Report on identified risks, challenges and barriers

This deliverable will identify the challenges risks and barriers for large scale commercial roll out of multiuse platforms through the study of the previous projects such as the H2020 call The Oceans of Tomorrow which has provided promising designs technological proposals and models for combining activities in terms of economic potential and environmental impactFor an exhaustive examination of those marked challenges the analysis will focus on the five pillars 1 technology 2 economics 3 environmental 4 societal 5 legal policy and governance pillar The task will follow a methodology based on three incremental steps1Extensive review and investigation of developments of previous related projects and resulting works that have been selected under The ocean of tomorrow initiative and identify those challenges that have already been highlighted by those projects 2Perform interviews with the stakeholders involved through UNITED in order to include demonstrators and their ecological systems eg stakeholdersadvisory boards as well as to elicit the potential effects a multiuse platform may have on its local community3Run broader workshops in collaboration with the dissemination WP WP9 for collecting wider knowledge in that respect to investigate ways of involving local stakeholders to review previous reactions to a multiplatform implementation and structure a methodology of promoting consensusThe outcome will be the provision of a report of those main challenges risks and barriers faced by corresponding business enterprises in the pursuit of commercial roll outOutcome of this task a report with the identified risks challenges and barriers faced by developments of previous related projects and resulting works as in D11 This outcome will be used as input to WP2 WP3 WP4 WP5 and WP6 to give insight on the risk assessment that needs to be carried out for the optimized business cases based on above five pillars eg any unproven technology unexpected interactions higher complexity than expected uncertain scalability forbidden licenses costly insurances etc already identified by those projects to facilitate the optimized business cases definition