Lessons Learned from Ireland MML workshops

Milestone 1

Plan the stakeholders carefully to ensure that the right people, stakeholder groups and organisations are in the room;
Involve all interested stakeholders;
Recruit participants based on their interest, research, business or experience related to the workshop topic;
Offer an incentive for citizens in order to attract people to attend at the workshop;
Find a topic which will attract different stakeholders;
Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) can help to overcome the current marine and societal challenges and unlock the potential for Blue Growth;
There is a strong need for redefining and refocusing the business model of tourism.

Milestone 2

Define the initiative's broad goals from a policy, social / cultural, economic, technological perspective;
Present the Mobilisation and Mutual Learning and RRI approach;
Perform an analysis of publics' behaviours before engaging the public engagement;
Use audience targeted communication for all types stakeholders to engage them.

Milestone 3

Milestone 4

Milestone 5

Develop a stakeholder engagement plan;
Implement a coherent national monitoring programme;
Apply a long-term and crosscutting strategic planning by defining SMART common vision and actions;
Engage local communities in awareness raising event;
Developing a spatial plan specific to zoning of areas of offshore renewables;
Develop a GIS information database;
Develop a clear communications strategy;
Use of research and data sets to ensure that decisions are made to safeguard the interests of all stakeholders;
Develop a national strategy for coastal management and coastal protection;
Develop a coastal protection strategy that is fit for purpose by all stakeholders;
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;
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).

Milestone 6

Milestone 7

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;
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;
Try to engage volunteer groups/stakeholders who use the specific environment on a regular basis.

Milestone 8

Attract private investments and develop national projects;
Attract students into engineering courses;
Build the appropriate infrastructure and technology for the Wave Energy Sector;
Ensure the policies are socially inclusive and are widely known;
Use of technology as an instrument to both monitor the regulations and to disseminate data in near real-time.

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