How to bring the wide variety of stakeholders1
into the increasing complexity of blue economy
developments in the most sustainable way, tackling pollution, increasing biodiversity, reducing the
carbon footprint and speeding-up the circular processes present in the offshore business and other
innovative activities at sea, remains a challenge. The importance of involving stakeholders for
addressing such challenges here is clear and includes, but is not limited to:
• helping significantly in raising awareness,
• achieving project targets and objectives,
• managing and assessing risks,
• sharing best practices,
• reducing conflicts whilst applying a transparent principle,
• having a better access to resources
• and information and identifying the gaps more correctly.
This deliverable analyses how to best identify, map and approach stakeholders oriented towards the
objectives set in the EU Mission “Restore our Ocean and Waters”. This approach is designed to help
better reaching a sustainable blue economy and the targets and objectives set in line with the Mission.
These guidelines are generally applicable towards all four lighthouses: the Atlantic and Arctic Ocean,
the Mediterranean Sea, the Baltic and North Sea and the Danube River and Black Sea. Therefore, the
team put the objectives of the Mission in line with the most relevant businesses and stakeholders
today. The stakeholders approach originates from the Penta-Helix model, at times slightly extending.
The team derived a non-exhaustive stakeholder mapping, which provides several examples per
country.