Goood practice case of category management, which is a way of procuring goods and services by the national government in the Netherlands. Category management means that each ministry, for a particular category of goods and services, procures on behalf of the other ministries.

Presentation about hosting a training session.

Presentation on how to host a market dialogue session

This report gives in a chronological order reports of the training sessions that were held by the InnProBio consortium in the different countries where the developed formats for a training session where tested.

The following report was prepared by the Agency for Renewable Resources (FNR), the Netherlands Standardization Institute (NEN) and Biomass Technology Group BV (BTG) and presents useful recommendations to overcome barriers for public procurement of Bio-Based Products and Services (BBPS), which were discovered during the 3-year project term of InnProBio. The focus of this document lies on four discovered barriers and respective recommendations to mitigate them.

An overview of public procurement within China and the opportunities and challenges for green public procurement.

As a starting point, this pre-study turns to academia in search of a structured description of how sustainable supply chain management is approached and defined. The next step is to explore the business case - current approaches and practices. This to set the scene for attempts to affect sustainable supply chain management through sustainable public procurement (SPP). Procurers interact with the market and need to be informed on market condition to be able to express relevant expectations.

Produced as part of the euroPROC project, this guide helps small and medium-sized businesses navigate the dynamic changes taking place in public procurement. It introduces new trends, the different ways policies are implemented, the opportunities that arise and experiences to-date to help identify opportunities and risks.

Funded by the European Commission (EC) LIFE+ programme, LiveWell for LIFE is a ground-breaking project that not only set out to show how low carbon diets can help achieve a reduction of at least 25% in greenhouse gas emissions from the EU food supply chain but also showed how these can be healthy, nutritious and affordable.

The project also aimed to influence policies and practices to ease the adoption of low-carbon diets in the EU – and in particular in our pilot countries: France, Spain and Sweden – and ultimately, to put the issue of sustainable diets on the EU policy agenda.