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  • 23 JULY 2024
  • REPORTS, STUDIES AND INSIGHTS
  • PUBLIC

Insight No3. How to increase R&D and Innovation investment through Public Procurement of Innovation?

When facing this question, the usual answer is to increase budget allocations for traditional tangible assets such as infrastructure, laboratories, etc., but what about increasing investment in R&D and Innovation through intangible assets? Explore more!

Community
Procure Innovation EU
  • 9 JULY 2024
  • WEBINARS AND TRAINING MATERIAL
  • PUBLIC

PPE+ Europe 2024 Strategic Procurement Training for Centralised Procurement Organisations

The new PPE+ Europe training programme offers a unique combination of an academic and a practical approach. The goal is to provide state-of-the art knowledge, tools, and methods for modern public procurement, including policy objectives like SME-friendly, green, and innovative procurement. Additionally, in-depth training modules on topics including Food, Security & Defence, Health & Medical and ICT procurement are offered.

Community
PPE+ Europe 2024 - 2028
  • 3 JULY 2024
  • LEGISLATION AND POLICY

Public procurement in the NZIA Regulation

Presentation by the European Commission on the content of Regulation (EU) 2024/1735 on establishing a framework of measures for strengthening Europe’s net-zero technology manufacturing ecosystem (NZIA)

  • 14 MAY 2024
  • MEETINGS’ MINUTES

BBWT's In-Person Annual Conference insights

The Big Buyers Working Together (BBWT) team organised its first in-person annual conference on 24 April. The event offered a unique opportunity for sharing knowledge, forging connections, exchanging insights, and weaving the fabric of collaboration among public buyers on innovative and sustainable procurement. With participation from all 10 communities of practice that are part of the BBWT project, the discussions covered three key themes: green/digital, social, and health procurement.

  • 27 FEBRUARY 2024
  • REPORTS, STUDIES AND INSIGHTS

Public procurement as a tool to address human rights risks in the use of digital technology to deliver essential public services - Discussion paper

This paper aims to stimulate dialogue and to provide public procurement policy makers, buyers, and contract managers with an introduction to some human rights risks and considerations when procuring digital technology to deliver essential public services.

  • 5 DECEMBER 2023
  • BEST PRACTICES & LESSONS LEARNT

Knowledge platform on circular procurement: ikwilcirculairinkopen.nl/en

The Dutch national knowledge platform, Ikwilcirculairinkopen.nl, is now available in English. You can visit it at https://ikwilcirculairinkopen.nl/en/. This knowledge platform contains relevant information on circular procurement and best practices from the Netherlands.

  • 26 OCTOBER 2023
  • REPORTS, STUDIES AND INSIGHTS

Report: The Future of Sustainable Public Procurement – Legal Possibilities and Obligations (Main Conclusions of UU Meeting)

What will the legal landscape of public procurement in the European Union look like in the future? Will mandatory green and social procurement become the standard? And if so, what to think of it and how to ensure effective regulation that works in practice?