Lessons Learned for World Café Methodology

Milestone 1

Attract different stakeholders in order to have a diversity and complementarity to obtain inputs as complete as possible.

Milestone 2

Identify motives for policy makers and implementers to participate in the workshops as they are reluctant in participating;
Improve science literacy and research applicability to increase awareness on the specific issue.

Milestone 3

Attract participants by sending invitations via e‐mail, followed by phone calls;
Present and explain the method used;
Encouraged all the participants to work on all the solutions during the session;
Invite stakeholders to provide their feedback about workshop.

Milestone 4

Stakeholders are concerned that the authorities and the private companies will decide to advance with Deep Sea Mining without proper public consultation and without knowing sufficient about the deep sea;
The society believes that RRI will never be in full effect without strong political will;
Use a method that encourages participants to work together in order to have an interactive group;
Find moderators with experience on methods used for event moderation;
Try to approach of potential participants and their engagement in convergent discussions with the future topic of the event;
Develop partnerships for science outreach actions.

Milestone 5

Create decision-making processes that are participative, transparent and allow for public deliberation;
Have a discussion phase that is long enough for all participants to be fully aware of all the implications of the proposed ideas without extending the duration of the workshop;
Increase awareness regarding water quality;
Develop new capacities for studying and a performing monitoring;
Develop a network of common interest;
Improve efficient communication, generate plural debates and disseminate reliable data and information to convert vision into reality;
Include key local stakeholders in the planning and implementation of local strategies;
Include more education aspects of citizenship, sustainability and ecology in schools;
Organize more science dissemination events targeting the general public;
Promote citizen science to involve the general public on research;
Develop more partnerships with the Media and NGOs in order to reach bigger audiences;
Develop and organize more actions, in order that different stakeholders meet and discuss their ideas more often and get used to think outside their boxes;
Promote the meaning of the term "renewable energy systems";
Develop educational programs to prepare specialists in the "renewable energy systems" field;
Conduct studies of renewable energy on the Black Sea coastal area.

Milestone 6

Take actions in order to update the actual legislation;
Follow-up on motivated participants of how that used the knowledge obtained in workshops for third private and professional projects;
Create a common DATABASE – for centralizing all the data and studies regarding biodiversity;
Develop partnership between different stakeholders;
Disseminate the results on MARINA platform;
Create links among participants for future partnerships and develop a network of common interest;
Plan local actions in agreement with its local circumstances instead of promoting larger-scale policies;
Adapt local policies and strategies in order to be in agreement with research outcomes;
Use public-private partnerships as a new economical instrument;
Raise public awareness regarding the benefits of renewable energy by promoting the renewable energy methods.

Milestone 7

Milestone 8

Disseminate information about opportunities, threats and risks on the studied topic;
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 world heritage site;
Provide strong incentives to promote the circular economy;
Improve the legislative framework to encourage the capitalization process of renewable energy;
Upgrade the transport infrastructure for renewable energy.

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