Lessons Learned per Creating Community

Milestone 1

Milestone 3

Continue to engage the stakeholders for knowledge exchange after the workshop;
Construct a good collaboration among project partners from the beginning of the project to its legacy to ensure a wider take-up of the results by all partners;
Give the participants sufficient time to present themselves and their work/field of interest, in order to facilitate connection and co-operation after the workshop;
Develop concrete examples that stakeholders can understand and get involved;
Multiply events where researchers from academia and industry exchange with a broader community to enhance this community and its visibility;
All relevant stakeholders need to be involved in the process of developing sustainable tourism ventures within Marine Protected Areas (MPAs);
Participants do not subscribe gladly to the platform, they don't have time and/or willingness to learn using another tool;
Establish transparent, efficient and effective democratic mechanisms amongst all involved and throughout all the phases to create trust;
Bring people and particularly the young on location where they can have transformative experiences that they will seek to relieve throughout their lives;
Engage young potential "citizen scientists" in schools to promote the issue at hand;
Start with a roundtable process so that everybody know each-other, and everyone can share their personal perspective of the subject;
Ensure that participants can exchange knowledge and meet new people.

Milestone 4

Establish cooperation among diverse stakeholders (researchers, innovative businesses, politicians and citizens) even when it's challenging;
Develop partnerships for science outreach actions.

Milestone 5

Consider the RRI principles as guidelines to construct the project processes for a sound management of the projects;
Define a clear plan for the future engagement of the workshop's participants to keep the community active;
Improve governance by defining a shared and common vision by involving citizens and business networks for clean and green industries;
Develop a network of common interest;
Promote citizen science to involve the general public on research;
Develop more partnerships with the Media and NGOs in order to reach bigger audiences;
While interpreting the results consider that participants can have different information and data about the topic: the "reality" can be difficult to identify.

Milestone 6

Science & Education and Open Access have a vital role in achieving success in the development of sustainable tourism ventures within Marine Protected Areas;
Each initiative on sustainable tourism products requires the right expertise (knowledge and skills) and institutional participatory processes that will support stakeholders' successful involvement;
Make urban planning and tourism development collaborative and democratic by involving citizens and business in envisioning urban futures and resolve negative environmental impacts;
Offer open access to the specialized information and share knowledge.

Milestone 7

Involving customers ranked the most favourable cluster with specific actions including the adoption of the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) business model;
The participants did not follow-up on the platform as they declared they were willing to do: there are too many platforms, they get lost or do not have time to explore another one.

Milestone 8

Organise regular follow-up workshops by involving more decision makers to anchor change;
Attract students into engineering courses;
Engage all interested stakeholders in harbour development;
Educate planners, civil society leaders, business industry to be more collaborative, responsible and exert place-based leadership;
Plan periodic meetings on the same topic, with old and new participants, to create ownership of the process, intensify the effort and ensure follow-up.

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