ProCirc is set up to experiment, implement and learn how circular economy and procurement can benefit the region. To fully benefit from circular opportunities and to contribute to the international development of circular economy, ProCirc conducts and supports 30 pilots to demonstrate procurement opportunities. Each pilot aims to reduce 20-25% raw materials, waste and CO2 emissions. Insights and tools regarding specific sectors like construction, furniture and ICT will be disseminated in the North Sea region by creating an active transnational network on the topic.

Impact

Procuring organisations can stimulate circular economy using their demand to change markets. This will not only have a direct impact on the business models; innovation and economic opportunities that suppliers will create, but also on decreasing carbon emissions and the use of resources and closing product and material loops.

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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.

The RaDAR project aims to address the European urgent need of a rapid detection and effective infection control system for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) through the implementation of a value-based cross-border collaborative procurement of innovative solutions. The RaDAR project aims to address the European urgent need of a rapid detection and effective infection control system for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) through the implementation of a value-based cross-border collaborative procurement of innovative solutions. 

This project has received funding from the COSME Programme of the European Union, Grant Agreement N° 101036228

The ECOQUIP+ project aims to demonstrate how innovation procurement methods help to improve the efficiency, quality and sustainability of healthcare. This includes direct interventions in the procurement processes of individual hospitals in a number of EU Member States. At the heart of the EcoQUIP+ project are the six leader-led innovation procurement projects, each of which address a particular healthcare challenge.