Filipa Pimentel

• To identify and progress collaborative opportunities with aligned groups and organizations that support the delivery of TNI's strategic objectives and contribute to the wider ecosystem of change.
• To support the ongoing learning and familiarization with shared governance within the TNI team, and to support the sharing of these learnings more widely.
• Maintaining focus on the circle's purpose of promoting active participation of, and building stronger connections with and between, local communities and Hubs who are applying Transition principles and practices and supporting circle members to deliver what is needed.
• To support the evolving local movement, to maintain effective connection with TNI and to each other.

Trainer supporting agents of societal and environmental change in a wide set of subjects, including:

Imagination for societal change; share-governance; Collective intelligence processes and tools; Local communities engagement and activation; Inner Transition.

• Maintaining the focus to deliver the operational strategy of the organisation and supporting members to deliver what is needed.

Exploring with people all over the world how to develop the social infrastructure, collaborative culture and new forms of leadership capable of supporting a distributed movement for social change. Acting as a bridge between the Transition Network and the EU institutions (and other organizations based in Brussels), finding ways to connect with people in positions of power and help them get in touch with their longing for change (she calls this 'un-lobbying').

Unit for Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment and Unit for Single Market, Production and Consumption

Responsible for political advisory duties including:

• Assisting and collaborating with members and experts in drawing-up opinions and reports;
• Drafting working documents, introductory memos and minutes;
• Organising seminars, conferences, hearings, and other public relations events.

To establish a new Intergroup on Conservation and Sustainable Development in the European Parliament, working closely with IUCN; to advise Members of the European Parliament on technical/political issues concerning Sustainable Development.

• To advise the Forests campaign of Greenpeace International on European and international policies related to forests and biodiversity.
• To work on the environmental integrity of the Kyoto Protocol, and to develop political initiatives around the forest, agriculture, and land use dimensions of the Protocol.

Research and collaboration in several projects related with Forest Ecology, inter alia, restoration of riparian forests and restoration of ecological corridors.