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Aurore Fransolet
Holder of a PhD in environmental studies, Aurore conducts interdisciplinary research on the justice dimensions of social-ecological transformations and their translation into the notion of ‘just transition’. She coordinates a prospective research project on just transition to carbon neutrality and climate resilience in Brussels and is co-editor of the Report of the High Committee for a Just Transition in Belgium.
Description
Aurore Fransolet is a postdoctoral researcher in the Socio-Environmental Dynamics Research Group (Faculty of Science) and at the Centre for Economic and Social Studies on the Environment (Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management) of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB).
Her current work focuses on the dimensions of justice in social-ecological transformations and their translation into the notion of ‘just transition’. In her research, Aurore develops an interdisciplinary approach articulating theoretical and conceptual frameworks from social ecology, environmental justice and sustainability transitions. She employs various futures studies tools and methods.
Aurore coordinates the project ‘Coping with Climate Debt through Just Transition’ (COGITO), a prospective research project aimed at building and analysing scenarios for a just transition to carbon neutrality and climate resilience in the Brussels-Capital Region by 2050.
She co-edits the Report of the High Committee for a Just Transition for the attention of the Federal Minister for Climate, Environment, Sustainable Development and the Green Deal in view of the Just Transition Conference in Belgium.
Since 2022, Aurore has been a member of the contact group on ‘social and ecological justice’ (JUSTES) of the Scientific Research Fund (FNRS).
Fields of activities
- Social-ecological justice and inequalities
- Conceptualization, visions and governance of just transition
- Governance of exnovation and just transition
- Just transition scenarios towards carbon neutrality and climate resilience
- Futures studies, knowledge hybridization and just transition
- Teaching and activities
- ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Aurore has an interdisciplinary background in environmental studies (PhD 2019 ; Ma, 2013 - Magna cum laude) and chemistry (Ba, 2010 - Magna cum laude). She completed her doctoral thesis at Centre for Sustainable Development Studies (ULB) under the supervision of Prof. Tom Bauler, thanks to a funding from the FNRS. Her doctoral research explores the role of foresight for knowing and governing climate problem through the case study of low-carbon scenarios in Belgium.
Her doctoral thesis received the Prize for Francophone Theses in Futures Studies (Foundation 2100 and Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie, 2022) and her Master's thesis the Philippe Bourdeau Prize (ULB, 2013).
Aurore has completed several research stays at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and a visit at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (Cnam) in Paris.TEACHING
- UCLouvain, lecture on ‘Foresight to Tackle Climate Change’ as part of the Interuniversity Certificate in Foresight Analysis, since 2022.
- ULB, co-supervision and participation in the jury of theses of the Master in environmental studies, since 2016.
- ULB, supervision of students as part of the ‘Interdisciplinary Project I’ course of the Master in environmental studies, 2015-2021.
- ULB. Teaching of the ‘Chemistry’ chapter of the course ‘Basic knowledge of science’ of the Master in environmental studies, 2015-2020.
Expertise Assignments
- Preparation of the country report on Belgium for the Thematic Review 2023: Fair transition towards climate neutrality edited by the European Centre of Expertise (January - February 2023)
- Observation of the participatory process implemented as part of the Walloon Climate Citizens' Assembly and redaction of ‘discovery reports’ for the Walloon Air and Climate Agency (AWAC) (September - December 2021).
Press
- Achten W., Bauler T., Callorda Fossati E., Fransolet A., Pel B., Sureau S., Feltkamp R. et Hermans T. 2021. Le Soir. COP26: pour sortir de notre inertie face à la crise climatique, allons vers une société de l’exnovation!. Carte blanche, 2 November.
- Fransolet A. 2017. Pour. La prospective au service de la transition vers une société bas-carbone. External collaboration, 23 November.
- Fransolet A. 2015. La Première. Transition vers une société bas-carbone : Qui sont les gagnants et les perdants?. Carte blanche, 8 December.
- Research projects
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Current Projects
- Coping with climate debt through just transition: Exploration and Analysis of Scenarios for Brussels (COGITO), Innoviris Prospective Research 2022.
- High Committee for a Just Transition. Project launched by the Belgian Federal Minister of Climate, Environment, Sustainable Development and the Green Deal and the Federal Institute for Sustainable Development (IFDD).
Past Projects- Bridging Decarbonization and Labour Market in Sustainability Transitions (LAMARTRA), BELSPO BRAIN 2.0.
- Governance of the Sustainable Economy Transition: Challenges of Exnovation» (GOSETE), Innoviris Prospective Research 2019.
- Proactive Strategies and Policies for Energy Citizenship Transformation (EnergyPROSPECTS), European Union Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation.
- Reconciling Environmental and Social Goals in the Transition Towards a Low-Carbon Society (SUSPENS), BELSPO BRAIN.
- Publications
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Aurore’s publications are available on ResearchGate.
Recent Publications
- Fransolet, A., Phillips, A., & Vastenaekels, J. (2023). Reconciling the Just and Sustainable City in the Era of Just Transition: A Review of Urban Visions.Research report.
- La Gioia, A., Fransolet, A., Hudon, M., & Meyer, S. (2023). "Just Transition" Visions: An Analysis of the Perception of the Belgian Actors.Research report.
- Bauler T., Calay V., Fransolet A., Joseph M., Laurent E. & Reginster I. (2022). « La transition juste en Europe: Mesurer pour évoluer » in OFCE (eds.) L’économie européenne 2022, p. 106-121, Paris: La découverte.
- Fransolet A. (2022). La prospective pour connaître et gouverner le problème climatique : Le cas des scénarios bas-carbone. Prix de thèses francophones de prospective 2022.
- Pel B., Fransolet A., Callorda Fossati E., Ferreras I., Delvenne P., Delvaux S., Lenaerts K., Calay V., Parotte C., & Barslund M. (2022). Bridging decarbonisation and labour market in sustainability transitions: State of the Art. Research report.
Mail: aurore.fransolet@ulb.be
Office: D.B.155 (Solbosch Campus)
Postal address: Université libre de Bruxelles (cp130/03), Avenue FD Roosevelt 50, B-1050 Brussels