Events

On July 14th from 10:00 to 11:30, the EAFIP-Initiative offers a free 90-minute webinar on good practices regarding evaluation and testing tools and methodologies in the context of Innovation Procurement. Experiences will be shared by professionals from among others the EU Environmental Technology Verification (ETV), the Dutch Ministry of Justice and KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

On 12 July 2022, DG REGIO and DG GROW organised a webinar on the impact of price hikes and distortions in supply chains on public contracts and EU-funded projects following the war in Ukraine. The webinar covered various aspects related to: 1) the challenges for public procurement in the construction sector; 2) the modification of contracts in the light of the Public Procurement Directives; 3) programme and project management of EU-funded projects under the cohesion policy. The webinar explained what opportunities and possibilities exist under the EU rules to deal with the current situation.

In this final event we will present the Guidance, offer stakeholders the opportunity to provide their final feedback, and present and exchange on existing practices, challenges, and lessons learnt that could be added to enrich the Guidance.

In this final event we will present the Guidance, offer stakeholders the opportunity to provide their final feedback, and present and exchange on existing practices, challenges, and lessons learnt that could be added to enrich the Guidance.

Do you want to know how innovation partnerships can be used for efficient procurement in the social sector? Join us for the second GPP webinar of the year, on June 22 at 10am, where we will discover how innovation partnerships work; how they can be used in social services and the concrete experience of the Finnish authorities.

We will discuss innovation partnerships with a social impact and how they can be used to facilitate access to procurement opportunities for social businesses.

We will discuss how to use labour clauses and work conditions requirements in public procurement and how to follow up on them.

Engaging in an Innovation Partnership is a challenge for public buyers who want to encourage future suppliers to be strongly committed to their innovation developments when the value of the Innovation Partnership (IP) cannot be clearly defined. This Masterclass is a unique opportunity to explore different methodologies on that are concerned with how to define the value of innovation.

Click to register for our workshop on May 30th. We will continue gathering your feedback on the content of the upcoming Commission guidance on the procurement of sustainable infrastructure. Save the date for June 30th: we will host a final event to present the guide.

On May 17th at 11.00 join us for the second webinar on Public Procurement of AI and discover: Latest developments on the EU legal framework on Artificial Intelligence? Where innovation procurement meets Artificial Intelligence? How you can participate in the development of EU standard clauses for buying AI?

Join us on Wednesday, 27 October 2021 for the EPAA Annual Conference. Registration is now open!

The European Social Economy Summit in Mannheim has been postponed to 26-27 May 2021 due to COVID-19 crisis.

During this webinar we will discuss ideas on how to make patent pools work for both standard essential patent holders and licensees.

This webinar will discuss ideas to improve the situation with regard to FRAND licensing and valuation.

We will be at this year's virtual edition of the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) mineral exploration and mining convention, in Toronto, Canada 8-11 March 2021.

We have the pleasure to invite you to this unique webinar on transparency in the licensing of standard essential patents (SEPs). This event is part of a series of webinars on SEPs taking place throughout winter/spring 2021 to take stock of the state-of-play, share some of the ideas developed under recent actions and discuss with stakeholders potential improvements to the framework governing SEPs.

EU Industry Days is Europe's flagship annual event on industry. It serves as the main platform to discuss industrial challenges and co-develop opportunities and policy responses in an inclusive dialogue with a wide range of partners.

The EU Intelligent Cities Challenge (ICC) 2nd City Lab will take place online from 16 February to 19 February 2021.

The third EU-Canada Regulatory Cooperation Forum under CETA (the Comprehensive economic and trade agreement) will take place on Tuesday 9 February 2021 by videoconference. Following this meeting, on Wednesday 10 February, EU and Canadian co-chairs will provide a debrief to stakeholders on all active work plan items.

The European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & Healthcare (EDQM), in collaboration with the European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing (EPAA) and the Joint Research Centre European Union Reference Laboratory for alternatives to animal testing (JRC EURL ECVAM), is organising a workshop entitled 'Novel in vitro model as alternative to in vivo toxoid vaccines testing: Clostridium septicum vaccine as a proof of concept', on 25-26 January 2021.