Marcelline Bonneau

Edited on 16/10/2024

Validated expert

Marcelline Bonneau

  • Belgium

  • French, English, Polish
Availability :
Available for Lead Expert role and Ad-hoc expertise missions

Validated Expert info

Expert can perform the Lead expert role and Ad hoc expertise missions at network and programme level in relation to:

  1. The design and delivery of (transnational) exchange and learning activities 
  2. Thematic expertise:
    > Food
    > Circular Economy
    > Climate Adaptation
    > Energy Transition
  3. Methods and tools for integrated and participatory approaches:
    > Integrated and participatory design of strategies
    > Monitoring and evaluation for effective implementation

Summary

Marcelline Bonneau, via Resilia Solutions, is working on projects for societal transition of city administration.

Via my role as a URBACT Programme, Lead Expert (REFILL, BIOCANTEENS) and Ad Hoc expert (MAPS), together with my position as an expert to the UIA Antwerp Circular South project and to the UIA TAST’in FIVES project, New European Bauhaus expert and AMI expert (as the REGIO Communities of Practitioners' Manager), and within a variety of other local and transitional projects, I support integrated governance processes via peer-to-peer learning amongst EU cities.

After having worked in consultancies evaluating European public policies and programmes, doing impact assessments and bringing technical assistance, I now contribute to reinforcing the link between local and European levels via learning and exchange.  I propose services from facilitating co-creation processes (methodology designs, facilitation of activities, experimentations, …) and stimulating participation (via community management, visualization, …). In addition I do research and analysis and contributes to various project via ad hoc oral and written contributions.

Sustainable food (especially responsible for the URBACT Food Knowledge Hub), sustainable consumption, foodwaste, circular economy, climate change, energy transition, (innovative) public procurement, grassroots initiatives, temporary use of vacant spaces, social innovation, Just Transitions, are some of the topics I cover. Leadership, governance, urban planning, integrated approaches, empowerment are some of the transversal approaches I investigate.

By combining theory and practice, I have for 15 years been working with public authorities and local initiatives. I am focusing especially on the interactions between stakeholders via co-creation towards a more resilient society. This way, I have supported the development of local action plans and strategies, communication and stakeholder engagement and mobilisation strategies, set-up of local councils, identification of EU funds opportunities and capacity-building for EU funds applications, ...

With a background in public policy and management of the environment, I seek to link theory and practices, grassroots activities and strategic ones, the local and EU levels (incl. Urban Agenda Partnerships).

All my details (projects, publications, articles, media, conferences, blog articles, CV, ... ) can be found on Resilia Solutions' website: http://resilia-solutions.eu/

Details of validated thematic expertise

(NB: more fields of expertise can be found on my CV)

Circular Economy

Projects:

Publications, articles and presentations:

Climate Adaptation

Projects :

  • 2019-2022, URBACT Programme Expert responsible for Climate adaptation
  • 2023, City of Schaerbeek (Belgium), on the "Support for the design of a strategy for mobilizing stakeholders in the Schaerbeek territory as part of the Climate Plan",
  • 2022-2023, Bruxelles Environnement, Supporting municipalities and CPAS in the implementation of Good Food projects in connection with the call for climate action projects

Publications, articles and presentations:

Energy Transition

Projects:

  • 2019-2022, URBACT Programme Expert responsible for Energy transition

Publications, articles and presentations:

Food

Projects:

  • 2019-2022, URBACT Programme Expert responsible for Food
  • 2023, City of Ixelles, FoodWasteWatchers@Ixelles
  • 2023, Bruxelles environment, Assistance in the coordination, animation and communication of the Good Food 2 Strategy
  • 2023, Administration Communale de Schaerbeek, Animation, facilitation and organization of the participatory process for the creation of the sustainable food advisory council of the city of Schaerbeek and co-creation of a local strategy
  • 2022-2023, Bruxelles Environnement, Supporting municipalities and CPAS in the implementation of Good Food projects in connection with the call for climate action projects
  • 2019, URBACT, Thematic Programme Expert, Food Expert
  • 2019-2022, UIA Expert for TAST’in FIVES
  • 2018, URBACT, BioCanteens network
  • 2018-2019, Brussels environment, FoodWasteWatchers
  • 2018-2019, Brussels environment, Food surplus collection for dummies
  • 2016, Coordination of the RABAD living lab within the frame of ULB-led “Choud’Bruxelles”
  • 2016, Brussels environnement, Cogardenning/Cojardinage
  • 2015,Etterbeek City council, “Sustainable table” toolkit
  • 2015, Bruxelles environment, Support to the co-construction of a Strategy on Sustainable Food and Urban Agriculture in the Brussels capital region

Publications, articles and presentations:

Related URBACT activities

  • GreenPlace

    GreenPlace is an URBACT network consisting of ten partners who aim at developing a set of activities for "recycling" unused urban areas, using social participation tools. The project takes into account not only the regional specificities and conditions of each of the partners but also introduces greenery as a key factor in limiting climate change in urban areas. 

     

    Ongoing
    See more

  • REFILL

    In many European cities one of the positive side effects of the financial-economic crisis is the growth of innovative forms of solidarity and commitment at local level. This Action Planning network pioneered, in terms of bottom-up civic initiatives, by co-creating solutions for social challenges in an urban context. Cities are often perceived as a laboratory and governments are no longer the only actor to solve complex challenges faced in cities. Therefore, temporary use is a powerful tool to make our cities "future fit". Since the concept of temporary use is interacting with many other urban dynamics it creates the right environment for social innovation to develop by: exchanging and evaluating of local supporting instruments; ensuring long lasting effects of temporality; building a more flexible and collaborative public administration.

    Closed
    See more
  • Food icon - back

    Food and sustainable local systems

    Find out how cities can benefit from local and sustainable food systems, some good food for thought! From gardens to your plate, understand how this subject can touch on policy-making, community building and much more.

    Read more about Food and sustainable local systems

Articles

  • Source: Cascina Linterno City of Milan, Food Policy department.

    Get a taste of the next EU City Lab in Milan: The role of cities in making land available and accessible

    Milan will serve the third course of the EU City Labs on Local Food Systems on 23-24 October. Reserve your spot and find out more about sustainable

    See more

    Marcelline Bonneau

  • Article
    Can public procurement leverage local food transition - COVER

    Can public procurement be a leverage for local food transition?

    Discover how cities have taken on the challenge to push for more organic, local and sustainable food systems.

    See more

    Marcelline Bonneau

  • Article
    Women using her phone to take a picture at the Tallinn URBACT City Festival

    Digital Transition in cities – how can it benefit citizens?

    Take a trip down memory lane with us. Re-discover stories and reflections that we've captured over the last years. This article was first published in

    See more

    Marcelline Bonneau

See all articles