Mission
Filament Europe aims at supporting organisations involved in food production and territorial development to thrive in the context of sustainable development.
Our consultancy work consists of achieving progress towards sustainability in food and agricultural systems.
We stand for a development that responds to our needs and respect natural resources of our planet.
By adopting a holistic approach, our solutions contribute to promoting resource efficiency, enhancing people’s learning experience, and improving organisations sustainable growth.
Values
Vision
At Filament Europe, we believe that active collaboration leads to sustained actions.
We put a high value on learning, as it is fundamental to prosperity.
Continual monitoring of progress and evaluation are critical to inform on the achievement of the objectives.
Consultancy Services
Discover Our Expertise
Filament Europe exists to solve the critical issues facing our clients, both large and small. Our unique approach is not only what differentiates us, but also what makes us successful. We provide a broad range of services and solutions to help organizations facilitate change, achieve their vision and optimize performance and productivity.
Information
Enhancing the learning experience
Enhancing the learning experience of the stakeholders is for us crucial, as knowledge and understanding are key components of sustained decisions. Our expertise covers:
Sustainable development applied to agricultural production, food consumption and the supply chain.
The urban farming sector, including vertical farming ( market perspective, main actors, economic models…)
The European policies, specifically the Common Agricultural Policy and the grant opportunities (Horizon Europe, Interreg, Promotion of agricultural products...)
The vocational training sector in agriculture.
A wide range of participatory methods is used to support knowledge transfer to different audiences, such as professionals, decision-makers, students, scholars …
Advice and strategic design
Managing sustainability
Filament Europe helps organisations embed sustainability in the core of their projects and take advantage of those principles.
By adopting a holistic design approach, we can help you define key opportunities for action to support sustainable development and face a high level of complexity and uncertainty. Our competencies contain:
Seizing opportunities to make food production systems more sustainable.
Advising organisations’ leadership in developing an institutional strategy for sustainable development.
Setting up models of growth for an NGO in the context of sustainable development.
Review of the European Sustainable Development to improve the long-term effectiveness of the European Union policy agendas.
Each organisation is unique, so tailored made solutions are developed to answer to every specific situation.
Planning, Monitoring and evaluation
Implementing your ambitions
The methodologies we apply aim at implementing your ambition in a more effective and efficient way. By developing with you either planning or monitoring and evaluation systems for your actions, our purpose is to deliver solutions and benefits to your organisation. Our experience includes:
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Assessing organisations Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance.
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Modelling monitoring and evaluation systems for the European agricultural programmes in developed and developing countries.
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Monitoring European decisions and assessing their impacts on a specific agricultural sector.
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Implementing and managing a European programme.
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Evaluation of project proposals in the frame of a European call.
As a facilitator, we will enable you to work in a way that suits you best.
Meet us !
Anne PELISSE
Consultant
Founder
Anne is an independent consultant in sustainable development based in Zurich (Switzerland). After her Degree in Agricultural Economics, she held a Master in Territorial Development, then a postgraduate degree in Environmental Management from the Open University (UK).
After working for several years in the field of European funding, in favor of rural development and farmer training, she founded Filament Europe in 2019. The aim of this consultancy is to support the development of sustainable food production systems.
Besides consulting, she designs and facilitates for various audiences dynamic training modules and practical workshops on innovative food production business models and sustainable food strategies. To enhance her interactive teaching style, she set up different learning activities such as a board game.
As an external EU expert, she is also assisting the European Commission in the evaluation of Horizon Europe grant applications as well as green investment projects in environmental or non-environmental sectors (#GreenAssist).
