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This community is the focal point of the PPE+ Europe training programme for participants, past, present and future. Here participants can find details of relevant information, including upcoming conferences, webinars, and news updates.
Participants are also welcome to use this community to discuss aspects of the training programme or start and contribute to related discussions on how strategic public procurement can be leveraged by central purchasing bodies.
Focus of the community
Participants are also welcome to use this community to discuss aspects of the training programme or start and contribute to related discussions on how strategic public procurement can be leveraged by central purchasing bodies.
Latest news
Public procurement is taking the stage in Europe! This week, public buyers from Central Purchasing Bodies from all over Europe came together in Brussels to conclude the last onsite block of the annual PPE+ Europe 2025 training programme.
The new guidance document Circular public procurement in cities (October 2025), published by the European Investment Bank’s Circular City Centre - C3, provides comprehensive guidance for cities to leverage procurement as a strategic instrument to promote circularity.
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- PPE+ Europe 2024 - 2028
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- Waste management
Latest resources
This report presents the first Annual Policy and Programming Feedback Report produced under the contract “Strategic procurement training for public buyers: Lot 2 - SME-friendly strategic procurement training for central purchasing bodies (CPBs)”, implemented by EISMEA together with the BBG-led consortium (ICLEI Europe and EY Romania), and supported by subcontracted partners WU, Adda and SPMS.
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- PPE+ Europe 2024 - 2028
This resource has been elaborated for the Ministry of Economy and Innovation of Lithuania as part of their requested support for developing a Life Cycle Costing (LCC)-based award criteria.
- Agriculture
- Construction & Infrastructure
- Defence, Security and Safety
- Education and Sports
- Energy and Water
- Facility & Fleet Management and Equipment
- Health
- ICT, Cloud and dataservices
- Mobility & Transportation
- Professional services (consultancy, legal, financial advice)
- Social Services
- Tourism, Culture and Arts
- Waste management
- Community
- PPE+ Europe 2024 - 2028