Dr. Francesca Grossi

Francesca is Head of Acquisition and Senior Project Manager at the CSCP, specialising in European research and innovation projects, sustainable lifestyles and behaviour change, stakeholder and citizen engagement, and participatory approaches to sustainability transitions.

Fachgebiete

Her areas of expertise include sustainability research, stakeholder engagement and participatory innovation, with a particular focus on designing and facilitating co-creation and multi-stakeholder processes, participatory research and behavioural analysis, capacity building, and translating research and stakeholder insights into practical approaches for sustainability transitions. She also brings extensive experience in leading complex European research and innovation projects.

Aktuelle Arbeit

As senior project manager in the Sustainable Lifestyles Team, Francesca works across sustainable consumption and lifestyles, food systems, circular economy, sustainable tourism, and behavioural change. She applies her expertise to European research and innovation projects that explore how sustainability solutions can respond to the needs of citizens, consumers and other stakeholders and be effectively translated into practice.

As Head of Acquisition, she leads the CSCP’s acquisition activities, identifying and developing new funding opportunities, project concepts and strategic partnerships, with a particular focus on European and public funding programmes.

Bisherige Berufserfahrung

Francesca has experience in European and international sustainability research and innovation. Since joining the CSCP in 2010, she has worked on and led multi-partner projects covering sustainable consumption and production, circular economy and resource efficiency, climate action, food systems and sustainable lifestyles. Her work has combined applied and policy-oriented research, stakeholder engagement, methodology development, capacity building and project coordination.

Before and alongside her work at the CSCP, she gained research experience at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Ecofys and Empirica, working on climate change impacts and adaptation, climate policy and finance, energy and resource efficiency, sustainable buildings and sustainable mobility.

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She holds a PhD in Science and Management of Climate Change from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, an MA in International Relations and Diplomacy from Leiden University, and a BA in Foreign Languages and Computer Programming Languages from the University of Rome Tor Vergata.

Francesca ist italienische Staatsangehörige.

I believe sustainability transitions are more effective when people have a real role in shaping them, so how can we turn participation into action?