Four, the project identifies specific strategies and actions in order to translate niche experiences into common practices. The project also develops recommendations and instruments for capacity building so that new schemes of governance are sustainable beyond the duration of the project. Stakeholders from the territories investigated in the project as well as national, EU and international key actors are involved in all four groups of activities.
Synthesis of experimentation pathways
Task 4.1 will gather knowledge from case study experimentations to boost innovative governance schemes embracing the land-sea dimension. It will synthesise the result obtained from WP3 and make them available as recommendations and best practices for developing strategic and integrated land-sea policies under WP4.
Task 4.1 will involve self-reflection (understood as reflexive evaluation) from each case study application, in the form of success factors and challenges (e.g., What has worked out well, what not and why? To what extent can a shift towards transformative governance be observed?). The aim of this task is to synthesise policy experimentations as well as the role of new technologies (digital tools) in improving the implementation of strategic and integrated land-sea policies. Task 4.1 will synthetise experimentations to support transformative institutional change.
From policy experimentations to land-sea governance
Task 4.2 will reflect upon the ways to upscale the insights gained from policy experimentations (WP3) and the lessons drawn (Task 4.1). The aim is to achieve broad institutional change in the way blue and green policies (in general) can be designed and implemented. On the one hand, this task will focus on the factors that help go beyond experimentation and foster transformative change.
On the other hand, this task will focus on ways that help diffuse insights and lessons learned to other places. This will inform “how” to achieve change/innovation, on the level of a case (experiment) and more general beyond that experiment (diffusion, scaling-up, generalising, broader impact, etc.). The latter aim will be achieved by developing short online trainings (e.g. YouTube presentations) that are freely available to broad audiences.
Generic e-governance tool formulation
The BGG Dashboard designed under WP2 and tested under WP3 will be refined to deliver a generic e-governance tool that can be applied on a broader scale.
Science-Policy-Society recommendations
Based on the learning processes in WP3, Task 4.4 will define specific policy recommendations in order to strengthen the use of scientific evidence and the involvement of societal actors in collaborative governance of the land and the sea that relies on scientific data and societal engagement through the use of e-governance tools.
The policy recommendations will also include suggestions on how to foster governance capacity at several scales of governance for the development of an integrated blue-green governance. That is to say, how to develop as well as maintain the skills and competencies required by public and private actors for a successful collaborative governance.
The recommendations on the science-policy-society interface and on governance capacity will be provided through a report and policy briefs. A policy brief will first shortly elaborate the (potential) policy problem, after which it will detail the learning process derived from the experiences in this project, and formulate policy recommendations towards public organizations and/or societal actors.
