The SAPIENS Network focuses on Sustainability and Procurement in international, European and national systems. It will be the first training network and academic research project integrating SPP as a sub-discipline within the scientific field of sustainable public procurement studies.

Here you will find information and tools on sustainable public procurement. The technical, scientific and legal content is provided and used by procurement agencies and professionals from all federal levels.

Collection of new models of sustainable consumption, best practices, policies and approaches to Green Public Procurement

On this website the experiences and learnings of two years of Flemish Green Deal Circular Procurement are being shared. It offers procurement cases, a circular supplier catalogue, information on how to get started with procuring in a more circular way, the circular ambition map and guiding video interviews with pilots and information per product category.

This video provides and overview of the activities and partners invovled in the Interreg Baltic Sea project Circulat PP (2017-2020)

Technology has massive potential to boost learning, teaching and assessment, and since the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, it’s never been more important as a tool for maintaining education even at a distance. To help schools buy the technology they need, a series of videos has been produced by LEA – Learning Technology Accelerator, to introduce schools to the powerful tool of innovation procurement. The videos cover:
• Why innovation procurement in education
• Public Procurement of Innovation in 4 steps
• Pre-Commercial Procurement in 5 steps
• LEA School Labs – testing new technologies
• LEA Buyers Network – practical support for buying learntech

Introduction from Johanne Enberg – Estratega de Innovation Procurement | Strategist Innovation Procurement

Introduction from Sergio Capitán – Head of CDTI’s Innovation Procurement Office

Introduction from Baldwin Henderson – Senior Consultant, PIANOo