The first EcoScope foresight workshop was held online on the 16th of February 2022. The objective was to receive input from key stakeholders on the ongoing design and elaboration of the EcoScope e-tools. Twenty-four stakeholders and 11 EcoScope Consortium members participated in the workshop. The stakeholder participants included policy/regulatory stakeholders, advisory bodies, environmental NGOs, scientific networks and scientists, and Ocean data aggregators.
The workshop consisted of a welcome and context setting session; a short session to pilot an upcoming survey on societal expectations and ecosystem-based fisheries management values; a set of sessions in which scenarios were used as a starting point to obtain feedback on the EcoScope e-tools; and Deep Dive sessions in which key questions or concerns identified during the workshop were discussed further. The event was highly productive and provided important insights for the project going forward.
This deliverable provides a summary of the methodology, results and insights of the workshop.