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Browse through this section to discover EU funded projects on public procurement. For more information, follow the “Visit project” links to their dedicated websites.

Projects (6)

  • Anita Poort
  • EU funding Programme: Horizon Europe

Sapiens Network

The objective of the Sustainability and Procurement in International, European, and National Systems (SAPIENS) is to foster interdisciplinary research into the evolving use of public procurement to address the social and environmental challenges of the 21st century with a view to create a significantly increased European knowledge base and research capacity on the law, the economics and the business sciences of SPP, thus helping Europe in addressing social and environmental challenges. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 956696

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  • Georg Vogt
  • EU funding Programme: Horizon Europe

CircularPSP - Innovation Procurement for Circular Cities

In CircularPSP leading circular cities are to procure innovative solutions to overcome organisational, informational and operational barriers of municipalities to transition towards a Circular Economy. The project will contribute to this public buyers community on three levels:

  • Experience into organisation and implementation of joint innovation procurement 
  • Access to solutions helping cities to avoid procurement where possible and prepare circular procurements
  • Application of the Procurement Clauses of AI (light version) developed by the community 
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  • Justė Rakstyte…
  • EU funding Programme: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)

PPI4cities

PPI4cities intends to support the cities in BSR region to improve their public services and achieve their ambitious innovation goals through developing pragmatic tools, which would facilitate the uptake of public procurement of innovation. There are so many innovations that can be implemented to make urban life easier. Therefore, project intends to support cities throughout the process to deal with different economic, environmental and social challenges and look for the smart solutions to them. It will do so by bringing together a portfolio of capacity building material and tools that enable the various actors of the cities to exploit structured content and move forward faster and with greater confidence and certainty in adopting smart cities' solutions through PPI. It will also act as a network of BSR cities, for cities, dedicated to public procurement of innovation.

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  • Anita Poort
  • EU funding Programme: Single Market Programme

The BRINC European Hub for PPI in the circular economy

The project aims to facilitate the identification of public innovation needs, conduct market consultations to identify market capabilities and potential solutions, and help public buyers tap into the innovative capacity of SMEs. The project will enhance the capacity of Public Authorities to engage in cross-border PPI for circular solutions and establish a focal point for engagement between Europe’s leading innovation ecosystems and ambitious public authorities interested in leveraging cross- border PPI to accelerate the circular economy.

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  • Anita Poort
  • EU funding Programme: Single Market Programme

P5 Innobroker

P5 Innobroker stands for “Public Private Partnership for Public Procurement" of Innovation within the Innobroker Model. It expresses the goal to further develop, accelerate, deploy, validate and demonstrate a self-sustainable EU-wide B2G Public Procurement of Innovation (PPI) brokerage service ecosystem-based business model and platform (Innobroker) for mobilizing and bringing together early adopter public buyers and leading-edge EU SMEs and start-ups as well as to pave the way for the implementation of an effective, collaborative/coordinated set of transnational SMEs/start-up-oriented PPI bids through a Public-Private Partnership PPI Facilitator Business Model (P5 Innovation Procurement broker).

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  • Miguel Gonçalves
  • EU funding Programme: Horizon Europe

Innobuyer

InnoBuyer is a project that aims to become a testing ground and benchmark towards the implementation of a demand-driven methodology that brings together public and private organisations (Challengers) and innovative companies (Solvers) to jointly co-create innovative solutions, and speed-up the process leading to a concrete innovation procurement. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the Grant Agreement 101071212.

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