The Government of Flanders has a target to achieve 100% sustainable public procurement by 2020. In order to track its progress towards this target, the Environment, Nature & Energy Department has developed a system for monitoring SPP, which it has integrated into existing accounting systems. Data can now be collected easily, in a format which generates useful, comparable results, and which can be used to guide future improvements.

The Circular PP project recorded the lessons learnt from pilot circular procurements in three places - Aalborg (Demnark), Malmö (Sweden), and several Latvian municipalities. This summary leaflet presents the main lessons from each pilot.

A video showing the results of Malmö's "non-new" furniture framework, which was piloted as part of the Circular PP project.

The following report presents the findings of work package 2.2, of the Circular PP project. The focus of this work package is to analyze and provide an overview of best practices within business model innovation for a circular economy and provide recommendations for business models and partnerships approaches suitable for circular public procurement.

This study provides an overview of current policies related to circular public procurement in the different countries of the Baltic Sea Region, identifying the main existing gaps and the lines of action that are to be set as a priority in the following years. The study also highlights good and best practices in the field of circular public procurement, and shows examples on how circular elements can be considered in the tendering documents.

A set of recommendations directed at national policy makers has been published by the Circular PP project. These recommendations are the result of a large analysis conducted by the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) to assess the state of circular public procurement policy and practice across eight Baltic Sea countries (Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Latvia, Poland, and Finland) as well as comparisons to the Netherlands and UK. The full analysis can be found here.

This project is a three-year EuropeanAid project aiming at improving the lives of workers and those impacted along different stages of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) supply chain through research, campaigning, capacity building and advocacy.

The HAePPI project, framed within the Erasmus + programme, has emerged with the aim of developing a new learning curriculum on PPI in line with the needs of habitat and eHealth SMEs.

As a first step to achieve this goal, project partners have dedicated the first months of the project to conduct a study to identify the needs and gaps that currently have SMEs to participate on public tenders of innovation, that are necessary to be covered in the future HAePPI training course.
For this, they have benefited from the participation of almost 25 public authorities and SMEs of the European Union. Through interviews with experts, public procurement responsibles, and SME´s CEOs and managers, they have been able to see first-hand on the barriers SMEs have to face this kind of public tenders, aspects of a tender that could facilitate SMEs participation, and what are the key aspects for a future training on PPI.

The information collected has been analysed into final report, that encloses an introduction to PPI concept, a brief analysis of the benefits and barriers of the participation of SMEs in PPI tenders through different references, and the results of the survey performed by HAePPI project partners.

A report, published by the European Commission, collecting 71 good practice cases on how public buyers have implemented socially responsible public procurement (SRPP), in order to promote employment opportunities, decent work, social inclusion, accessibility, ethical trade, design for all and seeking to achieve wider compliance with social standards.