Up to €40,000 is being offered by IÖB, an Austrian organisation that aims to enhance the uptake of innovative procurement in the public sector, to help bring procurers’ innovative ideas to life. The fund, which has a total of €80,000 to split...

The PROBIS project is encouraging procurers and suppliers of building solutions to take part in a webinar on 4 November that will use the conclusions of the project’s early market engagement activities to stimulate a discussion on innovative...

As part of its plans to move to a circular economy, Europe is re-evaluating its relationship with waste. The EU-funded PPI4Waste project is inviting public procurers and others interested in innovative waste solutions to work together to make the...

The procurement of a machine that vaporises waste-water to remove waste particles saw the Federal Procurement Agency of Austria awarded the Public Procurement of Innovation Award at a ceremony in Paris (France) last night. The Federal Procurement...

The pre-commercial procurement (PCP) of interactive super computers that will be used to replicate and study the human brain is now in its final phase. The computers will allow scientists to conduct experiments on a “virtual brain” by providing...

As of today, InnProBio, the Forum for Bio-Based Innovation in Public Procurement, can be found on the world-wide web at www.innprobio.eu. With the public sector controlling around one fifth of European gross domestic product (GDP), public purchasers...