- MUSIC / Melbourne / Port Vila - Vanuatu and La Botija - Honduras projects: We employed transition management as an over-arching methodological approach that includes visioning process, backcasting and agenda setting. In the Port Vila, the method of Ecosystem services assessment was also incorporated for assessing environmental conflicts. - URBES project: Scenarion building and strategy building methods were employed in a participatory setting also including a narrative building work in a participatory setting based on ecosystem services framework (TEEB). - in Melbourne and in the IMPRESSIONS project we also include wildcards to trigger transformative thinking about establishing and fostering resilience on the short, medium and long term horizon. In the IMPRESSIONS project we also use fuzzy sets to gain knowledge and insight on the understanding of uncertainty for rates of change of social and environmental variables per case study. - I have an extensive knowledge on scenario and pathways building for strategic environmental planning using Transition Management, Normative Scenario, Backcasting and Resilience Planning methods, along with other techniques such as Meadows' leverage points ladder, Integrated Sustainability Assessment, SWOT analysis and participatory multi-criteria analysis using PROMETHEE model interfaces, as well as GIS tools participatory. I have also created causal loop diagrams for waterlands restoration in participatory settings.

I am knowledgeable on integrated methods and approaches: Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment, Integrated Sustainability Assessment, Transition Management and many others including actor-network analysis and participatory narrative inquiry. For evaluating urban policies as well as the institutional structures and politics around them, I am confident of using a 'armory' of methods given that I have been working on issues of environmental governance for the past 9 years (from my PhD research starting at 2006 until today).

I am knowledgeable about the urban development policies not only from the DG Regions but also from the policies and documents published from DG Environment (e.g. on Green Infrastructure), from DG Research and Development (e.g. on Nature-based solutions) and from Joint Program Initiative Urban Europe on urban transition to sustainability. I am aware of all the EU policy documents about urban environment and the environmental policy documents at the level that I have published on how policy integration at EU level can be fostered and improved. Not only European policy and funding schemes are on my radar, I am part of the Urban Cluster of the global research initiative Future Earth, having a fast-track program under the theme ‘ The Urban Planet – Pathways and solutions to the cities we want’. I also participate in scoping workshops of future funding schemes at European and Global level including the forthcoming Belmont Forum in USA in 2015. In September 2015 I will represent the European Commission in a bilateral collaboration with Brazil for establishing a platform and collaboration on sustainable urbanisation.