Events

The Resilience, Skills & Inclusion Subgroup of the Commission expert group "Together for EU Tourism" (T4T) held the webinar "Tourism Strategies Towards Resilience" on 28 June 2024. The webinar aimed to raise awareness around two key elements of tourism strategy: 1) How to improve social sustainability strategies for tourism at the destination level with commensurate benefits for communities, for visitors and for businesses; and 2) How to empower public authorities and local decision-makers in rural areas to evaluate, benchmark and enhance their tourism strategies and policies.

The Green subgroup of the Commission expert group "Together for EU Tourism" (T4T) held the webinar "Food waste management in tourism" on 10 June 2024. The webinar aimed to raise awareness about the general issue of food waste and specifically within the tourism sector; provide actionable guidance for stakeholders; and showcase effective practices for reducing food waste.

The Digital subgroup of the Commission expert group "Together for EU Tourism" (T4T) held the webinar "Mainstreaming Tourism Indicators for Sustainable Development" on 22 March 2024. The webinar aimed to catalyze collaborative efforts towards a more robust and sustainable future for European tourism, underpinned by comprehensive data insights and strategic partnerships.

Save the date for the next webinar of the Big Buyers Project! Dive into the world of circular construction with our distinguished speakers Sylwia Slomiak from Eurocities, Maria Reves from Lisbon, and Léon Dijk from Rotterdam. Subscribe through the link for "How to procure Recycled Asphalt" on April 25!

Save the date for the second of a cycle of webinars on the achievements of the Big Buyers project! How can public buyers drive the market through public procurement? This second event will focus on the Working Group that learnt how to procure ''Heavy-Duty Electric Vehicles for Waste Collection and Street Cleaning''.

Are you interested to find out how public procurement can be used as a strategic tool to support the upskilling and reskilling of the workforce and to futureproof the European Economy? Don't miss the next GPP Helpdesk Webinar!

This event is a key step in the project's ongoing phase of dialogue with the market to address the unmet need for rapid detection of multi-drug resistant microorganisms and antimicrobial resistance management and control systems.

Training workshop designed for professionals from big public and private organisations who want to learn how to identify and describe unmet innovation needs, to boost demand-driven, effective and sustainable adoption of innovative solutions.

Save the date for the first of a cycle of webinars on the achievements of the Big Buyers project! How can public buyers drive the market through public procurement? This first event will focus on the Working Group that learnt how to procure a ''Zero Emission Construction Site''.

This DrugDetect Call invites all interested parties to present their Tenders to an innovative solution for the automatic detection of a large range of drugs in correctional institutions and prisons.

Save the date! This webinar will present the findings of the recently published study on optimising public procurement of medicines. The event will allow for discussion with invited experts and wider stakeholder audiences on pharmaceutical procurement practices in Europe.

Save the date! The EU-funded project RaDAR has organized an online webinar focused on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). The event, on December 21st, aims at sharing with a broader community the challenges faced at the international, national, and local levels to effectively address AMR, and the good practices that could inspire action throughout the EU, and possibly beyond.

Are there synergies between the social and circular economy? What are the opportunities and challenges related to the engagement of social economy actors in circular procurement? Save the date for this webinar organized by the GPP HelpDesk!

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The Stockholm Environment Institute invites you to an online roundtable with policymakers, experts and industry insiders: how can Green Public Procurement be used as a lever to decarbonization in the road and construction sectors? Which barriers prevent its broader uptake? What are the opportunities ahead?

The EU Single Market is about to enter a new era of promoting investment in innovation. The long-awaited arrival of the Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court, set to become operational in early 2023, will boost the development and trade of IP-intensive goods and services, spark up FDI flows and facilitate the scaling-up of European innovative SMEs. The conference is organised to mark this milestone in the completion of the EU’s single market for innovation.

This online session of the European Week of Regions and Cities will take place on October 13th at 9:30-11am CET. The session will help you understand how the use of labels, and in particular the EU Ecolabel, can make it easier for public buyers to have a sustainable impact. Success stories on the use of ecolabels in public tenders from EU local authorities will offer some inspiration on how this can be done in practice. Register now!

When ? 6th October 2022 (9:30 – 12:30 CEST) This 3-hour workshop will focus on how Innovation Procurement can help tackle climate change challenges. • How to procure greener? • How will the new EU legislation impact your procurement? • How to implement a procurement strategy for sustainability and innovation? • What criteria can you use to reduce environmental impact? These and other questions will be addressed by experts in the field. Examples of successful initiatives and projects will be showcased. You will have the opportunity to ask questions before and during the webinar. The European Assistance For Innovation Procurement (EAFIP) is an initiative financed by the European Commission (DG CONNECT) for providing local assistance to public procurers for starting new innovation procurement and for promoting good practices and reinforcing the evidence base on completed innovation procurements.

Specially addressed to public procurers who start to explore and apply this instrument ! The free 90-minute webinar for European public buyers, suppliers and policy makers will cover the policy and legal foundations of Pre-Commercial Procurement and Public Procurement of Innovative solutions. Examples will be showcased, and participants will get as bonus the introduction to the New EAFIP Toolkit 2.0!! Don’t miss it. The European Assistance For Innovation Procurement (EAFIP) is an initiative financed by the European Commission (DG CONNECT) for providing local assistance to public procurers for starting new innovation procurement and for promoting good practices and reinforcing the evidence base on completed innovation procurements.

The Health Proc Summit 2022 takes place on 20-21 September at the Brussels Square Conference Centre. This exciting event is an ideal opportunity for hospital and healthcare procurement professionals to network, collaborate, share best practises and learn from prominent thought leaders in the European healthcare procurement field including hospitals, suppliers, start-ups, innovators, and policy makers.