Lessons Learned per Milestone 8
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Milestone 8
- Raise awareness among the general public to make informed choices and have an active social participation to further push the new initiatives;
- Focus on good enforcement of already existing legislation mechanisms rather than reinventing others from scratch and adjust legislation as necessary;
- Coordinate collaborative activities and tools to push RRI forward;
- Train policymakers through communication tools and adapt legislation to facilitate the creation of a dynamic knowledge-sharing mechanism;
- Organise regular follow-up workshops by involving more decision makers to anchor change;
- Ensure that funding will be secured for action plan execution and follow up actions;
- Embed governance in legislation through accountability to ensure the sustainability and to address societal challenges;
- Provide tax reductions or other benefits to businesses for massively applying environmental protection legislature and procedures and for making use of innovative technologies;
- Use the media and science mediators to make society aware about research and innovation results;
- Advocate on the necessity of creating specific funding schemes to support the development of the targeted sector based on RRI principles;
- Create funding mechanisms to promote RRI in research and innovation in the innovative sectors;
- Equip urban open areas for open debates where local communities can meet frequently in order to exercise the rights guaranteed by the Aarhus convention to develop sustainable decisions in a collective and legal manner;
- Encourage scientific knowledge and professional growth that have fundamental roles in supporting innovative sectors;
- Involve "Ambassadors" or " figures" at regional level (navigators, high level sportsman, known well-respected public figures of all kinds);
- Establish policies that are favourable for ecological investments in sustainable development;
- Use funding programs dedicated to citizens, aimed at replacing old goods and polluting with new and environmentally friendly ones;
- Involve citizens in public consultations and decision–making processes for local and national/ EU regulations;
- Attract private investments and develop national projects;
- Communicate broadly and raise wide awareness about the specific initiative to anchor change;
- Raise the attractiveness of science studies by illustrating the application of science in societal issues;
- Provide strong incentives to promote the circular economy;
- Create higher awareness on technological achievements from challenging and cutting edge successful projects to attract skilled people to work in the sector;
- Reliable scientific information is not easily accessible for sectorial actors;
- Raise awareness and embed RRI into educational curricula;
- Facilitate fruitful discussions and widely disseminate conclusions to third parties;
- Ensure the policies are socially inclusive and are widely known;
- To develop a sector, develop a legal framework promoting and regulating its development;
- 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;
- Invest in communication campaign by professionals, work with marketing societies to translate the scientific results into clear messages that can reach in particular young people;
- Translate in easy-to-understand messages research outputs and results for better dissemination. Consider using science mediators.