About the project

The Procure2Innovate project will provide improved institutional support for public procurers of information and communication technologies (ICT) and other sectors that implement innovation procurement. To achieve this, the project will establish or expand competence centres for innovation procurement in 10 European Union countries: five are already established in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden; while five new competence centres will be established in Estonia, Greece, Ireland, Italy and Portugal.

How we made this guide

This how-to instruction guide is based on three peer-to-peer exchange workshops the P2I consortium held. During these workshops existing and to-be-established competence centres discussed among each other and with experts about their needs and challenges. Thus, this guidance is based on real experiences and struggles thatcompetence centres for innovation procurement in the EU have had. Hopefully their experiences will mirror yours in many ways and make this guidance useful.