Last year the Communication on Circular economy (COM(2014) 398 final/2),which is planned to be re-submitted by the new Commission with a wider scope, listed green public procurement, pre-commercial procurement and public procurement of innovation as tools for moving towards a circular economy. A key element of the package is “designing out” waste, involving innovation throughout the value chain. Approaches like lightweighting, durability, substitution, ensuring recyclability, reuse can help...
EXPERIENCE SHARING ON PUBLIC PROCUREMENT – 4th FAPPE Meeting - CARDIFF, UK
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PUBLIC PROCUREMENT MEETING IN PROCUREMENT WEEK > http://www.procurementweek.org.uk/day3_Parallel_Session.html
THE 4TH FAPPE MEETING WILL BE HELD ON THE 18TH MARCH, DURING PROCUREMENT WEEK 2015, IN PARALLEL TO AN EVENT CALLED SMART CITIES – PROCURING THE CITIES OF TOMORROW, TODAY!
Participation in the meeting is free of charge. If you would like to attend the meeting, please send us an email message to...
Dear all, I have been following/monitoring the PPI forum/platform since its begening, for DG GROWTH (ex DG Enterprise of the European Commission). Since today I joined the European agency in charge of supporting innovative SMEs (EASME) to work for the "SME instrument" http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/h2020-section/sme-instrument on the phase 3 "commercialisation" where I will try to make links between PPI/PCP and the SME instrument. If you have any question on that regards do not...
In December 2014 four consortia from all over Europe have successfully been selected and awarded a contract for the development of the first stage: the Solution Design. Smart@Fire is pleased to inform you that the successful consortia are:
These consortia should have develop...
You are invited to attend the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council's webinar this Thursday at 11am ET, in which we'll be releasing Guidance for Leadership in Sustainable Purchasing v1.0 to the public. We would welcome your organization's feedback on the Guidance and/or participation in the Pilot Program, which is open to public and private sector organizations anywhere in the world. For more information, see our press release below. Please register to tune in live and/or receive the reco...
Retrofitting districts with sustainable energy systems can be a success if enough data is available to analyse the suitability of each chosen energy-saving solution.
Making a city or district energy smart is, first and foremost, an exercise in good planning. However, such green planning tools are still in their infancy. The trouble is that every city is different, every district unique. To replicate best practices for use in other context, it is important to develop models that can help be...
4TH FAPPE MEETING: 18 MAR 2015: CARDIFF, UK
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Passive technologies can maximise primary energy reduction and economic investment in existing buildings
Innovative technologies can be used to retrofit old buildings as a means to save energy. This is precisely what the Bricker project is aiming to achieve. Matteo D’Antoni is a senior researcher at the solar thermal heating and cooling team of the independent research centre at the heart of the Italian region of the Dolomites, called EURAC the European Academy of Bolzano. Here, D’Anto...
Dear Hungarian Colleagues (and All),
The official Hungarian translation of the Guidance for Public Authorities on Public Procurement of Innovation is now available at the website of the Hungarian Public Procurement Authority: http://kozbeszerzes.hu/data/attachments/2015/01/13/PPI-Platform_Guide_word_HU.pdf
In the framework of the Syncro project (a PPI project financed by the European Commission) we organised on January 8th, a "meet the buye"r event in Grenoble. The buyers were selected in the field of transport and mobility. Were represented buyers from SNCF (French railway organisation), RATP (Paris urban transport organisation), Aéroports de Lyon (Lyon's Airport), Citta metropolitana di Torino (Turin's metropole) and Conseil Général de l'Isère (local authority acting in the Isere area, France).
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