Within the scope of the Big Buyers Working Together (BBWT) annual event, ICLEI Europe will highlight how public buyers throughout Europe are a key driving force for more social, sustainable ad innovative societies. By facilitating panel discussions, interactive capacity building sessions, study visits and collaboration between the members of BBWT's ten Communities of Practice (CoP), the annual event, taking place on 24-25 March 2025 in ICLEI Member Helsinki (Finland) will give participants a better understanding of where strategic and sustainable public procurement in Europe is headed.

24 March is reserved exclusively for the members of the BBWT CoP's. Each CoP will have their own meeting adjusted to the objectives and activities of the group. The activities on 25 March are open to all interested stakeholders.

Panel discussions will engage CoP members to dive into the role public buyers cover in driving a more sustainable, social and innovative Europe. It will be an opportunity to discuss the work done in this regard throughout the project’s CoP's. Interactive sessions, where the audience will be divided into groups, will have to design the best possible market dialogue for a procurement, based on the the topics provided by the expert. Site visits will give participants the opportunity to see how Helsinki is implementing sustainable, social and innovation procurement in practice. The full programme for the day can be found here.

The BBWT organising team is looking forward to an inspiring and interactive event in Helsinki on the future of strategic public procurment. Don't want to miss it? Register here!