The Team
The PROCEDIN Consortium is a group of experts in the field of procurement and innovation, brought together to deliver a project focused on building capabilities in innovation procurement. The consortium is made up of individuals from key stakeholder groups, including industry, academia, and public administration, ensuring that a diverse range of perspectives and experiences are represented.
The team members have substantial, well-established networks that they will use to drive the project forward, leveraging their connections and expertise to achieve the project’s objectives. They are uniquely positioned to deliver this project, as they bring a wealth of knowledge and experience in procurement, innovation, and project management. The team members have the skills and resources necessary to successfully implement the project and deliver tangible outcomes for the stakeholders.
The (public) procurement of innovation (POI) provides expertise, guidance, tools and networks connecting the business and public sectors. The EU-funded PROCEDIN project will accelerate POI adoption in two critical areas of innovation – circular economy and green mobility – in the context of European cities’ innovation for sustainability and resilience agendas. The project will support existing resources and its members’ extensive, pan-European professional networks and initiate new provisions to increase and mobilise POI motivation, knowledge and skills. PROCEDIN will identify key gaps in provision by mapping the complex landscape of growing expertise, experience and learning infrastructure, focusing on promoting enduring access to POI guidance and learning resources for buyers and vendors, and building leadership capacity for innovation.
Public procurement is a powerful tool that accelerates innovation among public sector users and provides innovative companies opportunities for growth. The strategic use of procurement has become significant in the innovation policy agenda in several EU countries and is at the core of the new EU public procurement directive (2014/24/EU). The EU-funded BUILD project will integrate the highest-quality capacity building tools to deploy training and capacity building services to cities. The project will train public and private procurers, SMEs and start-ups through onsite and online actions on the topics of guiding principles, legal knowledge and procedures, preliminary market consultation, pre-commercial procurement, competitive dialogue, competitive procedure with negotiation, innovation partnership, legal questions and considerations, and risk assessment.
Health InnoFacilitator aims to create a community leveraging capabilities and promoting innovation procurement within healthcare. Provide support, tailor-made training and coaching services for buyers and suppliers, develop and foster a community supported by online collaborative tools. Increase the awareness, skills and knowledge about innovation procurement among the buyers and the solution providers/ actors of innovation, build capabilities and therefore fostering the innovation procurement capabilities within the community, providing trainings, mentoring and coaching and supporting the community, which will in return, improve SMEs and startups access to innovation procurement, leverage capability among the buyers to develop innovation procurement, foster public and private partnership to encourage the co-design of innovation procurement (matching the buyers’ needs and helping the buyers to identify existing innovative solutions and to identify their needs for research and development).
The adoption of innovative practices by big buyers enables better and more efficient service delivery to citizens and customers. In this context, the EU-funded InnoBuyer project will implement a demand-driven methodology supporting big organisations (Challengers). The aim is to help them identify their unmet innovation needs and connect with innovative SMEs (Solvers), notably SMEs supported by the European Innovation Council, to jointly co-create innovative solutions. Moreover, InnoBuyer will support the organisations in preparing terms of reference to accelerate the process that will lead to concrete innovation procurement.
The Urban Agenda for the EU is part of the EU’s commitment to both the New Urban Agenda and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The actions addressed in the Action Plan 2022 – 2024 correspond with the set of commitments and goals in these European agreements. Innovative and Responsible Public Procurement is one of the EU agenda topics to help and support cities in resolving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) challenges. In addition to the SDGs, the Partnership aims to achieve a EU Green Deal by using Public Procurement to realise a sustainable future. In light of the crises faced in the period of writing the Action Plan 2022- 2024, the Partnership aims to develop methods to use procurement as a tool in sustainable economic recovery.
This fruitful webinar was opened to Public and Private organisations and there was the opportunity to present the four European Union-funded projects that make up the Innovation Procurement Task Force. There was also space to find synergies and valuable collaborations between the Projects and the participants that joined the Info Session.
The importance of Innovation Procurement and its role in the economic growth Europe-wide, as well as the New European Innovation Agenda, are important insights discussed during the session.
