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Big Buyers Working Together

Public procurement can be a key tool in driving the development of innovative goods and services within the European market. Following the successful edition of Big Buyers for Climate and Environment, the European Commission (EC) decided to launch the ‘Big Buyers Working Together’ projec...

WeBuySocialEU: Training and Awareness-raising Activities in Socially Responsible Procurement

The Training and Awareness-raising Activities in Socially Responsible Public Procurement is an EU-wide initiative on how to use public procurement to achieve social goals.

SchoolFood4Change

Shifting school meals and schools into a new paradigm, addressing public health and territorial, social and environmental resilience

Schools have the potential of being the place where young people learn about healthy diets and where a sustainable food culture can be promoted and experienced.
The EU-funded “SchoolFood4Change” (SF4C) project builds on this potential, seeing schools and school meals as catalysts for sy...

ALLIANCE

Alliance for Local green deaLs and Innovative Action for resileNt Cities and Enterprises

ALLIANCE brings together the cities of Espoo (Finland), Mannheim (Germany) and Umea (Sweden) and their local SME organisations and social economy partners into a “Local Green Deal Leadership Group”, a platform to exchange good practices, discuss challenges and support each other in the implement...

CLIMAA

Collaborative Local Impact in Aalborg and Amsterdam

CLIMAA brings together the cities of Aalborg (Denmark) and Amsterdam (The Netherlands), and the Network for Sustainable Business Development (Aalborg), MKB Amsterdam and ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability to:
• Co-create a working methodology to engage and onboard local SMEs regarding...

BUS-GoCircular

Stimulate demand for sustainable energy skills with circularity as a driver and multifunctional green use of roofs, façades and interior elements as focus

The overall aim of BUS-GoCircular is to address and overcome the challenges of the stimulation of demand for green energy skilled workforce, along with hands-on capacity building to increase the number of skilled workforce across the value chain.

nZEB Ready

Enhancing Market Readiness for nZEB Implementation

nZEB Ready aims to increase market readiness for "near-zero energy building" (nZEB) implementation.

COACH

Collaborative Agri-food Chains: Driving Innovation in Territorial Food Systems and Improving Outcomes for Producers and Consumers

COACH is a three-year EU-funded project which aims at facilitating collaboration between farmers, consumers, local governments and other actors to scale up short agri-food chains which rebalance farmers’ position, create win-wins for producers and consumers and drive innovation in territorial ...

Big Buyers for Climate and Environment

Big Buyers for Climate and Environment is a European Commission Initiative for promoting collaboration between big public buyers in implementing strategic public procurement for sustainable solutions.
Public procurement can be a key tool in driving the development of innovative goods and services o...

SAICM

Global Best Practices on Emerging Chemical Policy Issues of Concern under the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM)

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is supporting a SAICM project on global best practices for emerging chemical policy issues of concern. The project overarchingly aims to achieve the sound management of chemicals throughout their lifecycle by 2020 and sound management of chemicals and waste beyo...

AI4CITIES

AI accelerating Cities' transition to carbon neutrality

Artificial Intelligence (AI), one of the fastest growing technologies in recent years, has the potential to play a mission-driven role in cities’ climate action plans. The AI4Cities project aims to harness this potential by bringing together leading European cities looking for energy and mobility ...

UNLOCKING THE POTENTIAL FOR SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND LOCAL ECONOMIC GROWTH

The OECD is launching a new project to support selected cities/regions in using public procurement as a strategic tool to achieve their policy objectives and priorities. The project will be implemented with the support of ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability. It is open to ICLEI members, Glo...

CityLoops

Closing the loop for urban material flows

Høje-Taastrup and Roskilde (Denmark), Mikkeli (Finland), Apeldoorn (the Netherlands), Bodø (Norway), Porto (Portugal) and Seville (Spain) are the seven European cities that will pilot a series of demonstration actions on construction and demolition waste (CDW) and organic waste (OW) with the aim o...

Big Public Buyers Initiative

The Big Public Buyers Initiative is as a platform for promoting and enabling collaboration between big public buyers on strategic public procurement to help drive the market for innovative goods and services. The main aim of the initiative is to enhance the uptake of strategic public procurement in ...

#WeBuySocialEU

Collecting good practices and raising awareness on socially responsible public procurement

The European Commission (EC) has produced a report that collects good practices on socially responsible public procurement (SRPP), and ICLEI has supported the EC to identify these outstanding examples from local, regional, national and European buyers. ICLEI is also contribute to a raising awareness...

EIC

European Innovation Council

The European Innovation Council (EIC) is part of the European Commission's effort to give innovative companies better opportunities to become world-leading enterprises. The EIC pilot phase was launched on 27 October 2017 as part of the Horizon 2020 work programme 2018-20. The EIC pilot will be actin...

Buying Social

ICLEI is developing an updated version of the EU Commission's Buying Social - a Guide on taking account of social considerations in public procurement

InnoBrokers

Innovation Procurement Brokers

The Innovation Procurement Brokers project aims to facilitate the procurement of innovative goods and services by strengthening the links between public buyers on the demand side and innovative companies on the supply side.

LEA Learntech Accelerator

Smart, inclusive and sustainable demand-based development of learning technology

The LEA project aims to develop a critical mass of European procurers demanding innovative learning/educational technology (learntech) solutions.

EC GPP Training and Toolkit

ICLEI, together with a series of organisations from across the EU, is updating the European Commission's GPP Training Toolkit, and organising 10 training programmes for procurers in seven EU countries.

Procure2Innovate

European network of competence centres for innovation procurement

Procure2Innovate aims to improve institutional support for public procurers implementing innovation procurement in information and communication technologies (ICT) and other sectors. It will do this by establishing five new competence centres, and enlarging the scope of support offered by five exist...

EC LCC tools

EC LCC tools

Life Cycle Costing (LCC) tool development in priority product sectors such as ICT and lighting..

Make ICT Fair

Reforming manufacture and minerals supply chains through policy, finance and public procurement

This project is a three-year EuropeanAid project aiming at improving the lives of workers and those impacted along different stages of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) supply chain through research, campaigning, capacity building and advocacy.

Innopaths

INNOPATHS is a four year EU funded research project that aims to work with key economic and societal actors to generate new, state-of-the-art low-carbon pathways for the European Union.

Circular PP

The road to circular public procurement

Circular PP aims to use public procurement in the Baltic Sea Region as a catalyst for the transition to a circular economy.

NGO Network

European NGO Network on Green Public Procurement

NGOs are well-placed to provide information to local, regional, and national governments, making them better equipped to engage in GPP. To make it easier for NGOs to work with public procurers to enhance GPP uptake, a network was established in 2016 with the support of the European Commission.

CIVITAS ECCENTRIC

ECCENTRIC focuses on sustainable mobility in suburban districts and innovative urban freight logistics, two important areas that have previously received less attention in urban mobility policies.

BuyZET

Procuring zero emission urban delivery of goods and services

BuyZET brings together the cities of Copenhagen, Rotterdam and Oslo to develop innovative procurement plans for the zero emission urban delivery of goods and services. Four areas will be addressed: waste collection services, maintenance and repair contracts, consolidation approaches, and constructio...

InnProBio

Forum for Bio-Based Innovation in Public Procurement

The InnProBio project aimed to raise awareness and increase the knowledge base of public procurement practitioners about the potential of purchasing products and services made from bio-based materials.

SPP Regions

Regional Networks for Sustainable Procurement

SPP Regions promoted the creation of regional networks of municipalities collaborating on the implementation of sustainable procurement. The seven regional networks in the project launched 40 eco-innovative tenders, saving almost 400,000 tonnes of CO2

CEPPI

Coordinated energy-related PPIs actions for cities

CEPPI aims to build capacity in cities to achieve more sustainable energy solutions through a pro-innovation procurement approach. The objective is to save at least 33GWh/year and develop the capacity of public authorities.

GLCN

The Global Lead City Network on Sustainable Procurement

The Global Lead City Network on Sustainable Procurement is a group of 14 cities, from all regions of the globe, committed to drive a transition to sustainable consumption and production by implementing sustainable and innovation procurement. All participating cities are acting as ambassadors of sust...

PPI4Waste

PPI4Waste

The PPI4Waste project explored mechanisms to overcome barriers to public procurement of innovation in the waste sector.

Buying Green!

Buying Green! Handbook - 3rd Edition

European Commission's flagship handbook 'Buying Green!' serves as a practical tool to assist public authorities in implementing GPP, The third edition, written by ICLEI in cooperation with PPA, took into account the revised EU Procurement Directives which were published in April 2014.

Water PiPP

Water Public Innovation Procurement Policies

Water PiPP explored new public innovation procurement methodologies and tested them in the water sector where European innovation potential is blocked by a number of bottlenecks. The project contributed to facilitating real innovation, mobilising public authorities, public and private purchasers, wa...

GreenS

Green public procurement supporters for innovative and sustainable institutional change

The main goal of GreenS was to strengthen capacity of public authorities to successfully apply GPP with priority, enhancing their ability and capacity to save energy, reduce CO2 emissions and costs by applying innovative solutions on GPP.

GPP 2020

GPP 2020 - Mainstreaming low-carbon procurement

GPP 2020 aimed to mainstream low-carbon procurement across Europe in support of the EU’s goals to achieve a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, a 20% increase in the share of renewable energy and a 20% increase in energy efficiency by 2020.

To this end, GPP 2020 implemented more than 100...

PROBIS

PROBIS - Supporting Public Procurement of Building Innovative Solutions

The PROBIS project implemented a series of innovative energy efficient building refurbishment solutions within four pilot public procurement processes.
Solutions were implemented in Torino, Lombardy, Borlänge and Miskolc.

INNOCAT

Procurement of eco-innovative catering

INNOCAT aimed to bring together a group of public and private buyers to publish a series of tenders for eco-innovative catering products, services and solutions.

ENIGMA

ENIGMA - Enlightenment & Innovation Ensured through Pre-Commercial Procurement in Cities

ENIGMA is a FP7 project that aims to implement a joint transnational pre-commercial procurement (PCP) procedure in the field of public lighting. Coordinated by the city of Eindhoven, the project’s 5 partner municipalities (Eindhoven, Malmo, Stavanger, Espoo and Bassano del Grappa) cooperate on pro...

PRIMES

PRIMES - Green Public Procurement

The project aims to develop basic skills and provide hands-on support for public purchasing organisations in order to overcome barriers and implement Green Public Procurement. This will support a reduction in energy use and CO2 emissions.

Clean Fleets Project

Clean Fleets was aimed at assisting public authorities and fleet operators to purchase clean and energy efficient vehicles, in line with the requirements of the Clean Vehicles Directive (CVD)

iNSPiRe

Systemic energy renovation of buildings

The objective of iNSPiRe is to tackle the problem of high-energy consumption by producing systemic renovation packages that can be applied to residential and tertiary buildings. The renovation packages developed by iNSPiRe aim to reduce the primary energy consumption of a building to lower than 50 k...

HAPPI

Healthy Ageing Public Procurement of Innovations

HAPPI´s objective is to link European health public procurers to work together in order to detect and purchase innovative and sustainable which will improve ageing well. The HAPPI project brings together an original consortium of 10 partners from 6 Member States of the European Union and it is...

PPI Platform

European Public Public Procurement of Innovation Platform

The potential for the use of public procurement as an instrument to stimulate innovation has received growing emphasis in Europe in recent years. Representing 16% of European GDP, public procurement is a key source of demand and a major area in which governments are striving to improve effectiveness...

ISEAL Research

ISEAL Research Consultancy - The use of sustainability standards in sustainable public procurement

ISEAL Alliance, the global association for sustainability standards, in collaboration with ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, is conducting a series of interviews with a worldwide range of public sector entities. The purpose of these interviews is to undertake field-level research in or...

The LANDMARK project

Moving towards socially responsible procurement

The LANDMARK project enabled European local authorities to act as key drivers for the promotion of fair working conditions in global supply chains for certain products purchased by the European public sector. By changing the consumption patterns of public authorities, the living and working conditio...

Sustainable Timber Action (STA)

Promoting fair and sustainable forestry through procurement

Sustainable Timber Action (STA) assisted European public authorities in making sure the wood/timber products they buy are produced and traded in a sustainable and fair way. Public authorities purchase significant amounts of timber products, from construction material to furniture, from packaging to ...

"Creating Landmarks" in Germany on green procurement

Anchoring green public procurement principles in curricula of training academies

The project will provide a customised and user-oriented training concept on green public procurement (GPP) for teachers and curriculum leaders from public administration training institutions in the form of train the trainer approach.

Lecturers and trainers from training academies across Germany...

EU GPP Helpdesk

Operation of an EU Helpdesk for the support and promotion of Green Public Procurement

The main idea behind the GPP Helpdesk is to promote and disseminate information about GPP, and to provide timely and accurate answers to stakeholders' enquiries. Stakeholders can send their questions by email to gpp-helpdesk@iclei.org Part of the GPP Helpdesk service are the publication of monthly n...

PrimeEnergyIT

Supporting the market for energy efficient central information technologies (IT)

Supporting the market for energy efficient central information technologies (IT)

Update and revision of Buying Green!

Update and revision of Buying Green! A Handbook for environmental public procurement

Since its publication in 2004, Buying Green! has become one of the most influential documents in the promotion of GPP across the EU. It serves not only as a practical tool to assist public authorities in implementing GPP, but also has been of considerable use to national governments and other Europe...

ICT for EE

The contribution of ICT to Energy Efficiency: Local & Regional Initiatives

This project was commissioned by European Commission (DG Information Society and Media) in collaboration with the Committee of the Regions. It is a pan-European research and dissemination project focusing on local and regional initiatives for promoting energy efficiency through the direct and enabli...

SCI-Network

Sustainable Construction and Innovation in the European Public Sector

The SCI-Network aimed to drive innovative and sustainable construction through public procurement. The project produced a guide containing a series of procurement recommendations, together with an accompanying "snapshot" case study collection.

The project was a collaboration between European cit...

Euro-Topten

Euro-Topten Plus

Topten is a consumer-oriented online search tool, which presents the most energy efficient appliances in various categories of products. Within the current phase of the initiative ICLEI is developing guidance for public procurers, to help them purchase the most efficient products on the market.

GPP Training in Germany

Training seminars in Green Public Procurement in German Public Authorities

Sponsored by the German Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt), the training sessions on green public procurement (GPP), geared towards public procurers, were developed and carried out across five urban clusters in Germany.

TEEB

TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) Study - D2 Report for Administrators

The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) was a major international initiative - financed by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, the European Commission, UNEP and several other partners - evaluating the global economic benefits of sustainable use of ecosystem services and cons...

SMART SPP

Innovation through Sustainable Procurement

SMART SPP – innovation through sustainable procurement promoted the introduction of new, innovative low carbon emission technologies and integrated solutions onto the European market by the pre-procurement phase of public tenders. Read about the guidance, tools and case studies produced here.

Input to the Quality of Life Report of the European Environment Agency (EEA)

Ensuring Quality of Life in Europe's Cities and Towns tackling the environmental challenges driven by European and global change

Contribution to the development of the "Ensuring Quality of Life in Europe's Cities and Towns tackling the environmental challenges driven by European and global change" Report

Promotion of EU Ecolabel to public procurers

Raising awareness of the EU Ecolabel Brand amongst Procurement Practitioners in the Member States and promoting the use of the EU Ecolabel criteria throughout the procurement lifecycle

The project is directed towards both public purchasers and their regular suppliers and aims to raise awareness and promote the use of the EU Ecolabel criteria in public procurement, and throughout the supply chain. The project intends to support the ongoing work of the European Commission on the rev...

Green Meeting Guide

Green Meeting Guide 2009

In co-operation with UNEP and IAMLADP, ICLEI has produced a Guide to assist any organisation in reducing the environmental impacts of small and medium sized meetings (for up to 200 participants), and help leave a positive legacy in the host community.

EUPOPP

Policies to promote sustainable consumption patterns

Leading research institutions from across Europe are taking part in a groundbreaking project analysing the impacts of policy strategies and instruments on consumption patterns in order to examine how sustainable consumption (SC) policies can successfully tackle the problems caused by unsustainable c...

GPP Costs & Benefits

Collection of evidence related to the costs and benefits of green public procurement (GPP)

The overall goal of this study was to collect evidence on the economic and administrative costs and benefits of GPP versus procurement of non-green (or conventional) products by national governments and individual purchasing authorities.

PRO-EE

Public Procurement Boosts Energy Efficiency

The project aims to harness the buying power of public authorities to drive the market for innovative environmental technologies. A partnership of public authorities from 6 European countries will undertake large-scale joint procurement of technologies to secure a higher market share for the most en...

Sustainable Procurement Guidelines for UNEP

Sustainable procurement guidelines for IT equipment, Office Furniture, Stationery, and Cleaning Products and Services

In co-operation with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), ICLEI developed guidance for sustainable procurement by the United Nations. The guidance is specifically for office IT equipment, office furniture, office stationery (paper, paper consumables, writing implements, and toner cartrid...

PUBLIC AFFAIRS

PUBLIC AFFAIRS: Mobilising action for Fair Trade Public Procurement

The overall objectives of this project are to help progress towards the eradication of poverty in the developing countries and to contribute to sustainable global development. The specific objective is to reach a critical mass of public authorities using public procurement as a tool for sustainable ...

Fostering SPP in Brazil

Fostering sustainable public procurement in Brazil (Fomentando Compras Públicas Sustentáveis no Brasil)

The project aims to implement sustainable public procurement (SPP) policies and measures in three pilot governments: State of São Paulo via the Secretary of Environment, State of Minas Gerais via the Secretary of Planning and the City of São Paulo via the Secretary of Environment. The project focu...

RESPIRO - Responsibility in Procurement

Procurement promoting Corporate Social Responsibility - Exchange Forum between the Public and Private Sector

To increase the inclusion of social requirements in public and private sector purchasing activities through: - Encouraging an exchange of experiences between public and private sector procurers, - Encouraging an exchange between public procurers and potential suppliers.

Marrakech Task Force Toolkit

Status Assessment Toolkit for the Marrakech Task Force (MTF) on Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP)

The project aims to promote and support the implementation of SPP by developing tools and supporting capacity building in both developed and developing countries. Specifically, the project involves the development of an online toolkit for stakeholders involved in the public procurement process to as...

Biofuel Cities

Biofuel Cities - Co-Ordination Action Biofuel Cities European Partnership (CAB-CEP)

Biofuel Cities is a forum for the application of biofuels. Open to all stakeholders in the area of biofuels for vehicles, it seeks to integrate European research and pilot application of biofuels for vehicles with a focus on application at the local level. Biofuel Cities works to build a European pa...

EU GPP Training Toolkit

Development of a Training Toolkit on Green Public Procurement

A toolkit designed to provide any European public authority with advice and information on the straightforward implementation of GPP, including a management model for gradual implementation, advice on the legal framework, and purchasing recommendations for 11 high-priority product groups

SP in Germany

Sustainable Procurement in Germany

The project Sustainable Procurement in Germany aied to raise awareness on sustainable procurement in Germany and was carried out together with the German-based organisation agenda-transfer. ICLEI’s role in the project was to assist in the preparation and organisation of a multi-stakeholder roundta...

DEEP

Dissemination of energy efficiency measures in the public buildings sector

The DEEP project promoted opportunities in improving energy efficiency through high environmental standards for public office buildings. European public procurement criteria and guidance for building materials, insulation standards, and green electricity were developed. The project also produced the...

Buy Fair

European Public Procurement guidelines for Fair Trade

Buy Fair served to develop practical guidelines for public procurers in Europe that wish to purchase fair trade products. The guidelines were developed through detailed consultation process with key stakeholders in Europe and from developing producer countries.
To complement the guidelines, a train...

Downstream Impacts of Sustainable Procurement

Development of an Evidence base to Evaluate the Downstream Impacts of Sustainable Procurement for the UK Government

The overarching objective of this project is to develop a robust evidence base on the outcomes that can be achieved from sustainable procurement in the public sector. This will focus on the impacts sustainable public procurement policies and contracts have on market supply and wider market demand.

"A Future with Zero CO2 Emissions" Conference 2006

15 - 17 May 2006 in Stockholm, Sweden - European conference for local governments on climate protection

The conference aimed to intensify political commitment and present practical
strategies that have been effective, encouraging replication in the region and throughout the world. Attended by local stakeholders, the business sector and youth were highlighted as groups essential for involvement in v...

Procura+

Procura+ European Sustainable Procurement Network

Initiated and co-ordinated by ICLEI, Procura+ is a network of European public authorities and regions that connect, exchange and act on sustainable and innovation procurement.

Training in Ghana: Environmentally and Socially Responsible Procurement

Pilot client capacity building for Environmentally and Socially Responsible Procurement

This training project for "Environmentally and Socially Responsible Procurement (ESRP)" was a cooperation between the World Bank, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability towards the development of a training resource package on sustainable pro...

SIPTRAM

Sustainability in the Urban Public Transport Market

The SIPTRAM project aimed to encourage local and regional authorities across Europe to improve the environmental and social standards in urban public transport through the competitive tendering process.

LEAP

Local Authority Environmental Management Systems and Procurement

LEAP developed tools for local authorities to systematically, effectively and efficiently deal with green procurement as part of an Environmental Management System (EMS). 
Tools developed included:

Developing a green procurement policy
Implementing joint procurement
Incorporating sustaina...

PICOLight

Public Internal Performance Contracting

Public Internal Performance Contracting (PICO) is an innovative concept for management and funding of energy efficiency in public buildings.

GreenMed

Greening public procurement in Mediterannean local authorities

The GreenMed project is a joint initiative of Greek and Portuguese municipalities to promote the environmentally friendly purchasing of products and services.

Eco-Procurement Survey

Survey on the State of Play of Green Public Procurement in the European Union

The main objectives of the survey were to find out the proportion of public authorities including environmental criteria into calls for tender, the geographical trends, and the extent of green purchasing activities practised.

RELIEF - European research project on green procurement

Environmental relief potential of urban action on avoidance and detoxification of waste streams through green public procurement

The RELIEF project demonstrated for the first time the environmental relief potential of green public procurement in the European Union - i.e. what environmental benefits could be achieved if European public authorities were to procure green products, services and works. The project also launched t...

Hidden Subsidies

How much does your municipality invest in traffic?An ICLEI Study to uncover hidden subsidies towards motorised private transport

The aim of this project was to identify how much a municipality subsidises motorised private transport.

NABESI - German Research Project on Sustainable Procurement

NaBeSi - Realising the Potential of Sustainable Procurement and implementation Instruments

This project identifies hurdles for green purchasing, explores the legal framework and quantifies the environmental relief potential for Germany.

Good Practice Guide

Green Purchasing Good Practice Guide

The Guide provides local government purchasers with practical information and good practice examples on how to carry out green public procurement in practice.

Check It

Check It- Austrian criteria catalogue for Green Purchasers

A consortium of Austrian institutions has set up a green criteria catalogue to serve as a detailed guide for both public and private purchasers.

The European Green Fleets Project

The European Green Fleets Project,- Buying Efficient-

This project was developed to enable local authorities reduce CO2 emissions from their vehicle fleets.

One Planet Network Sustainable Public Procurement Programme

ICLEI is a co-lead and active supporter of the worldwide uptake of socially responsible, environmentally friendly and economically sound purchasing via the United Nation's One Planet Network on Sustainable Public Procurement.

Procurement Forum

The Procurement Forum is the meeting point of international stakeholders to discuss, share, learn from one another, get a better understanding of procurement issues and improve public procurement practices.
The Forum includes over 5,000 members and offers an open space in which members are free to ...

Innovation Procurement Platform

Innovation Procurement Platform

The Platform brings together all the latest news and events on public procurement of innovation.
The Platform includes information on innovation procurement by featuring a few introduction pages on definitions of and reasoning for innovation procurement. It includes information on the legal framewo...

SP Platform

The online hub for sustainable procurement

The Platform is bringing together all the latest news, events, and resources on sustainable procurement