Lessons Learned from Spain MML workshops

• Use the media to bring awareness to the society about the results from research and innovation;
• Multidisciplinary research considering the sustainability vector is key;
• Create higher awareness on technological achievements from challenging and cutting edge successful projects to attract skilled people to work in the sector;
• Use both phone and email for citizen recruitment;
• Achieve success through multi-stakeholder engagement and consensus;
• Establish transparent, efficient and effective democratic mechanisms amongst all involved and throughout all the phases to create trust;
• Explain RRI and innovation tools and how to embed them in policy agendas as participants find it useful;
• Keep the workshop's duration short and engage an experienced facilitator;
• Create a friendly and relaxed workshop atmosphere for participants to have lively and open discussions;
• Involve politicians and municipality representatives in workshops to increase its effectiveness;
• Awareness and education are fundamental in changing mindsets;
• Run awareness campaigns so that the issue problem is clearly understood by all stakeholders;
• To measure the workshop's success, define clear and achievable objectives;
• Use diverse communication channels (e-mail, telephone, face-to-face and word of mouth) for recruiting participants;
• Email and telephone were the best communication channels for promoting the workshop;
• Be aware of the motivational factor that workshop participants may feel because they like the fact that an interdisciplinary group representing all society's niches is invited to brainstorming for resolving the problem;
• The SDD method was evaluated as very well structured, inclusive, productive, scientific, interesting and dynamic.

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