Lessons Learned per Governance

• Provide the high-tier governance from governmental bodies for local initiatives to have the biggest impact;
• Push for 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 governance by defining a shared and common vision by involving citizens and business networks for clean and green industries to attract tourists and investments;
• Enhance coastal and maritime tourism by adapting to demographic changes, while maintaining the original vocation and atmosphere of the coastal cities;
• Mobilise stakeholders early in the process to develop viable and sustainable business models;
• Educate planners, civil society leaders, business industry to be more collaborative, responsible and exert place-based leadership;
• 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;
• Make sure that funding will be secured for action plan execution and workshop follow up actions;
• Push for a broad vision for industrial harbour development by local governments inviting non-harbour stakeholders to contribute in new ways;
• Make regulations for developers and investors for securing more liveable areas in harbour transformations;
• 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;
• Develop new methods of governance for engaging citizens through public awareness and politics;
• Develop concrete examples that stakeholders can understand and get involved;
• Focus on environmental aspects through a multi-stakeholder approach to ensure stability and availability of resources;
• Embed governance in legislation through accountability to ensure the sustainability of marine sectors;
• Provide tax reductions or other benefits to businesses for massively applying marine protection legislature and procedures and for making use of innovative marine technologies;
• Governance should strive for active engagement of the key public and private stakeholder bodies for the development and impact of maritime transportation;
• Engage government and lawmakers in order to make sustainable change in ports and ship;
• Start specific economic changes (investment, taxation) to support the goal of efficient and sustainable ports and ships;
• National and international organizations must balance economic profit and a competitive market with the goal of preserving the natural environment of our seas cannot;
• Develop information-based decision support tools, with automated intervention systems;
• 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 a world heritage site;
• Provide strong incentives to promote the circular economy;
• Stakeholders are concerned that the authorities and the private companies will decide to advance with DSM without proper public consultation and without knowing sufficient about the deep sea;
• Identify motives for policy makers and implementers to participate in the workshops as they are reluctant in participating;
• The society believes that RRI will never be in full effect without a strong political will;
• Adapt local 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;
• Include key local stakeholders in the planning and implementation of local strategies;
• Make environmental impact assessment mandatory for Deep Sea Mining within the EU;
• Support local and international decision-makers in charge of evaluating if, when, how, by who and for what should Deep Sea Miningever take place;
• 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;
• Promote the reinforcement of policies and adoption of coherent legislative frameworks to develop Marine Biotechnology;
• Promote the involvement of public authorities on local, national and European levels;
• Improve the legislative framework to encourage the capitalization process of renewable energy;
• Upgrade the transport infrastructure for renewable energy;
• Build a coastal protection system that can harness the wave energy;
• Establish laws which are favorable for ecological investments in the sustainable development of renewable energy;
• Plan what to do with buildings/installations which have been created while building wind farms;
• Consider Governance as a common responsibility of citizens and decision makers;
• Keep in mind the local context when preparing the event to answer local needs and specificities;
• 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;
• Develop new mode of governance for marine biotechnology development including the engagement of the society;
• Identify or create a unique Body entrusted with the control of a process to ensure coordination and synergy of all stakeholders involved;
• Ensure a ministerial umbrella to facilitate the educative process in school by scientists or scientific mediators;
• Claim for an alignment between legislation and the changing scientific situation and technologic innovations;
• Implement innovative and responsive policies to face climate change effects and assure a balanced competitiveness, growth and sustainability of the maritime tourism sites;
• Create innovative tools to guide the consumers, thus inducing public and private stakeholders (including NGOs) to invest in more sustainable directions;
• Put in place a policy-oriented, holistic and integrated approach to tackle complex marine issues;
• There is a serious need for regulations and legislations about the release of bacteria at sea;
• Improve legislation;
• 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 for local regulations;
• Improve port reception facilities and services for processing over waste from ships;
• Restructuring different mechanisms in order to prevent pollution and to apply polluter sanctions, to ensure the transparency of legislative processes;
• Develop campaigns for promoting sustainable fishing methods and techniques through protecting resources and other incentives/compensation;
• Explain RRI and innovation tools and how to embed them in policy agendas as participants find it useful;
• Involve politicians and municipality representatives in workshops to increase its effectiveness;
• Promote governance arrangements and practices to favour sustainable tourism and seafood consumption;
• Train and convince policymakers, implementers, and investors to develop 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 politicians 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;
• Focus on making a good enforcement of already existing legislation mechanism rather than reinventing one from scratches;
• provide a quality framework in which all stakeholders can work toward a solution thanks to a good governance;
• Be careful of a possible competition of other events happening as the same time in the same city or on the same topic;
• 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;
• Put in place a certification label of projects to draw guidelines for the sustainable development of marine biotechs;
• Create procedures for an open access to data and data exchange, to allow for multiple feedbacks from end-users and the policy-makers;
• Business stakeholders are mostly interested on the policy agendas;
• Build the appropriate infrastructure and technology for the Wave Energy Sector;
• Avoid conflict through policies for ensuring that any supports are widely known, widely available and not exclusive;
• 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;
• It's necessary the implementation of a coherent national monitoring programme;
• It's necessary to develop a long-term and cross-cutting strategic planning;
• Use of the outcomes of the national monitoring programme as part of a targeted national awareness-raising campaign;
• Engage local communities at awareness raising events;
• Push for governance and ethics to be required in business registration requirements for creating awareness on sustainability;
• Take measures to develop and further enhance the engagement and cooperation between different stakeholders;
• 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 to promote and regulate the development of the specific sector.

See also...

RRI Dimension