Bridging the GAP between stakeholders and science

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Bridging the GAP between stakeholders and science

• Science in Society programme of the
• EU Framework 7
• Start 1st April 08 End 30th Sept 09

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Developing the foundations for combining the
knowledge and skills of science and fishery
stakeholders and using it to enhance the
understanding and management of fisheries.

• 15 fisheries science 15 stakeholder partners
  from 11 countries
• Committed to sharing their experiences and
  working together to develop participatory
  fisheries research case studies
• Engaging through European and regional workshops

www.gap1.eu
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Engaging stakeholders is important

• Lack of trust and confidence weakens policies
• Extends RD knowledge in specific ways that
  support well-defined needs

• Reconciling and integrating knowledge leads to
  better information and management

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Stakeholder consultation
data
Stakeholders
Scientists
Evidence
Consultation
Transparency, openness, quality, credibility ????
Dispute?
Interpretation, views
Policy and Governance
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Stakeholder engagement
Dialogue
Stakeholders
Scientists
Participation
Transparency, openness, quality, credibility
Expert Knowledge
Policy and Governance
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Outcomes from GAP1
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What has GAP1 achieved?

• Initiated improved working collaborations
• Develop shared understanding
• Prepared hypothesis driven case-studies
• Planned participatory research activities
• Raised profile of stakeholder participation

Good practice in stakeholder participation
Research proposal (s)
EU meetings, RAC presentations, Newletters etc
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Workshop 1, June 2008
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Key Good Practice messages

• Identify and involve stakeholders from the
  beginning
• Be open and transparent in all actions
• Understand, respect and give equal weight to all
  forms of knowledge
• Adapt the process to the individuals involved
• Understand and manage expectations from the
  beginning
• Ensure effective and regular two-way
  communication at regular
• Maintain consistency of the people involved
• Highly skilled leaders are required to motivate
  and inspire others
• Communicate outcomes to stakeholders, the wider
  community, and that policy makers
• Create the right incentives for participation

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Stages in the participatory research process
Initiate process and catalyse others
Learn to work together
People and behaviours
Plan and undertake the research
Process maintenance
Strategic planning
Share and communicate outcomes
Review outcomes and processes
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Case-Studies 38 Regional meetings
OUTCOMES understanding, trust and commitment to
address problems of shared interest
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Case-study examples.put yours here!!!
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Tuna, FADs, behaviour selectivity

• Victims of the precautionary approach
• Re-define long-standing working relationships

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Sustainable crab fisheries

• Why do crabs move to deep water in winter?
• Reproduction size ratio and its link to
  sustainability

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Incorporating stakeholder knowledge on management
of herring

• Participatory modelling

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Habitats in coastal Spain

• Benthic habitats, distribution fishing grounds
• Integrating fishers scientific knowledge of
  coastal resources

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EU Parliamentary meeting A stronger dialogue
between scientists and fishermen for a renovated
Common Fisheries PolicyBrussels, September
2008

• Understand how the dialogue works in different MS
  and what best-practice is
• Consider mobilising financial resources of EFF to
  strengthen RACs role
• Urge scientists to develop common standards in
  methods (???)
• Consider possibility for delegating aspects of
  quota management to RACs

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Engaging Stakeholders in Fisheries and Marine
ResearchBrussels, Feb 09

• Establishing the communications and culture
  conducive to problem solving
• Accessing the governance system - building
  capacity and aligning it with delivery of
  collaborative research
• Regional Advisory Councils developing their
  strategic culture clarifying their role in
  facilitating and enabling research to meet their
  needs
• Getting it down to the people that matter
  connecting expectations with delivery that is
  meaningful to stakeholders and policy makers

OUTCOMES well attended, understanding of what
is needed, reflection and planning, documents
widely distributed
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Newsletter, presentations, web, press releases,
interviews, MARE event
OUTCOMES profile, positive feedback from EU,
improved awareness of the need and value of
participatory research, understanding the roles
of stakeholders and scientists
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Where Next? GAP 2
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GAP 2 Integration of evidence-based knowledge
and its application to scientific advice
underpinning policy

• Making a difference to European fisheries by
  enabling participatory research between
  stakeholders and scientists

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What will it do?

• Aim Move toward stakeholder driven science for
  sustainability
• Objectives
• Involve fishers in research scientists and
  fishers will work together on specific
  case-studies that deliver the expert knowledge
  required to improve research and management over
  the long term
• Capture knowledge and make it useful for
  management toolbox, transpose, translation and
  mobilisation
• Evaluate, whether, when and how participatory
  research really makes a difference
• Maintain/ facilitate effective dialogue and
  mutual learning, by learning by doing and by
  using interactive learning approaches
• Undertake communication and outreach activities
  that promote the shared aims outcomes of
  participatory research to make a difference by
  tackling policy relevant science issues

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Drivers and important considerations

• Need to demonstrate the value of the
  participatory approach. Quality is credibility
• Content and timeframe relevant EU policy
• Reforms of CFP (Regional bodies and LTM)
• Integrated Maritime policy - Marine Strategy
  Framework Directive
• Relationship with RACS
• Roles of stakeholder and overburden. Awareness of
  need for small steps
• Review and reflection (evaluation)

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What I think GAP2 needs to achieve (Aims)

• Enabling participatory research activities that
• Develop and demonstrate methods that combine /
  utilise the knowledge of scientists and
  stakeholders (mutual learning) in ways that
  enhance scientific understanding, and
• testing hypotheses and generating knowledge
• Translate (make useful) and deliver the knowledge
  (mobilise) using ways and means that make a
  tangible difference to management and policy
• make the three-way connections
  Stakeholder-Science-Policy (influence Governance
  structures)
• Learn about and develop the process
  structures of participatory research and its
  link to policy (particularly CFP)

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What I think GAP2 needs to achieve (Aims)

• Include a broader range of stakeholders by using
  a tiered approach. RACs probably the main
  addition (the connection to policy relevant
  delivery and regional governance)
• Have first class communications, including a
  technical element of outreach (Internet)
• Make connections that add-value (e.g. MADE,
  Baltseaplan, Knowcount)
• Plan for long term success embedding of
  approaches and network at EU and Internationally

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MODEL 1 Large Collaborative Project Support
Funding FP 7 Policy Relevant RTD Activity
Fisheries and biotechnology or Environment. SiS?

• Process and Connecting Thread
• Coordination of activities duplication in case
  studies low risk
• Participation and collaboration as a basis for
  developing trust and improving decisions
• Sociological process of participatory research
  link to governance
• Reconciling and empowering knowledge methods
  approaches
• Knowledge translation and communication making
  it useful
• Research Case studies
• Realisation/ implementation of participation
• Focussed on method and tools for linked knowledge
• Delivery of applied science for specific problems
  (addressing local needs)

Benefit consortium track record and cohesion,
weakness finding the large pot