The main purpose of the Lisbon session is to strengthen the sense of direction and shared values for the Marine CoLAB. There will also be several opportunities to extend the community by building connections with Portugese marine NGOs. On Thursday (23/09) we will have a full day for a Marine CoLAB session. On Wednesday you will have the chance to jointly decide on the content, format and desired outcomes of this session, in line with the broader Marine CoLAB goal of communicating the value of the oceans. We invite you to think about what you would like to get out of this opportunity both individually and collectively:

• How will you build on the work and relationships developed up to now?
• What would you like to achieve as the Marine CoLAB team?
• How will you know that you have achieved it?
• How will you organise yourselves in order to achieve it?

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(a proposed agenda)

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(an exploration of explanation…)

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• plastics
  • discussed in detail later
• Transparency of Marine Industries → potential as longer term project
  • possibly linking plastics & transparency
  • use transparency mapping / data collection as a tool/concept to help improve a project
  • toward keeping corporate entities responsible for behaviour (embargo, legal, consumer, etc+)
  • monitoring & exposing bad practice
• value added (related: Valuing what matters)
  • how do we communicate about the environment?
  • from issue centric to a values based approach
  • in developing trade off analysis → lacking sufficient data, market centred, benefits often not apparent in market terms
  • exploration of shared values, what values are in common across different stakeholders, avoid focusing on conflicting values / issues
  • communication → from issue centric to values based)
  • 'community voice method' a practical values based approach. http://communityvoicemethod.org/
• Game On! → potential as a longer term project
  • would be great to develop, seems like a good time to work on it
  • needs bigger team, perhaps focus by using transparency initiative, or issues around plastics
  • could provide an opportunity to test 'values based' approach to exploring an issue
  • pilot project to bring together a group of kids/developers/communication/NGOs to explore an issue by creating simple games, game/issue hackathons in schools/ZSL/etc, regular prize (e.g. ZSL, mozilla, shuttleworth)
  • e.g. ZSL anti poaching add-on to minecraft, angry birds pangolin.

• marine safe
• blue new deal
• coastal partnership network
• river academy (Thames estuary)
• community voice method (MCS)
• Beach watch / Fishonline (MCS)
• project ocean (ZSL)
• ocean optimism (ZSL)
• sustainable seafood coalition (client earth)
• stopping fishing in protected sites (client earth)
• emerging issues in the marine environment (F4F)
• scanning network - areas of high change potential ( http://thefuturescentre.org/ )
• diverting & accessing EU funds

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