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Sheba (SHarEd understanding about sustainable BAltic Sea governance) is a research application to Helsinki Challenge 2016.

Registration

This is the information asked and provided for the registration phase.

Team leader (name, title, organization, telephone number, e-mail):

Jouni Tuomisto, National Institute for Health and Welfare, +358295246305 jouni tuomisto thl fi

Contact person (name, title, organization, telephone number, e-mail) *

Jouni Tuomisto, National Institute for Health and Welfare, +358295246305 jouni tuomisto thl fi

Other team members (name, title, organization, e-mail) *

Päivi Haapasaari, Universty of Helsinki, paivi haapasaari helsinki fi
Sakari Kuikka, University of Helsinki, sakari kuikka helsinki fi
Arja Asikainen, National Institute for Health and Welfare, arja asikainen thl fi

Helsinki Challenge creates solutions to grand challenges and for the future well being. More info about the competition themes can be found [1]

Choose the theme

Sustainable Planet ←--#: . Yes --Jouni (talk) 07:24, 27 October 2016 (UTC) (type: truth; paradigms: science: defence)
Urban Future ⇤--#: . No --Jouni (talk) 07:24, 27 October 2016 (UTC) (type: truth; paradigms: science: attack)
People in Change ←--#: . Yes --Jouni (talk) 07:24, 27 October 2016 (UTC) (type: truth; paradigms: science: defence)

Shortly describe the challenge your team is about to solve (max 200-250 characters with spaces):

We will improve evidence-based decision support for the governance of Baltic Sea sustainability. The results are useful for other sea areas, and the methods developed and tested produce shared understanding and support complex decision situations.

Submission

Instructions

We are meeting at a time of immense challenges to sustainable development. United Nations has introduced the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to change our world. The objective of the Agenda is to build a better future for all of us. These goals are universal and belong to us all: countries, cities, companies, schools, you and me. This is our common agenda.

To solve grand challenges we need multidisciplinary approaches, broad-minded thinking and bold boundary crossings. The science based competition and idea accelerator, Helsinki Challenge, is a platform for collaboration: science and arts communities, business, decision makers, public sector and other actors of the society – we all need to join the movement to make the goals for sustainable development reality. Through the Helsinki Challenge collaboration we can create solutions for grand challenges and for the future well-being – together!

Helsinki Challenge 2016-2017 themes are: Sustainable Planet, People in Change and Urban Future. For more information kindly check challenge.helsinki.fi

Kindly submit the competition entry by November 15th, 2016.

Criteria

Helsinki Challenge competition entries will be evaluated through the following criteria

Science-based

As a science-based competition, all of the Helsinki Challenge teams need to have a firm link with academic work and practices. Ideally, the solution and the team are founded on a firm research-base (i.e. the team’s work is based on their own research), and the solution provides academic research with new insights and as such, feeds back to academia.

Impact

Impact is the main driving force of Helsinki Challenge: both the teams and the university are trying to find new ways of maximising the impact of research through the process. Impact is essentially about sustainable change: how to measure it and evaluate the team’s progression towards a better society. It can be measured both by the scale or the depth of the change the team is aspiring towards.

Solution-focused

Ultimately, solution is a medium for achieving impact. By this definition the successful Helsinki Challenge teams must be passionately aimed at building their solution and ways to achieve results effectively. The solution must be feasible, although it can be research-focused and abstract.

Creativity

The team’s ability to reframe the problem in new ways, to connect new partnerships and collaborations in new unforeseen contexts and finding new approaches for solutionizing are categories through which the jury can measure the team’s creativity.

Originality

Originality of the solution requires understanding of past and current iterations. This demands benchmarking. Originality can be measured by asking how and why the new solution excels existing solutions.

Describe the Challenge

Choose the theme *

Sustainable Planet ←--#: . Yes --Jouni (talk) 13:54, 15 November 2016 (UTC) (type: truth; paradigms: science: defence)
Urban Future ⇤--#: . No --Jouni (talk) 13:54, 15 November 2016 (UTC) (type: truth; paradigms: science: attack)
People in Change ←--#: . Yes --Jouni (talk) 13:54, 15 November 2016 (UTC) (type: truth; paradigms: science: defence)

Shortly describe the challenge your team is about to solve. Explicate also your team’s proposed solution to the challenge, the scientific methods to be employed, and any multidisciplinary collaboration the project involves. Justify the challenge by showing why it is an important challenge for science and society, and how your team’s solution is unique and innovative one. (max 2500 characters with spaces) *

Challenge: The Baltic Sea is eutrophicated and highly polluted with persistent environmental pollutants. Also, the sustainability of the fishing activities is an international concern. There are national and international governance structures in place, such as HELCOM, to facilitate the decision making related to the Baltic Sea. However, there is a need for better practices to include scientific evidence into decision making. In addition, the utility of such practices must be demonstrated or they will not be used. We aim to produce such evidence, so that these practices would gain popularity and start producing added value in new decision situations related to sustainable development.

Proposed solution:We have recently identified several principles for information work and how to utilize research knowledge for decision making more efficiently. (Tuomisto et al, Yhteiskuntapolitiikka 1: 67-76, 2014; Tuomisto et al., Yhtäköyttä-hankkeen loppuraportti. Manuscript. http://fi.opasnet.org/fi/Yhtäköyttä-hankkeen_loppuraportti). These have successfully been applied in local assessments and also in a Baltic setting in a BONUS project GOHERR. Now it is time to involve larger stakeholder groups, experts, and decision makers internationally. We anticipate that these principles will facilitate decisions by increasing shared understanding among participants, i.e. understanding about issues, values, and reasons for disagreements.

Scientific methods employed: We will use Bayesian belief networks to summarise scientific information and open assessment (http://en.opasnet.org/w/Open_assessment) and Opasnet web-workspace to synthesise and disseminate stakeholder contributions. We will also use several collaboration and co-creation methods with stakeholders and decision makers. We will use knowledge crystals (http://en.opasnet.org/w/Knowledge_crystal) as the technical format for information, because it allows scientific critique, produces open linked data, and facilitates reuse of information in new contexts.

Multidisciplinary collaboration: The team has expertise in environmental health, environmental sciences, social sciences, impact assessment, Bayesian modelling, decision support, citizens science, and participatory methods, among other things. The team has successfully worked together before on complex decision support cases and co-creation projects. They also have existing contacts to many important stakeholders.

Collaboration and Impact

Shortly describe the project’s intended collaboration inside and outside the academia. Firstly, explain the working of the team and its division of responsibilities, and depict also any scientific collaboration inside your host institution as well as between your team and other higher education institutions. Secondly, describe how the project interacts with the society, and represent any actual or planned cooperation with companies, the public and the third sector, and the general public. Justify your alleged solution by showing how it would change the world. Lastly, describe the funding plan of the project, list actual and planned funding resources, and explain your plans for using the prize money.(max 2500 characters with spaces) *

Collaboration inside academia and division of tasks:
Collaboration outside academia and interactions with society:
How the project would change the world: The project will implement in practice many principles identified and important when societal decisions are made. Current practices do not fulfil the principles, and therefore they cannot tackle the current problems related to decreased signal-to-noise ratio due to social media.
Funding plan: 170 000 € to salary -> 75 % overhead + 57 % social security cost / 4000 e/mo ->

Science

All entries in the Helsinki Challenge competition should represent solid science. Describe your and the team’s most significant scientific achievements, and how they relate to the current Helsinki Challenge project. (max 2500 characters with spaces)

Scientific achievements and their relation to the work:
- Open assessment and open policy practice: guidance for impact assessment as decision support
- Opasnet: an open web-workspace for performing impact assessment and co-creation
- Yhtäköyttä-principles: how to improve decision making so that it can better utilise scientific information
- Bayesian modelling: quantitativa method to describe impacts and uncertainties of decisions.
- Decision making of Baltic environment, e.g. oil spill hazards

Introduce the team

Team leader (name, title, organization, telephone number, e-mail) *

Päivi Haapasaari, Universty of Helsinki, paivi haapasaari helsinki fi