The Sea For Society Project (SFS) is a European Project funded by DG Research & Innovation under the Theme Science in Society. The Project started on June 1st, 2012 and has the duration of 42 months. Snapshot of the Project:
Project Title . Sea For Society
Project Acronym . SFS
Funding Scheme (FP7) . Science in Society – 2011-1, Mobilisation and Mutual Learning (MML)
EU Financial Contribution . Eur 4.260 M
Start Data . 1 June 2012
End Date . 30 November 2015
Number of Partners . 20
Number of Associated Partners . 8
Number of Countries . 12
Project Coordinator . Nausicaá, FranceTowards a Blue Society, towards a new society
SFS will bring together researchers, marine and terrestrial actors, civil society organisations (CSO’s) and individual citizens and youth in a mutual learning, consultation process and joint action to consider key questions, extract cross-cutting issues and propose challenge-driven solutions in order to ensure a sustainable management of marine eco-system services by European citizens.
SFS will provide feedback from consultation process both to RD governance and maritime governance, shaping a new concept of Blue Society and improving the governance of research related to the oceans and seas at regional, national and European level.
The Project is divided in three main phases:
- Consultation Process
- Mobilization Actions
- Blue Society Concept
The consultation and mobilization phases of the SFS Project will be crucial steps to emphasize their co-authored recommendations towards a better future for everyone.
1. CONSULTATION PROCESS
The Consultation phase is based on the principles of participatory dialogue. The objective is to engage stakeholders, citizens and young people on the six key Issues of the Project in order to ensure a participatory approach to Project activities. There will be two strands to the Consultation:
- Stakeholder Consultation
- Citizens/Youth Consultation
In order to carry out the Consultation Process, SFS has assigned nine Geographical Areas (France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden) distributed across Europe to ensure that there is a sufficient dialogue encompassing geographical and cultural differences and engaging a broad amount of stakeholders, citizens and youth on key Issues.
Key Issues:
Food Supply | Leisure and Tourism | Human Health | A Place to Live | Transport | Energy
The results from the Consultation phase will be compared and analysed on a transnational basis in order to identify commonalities and differences across the different regions and cultures in Europe, helping to enrich the concept of Blue Society.
The results will then be fed back to the participants for consideration and ultimately lead to actions being taken at a regional/national level (Mobilization Actions) to demonstrate the benefit of being involved in the participative process.
2. MOBILIZATION ACTIONS
The new knowledge arising from the Consultation Process will then be taken forward to a mobilisation and empowerment phase where a plan will be constructed to broaden the transfer of knowledge to a much larger and broader audience with a focus on empowering actors and citizens to take tangible actions to help address the identified challenges.
As part of the mobilisation phase, activities will include training for capacity-building in science communicating organisations, multipliers and potential champions (CSOs, science museums/aquaria, journalists, marine institute communication departments etc.) through a “Sea Academy” programme.
3. BLUE SOCIETY CONCEPT
In order to help achieve the Europe 2020 strategy for “Smart, sustainable and inclusive growth” SFS intends to develop the concept of Blue Society. The concept will be presented to stakeholders, CSO’s and citizens during the Consultation Process and their input will enrich and define the concept and identify where research is needed to inform policy/decision making in order to achieve Blue Society solutions.
The Blue Society is a concept inspired by the Green Economy concept developed at a global UN level. It is based on the premise that there are two imperatives that society should integrate 1) satisfying the needs of our planet’s inhabitants today and 2) the preservation of means of subsistence for the generations to come, especially in this Project the resources and services provided by the Ocean.
The Blue Society concept places humankind at the centre. It encourages Society to take action and it makes them take part in the implementation of solutions. Ultimately it challenges Society to identify a Blue Society that is acceptable and ensures a future for the next generations.
The Blue Society concept will be disseminated at various venues in order to influence policies on maritime issues.
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