Lessons Learned for Energy (Wave, Wind, Tidal)
From MARINA
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Milestone 1
- Attract different stakeholders in order to have a diversity and complementarity to obtain inputs as complete as possible;
- 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.
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Milestone 2
- Raise awareness of the general public on the environmental impact of offshore installations at all stages (building, exploitation, dismantling).
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Milestone 3
- Use methods that offer to the participants the opportunity to interact and to have open discussions;
- Explain the participatory method used to the participants as clearly and in a shorter time;
- Empower all stakeholder groups to co-create sustainable value propositions that reflect societal needs and support healthy marine environments thanks to RRI dimensions;
- Encouraged all the participants to work on all the solutions during the session;
- Create the opportunity to network and discuss, in order to identify the key marine and societal challenges for the Wave Energy Sector;
- Make a clear presentation of the debated issue and its current status;
- Use of different communications platforms/technologies to communicate with stakeholders and make data accessible;
- Use new communications channels and IT technologies as opportunities to engage with communities;
- Develop webinars for cross-sectorial stakeholder engagement;
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Milestone 4
- Use a method that encourages participants to work together in order to have an interactive group;
- Try to approach of potential participants and their engagement in convergent discussions with the future topic of the event;
- Have proactive public participation from stakeholders, in particular from government and industry;
- Encourage and promote marine involvement for all stakeholders;
- Increase the level of awareness of Marine Spatial Planning process and it's implication in coastal communities and for all stakeholders;
- Promote best practice cross sectorial stakeholder engagement processes through webinars;
- Multidisciplinary research considers the sustainability vector is key.
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Milestone 5
- 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;
- Develop a stakeholder engagement plan;
- Encourage the production of socially and environmentally acceptable solutions and services with the science education of business and industry professionals;
- Plan what to do with buildings/installations which have been created while building wind farms;
- Conduct studies of renewable energy on the Black Sea coastal area;
- Promote the meaning of the term "renewable energy systems";
- Develop educational programs to prepare specialists in the "renewable energy systems" field;
- 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.
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Milestone 6
- Consider Governance as a common responsibility of citizens and decision makers;
- Carry out studies on potential impact of the investment in offshore wind energy to develop them;
- Educate children to environmental issues as well as renewable energy profits to create a new wiser society;
- Develop societal awareness about water and advantages of use of renewable energy sources in general and offshore wind farms in particular;
- Use public-private partnerships as a new economical instrument;
- Raise public awareness regarding the benefits of renewable energy by promoting the renewable energy methods;
- Develop a clear understanding around Marine Spacial Planning (MSP) and what its implications are for all stakeholders groups including offshore wind;
- Open data for all interested stakeholders.
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Milestone 8
- Open university faculties, strongly connected with wind farms to help the sustainable development of renewable energy;
- Scale up research and bring responses to sustainable development of offshore wind farms with Science education;
- Implement program of innovative research in relation to the effectiveness of the constructions of towers and generators to ensure sustainable development of renewable energy;
- Establish policies that are favourable for ecological investments in sustainable development;
- Educate policy-makers to science to reinforce policies and adopt coherent legislative frameworks of economic competitiveness and sustainability of offshore wind energy;
- Improve the legislative framework to encourage the capitalization process of renewable energy;
- Upgrade the transport infrastructure for renewable energy;
- Attract private investments and develop national projects;
- Attract students into engineering courses;
- Build the appropriate infrastructure and technology for the Wave Energy Sector;
- Create higher awareness on technological achievements from challenging and cutting edge successful projects to attract skilled people to work in the sector.