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| How do the collaborations relate to each other? What challenges, questions and hypotheses are emerging? | How do the collaborations relate to each other? What challenges, questions and hypotheses are emerging? |
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| * Communicating, listening, finding the right language (hope, parley…), translating language between partners | * Communicating, listening, finding the right language (hope, parley…), translating language between partners; Building trust and commitment, openness of communication; Ocean literacy, learning and communication is key to mainstreaming environmental messaging |
| * Finding shared values ('win-win'), finding common ground (while acknowledging complexity), talking about values, planning, collaboration, compromise and trade-offs | * Finding shared values ('win-win'), finding common ground (while acknowledging complexity), talking about values, planning, collaboration, compromise and trade-offs; Finding connections, uniting stakeholders, celebrating success; Inclusive engagement, fostering relationships, working together, forging new/unusual alliances, diversity of skills and perspectives as added value, including mavericks |
| * Finding connections, uniting stakeholders, celebrating success | * Innovation + scale, optimising resources, multiplier effects; Noise vs actual impact (understanding what true impact would be); Specificity of objectives and vision is important to align strategies, target the right audiences and improve measurability |
| * Inclusive engagement, fostering relationships, working together, forging new/unusual alliances, diversity of skills and perspectives as added value, including mavericks | * Collaboration is a journey; Leadership, governance, creating a political space, getting citizen mandate to force political and corporate worlds to act urgently; All partners need to see its benefits; Overcoming organisational pressures (recognition, fundraising, size of groups, vested interests, losing egos…); There are different roles in collaborations connected to partnerships and a sense of identity (including funders, volunteers and different 'personalities'); Differences in approaches: critical/friend/partner/advisor/facilitator; systemic change or focus on single audience/issue/locale; Benefits of collaboration: exchanging, curiosity, interaction, engagement, communication, community; Collaborative ecosystems include collaborations with different sectors - NGOs with industry (partnerships, metrics)/government (accountability, access)/communities (citizen science, education, ethical consumerism…). |
| * Innovation + scale, optimising resources, multiplier effects | |
| * Noise vs actual impact (understanding what true impact would be) | |
| * Building trust and commitment, openness of communication (diverse ownership_ | |
| * Funder agenda | |
| * Collaboration is a journey; all partners need to see benefits of collaboration | |
| * Leadership, governance, creating a political space, getting citizen mandate to force political and corporate worlds to act urgently | |
| * Overcoming organisational pressures (recognition, fundraising, size of groups, vested interests, losing egos…) | |
| * Specificity of objectives and vision is important to align strategies, target the right audiences and improve measurability | |
| * What outcomes do we want? Save the ocean! Halt and reverse threats. Ocean is used and valued, there is a balance cf. interests. More people care, feel empowered and take action. There needs to be a legislative change. | * What outcomes do we want? Save the ocean! Halt and reverse threats. Ocean is used and valued, there is a balance cf. interests. More people care, feel empowered and take action. There needs to be a legislative change. |
| * Common themes: sustainable seafood, developing our knowledge and understanding, ocean protection, physical connection to oceans, cultural connections to oceans (including pleasure and recreation), ocean pollution (including plastic and acidification) | * Common themes: sustainable seafood, developing our knowledge and understanding, ocean protection, physical connection to oceans, cultural connections to oceans (including pleasure and recreation), ocean pollution (including plastic and acidification), ethics, positive focus, fun, de/resensitising, reactive/responsive, happiness |
| * How do we work? 'Fun' communication; blameless project; fundraising, social conflict resolution, finding allies, consensus building, convening, research, social intervention, building public support, providing support to enable change, appealing to people’s self-interest, fundraising | * How do we work? 'Fun' communication; blameless project; fundraising, social conflict resolution, finding allies, consensus building, convening, research, social intervention, building public support, providing support to enable change, appealing to people’s self-interest, fundraising |
| * Where are the gaps? Scalability, disconnect between social and ecological needs, accountability | * Where are the gaps? Scalability, disconnect between social and ecological needs, accountability |
| * What are the needs? Awareness of wider landscape; trust in finding mutual goals away from logo-ego | * What are the needs? Awareness of wider landscape; trust in finding mutual goals away from logo-ego... |
| * Differences in approaches: critical/friend/partner/advisor/facilitator; systemic change or focus on single audience/issue/locale | |
| * Ethics, positive focus, fun, de/resensitising, reactive/responsive, happiness | |
| * There are different roles in collaborations connected to partnerships and a sense of identity (including funders, volunteers and different 'personalities') | |
| * Ocean literacy learning and communication is key to mainstreaming environmental messaging | |
| * Challenges: money, language (common/right), mobilisation (buy-in form key players), distrust of science, overcoming self-interest, prioritising, balancing the economic and intrinsic values, framing positively, how to make the long term tangible, public disconnect, winners+losers paradigm, lack of understanding about cultural motivations and value; how to make collaboration sustainable (when funding finishes); how to get communities to take ownership to act themselves (empowerment); the scale of the ocean is a challenge - it is vast and there are so many actors needing to collaborate | * Challenges: money, language (common/right), mobilisation (buy-in form key players), distrust of science, overcoming self-interest, prioritising, balancing the economic and intrinsic values, framing positively, how to make the long term tangible, public disconnect, winners+losers paradigm, lack of understanding about cultural motivations and value; how to make collaboration sustainable (when funding finishes); how to get communities to take ownership to act themselves (empowerment); the scale of the ocean is a challenge - it is vast and there are so many actors needing to collaborate |
| * Commonalities: what values work? There are different values for different audiences. How do you speak to those values? Can we afford doing this tailored value-based communication? We all want significant scale and ambition; we use raising public awareness as a tool to reach the goal | * Commonalities: what values work? There are different values for different audiences. How do you speak to those values? Can we afford doing this tailored value-based communication? We all want significant scale and ambition; we use raising public awareness as a tool to reach the goal |
| * Collaborative ecosystems: NGOs with industry (partnerships, metrics)/government (accountability, access)/communities (citizen science, education, ethical consumerism…). | |
| * Issues with data sets: "The perfect would be the enemy of the good" (consistency, collection, analysis, education… | |
| * Benefits of collaboration: exchanging, curiosity, interaction, engagement, communication, community | |
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| How to apply insights from the Frameworks research to some of the participants’ initiatives? In a collective consulting session, the participants offered a set of suggestions for the people involved, as well as recommendations that could be more widely applicable. | How to apply insights from the Frameworks research to some of the participants’ initiatives? In a collective consulting session, the participants offered a set of suggestions for the people involved, as well as recommendations that could be more widely applicable. |
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