Lessons Learned per Defining Workshop Goal

Milestone 1

Milestone 2

Define a clear triggering question highlighting the issue and goal to be addressed at the workshop;
Define the initiative's broad goals from a policy, social / cultural, economic, technological perspective;
Explain the challenge in an inclusive, strategic and broad manner for involving all types of participants;
During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstandings during the event;
Focus the challenge with relevant examples for the participants and related to their daily lives;
Focus the workshop and the RRI presentation on a topic relevant for the participants and related to their daily lives;
Explain RRI and innovation tools and how to embed them in policy agendas as participants find it useful.

Milestone 3

Offer a clear explanation of the methodology used to be as clear as possible to the participants;
Workshops may participants convince about RRI, but doesn't tend to help them in the concrete application of RRI in their daily work;
Empower all stakeholder groups to co-create sustainable value propositions that reflect societal needs and support healthy marine environments thanks to RRI dimensions;
Adapt the workshop methodology to the local culture;
Participatory workshops provide good opportunities for better discovering developments and problems of the studied industry;
Hook RRI abstract subjects to a topic related to participants lives and has interests in it;
During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
Ask participants' to state their workshop expectations because experience shows that some find the workshop and its participatory method intriguing, others were interested In how to develop a shared vision, some had an interest in being inspired and build networks;
During the recruitment phase, ensure the methodology has been clearly explained and understood, to avoid misunderstanding during the event;
Choose well the workshop methodology to allow participants contribute to the discussion and to strengthen the links among them;
Use new participatory methodologies to attract participants.

Milestone 4

Request participants keep trying to think from other stakeholders' position;
Do not interfere too much with the topics participants chose to focus on, it mostly depends on individual needs/experience and knowledge;
Focus on the concept and its tools when explaining RRI to participants;
Provide the participants with the legislative aspects related to the topic. If possible ensure the attendance of an expert.

Milestone 5

Have participants rank the priorities and discuss from the highest to the lowest to co-construct a common vision;
Create an organized knowledge synthesis on Deep Sea Mining;
Achieve success through multi-stakeholder engagement and consensus;
Consider the best way of collecting votes for the purpose such as the number of votes available for each participant, the rounds of votes, etc.

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