
• Choose the most effective methodology to build a common vision and give space to many different voices.

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Milestone 6

• Consider Governance as a common responsibility of citizens and decision makers;
• Facilitate collaboration between research and industry/market to create a dynamic knowledge-sharing mechanism;
• Convince investors to facilitate the creation of a dynamic knowledge-sharing mechanism;
• Identify common working initiatives between municipalities and the civil societies, so that citizens may be actively involved;
• 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;
• Take actions in order to update the actual legislation;
• Increase environmental and science education to promote societal understanding and participation;
• Create training programs targeting SMEs and investors by focusing on enablers and barriers;
• Put in place a policy-oriented, holistic and integrated approach to tackle complex issues;
• Exchange with star chefs on new products from the transformation of marine resources to provide the opportunity to make the audience aware a wider audience;
• Develop new tools and infrastructures of research on marine resources, particularly in inaccessible depths, but also for monitoring the marine environment, stocks of biomass or still unwanted algae;
• Make restaurants aware restaurants and the public about the potential offered by the blue biotechnologies;
• Share data for a better cooperation and public engagement on the high seas;
• Raise awareness and spread information about marine biotechnologies to the different groups of stakeholders;
• Develop a "Social and Solidarity Economy" type of framework in the field of marine biotechnologies;
• Raise awareness on aquaculture in the Azores;
• Carry out studies on potential impact of the investment in offshore wind energy to develop them;
• Educate children to environmental issues as well as renewable energy profits to create a new wiser society;
• Develop societal awareness about water and advantages of use of renewable energy sources in general and offshore wind farms in particular;
• 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;
• Encourage scientists and NGO's to popularize the different aspects of marine biotechnology through science café, forums, open days etc;
• Organise Open Days in companies to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with marine biotechnologies;
• Involve senior/retired scientific experts to communicate on marine biotechnologies in layman's terms to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with the topic;
• Promote researchers qualifications to find new bio applications for products answering societal needs;
• 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;
• Implement training and guidance for careers around marine biotechnologies to reduce marine pollution;
• Contribute with knowledge and conceptual frameworks that support interaction, collaboration and holistic recommendations based on research experience;
• Push for broad vision for industrial harbour development by local governments inviting non-harbour stakeholders to contribute in new ways;
• Involve citizens in the political/technical systems.

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;
• Create an open access platform with all Deep Sea Mining data available including biological and geological information;
• Promote public engagement actions to raise awareness to the urgency of deep sea mapping;
• Create a common DATABASE – for centralizing all the data and studies regarding biodiversity;
• Develop partnership between different stakeholders;
• Use public-private partnerships as a new economical instrument;
• Raise public awareness regarding the benefits of renewable energy by promoting the renewable energy methods;
• Promote and develop responsible and sustainable tourism in a changing environment;
• Use rational the natural resources, with maximum economy;
• Education is the most important aspect that can accelerate social change and climate change mitigation;
• Create a path to open information on climate changes topic and related data;
• Change unsustainable patterns of consumption and production, in order to reduce the amount of waste

Develop campaigns for promoting sustainable fishing methods and techniques through protecting resources and other incentives/compensation;

• Development of an educational platform for changing knowledge between public and private institutions;
• Develop a clear understanding around Marine Spacial Planning (MSP) and what its implications are for all stakeholders groups including offshore wind;
• Open data for all interested stakeholders;
• Use of the outcomes of the national monitoring programme as part of a targeted national awareness raising campaign;
• Inform and educate wider society of the impacts, challenges and potential solutions for coastal protectio;
• Assess / quantify the social, economic and environmental risk;
• Push governmental bodies for high-tier governance on local initiatives to have the biggest impact;
• Follow-up on motivated participants of how that used the knowledge obtained in workshops for third private and professional projects;
• Educate the public at large in their individual role in marine conservation and sustainability (Public Engagement, Science Education);
• Educate all stakeholders about sustainable tourism sustainability to achieve socially and environmentally acceptable goods and services;
• Changing customer demand requires attractive and sustainable products that provide unique and customised experiences;
• Action and follow-up the co-defined action plan;
• Make scientific information reliable and easily accessible to citizens and stakeholders;
• 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;
• Business stakeholders are mostly interested on the policy agendas;
• Consider the impacts of any activity before consenting 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;
• Provide Open Access to data for a proactive response to societal challenges;
• Develop information exchange systems between government, industry and the universities;
• Push for cooperation among academic institutions and the industry, as it is crucial;
• 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;
• Start measuring and collecting marine scientific data on board different non-scientific vessels;
• Develop information-based decision support tools, with automated intervention systems.

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Milestone 7

• Follow-up with all participants and monitor results regularly and engage them in post-workshop knowledge sharing and networking through an online platform;
• Governance should strive for active engagement of the key public and private stakeholder bodies for the development and impact on the societal challenge;
• The ultimate aim should be to develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts and to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products;
• Be aware that only about half of the participants are likely to use the knowledge gained at the workshop;
• Build capacity through education by developing local and national programmes for secondary schools and outreach programmes through citizen projects utilising real-time data from monitoring equipment;
• 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;
• Enhance control mechanisms of research and innovation outputs, according to ethical rules.

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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;
• 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;
• Create funding mechanisms to promote RRI in research and innovation in the innovative sectors;
• Encourage scientific knowledge and professional growth that have fundamental roles in supporting innovative sectors;
• Increase the impact of projects' results thanks to open access;
• Push for the adoption of common processes for accessibility of results of European projects that would allow a comparison of results

through time and creation of broader synergies among past and present projects;

• Involve "Ambassadors" or " figures" at regional level (navigators, high level sportsman, known well-respected public figures of all kinds);
• Promote education, training and more equal incomes for fishermen in the Azores;
• Consider opportunities of synergies between the fisheries and aquaculture sectors in the Azores;
• Beware that the high level of qualification needed in aquaculture and the small scale of the region market are two constraints of the synergies between the fisheries and aquaculture sectors in the Azores;
• Open university faculties, strongly connected with wind farms to help the sustainable development of renewable energy;
• Scale up research and bring responses to sustainable development of offshore wind farms with Science education;
• Implement program of innovative research in relation to the effectiveness of the constructions of towers and generators to ensure sustainable development of renewable energy;
• 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;
• Start a regional programme and raise awareness of tourism actors to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with marine biotechnologies;
• Put in place a certification label of projects to draw guidelines for the sustainable development of marine biotechnologies;
• Train educators and information relays on marine biotechnologies to develop them in the field of marine pollution;
• 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;
• Oblige companies by contract to use 10% of their investment in an investigation in engineering design for mitigation of Deep Sea Mining during all the operation;
• Improve the legislative framework to encourage the capitalization process of renewable energy.

Upgrade the transport infrastructure for 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;
• Improve port reception facilities and services for processing over waste from ships;
• Attract private investments and develop national projects;
• Build the appropriate infrastructure and technology for the Wave Energy Sector;
• Enhance coastal and maritime tourism by adapting to demographic changes, while maintaining the original vocation and atmosphere of the coastal cities;
• Raise the attractiveness of science studies by illustrating the application of science in societal issues;
• 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;
• Reliable scientific information is not easily accessible for sectorial actors;
• Create a seafood producers organisation in France to reduce the gap between the producers and consumers;
• Focus on Science Education in sustainable development and marine resources management as a critical part of local culture and coastal tourism;
• Ethical issues are highly important in maintaining the sustainable operation of the vessels while safeguarding the environment;
• 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;
• Create platforms where industry and academic leaders can disseminate accurate and influential information which can be accessible by the general public;
• To develop a sector, develop a legal framework promoting and regulating its development;
• Education is necessary for the marine biotechnology development thus the need for developing university educational programmes on marine biotechnology;
• 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;
• Provide free and easier access to the results of the studies;
• Translate in easy-to-understand messages research outputs and results for better dissemination. Consider using science mediators;
• Provide scientific education in all the scholar cycles: it is crucial;
• Put in place an effective communication about green washing, so to improve the critical sense of the public against "fake" green activities;
• 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.

Increase the usage of alternative fuels for ships as for instance Liquefide Naturaò Gas;

• 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;
• Improve regulations and legislations about the release of bacteria at sea;
• Improving education/training;
• Improve legislation to deal with climate change and coastal errosion;
• Claim for an international coordination to identify the possible impacts of innovations.

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