Marcelline Bonneau

Edited on 29/10/2026

Validated expert

Marcelline Bonneau

  • Belgium

  • French, English, Polish
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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 (GreenPlace) and Ad Hoc expert (REFILL, BIOCANTEENS, MAPS), together with my position as an expert to the EUI Be.SHARE (Brussels-Capital Region), EUI ZERO (Arnhem), EUI Ground for Well-being project (Amsterdam), EUI Time2Adapt project (European Metropolis of Lille), UIA Circular South project (Antwerp) and to the UIA TAST’in FIVES project (Lille), 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 adaptation, green infrastructure and Nature-based Solutions (part of the core teams of the URBACT Nature-Based Solutions Knowledge Hub and on Greening Urban Economies), 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 almost 20 years 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 social sciences, 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)

Food

Positions :

  • Member of the Ixelles’ Food Policy Council 
  • Member of the Brussels Region Capital network of sustainable food stakeholders
  • 2019-2022, URBACT Programme Expert responsible for Food 

Projects:

  • 2024, URBACT, Online Course on Food Procurement
  • 2024-2025, Administration Communale de Schaerbeek, Support for the second phase of the participatory process of the Local Sustainable Food Council of the municipality 
  • 2024, URBACT, Local Food Systems City Labs
  • 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 municipality 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
  • 2019-2022, UIA Expert for TAST’in FIVES
  • 2018, URBACT, BioCanteens network
  • 2017, Delhaize, Co-creation of a community garden on a supermarket’s rooftop
  • 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 and articles

Presentations and keynotes:

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Climate Adaptation

Positions:

  • Expert to the Brussels’ Citizens Assembly for climate 
  • Member of Brussels’ Committee of Climate Experts 
  • 2019-2022, URBACT Programme Expert responsible for Climate adaptation Expertise

Projects:

  • 2025-2028, EUI Expert for the GfW project
  • 2024-2028, EUI Expert for the Time2Adapt project
  • 2023_2025, URBACT GreenPlace Lead Expert
  • 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
  • 2021: European Commission, Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME), Call topic LC-GD-1-2-2020 “Towards Climate-Neutral and Socially Innovative Cities”.
  • 2015-2016, SPF Justice, Workshops on “The sustainable city”

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Energy Transition

Projects:

  • 2025-2029, EUI Expert for the ZERO project
  • 2025-2029, EUI Expert for the Be.SHARE project
  • 2019-2022, URBACT Programme Expert responsible for Energy transition 

Publications and articles:

Circular Economy

Position:

  • 2019-2022, URBACT Programme Expert responsible for Circular Economy
  • Observer of the Urban Agenda Partnership on Circular Economy

Projects:

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Presentation :

  • How can the temporary use of vacant spaces support the retail sector in city centres? Learnings from the REFILL network, RetaiLink transnational meeting, Liberec, 7 February 2017

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Social innovation, governance and participatory approaches

Projects:

  • 2017 : Inspirons le Quartier – Conseil des Quartier Durables Citoyens

  • 2017-2020 :  Innoviris – Co-create 2016 - funded project, VILCO

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