The final EcoScope stakeholder engagement events took place in May 2025 in Brussels and included a stakeholder workshop held on 27 May, followed by a dedicated Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) Challenge Simulation game workshop on 28 May. The aim was to showcase the final EcoScope tools and collect the stakeholders’ reflections on their value, and how they could be improved further.
The stakeholder workshop was attended by 17 external stakeholders, including policy makers, NGOs, Advisory Councils and scientists, as well as 12 EcoScope consortium members, including three facilitators. This workshop began with a refresher on the EcoScope project, in which project partners highlighted how feedback from the first stakeholder workshop had been integrated, followed by interactive sessions where participants actively discovered the EcoScope tools and provided further feedback.
The MSP Challenge workshop was attended by 20 people: 14 external representatives and 6 from EcoScope. During this half-day session, participants played an MSP Challenge game, creating Marine Spatial Plans and subsequently seeing the results of their actions through the underlying models.
Both workshops were very well received. Participants noted that they really enjoyed the workshops and learned a lot, while the EcoScope team received very valuable feedback, which will help further improve the tools.
This deliverable provides a summary of the methodology, results and insights of the second and final EcoScope stakeholder workshop.