Stakeholder's engagement

Six two-day workshops will be held over the course of the project to provide input, exchange experiences, discuss the progress of the project and make joint decisions for the next project steps (Table 4). To save resources (travelling time, carbon budget, etc.), three workshops will be hold via video-conferencing, and three workshops will be as physical meetings (with options for digital participation). The physical meetings organised around main projects milestones will ensure in-depth multilateral discussions and informal interactions between participants. To maximize the time for discussions and joint work on the problems during the workshops, preparatory input will be provided in advance in suitable formats such as text, animated presentations and video tutorials. Stakeholders will also be involved in the work carried out between the workshops, e.g. through questionnaires and personal interviews.
The success of the workshops will be enhanced by a clear program structure and moderation. Topics and processes will be iteratively discussed through the overall project in order to create a common learning space for the participating scientific partners and stakeholders.

Task 6.1: Ecological, Social-ecological and socio-economic conflict description (UCB, EAWAG)
The first two stakeholder workshops will focus on WPs 1 and 2. In the starting phase of the project, pre-structured profiles for getting to know each other before the first workshop will be created. Follow-up questionnaires will be designed to determine the respective success criteria from the perspective of the respective stakeholders in bilateral interviews. Based on the results of the interviews, the application of stakeholder perception and actor analysis (e.g. mental models) will describe which potential ecological, social-ecological and socio-economic conflicts and synergistic potentials exist.

Task 6.2: Practical relevance of analyses (UCB, EAWAG)
The third and fourth workshop will focus on the collaboration between WPs 3 and 4 and the stakeholders to ensure the practical relevance of the analyses Stakeholders will closely accompany the analysis process and will influence the selected targets and environmental variables considered to describe the regional context. Interim results will be discussed in focus group discussions and jointly evaluated, in particular to generalizability and boundary conditions. Scenario development will ensures the applicability of the results in the future with ongoing climate and land use change. With this iterative approach and the continuous feedback to the stakeholders, we want to increase the stakeholders' sensitivity and understanding for the future collection and storage of data necessary for the assessment of restoration success.
Task 6.3: Optimization of outreach products (UCB, EAWAG, INRAE)
The fifth workshop will be used to finalize the outreach products (see WP5). The participation of the stakeholders in the co-creation of the outreach products of this project will ensure their target group orientation and practical relevance. In a design thinking approach, a common understanding of the project products will be developed, already from the beginning of the project phase and then successively implemented, with stakeholders testing beta-versions of the web application to ensure its user-friendliness. In the planned summary article on the project results, the stakeholders will be integrated into the project-internal review team, and parts of the fact sheets will be written by the stakeholders themselves (“practitioner’s view”) in order to give them an externally visible platform in the project. In the last workshop, outreach products will be presented to the professional public.