A technical workshop took place in the Universitat Politècnica de València, focused on small and medium enterprises, as well as research and technological organisations, to share the lessons learnt during the implementation of PROMINENT MED. The main highlights of the experts who participated in the panels are gathered in the following lines.
Salvador Martínez, representative of the Office of Development of the Valencian Regional Ministry of Universal Health, showcasing other PPI cases in Sp...
Join this webinar series for some stimulating discussion, good pracice, stories and learning about innovation procurement in action in small municipalites. Delivering better outcomes though #innovationprocureent #PPI
Prominent MED International dissemination online conference and webinars
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Prominent MED organises an International Dissemination Digital Conference consisting of three FREE webinars.
The first webinar will take place on July 9th 2020 and will be on Boosting innovation through public procurement in a small Mediterranean municipality.
Prominent MED aims to promote the use of innovative procurement procedures in small municipalities in the Mediterranean area. It focuses on the use of Public Procurement of Innovation procedures (PPI) to stimulate the adoption of new...
Dear all,
Today the Switch-Asia Regional Policy Advocacy Component implemented by UN Environment has published the report «Monitoring Implementation and Estimating the Benefits of Sustainable/Green Public Procurement in Northeast and Southeast Asia»
The document has been jointly developed with Ecoinstitut SCCL and presents the approaches of several central governments in the region - namely China, Japan, Malaysia, Republic of Korea and Thailand - in order to show that setting up monitori...
The Covid-19 pandemic has changed life in cities around the world and has disrupted the systems that support them. But as restrictions in cities are eased and supply chains start up again, there is an opportunity to develop new systems that work better for people and the environment. The city of Malmö in Sweden aims to catalyse the transition to a circular economy in the Baltic Sea Region using public procurement. Part of the EU-funded Circular PP project, Malmö is piloting an approach to crea...
A technical workshop took place in the Universitat Politècnica de València, focused on small and medium enterprises, as well as research and technological organisations, to share the lessons learnt during the implementation of PROMINENT MED. The main highlights of the experts who participated in the panels are gathered in the following lines.
Juan Enrique Martínez, Representative of JEMCO S.L., company awarded by Public Procurement of Innovation of PROMINENT MED in Spain gave out the followi...
ICLEI’s Sustainable Economy and Procurement team has been at the forefront of the sustainable, circular, strategic and innovation procurement topic globally for 23 years. In more recent years our work has expanded to cover the topics of sustainable/circular local economies and financing. Our work supports public authorities in implementation, raising awareness, developing new approaches, capacity building and encouraging policy developments at the European and international level. We are looki...
The European Commission has just published a report collecting 71 good practice cases on how public buyers have implemented socially responsible public procurement (SRPP), in order to promote employment opportunities, decent work, social inclusion, accessibility, ethical trade, design for all and seeking to achieve wider compliance with social standards. Written by ICLEI and AEIDL, with the support of Public Procurement Analysis, Dialog Makarna and Social Economy Europe, the report ‘Making Soc...
As part of the AI4Cities project - www.ai4cities.eu - next week we are hosting two OMC consultation webinars:
If interested, don't hesitate to register!
About AI4Cities
AI4Cities is a three-year EU-funded project bringing together leading European cities looking for artificial intelligen...
Electronics Watch has just released the new assessment tool 'Human Rights Due Diligence and Covid-19 - Assessment of Public Buyers' ICT Supply Chains'. It supports public buyers in their efforts to ensure human rights due diligence in their supply chains in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. The tool consists of questions public buyers can pose to their suppliers about occupational health and safety, labour rights, and other supply chain issues that Covid-19 impact. Public buyers can use th...
The partner in the INTERREG Central Europe project LOW-CARB plan to turn their project into a wide-spread reality. They invite everyone interested to join their online workshop on the 25th, June 2020 from 09:00 to 13:00 CET.
In the first part (09:00-11:30) partners will present their selected action plan measures & tools, and receive targeted advice on funding opportunities and innovation procurement.
the second part of the workshop (11:45 - 13:00) continues with 5 break-out sessions, in w...
A technical workshop took place in the Universitat Politècnica de València, focused on small and medium enterprises, as well as research and technological organisations, to share the lessons learnt during the implementation of PROMINENT MED. The main highlights of the experts who participated in the panels are gathered in the following lines.
Xelo Bisbal, architect of the municipality of Alzira, Spain, and responsible for the refurbishment intervention of the case study of PROMINENT MED, high...
Dear all,
We are looking to understand how public purchasing power can be used to fight racial discrimination.
Then please get in touch!
Look forward to hearing from you,
Elsa
elsa.durieux@iclei.org
Dear procurers/buyers,
As part of the AI4Cities PCP project - www.ai4cities.eu - we are running a survey to procurers/buyers interested in solutions for CO2 emission reduction. This survey is part of the Open Market Consultation phase.
Your input will be very userful to shape and refine the Request for Tenders (to be launched in December 2020).
Here is the link to the survey.
Thanks for taking part in it!
About AI4Cities
AI4Cities is a three-year EU-funded project brin...
On 29 January 2020 ARCHIVER launched its Request for Tender with the purpose to award several Framework Agreements and work orders for the provision of R&D for hybrid end-to-end archival and preservation services that meet the innovation challenges of European Research communities, in the contextof the European Open Science Cloud.
The tender was closed on 28 April 2020 and 15 R&D bids were submitted, with consortia that included 43 companies and organisations. The best bids have been selecte...
The current crisis has caused a major shift to online distance learning, affecting classrooms and lecture halls around the world. What can institutions of higher education do to be better prepared in the future? How can technology support and enhance learning outcomes for university students? What role can procurement play in ensuring that the technology developed suits students needs?
The LEA Project’s (learntechaccelerator.eu) goal is to accelerate knowledge transfer, dialogue and awaren...
The LEA Network ‘Procuring Resilient Education Technology’ series will bring five webinars to you this April – June, exploring the basics of how procurement can learn from this current crisis, and procure effective learntech now and in future.
In Webinar 3 of the LEA-N series, procurers will learn how innovation procurement can be used to procure learntech which meets user needs and which have all the necessary features, even those not currently available on the market.
Innovation procure...
AI suppliers, climate change experts and cities can register to the AI4Cities Open Market Consultation webinar
The AI4Cities project has opened registration to its first global Open Market Consultation webinar, taking place next May 28 (10.00 to 11.30 CET). In this webinar, the AI4Cities consortium will introduce the project and its ambitions, and will open the dialogue with potential suppliers of artificial intelligence solutions to accelerate carbon neutrality.
AI4Cities is a three-y...
Corvers Commercial & Legal Affairs and Vtrek present webinar on Covid-19 & Innovation Procurement: Applying the EAFIP business case methodology. The COVID-19 crisis presents unprecedented challenges to the public sector at all levels, and our response to it will shape the way the world looks going forward. Innovation procurement has a critical role to play in shaping this future.
This one-and-a-half-hour interactive webinar presents the methodology for conducting an accelerated business case...
Dear Elsa,
TCO Certified is a sustainability certification for IT products. The strategy to reduce hazardous substances in certified IT products is to only accept substances tested and verified according to Clean Production Action GreenScreen® method. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohI9FyrZLAI
Substances accepted for use in certified products are listed on TCO Certified Acceptance...
Dear all,
Last week the report on the evaluation of the GPP Programme of the Basque Country for year 2019 was finalised and we want to share with you some of the findings.
According to data from the Basque electronic procurement platform, the level of GPP in the region for 2019 (all tenders considered) was 24% in number of tenders and 22% in economic volume.
However, not all entities contribute equally. By type of entity, those classify as "Other" (such as consortia, foundations, the...
We are very glad to share our new paper on "Public food procurement for sustainable diets and food systems: The role of the regulatory framework" just published at the Global Food Security Journal. Until June 12, it is possible to access and download it for free at the following link: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1ayCD7sxZ%7E5XMZ
The article builds on our FAO work on sustainable food procurement and aims to contribute to the debate on the use of public food procurement as a policy instrume...
Corvers Commercial & Legal Affairs and the Corvers Chair on Innovation Procurement at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, are proud to announce that our Position Paper on 'Opportunities to tackle COVID-19 and similar crises through Innovation Procurement' is now available!
Prof. Dr. Pedro José Bueso Guillén, Mr. Stephan Corvers, Prof. Nicola Dimitri, Prof. Dr. Carmen de Guerrero Manso, Ms. Ana Lucia Jaramillo Villacís and Dr. Ana Isabel Peiró Baquedano offer a legal and economic perspectiv...
Dear Sander
The ePitching event on 30 of April was organized for companies already selected by the European Innovation Council Business Accelerator Service.
On 24, 25 and 26 April 2020 the Pan-European hackathon took place which was open to all companies.
We would appreciate your participation in similar events in the future.
Kind regards