Lessons Learned for Sea Transportation

• Raise the attractiveness of science studies by illustrating the application of science in societal issues such as responsible shipbuilding and harbours;
• Provide tax reductions or other benefits to businesses for massively applying marine protection legislature and procedures and for making use of innovative marine technologies;
• Raise awareness through education for developing/supporting new technologies for responsible maritime transport;
• Make marine issues visible and understandable to the public;
• Governance should strive for active engagement of the key public and private stakeholder bodies for the development and impact of maritime transportation;
• Push participants to move beyond exchanging ideas and to start co-creating a vision;
• Start measuring and collecting marine scientific data on board different non-scientific vessels;
• 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;
• Make ports hubs of sustainability;
• Increasing use of LNG fuel for ships;
• 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;
• Develop information-based decision support tools, with automated intervention systems;
• Improving education/training;
• Improve legislation;
• While interpreting the results consider that participants can have different information and data about the topic: the "real" situation can be difficult to identify;
• Make scientific information reliable and easily accessible to citizens and stakeholders;
• 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;
• Create procedures for an open access to data and data exchange, to allow for multiple feedbacks from end-users and the policy-makers;
• Disseminate widely local and regional regulations and type approvals since the businesses often have significant knowledge gaps;
• Business stakeholders are mostly interested in the policy agendas;
• Be aware of the participants' motivations to attend a workshop such as to learn from others participants;
• Continue to engage the stakeholders for knowledge exchange after the workshop;
• Make the workshops highly participatory and interactive;
• Facilitate fruitful discussions and widely disseminate conclusions to third parties;
• Push for multi-stakeholders' representation and input from all relevant actors;
• Advocate on the necessity of creating specific funding schemes to support the development of the targeted sector based on RRI principles;
• Provide Open Access to data for a proactive response to societal challenges;
• Develop information exchange systems between government, industry and the universities;
• Increase environmental and science education to promote societal understanding and participation;
• 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;
• Engage researchers with the industry for the development of appropriate technologies since there is a discrepancy between the academia and the industry needs;
• Motivate to receive ahead of the workshop and on time the participants' action ideas and to attract participants from all stakeholders’ groups.

See also...

Marine Sector