The University of Copenhagen is hosting a two day international conference on "Procurement beyond price: Sustainability and CSR in public purchasing"

Expert speakers will address topics including:

• Different faces of sustainable procurement and successful case studies
• What type of social considerations are relevant for procurement and how to include them
• Relevance of Human Rights in procurement
• What are the challenges, pitfalls and risks when considering CSR and other sustainabili...

Dear all,

We’d like to share some of the discussions that have taken place in the “Bio-based products and services – InnProBio project” group during the last two months.

Market dialogue and workshop in Bonn: InnProBio, together with the Competence Centre for Sustainable Procurement, will organise a market dialogue and workshop for public procurers and suppliers of bio-based products. The event will be in Bonn, Germany, on 25 April 2017. For more information, visit here. It’s a...

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I am working on an innovative light rail concept that has the potential of a radically improved cost-benefit ratio against conventional tram or metro systems, but it requires a vehicle design, differing significantly from common trams (for more details see http://buschbacher.at/LCRTen.html). Seeking for a path towards further development and realisation of my idea, I am wondering, which players should have most interest to be involved: First I thought about a cooperation with a vehic...

Registrations are now open for the eafip Workshop for public procurers in the sectors of education, recreation, culture and religion (ministries, regional and local authorities, agencies, public bodies, etc.) will be held at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy in Berlin, Germany on 17th May 2017.

Register at the link http://eafip.eu/events/workshops/education/

Learn about improvements made by TCO Certified on environmental and social responsibility in IT-industry. Sign up to webinar http://tcodevelopment.com/upcoming-webinar/webinar-impacts-insights-tco-certified-2016-progress-report/#iLightbox[gallery13181]/0

In TCO Development's Progress report – year one IT industry sustainability impacts of new generation TCO Certified.

You will learn about the positive changes TCO Certified has contributed to in the IT industry. The sustainability criteria in TCO Certified aim to address sustainability risks in all phases of the product life cycle.

http://tcodevelopment.com/2016-progress-report/

Circular economy is now on every lip, for a valid reason of course. But are we sure that this concept is clearly understood by all? Nothing is less certain, when some people are often only referring to recycling and waste management when talking about circular economy. Or when others are not aware that their activity – at least some aspects of it – is actually part of circular economy.

Circular economy is a key concept, but it is also very complex. Through its activities ACR+ has been in touc...

Dear colleague,

We are pleased to announce the publication of the February issue of the EU GPP News Alert.

In this issue you can read about the new Green Public Procurement Programme of the Basque Government (Spain). The Project Director for the Procurement of Lighting Innovation and Technology in Europe (PRO-LITE), Dr. Leon Smith also shares his views on how adopting new practices in procurement can lead to more sustainable results and product innovations.

Two good practice example...

Interested to know more about realising benefits from energy-saving and environmental data centre best practices? Curious about local and European examples, tools and solutions that contribute to successful Public Sector procurement endeavours? Join us in Stockholm on 22 and 23 March.

The programme includes case study presentations, training sessions (on data centre energy efficiency best practices) and live EURECA tool demo. The event is particularly suitable for both public and privat...

Dear all,

just a heads-up that the new GPP criteria are now available in 23 languages, to be found here:

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/gpp/eu_gpp_criteria_en.htm

Best regards,

Robert

The Swedish and German governments established a joint partnership to create electrified roads for hybrid trucks. As a result of an extensive public and private cooperation the world first e-motorway has been constructed in the Swedish Region Gävleborg. Since last year the German state Schleswig-Holstein is also testing the new technology on a 6km long part of the A1 motorway (and more states about to follow the practice).

If you want to learn more about the story and the technology see:

• h...

Envision a city that self-adapts to citizen and community needs! Create the future, enter @SELECT4Cities call - goo.gl/V0ydcX

Watch now the eafip video which shows how Rotherham NHS Foundation and its partners successfully brought to the market an innovative solution for refurbishing hospital ward lighting systems in an efficient and unusual way - Future Hospital Ward Lighting PPI! http://eafip.eu/resources/videos/

Thinking of starting an innovation procurement, be it PCP or PPI? If so, the eafip Toolkit is designed to give you practical support in designing PCP and PPI strategies and in implementing innovation procurements. Download your free copy now and share with your colleagues! http://eafip.eu/toolkit/

Sustainable Procurement

Here are some facts about sustainable procurement:

http://www.hec.edu/News-Room/News/The-State-of-Sustainable-Procurement-Latest-EcoVadis-HEC-Paris-Barometer-is-Released

Best,
Bogdan

IMAILE partners are planning to prepare a PPI (phase 4) after ending our project in January 2018. To strengthen this work we work on a proposal to the following H2020 call: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/ict-33-2017.html (theme A).
In the project we will create a network of European procurers for Education, detect common future demands, prepare a PPI & a PCP and create a roadmap that can accelerate the use and development of Education t...

IMAILE seeks innovative technology to support STEM (Science, Technology, Engendering and Mathematics based subjects) personalized learning in Primary and Lower Secondary Education at the EU level. The project started in February 2014 and we are now entering our last project year in 2017, devoted to the implementation of tests in schools in different countries (Sweden, Finland, Spain and Germany). IMAILE is a unique project within learning technologies being the first pre-commercial procurem...