The LANDMARK project was about enabling European local authorities to act as key drivers for the promotion of fair and decent working conditions in global supply chains for certain products purchased by the European public sector in order to help to improve the living and working conditions of workers in Asia and parts of Sub-Saharan Africa particularly in the textiles, food, construction and electronics sectors.
The North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) state government, through the project, aimed to promote sustainable public procurement practices. The project's main goal was to advocate for and support the implementation of a shift from purchases carried out on the base of the most favorable price to sustainable procurement.
The iCars Network contributes to the deployment of Transport ICT technologies (or ITS – “Intelligent Transport Systems”) by exchanging knowledge and experience on these technologies among a wide variety of stakeholders on a number of specific topics including the exchange of information between the world of ITS development and the world of public procurement.
MARIE - Mediterranean Building Rethinking for Energy Efficient Improvement
The project's objective is to co-construct a Mediterranean strategy for the energy efficiency of buildings (“MEDBEES”). Based on a supply and demand analysis for energy renovation, this strategy will encourage and facilitate the energy renovation of Mediterranean buildings. The MEDBEES strategy must provide solutions to stimulate the market and boost local SMEs. In the long run, the entire Mediterranean basin will be impacted
The SIPTRAM project aimed to encourage local and regional authorities across Europe to improve the environmental and social standards in urban public transport through the competitive tendering process.
INNOCAT aims to bring together a group of public and private buyers to publish a series of tenders for eco-innovative catering products, services and solutions. The aim is to help encourage eco-innovation in the catering sector by providing a sizeable launch market for new solutions.
GPP 2020 aims to mainstream low-carbon procurement across Europe in support of the EU’s goal of a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, a 20% increase in the share of renewable energy and a 20% increase in energy efficiency by 2020.
ELIPTIC aims to develop new concepts and business cases in order to optimise existing electric public transport infrastructure and rolling stock, saving both money and energy.
ZeEUS - bringing electrification to the heart of the urban bus network
ZeEUS aims to be the main EU activity to extend the fully-electric solution to the core part of the urban bus network. The project is testing innovative electric bus technologies with different charging infrastructure solutions in ten European sites.