Lessons Learned from Belgium MML workshops

Milestone 1

Be careful of possible competition of other events happening as the same time in the same city or on the same topic.

Milestone 2

Develop messages that make the problem tangible for everybody for instance by translating facts and figures into something simple and impactful;
Focus the workshop and the RRI presentation on a topic relevant for the participants and related to their daily lives;
Make the high seas more visible to all stakeholders, the benefits for all and the issues at stake.

Milestone 3

Send a personalised and direct (e-mail or telephone) invitation to ensure a better buy-in of targeted participants;
Empower European citizens, business representatives, researchers and policy makers to take informed decisions on the high seas through science education;
Look for participants open to dialogue, but who don't usually interact with each other;
Start with a roundtable process so that everybody know each-other, and everyone can share their personal perspective of the subject;
Hook RRI abstract subjects to a topic related to participants lives and has interests in it.

Milestone 4

Put in place a multi-stakeholder dialogue to efficiently reduce plastic pollution.

Milestone 5

Ensure that all participants stay until the end of the workshop to have coherent results;
Have participants rank the priorities and discuss from the highest to the lowest to co-construct a common vision;
Use the SMART action format to ease the follow up of the workshop;
Provide a quality framework in which all stakeholders can work toward a solution thanks to a good governance.

Milestone 6

Milestone 8

Focus on good enforcement of already existing legislation mechanisms rather than reinventing others from scratch and adjust legislation as necessary.

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