Lessons Learned per Smart, green and integrated transport

Milestone 2

Make marine issues visible and understandable to the public;
Be aware about the participants motivations to attend a workshop such as to learn from others participants.

Milestone 3

Milestone 5

Raise awareness through education for developing/supporting new technologies for responsible maritime transport;
Push participants to move beyond exchanging ideas and to start co-creating a vision;
While interpreting the results consider the location of the workshop: statistically most of the participants will come from the area where the workshop is held;
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

Create procedures for an open access to data and data exchange, to allow for multiple feedbacks from end-users and policy-makers;
Disseminate widely local and regional regulations and type approvals since the businesses often have significant knowledge gaps;
Business stakeholders are mostly interested on the policy agendas;
Start measuring and collecting marine scientific data on board different non-scientific vessels;
Develop information-based decision support tools, with automated intervention systems.

Milestone 7

Governance should strive for active engagement of the key public and private stakeholder bodies for the development and impact on the societal challenge;
Start specific economic changes (investment, taxation) to support the goal of efficient and sustainable activities.

Milestone 8

Provide tax reductions or other benefits to businesses for massively applying environmental protection legislature and procedures and for making use of innovative technologies;
Encourage scientific knowledge and professional growth that have fundamental roles in supporting innovative sectors;
Raise the attractiveness of science studies by illustrating the application of science in societal issues;
Ethical issues are highly important in maintaining the sustainable operation of the vessels while safeguarding the environment;
Raise awareness and embed RRI into educational curricula;
Facilitate fruitful discussions and widely disseminate conclusions to third parties;
Engage government and law makers in order to make sustainable change in ports and ship;
Consider that National and International organizations must balance economic profit and a competitive market with the goal of preserving the natural environment of our seas;
Make ports hubs of sustainability;
Involve a multitude of stakeholders and implement actions as widely as possible, even globally, in order for adopted policies and solutions to be as relevant as possible, resulting in more support to implement the changes by all sides;
Improving education/training;
Improve legislation to deal with climate change and coastal errosion.

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