18/08/2026
🏆 🌊 🐟 We’re proud to share that EcoScope has received a Platinum Facilitation Impact Awards, the highest category awarded by the International Association of Facilitators (IAF).
The EU-funded EcoScope Project aimed to promote an effective and efficient ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management. It developed an interoperable platform, a robust decision-making toolbox, a series of online courses, and a mobile application. These tools were made available through a single public portal to support efficient, ecosystem-based fisheries management and enable maximum, continuous stakeholder participation.
The IAF Facilitation Impact Awards honour organisations that have achieved a positive, measurable impact using facilitation, and Platinum Awards are given when exceptional, transformative impact has happened. This recognition celebrates the collaborative approach and measurable impact behind EcoScope’s work.
🏆 Yesterday we were awarded a Platinum Facilitation Impact Award - the highest category of award possible - from the International Association of Facilitators - IAF for the workshops we conducted under the Horizon 2020 funded EcoScope project.
🎣 The EcoScope project, which ran from 2021-2025, aimed at developing a series of e-tools to promote effective ecosystem-based fisheries management. We organised two workshops, in collaboration with professional facilitator Elisabeth (Lizzie) Crudgington and EcoScope consortium members, which aimed at improving usability of the tools by co-designing them with participants and making them fit-for-purpose, as well as to increase trust in the tools by eliminating the "black box" perception. Surveys with participants after the two workshop showed that we successfully achieved both objectives. The IAF Facilitation Impact Awards honour organisations that have achieved a positive, measurable impact using facilitation and Platinum Awards are given if exceptional, transformative impact happened. We have had the pleasure of working with Lizzie on a number of projects and activities, including on the ongoing SURIMI Project.
🔗 Find out more about EMB's role in EcoScope here: https://marineboard.eu/ecoscope
More about the Facilitation Impact Awards here: https://iaf-world.org/fia/
