EU4Ocean workshops: Designing Ocean Literacy action in Europe
24-25 September 2020
This discussion thread is to update Platform members about the current planning for the September EU4Ocean online event and seek your ideas and input to the Platform workshop, to be held on 24 September AM CEST. Further discussion threads will follow. In the meantime, if you have TOPIC-related ideas, please see the Discussion threads on Climate-Ocean; Food from the Ocean and Healthy and Clean Ocean.
Over 2 days the EU4Ocean September events aim to:
- Present the ambition, organisation, process and tools put in place for supporting collective action for each of the three communities of the EU4Ocean coalition;
- Build momentum to the design and implementation of collective OL actions - at the EU and at the regional sea basin scales on the main priority themes of the EU4Ocean coalition (Climate and Ocean, Food from the Ocean, and Healthy and Clean Ocean)
The event builds on the following three principles:
- Co-built – associating founding members and key stakeholders of the three communities into the organisation of the different building blocks of event, so as to illustrate the spirit of the EU4Ocean coalition – and also taking the ideas and contributions on “possible collective actions” made by participants to the first day in the working discussions on “’making collective actions operational” facilitated during the second day
- Interactive – ensuring the operational launching is a time for discussions, exchanges and collective work – limiting presentations (PPT, videos) from high-level speakers and on past and current experiences and giving space for interactive collective working in coherence with the ambition of the coalition
- Action-oriented– so key components of future collective actions and of forthcoming advocacy campaigns in particularly (in terms of focus, partners involved, road map…) are set building on preparatory activities carried out in close collaboration with founding members and key stakeholders of the three communities
Schedule overview (and draft agenda for Platform workshop)
24 September: Open, inclusive day with Platform workshop (1-1.5 hours, AM) & workshops on full Coalition, Youth4Ocean, Schools (open to all, spanning the full day)
- Opening workshop - The EU4Ocean coalition: what, what for, how? (Morning – one hour, opener) Coordinated by the EU4Ocean facilitators
- Workshop 1 - The EU4ocean platform (morning – 1- 1h30) Co-organised with founding members of the EU4Ocean platform: Ideas on content, which online platforms/facilitation tools to use, offers to co-organise are all welcome!
What?
- Public meeting to promote the EU4Ocean Platform,
- Update on progress (founding members and growing membership)
- Clearly communicate key objectives and outputs and how stakeholder can be involved
- Promote new applications and community involvement and action.
- Discuss initial “collective actions” that emerge from summer 2020 discussions on topics & activities
- Decide on some collective actions to feed into thematic topic discussions on Dayt 2 and further WG discussions
- Find synergies and link with youth and schools components.
How? One introductory presentation by the consortium, presentations on “collective initiatives” that delivered “added value” (e.g. plastics) made by founding members, presentation of the platform’s objectives/operation, organised by SeaScape/EMB with founding members of the platform To note, more discussion will be possible on Day 2, 25 September
Expected output: clear understanding of the role/organisation/expected outcome of the platform, raise interest for new members to join, additional ideas for collective actions identified
EU4Ocean workshop
The EU4Ocean Platform: Co-designing Ocean Literacy for society
24 September 2020, 10:30-12:00 CEST
Draft Agenda (4 September 2020)
Summary: The EU4Ocean Platform meeting on 24 September is a fully public, online event, open to all. You will learn the latest updates about the Platform, the diverse stakeholders connecting for joint actions, and how you can get involved. Join us to learn more!
Objectives: The main aims and objectives of the workshop are to raise awareness about the EU4Ocean Platform, inform wider stakeholders about the latest Platform developments, and to motivate stakeholders to join the Platform, for collective action.
Expected audience: 100-150 participants including EU4Ocean Platform members, Youth4Ocean and European Network of Blue Schools, and representatives from the wider community, including stakeholders interested in applying and joining the EU4Ocean Platform.
Co-organisers: Seascape Belgium (SSBE), Acteon, European Marine Board (EMB), Manaia Productions, SYKE, IOPAN, Ocean Literacy Italia, Lighthouse Foundation, European Boating Industry, SOCIB, Others?
Key facilitators: SSBE, EMB, Acteon
Meeting Chair: Platform Chair James Nikitine (Manaia Productions) (Panel to be facilitated by SSBE)
Format: Plenary (informing/presenting/promoting) with a Panel and Q&A & Polls
90’ duration
- Welcome by EU4Ocean Platform facilitators (Kate Larkin, Seascape Belgium) (5’)
Housekeeping (1 slide) & launch a Poll for all participants to fill out on a) what country they are connecting from b) which sector they represent.
Close the poll. Show 2 slides 1. EU4Ocean members on the European Atlas of the Seas map (coming soon) and 2. some metrics of EU4Ocean Platform members (country, sector etc). Then show the poll results on the screen, to show the diversity of the audience.
- Platform Chairs Introductions (8’)
- Paula Kankaanpää, SYKE (video message 3’) &
- James Nikitine, Manaia Productions (presentation 5’)
- Keynote Introduction by Paul Rose, BBC Presenter (5’)
- EU4Ocean Platform key facts (Kate Larkin, Seascape Belgium) (8’) & Q&A (5’)
Founding membership & current status & vision, added value, member benefits & contributions, latest updates, overview of WG topics & sea-basin approach
- Ocean Literacy: An island perspective (Rosa Rodríguez, SOCIB, EU4Ocean Platform founding member) (5’) Short presentation on the key success for engaging with society and the multi-stakeholder approach
- EU4Ocean Platform Working Groups: From topics to actions (EMB & 3 WG Chairs) (12’) EMB introduce (3’) and 3 WG Chairs give 1 slide with highlights (4’ / WG)
Poll on initial topic ideas (scoring which ideas/WG people find the most pertinent, as input to 25 September WG meetings)
- EU4Ocean Platform Dialogue: Interactive Panel with the Audience (30’)
- 1 Platform Chair James Nikitine (Manaia Productions)
- 3 WG Chairs Tymon Zielinski (IOPAN), Elisa Baldrighi (Ocean Literacy Italia), Jens Amsdorf (Lighthouse Foundation)
- 3 Other Platform founding members: Phillip Easthill (European Boating Industry); Rosa Rodríguez (SOCIB) & 1 more representative (tbc)
Session including structured questions with Q&A from audience. We may use Sli.do for Questions so people can ‘rate’ questions and we ask the most popular ones to the Panel (tbc)
- Turning interest to actions: how to join the EU4Ocean Platform & next steps (Kate Larkin, Seascape Belgium) (5’) Including how to join as a member, how to register for the 25 September events & longer-term planning
- Reflections and Forward Look (Andy Kontoudakis, DG MARE) (5’)
- Closing (EU4Ocean facilitators) (2’)
25 September Workshops: Operational day with focused discussions at thematic topics and sea-basins (open to all members those expressing strong interest to apply as members) – please add topic ideas to the WG topic threads. Further discussions will be set up on sea-basins in the coming weeks.