The French government has issued new guidelines on the procurement of innovation for those working in the French public sector. It highlights the importance of purchasing innovation as a strategy to aid economic growth and prosperity, through...

After lengthy negotiations an agreement has been reached to increase the funding available to Horizon 2020 by 28 percent to €70.2 billion. Horizon 2020 is the financial instrument implementing the Innovation Union programme, which aims to make...

Barcelona (Spain), Birmingham (UK) and Eindhoven (the Netherlands) aim to improve energy efficiency in municipal buildings through the procurement of brand new, innovative products. Each city is engaging in public procurement of innovation (PPI)...

Organisations with experience and expertise in public procurement of innovation (PPI) and pre-commercial procurement (PCP) are invited to act as "host" organisations for the PPI platform's experience exchange programme. Those with little experience...

To tackle the problem of high-energy consumption in buildings, wide-spread renovation is required, with an emphasis on getting as close to zero-energy as possible. Taking up this objective, the INSPIRE project aims to find solutions to meet the...

The CloudforEurope project aims to use Pre-Commercial procurement (PCP) to increase the uptake of cloud computing - the connection of multiple computers through a real-time network (such as the internet) - solutions in the public sector. To do so,...