By creating food strategies that rely on small farms, local and regional governments can deliver multiple benefits to citizens, including: access to healthy and sustainable food; rural and urban employment; climate change mitigation; and food security. Supporting small-scale farms and businesses is ...
Sustainable Public Procurement in Schools as Catalysts for Food System Change
Local governments providing public meals can be levers for change working towards sustainable food systems. This conference will focus on school meals, convening panels of policy and legal experts on school food procurement, demonstrating that procuring sustainable school meals is a relatively small...
Are you looking to make your smart city project reality?
Do you want to accelerate your project idea? Are you exploring options to make your city or town climate-neutral and truly smart?
Join the Smart Cities Marketplace on March 21 for this year's spring online matchmaking event, where the programme will cover a variety of investment and financing topic...
Big Buyers Webinar on ''Heavy-Duty Electric Vehicles for Waste Collection and Street Cleaning''
Save the date for the second of a cycle of webinars on the achievements of the Big Buyers project! How can public buyers drive the market through public procurement? This second event will focus on the Working Group that learnt how to procure ''Heavy-Duty Electric Vehicles for Waste Collection and S...
How to Procure a “Zero Emission Construction Site”
Big Buyers Project webinar
The European Commission’s DG GROW is organising a series of webinars on “Driving Markets through Public Procurement: the Big Buyers Project”. The first of these webinars, taking place on 28 February, will focus on finding from a Big Buyers Working Group that learnt how to procure a...
Connect-Exchange-Act on sustainable and innovation procurement
The 2022 Procura+ Seminar is poised to provide procurement leaders with updates on latest European developments in sustainable, strategic, circular and innovation procurement. As always, this cutting-edge event provides practical support and exchange opportunities for all Procura+ network participan...
The World Summit AI gathers the global ecosystem of AI-related startups, entrepreneurs, researchers, investors to discuss the latest AI developments, issues and challenges. The Ai4Cities project is excited to showcase the results of its three years work at this stage. Join us for an introduction of ...
Capturing alternative sources of funding & financing for sustainable energy and climate actions
To provide guidance and advice to cities on financing the development and implementation of their sustainable energy and climate action plan, this finance networking event will bring together beneficiaries and experts of the Smart Cities Marketplace and Scalable Cities initiatives, together with sig...
GPP Helpdesk Webinar: Public Procurement of Nature-Based Solutions
The third European Commission’s Helpdesk service on GPP webinar of 2022 will address the public procurement of Nature-Based Solutions.
While cities offer evident benefits that continue to attract people, rapid urbanisation can drive significant conflicts between natural and urban environments...
