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Harnessing the power of community: the future of sustainable solar energy
Discover the Community of Public Buyers for Sustainable Solar PV.
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Discover the Community of Public Buyers for Sustainable Solar PV.
The Big Buyers Working Together (BBWT) team is organising its first in-person Annual Event 2024. Let's strengthen the bonds of our innovation procurement community across the EU. Mark your calendar!
The Council and the European Parliament have reached a provisional deal on the regulation prohibiting in the EU market products made with forced labour.
Procure4Health will implement an Open Market Consultation (OMC) for the four common needs identified by the healthcare public procurers within the Procure4Health Community. f
To all interested potential service providers, please be aware of the Prior Information Notice for the upcoming Innovation Procurement Hub tender it contains important information
Don't miss the matchmaking event of the Health InnoFacilitator project to accelerate synergies between public purchasers and innovative companies at European level!
Procure4Health Community is looking for public and private healthcare procurers to support knowledge sharing in Innovation Procurement. A total amount of €660.000 is available for Twinning activities with funding expected for approximately 30 Twinnings partnerships. Initial deadline 17th April.
Learn about the session on Facilitating the access of startups and SMEs to the public procurement market that will take place as part of the conference on innovation procurement hosted by the Belgian Presidency
A new pilot test of our work with electric machinery here in Barcelona has been carried out, in this case working with a municipal promoter.
Follow on 27 March 2023 the webinar that will explore how public procurement can advance the New European Bauhaus (NEB) principles.
European Commission launches first investigation under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation.
What lies ahead for sustainable public procurement in the European Union? Will the law move from possibilities to mandatory sustainability requirements? How is this development taking shape in light of the EU Green Deal? How to asses it and what to think of it?
RaDAR stands for Rapid Detection and control system for Antimicrobial Resistance. RaDAR PPI is a collaborative public procurement of innovation initiative co-funded by the European Commission (COSME GA 101036228). RaDAR Buyers Group members have recently launched their coordinated Calls for Tender.
SILO, in collaboration with Escuela21, has been awarded a contract to provide strategic procurement trainings for public buyers and decision makers.
The workshop on the use of public procurement as a strategic lever for innovative and sustainable public policy development in Italy took place on 18 January 2024 in Rome, hosted by the National Anti-Corruption Authority (ANAC).
Learn more about the key outcomes of the European Commission's 5th Co-creation session for the PPDS, held on 14 December 2023.
Public buyers increasingly see the potential of procurement to contribute to social policy goals and use the purchasing of goods, works and services to ensure positive social outcomes. As a result, for the first time, the Big Buyers Initiative will have a community of practice on socially responsibl
This newly established CoP will be coordinated by Eurocities and will bring together public authorities (PAs) across Europe, including City of Cologne, City of Nantes, Burgas Municipality, Slovakian Ministry of Interior, Malta Information and Technology Agency, Andalucia Region as well as others.
Explore the significant impact of the FSR, notification requirements for high-value public procurements, and the roles of economic operators and authorities in this regulatory environment.
Join the inaugural online presentation of the SPIN4EIC – Strategic Innovation Procurement Programme on 22 February, 10:00-12:00 CET.