Lessons Learned from France MML workshops

• Realize a complete inventory of local skills on marine biotech of academic actors, start-ups or companies already established in the region;
• Create of a one-stop shop for the Institute of (Bio) Blue Technologies with short and long-term strategies;
• Create an award the best Blue (bio)technologies innovation or product to make maritime biotech a sustainable economic opportunity;
• Sensibilize restaurants and the public about the potential offered by the blue biotech;
• Organize of a Marine biotech day at the regional level including different actors to make the general public aware on the marine biotechnology sector and its potential;
• Develop new mode of governance for marine biotechnology development including the engagement of the society;
• Carry the project with "Ambassadors" or " figures" at regional level (navigators, high level sportsman, divers, swimmer);
• Assign participants to a specific table according to gender, type of organization/institution , type of expertise in the field, main interest in general to ensure multi-disciplinarity;
• Develop new collaborations for new means of communication;
• Such workshop make participants convinced about RRI, but doesn't tend to help them in the concrete application of RRI in their daily work;
• Focus on the concept and its tools when explaining RRI to participants;
• Multiply events where researchers from academia and industry exchange with a broader community to enhance this community and its visibility;
• Coordinate and develop industrial, academic and political linkages to boost funding around marine biotech;
• Exchange with star chefs on new products from the transformation of marine resources to provide the opportunity to sensibilize a wider audience;
• Encourage scientists and NGOS to popularize the different aspects of marine biotechnology through science café, forums, open days etc;
• Disseminate research and innovation outcomes that have societal relevance for ethical acceptability;
• Promote governance arrangements and practices to favour sustainable tourism and seafood consumption;
• Succeed with public engagement through science education and open access in policy;
• Involving customers ranked the most favourable cluster with specific actions including the adoption of the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) business model;
• 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;
• Reliable scientific information is not easily accessible for tourist and stakeholders of the tourism industry;
• 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;
• The absence of gender equality reveals a critical gap in access to opportunities and resources and decision-making power for women and men;
• Create a seafood producers organisation in France to reduce the gap between the producers and consumers;
• Suggested actions were mainly focused on Science Education in sustainable development and marine resources management as a critical part of local culture and coastal tourism;
• The education of young people and the use of exchange programs between schools will lead to active citizenship respectful of the environment;
• Plan well the workshop so that participants provide their ideas in an active way;
• Allocate a good part of the workshop for creating a clear common action plan.;
• Plan well the participant groups so that all stakeholders are sufficiently represented;
• Action and follow-up the co-defined action plan;
• Promote the workshop through websites and a poster campaigns;
• Explain at the start of the workshop the different phases that participants will go through;
• Use keynote speaker to introduce the topic thanks to specialists;
• Ensure a good representation of professionals (industry related to the topic, policy makers, journalists) to have a balanced dialogue;
• Ensure that participants can exchange and meet new people;
• Recruite participants by telephone to ensure a great effectiveness of recruitment;
• Define the date, finalise the hot topic and have comminucation material two months ahead;
• Give participants more time to contribute to the ideas at other tables;
• Enable each group to take the floor to present their results;
• Involve senior/retired scientific experts to communicate on marine biotech. in layman's terms to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with the topic;
• Train and convince policymakers, implementers, and investors to develop biotechnologies;
• Add marine biotech. in school programmes to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with marine biotechnologies;
• Train policymakers through communication tools and adapt legislation to facilitate the creation of a dynamic knowledge-sharing mechanism;
• 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;
• Build a network to report challenges to policitians to put marine biotechnologies on the national agenda as an economic and sustainable opportunity;
• Get media cover and social media presence to influence policy and decision makers;
• Start a regional programme and raise awareness of tourism actos to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with marine biotechnologies;
• Organise Open Days in companies to ensure that the general public becomes familiar with marine biotechnologies;
• Facilitate collaboration between fundamental research and industry/market to create a dynamic knowledge-sharing mechanism;
• Convince investors to facilitate the creation of a dynamic knowledge-sharing mechanism;
• Connect all stakeholders through education and communication;
• Make an inventory of innovations and tools, and facilitate collaboration and networking for the development of biotechnologies in France;
• Make lists of actions and players, record skills, know-how and economic potential, identify best pratices and make full use of them to put marine biotechnologies on the national agenda;
• Implement trainings 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;
• Organise a European "Grenelle" of Marine Bioethic 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 biotechs;
• Develop a "Social and Solidarity Economy" type of framework in the field of marine biotechnologies;
• Raise awareness and spread information about marine biotechnologies to the different groups of stakeholders;
• Ensure that all voices have an equal footing in the debate during the workshop;
• Collect and share information and good practices to raise awareness on marine biotech and to reduce marine pollution;
• Put in place a certification label of projects to draw guidelines for the sustainable development of marine biotechs;
• Train educators and information relays on marine biotechnologies to develop them in the field of marine pollution.

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