Lessons Learned per Substantive: Knowledge Mobilisation and Knowledge Sharing: "Making better decisions"

Expand

Milestone 1

• Use dialog for initiating collaboration among private landowners and municipalities;
• Involve all interested stakeholders;
• 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;
• Bring researchers from ‘non-conventional’ areas related to Deep Sea Mining;
• 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;

Expand

Milestone 2

• Present the topic approached from the beginning of the workshop;
• Define a clear triggering question highlighting the issue and goal to be addressed at the workshop;
• Define the initiative's broad goals from a policy, social / cultural, economic, technological perspective;
• Present the RRI concept with clear examples;
• Focus the challenge with relevant examples for the participants and related to their daily lives;
• Make the MARINA platform a case study platform where collaborative coastal climate solution projects are presented;
• Be aware about the participants motivations to attend a workshop such as to learn from others participants;
• Raise awareness of the general public on the environmental impact of offshore installations at all stages (building, exploitation, dismantling);
• Provide enough time for the presentation of science outcomes and sharing knowledge from research point of view;
• Make marine issues visible and understandable to the public;
• Make the high seas more visible to all stakeholders, the benefits for all and the issues at stake;
• Raise citizen and business awareness about the environmental protection and sustainability;
• Initiate target awareness campaigns towards all stakeholders through a specific media;
• Run awareness campaigns so that the issue problem is clearly understood by all stakeholders;
• Start planning at least 4 months in advance the organisation of a workshop as it is very time consuming task;
• Define a workshop triggering question that is short, clear and easily understood by all stakeholders;
• Improve science literacy and research applicability to increase awareness on the specific issue;
• Explain clearly the MARINA project goals;
• Use keynote speakers to introduce the topic for example specialists, but their speech must be in simple language and avoid using difficult terminology;
• Inform in a wider manner all societal actors about the issue.

Expand

Milestone 3

• Involve the private sector, policymakers, the scientific community and the local and national community for the definition of ideas, needs and solutions;
• Moderate the workshop with an experienced facilitator to avoid "Groupthink" and the "Erroneous Priorities Effect";
• Offer a clear explanation of the methodology used to be as clear as possible to the participants;
• Ensure a good representation of professionals (industry related to the topic, policy makers, journalists) to have a balanced dialogue;
• Use common words so that non scientists participants can understand and contribute to the discussion without being overwhelmed by scientific language;
• Invite and encourage different stakeholders to participate at this kind of workshops;
• Develop concrete examples that stakeholders can understand and get involved;
• 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;
• Push for multi-stakeholders' representation and input from all relevant actors;
• Develop webinars for cross-sectorial stakeholder engagement;
• Workshops may participants convince about RRI, but doesn't tend to help them in the concrete application of RRI in their daily work;
• Use role play and "Decide" game to integrate difficult concepts in workshop discussion;
• The reversed science cafe method motivates participants to express their opinions and views in a structured, inclusive, yet open manner;
• Participatory workshops provide good opportunities for better discovering developments and problems of the studied industry;
• Empower European citizens, business representatives, researchers and policy makers to take informed decisions on the high seas through science education;
• All relevant stakeholders need to be involved in the process of developing sustainable tourism ventures within Marine Protected Areas (MPAs);
• The SDD dialogue is a rigorous and efficient participatory methodology, but also time-consuming, leaving no time for the interpretation of the presented ideas in terms of their RRI dimensions by the participants during the workshop;
• The SDD method was evaluated as very well structured, inclusive, productive, scientific, interesting and dynamic;
• Engage researchers with the industry for the development of appropriate technologies since there is a discrepancy between the academia and the industry needs;
• Learn about participatory methods and how to use them;
• Help the participants with examples to understand how to embed RRI principles when discussing a sector and societal challenges;
• Be flexible with the methodology adopted in order to finalize the process, even if not in the way you planned;
• Clarify from the start of any process or workshop all terms and acronyms so that all participants from various backgrounds understand them;
• Encouraged all the participants to work on all the solutions during the session;
• Connect all stakeholders through education and communication;
• Foster collaboration among companies in the marine biotechnologies value chain and social and environmental actors.

Expand

Milestone 4

• Let different perspectives on the subject, which will lead to a common background for further discussion;
• Give all participants the opportunity to discuss and generate ideas;
• Allocate time for every participant to present his/her idea and to discuss it in plenum;
• Take measures to develop and further enhance the engagement and cooperation between different stakeholders;
• Request the participants to state their ideas in the form of action statements in order to “push” them to think in practical terms;
• Do not interfere too much with the topics participants chose to focus on, it mostly depends on individual needs/experience and knowledge;
• Find the best way to incorporate the multi-disciplinary element into the organisation of the workshop;
• Capture the content in a way that is more free-flowing which is later interpreted by the workshop team;
• Activate citizens as a resourceful group of action that could lead to a more innovative and including society;
• 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;
• Focus on the concept and its tools when explaining RRI to participants;
• Focus on environmental aspects through a multi-stakeholder approach to ensure stability and availability of resources;
• 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..;
• The SDD method allows for integrating contributions from individuals with diverse views, backgrounds and perspectives through a process that is structured, inclusive and collaborative;
• Mobilise stakeholders early in the process to develop viable and sustainable business models;
• A structured participatory method like SDD helps participants converge their opinions towards a common vision and a common action plan;
• Multidisciplinary research considers the sustainability vector is key;
• Avoiding "Groupthink" and the "Erroneous Priorities Effect": taking measures for the protection of the authenticity of all ideas;
• Plan well the workshop so that participants provide their ideas in an active way;
• 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;
• 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;
• Use a method that encourages participants to work together in order to have an interactive group;
• Develop partnerships for science outreach actions;
• Make an inventory of innovations and tools, and facilitate collaboration and networking for the development of biotechnologies in France;
• Provide the participants with the legislative aspects related to the topic. If possible ensure the attendance of an expert;
• Promote the societal challenge as a hot topic and the workshop's results (media, partners, stakeholders, etc);
• Give participants more time to contribute to the ideas at other tables.

Expand

Milestone 5

• Implement a coherent national monitoring programme;
• Engage local communities in awareness raising event;
• Apply a long-term and crosscutting strategic planning by defining SMART common vision and actions;
• 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;
• Have a discussion phase that is long enough for all participants to be fully aware of all the implications of the proposed ideas without extending the duration of the workshop;
• Have participants rank the priorities and discuss from the highest to the lowest to co-construct a common vision;
• Ensure that all participants stay until the end of the workshop to have coherent results;
• Foster stakeholder engagement, capacity building, behavioural changes and production and consumption pattern shift with Science education;
• Learn from education, rather than experience, is necessary to avoid climate changes impact;
• Include marine/environmental education in school curricula;
• Try to obtain clear actions from people from different areas of interest, but targeting the common vision;
• Develop new models and ways of collaborating on climate change in order to create common knowledge and more awareness of climate change in public mind;
• Develop a national strategy for coastal management and coastal protection;
• Develop a coastal protection strategy that is fit for purpose by all stakeholders;
• Developing a spatial plan specific to zoning of areas of offshore renewables;
• Develop a clear communications strategy;
• Develop a GIS information database;
• Use of research and data sets to ensure that decisions are made to safeguard the interests of all stakeholders;
• Plan what to do with buildings/installations which have been created while building wind farms;
• Encourage the production of socially and environmentally acceptable solutions and services with the science education of business and industry professionals;
• Prepare take home tools and methods that participants can implement in their jobs;
• Raise awareness through education for developing/supporting new technologies for responsible maritime transport;
• Push for adjust rules to allow open access to relevant sector research results;
• Work together (science, law, economics, policy) to give advice on seabed mining issues;
• Awareness and education are fundamental in changing mind-sets;
• Increase awareness in the use of raw materials and their importance on our society;
• Increase knowledge on deep sea minerals occurrences and their economic;
• Create an organized knowledge synthesis on Deep Sea Mining;
• 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;
• Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: a) simple, short title; one line describing the idea and one-two lines (minimum) explaining and clarifying the idea;
• Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: b) think who would be responsible for implementing the proposed action and how to engage the person or organisation;
• 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;
• Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: c) timing (when could such an idea be implemented);
• Generate ideas for actions during the workshops by having: d) resources (how would the idea be implemented);
• Increase awareness regarding water quality;
• Improve efficient communication, generate plural debates and disseminate reliable data and information to convert vision into reality;
• Include more education aspects of citizenship, sustainability and ecology in schools;
• Promote the meaning of the term "renewable energy systems";
• Develop educational programs to prepare specialists in the "renewable energy systems" field;
• Conduct studies of renewable energy on the Black Sea coastal area;
• Choose the most effective methodology to build a common vision and give space to many different voices;
• Raise public awareness on the real problems;
• Have business and industry professionals consider producing socially and environmentally acceptable marine bio-based goods and services;
• While interpreting the results consider that participants can have different information and data about the topic: the "reality" can be difficult to identify;
• Ask the participants to obtain in advance the necessary authorization from the Institutions they represent, to propose actions during the workshop.

Expand

Milestone 6

• Involve some stakeholders in the creation or validation of the scientific processes to improve theur acceptance of the final results, even if it can be seen as a time-consuming process;
• Increase environmental and science education to promote societal understanding and participation;
• Create training programs targeting SMEs and investors by focusing on enablers and barriers;
• Take actions in order to update the actual legislation;
• 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;
• Engage participants to apply RRI principles in daily work and daily life;
• Create new models for evaluating risks and economic issues;
• Involve citizens in the political/technical systems;
• Inform and educate wider society of the impacts, challenges and potential solutions for coastal protection;
• Make scientific information reliable and easily accessible to citizens and stakeholders;
• Assess / quantify the social, economic and environmental risk;
• 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 a clear understanding around Marine Spacial Planning (MSP) and what its implications are for all stakeholders groups including offshore wind;
• 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;
• Open data for all interested stakeholders;
• 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;
• Contribute with knowledge and conceptual frameworks that support interaction, collaboration and holistic recommendations based on research experience;
• Develop societal awareness about water and advantages of use of renewable energy sources in general and offshore wind farms in particular;
• Carry out studies on potential impact of the investment in offshore wind energy to develop them;
• Educate all stakeholders about sustainable tourism sustainability to achieve socially and environmentally acceptable goods and services;
• Create an open access platform with all Deep Sea Mining data available including biological and geological information;
• Share data for a better cooperation and public engagement on the high seas;
• 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;
• Promote public engagement actions to raise awareness to the urgency of deep sea mapping;
• Initiate open access through public offices also to non-governmental stakeholders;
• 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;
• Provide Open Access to data for a proactive response to societal challenges;
• Develop information exchange systems between government, industry and the universities;
• Educate the public at large in their individual role in marine conservation and sustainability (Public Engagement, Science Education);
• 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;
• Start measuring and collecting marine scientific data on board different non-scientific vessels;
• Use public-private partnerships as a new economical instrument;
• Raise public awareness regarding the benefits of renewable energy by promoting the renewable energy methods;
• Organise Open Days in companies to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with marine biotechnologies;
• Promote researchers qualifications to find new bio applications for products answering societal needs;
• Raise awareness on aquaculture in the Azores;
• Raise awareness and spread information about marine biotechnologies to the different groups of stakeholders;
• Develop information-based decision support tools, with automated intervention systems;
• Implement training and guidance for careers around marine biotechnologies to reduce marine pollution;
• 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.

Expand

Milestone 7

• 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;
• Develop real-time information systems, training activities and incentives to share knowledge and information for avoiding tendencies of local governments and businesses to downplay negative consequences;
• Consider the distinction between the actions of making information available and the actions of making the information understandable by its potential users when dealing with Open Access;
• Restructuring different mechanisms in order to prevent pollution and to apply polluter sanctions, to ensure the transparency of legislative processes;
• It's necessary a good collaboration and interaction between civil society, policy makers, researchers, business sector and citizens, in all the Black Sea coastal countries;
• Take into consideration new types of ownership forms in order to kick-start of development;
• Analyse the impact of plumes and waste produced by Deep Sea Mining exploitation;
• Develop efficient monitoring systems and assess the environmental impacts of best/worst policy practice;
• 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;
• Start specific economic changes (investment, taxation) to support the goal of efficient and sustainable activities;
• Build a coastal protection system that can harness the wave energy;
• Get media cover and social media presence to influence policy and decision makers;
• Enhance control mechanisms of research and innovation outputs, according to ethical rules;
• Collect and share information and good practices to raise awareness on marine biotech and to reduce marine pollution;
• 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.

Expand

Milestone 8

• Coordinate collaborative activities and tools to push RRI forward;
• 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;

• Put in place effective pathways for communicating policy recommandations to EU and to national bodies as part of the global process of the project;
• Be aware that the knowledge transfer to other sectors and general public is a great challenge faced by partners of european projects;
• Embed governance in legislation through accountability to ensure the sustainability and to address societal challenges;
• Use the media and science mediators to make society aware about research and innovation results;
• Advocate on the necessity of creating specific funding schemes to support the development of the targeted sector based on RRI principles;
• Encourage scientific knowledge and professional growth that have fundamental roles in supporting innovative sectors;
• Raise awareness among the general public to make informed choices and have an active social participation to further push the new initiatives;
• Improve port reception facilities and services for processing over waste from ships;
• 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;
• Raise awareness and embed RRI into educational curricula;
• Attract students into engineering courses;
• Build the appropriate infrastructure and technology for the Wave Energy Sector;
• Involve "Ambassadors" or " figures" at regional level (navigators, high level sportsman, known well-respected public figures of all kinds);
• 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;
• Educate policy-makers to science to reinforce policies and adopt coherent legislative frameworks of economic competitiveness and sustainability of offshore wind energy;
• Raise the attractiveness of science studies by illustrating the application of science in societal issues;
• Improve marine education provided in medium and higher education;
• Enhance coastal and maritime tourism by adapting to demographic changes, while maintaining the original vocation and atmosphere of the coastal cities;
• Educate planners, civil society leaders, business industry to be more collaborative, responsible and exert place-based leadership;
• 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;
• Reliable scientific information is not easily accessible for sectorial actors;
• To develop a sector, develop a legal framework promoting and regulating its development;
• Create higher awareness on technological achievements from challenging and cutting edge successful projects to attract skilled people to work in the sector;
• Education is necessary for the marine biotechnology development thus the need for developing university educational programmes on marine biotechnology;
• Create platforms where industry and academic leaders can disseminate accurate and influential information which can be accessible by the general public;
• Focus on Science Education in sustainable development and marine resources management as a critical part of local culture and coastal tourism;
• Use of technology as an instrument to both monitor the regulations and to disseminate data in near real-time;
• Put in place an effective communication about green washing, so to improve the critical sense of the public against "fake" green activities;
• Promote governance arrangements and practices to favour sustainable tourism and seafood consumption;
• Communicate broadly and raise wide awareness about the specific initiative to anchor change;
• 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;
• Increase the usage of alternative fuels for ships as for instance Liquefide Naturaò Gas;
• Disseminate information about opportunities, threats and risks on the studied topic;
• 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;
• Improve the legislative framework to encourage the capitalization process of renewable energy;
• Upgrade the transport infrastructure for renewable energy;
• Provide scientific education in all the scholar cycles: it is crucial;
• 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;
• Improve legislation to deal with climate change and coastal errosion;
• Improving education/training;
• Claim for an international coordination to identify the possible impacts of innovations;
• Use your participatory event as a flywheel to organize other similar events;
• Train educators and information relays on marine biotechnologies to develop them in the field of marine pollution;
• Improve regulations and legislations about the release of bacteria at sea.

See also...

Stakeholder Motivation