The new European Innovation Council, launched in March 2021, celebrates its first Summit on 24-25 November 2021 in Brussels and online. The event offers a unique opportunity for European start-ups and innovators, in particular SMEs, researchers, corporates as well as potential investors and venture capitalists to connect and network. The packed hybrid programme will allow … Read more
The European Commission has recently released new guidance for contracting authorities on the practical aspects of innovation procurement: why it is important, who may be interested in it, and how this process can be done. The Guidance on Innovation Procurement clarifies the concept of innovation procurement and gives concrete examples and practical tools for public … Read more
Next September 30th, from 10.00 to 11.30, the European Commission’s Directorate General GROW will organize one new webinar of its series on innovation procurement with a session dedicated to “Preliminary market consultation». The session will have as aim to discover the means and objectives in engaging with the market; a step-by-step guide to market engagement … Read more
On 16 September, four European innovation experts will present their public procurement on Innovation projects, focusing on different aspects of innovation procurement. The event, that will be showcasing online, is organized by IÖB, the Austrian Agency to promote Innovation on Public Procurement, and will follow this preliminary agenda: The Swedish example, focusing on the assessment phase, … Read more
A new report by the UN Economic Comission for Europe (UNECE) sets that public procurement of innovation (PPI) should be considered a strategic policy tool, however that requires specialized tools and processes which are “demanding in terms of governance and management capacity in the public sector.” The report states that the public sector faces four … Read more
On 22 June 2021 (14h00-16h00) the European Commission will organise an info session about how to successfully prepare a Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) or Public Procurement of Innovative solutions (PPI) type proposal for the Horizon Europe programme. This online webinar session will explain what are the funding conditions for these funding instruments, how the evaluation and … Read more
The HAePPI Joint Curriculum, pillar of the future e-training, has been launched after the approval of all partners and the validation of more than 60 external experts, that have highlighted the high quality of the Joint Curriculum. The HAePPI Joint Curriculum, based on the previous industry needs analysis, is the result of a cooperative work … Read more
HAePPI project partners attended last march the 15th International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED2021) to present the publication of the paper, based on the first result of HAePPI project: Transferring industry knowledge gaps on Public Procurement of Innovation into learning outcomes for a future Vocational Education Training. This conference was hold at international level, … Read more
Last April 13rd, HAePPI was presented in the International Conference organized by the University of Lodz (Poland) to promote the exchange of ideas, experiences and proposals in relation to international projects where SMEs could participate and be beneficiated from their results. In the event, after the welcome of the hosts, it was presented the HAePPI … Read more
Building on their experience from organising market events as part of the Make ICT Fair project, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability and Electronics Watch developed a guide, aiming to help public procurers go through a succesful market dialogue event. The guide identifies six steps that procurers should keep in mind. Market dialogues are especially … Read more