Sustainability & Public Procurement PhDs Progress Meeting and Teambuilding – ATC6 Day 4

By Ezgi Uysal

Sep 28, 2023 | Advanced Training Courses, Events, News

Project Meeting

The SAPIENS Network entered its fourth and final day with an air of camaraderie and purpose. The day started with an update on the project’s milestones and progress and the morning unfolded with the bi-annual Project Meeting. The SAPIENS Network ESRs shared updates on their individual research projects to panels of both internal and external experts for feedback, fostering an environment of constructive dialogue and intellectual growth as they conclude the second year of their research.

Photo credit: Regina Mosch

Team Building 

Following the meeting, the SAPIENS Team transitioned into a unique team-building activity hosted by the Centre for Textile Research at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen. Eva Birgitta Andersson Strand and Ulrikka Mokdad, experts in the field, introduced the participants to the fascinating world of sustainability, textiles, and weaving.

In groups of three, participants embarked on a creative journey, weaving tapestries together. The looms were adorned with threads of organically grown or recycled fibers, reflecting the profound interplay between tradition and innovation. Each group was entrusted with a secret keyword -such as inclusiveness, senses, vastness- inspiring vibrant discussions on how to encapsulate its essence in their tapestries. The resulting tapestries, each a testament to the teams’ ingenuity, were proudly displayed for all to see as groups endeavored to decipher the hidden keywords behind their peers’ creations. This activity sensitized participants to the vital issues surrounding sustainability in textiles, offering a tangible understanding of the intricate art of textile construction. Moreover, it kindled the flames of creativity and teamwork, underscoring the power of collective effort in achieving shared goals.

Photo credit: Regina Mosch

Written by Ezgi Uysal

Ezgi Uysal, a former SAPIENS Early Stage Researcher, defended her thesis titled Enforcing Sustainability in Contract Performance under the Public Sector Directive in December 2024 at the University of Turin, Faculty of Law. Her doctoral research examined how sustainability obligations embedded in public procurement contracts can be effectively enforced during the performance phase, contributing to the broader discourse on sustainable public procurement, contract compliance, and the role of contracting authorities. She is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Private Governance (CEPRI), Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. Her research is part of the project Purchase Power – Sustainable Public Procurement through Private Law Enforcement (PurpLE), which is financed by the Carlsberg Foundation. Through this project, she continues to explore enforcement mechanisms for sustainability commitments in public contracts from a private law perspective. Her publications include: – “Enforcing Sustainability Clauses in Public Contracts: Third-party Enforcement Caught between the Privity of Contract and Conflicting Interests” in Public Procurement and Contract Law: Exploring Overlaps, Defining Boundaries (Hart, forthcoming, with Katerina Mitkidis) – “To Terminate or Not to Terminate” in Future Perspectives for Directive 2014/24/EU: Reform Proposals (Edward Elgar, forthcoming) – “Mandatory Green Public Procurement Criteria: Comparative Insights from Italian and Norwegian Law to Address European Challenges” Nordic Journal of European Law (forthcoming) – “Concept of being ‘linked to the subject matter of the contract’” in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of EU Public Procurement Law (Edward Elgar, forthcoming) – “Sustainability Clauses in ‘Public’ Contracts” (2024) European Review of Contract Law 105–127 – Contract Compliance for Sustainable Public Procurement: To Monitor or Not to Monitor, SAPIENS Working Paper (April 2024) – “Bridging the Gap between Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence and EU Public Procurement” (2023) Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law 30(5) 554–572 (with Laura Treviño-Lozano) – “The European Green Deal and Public Procurement Law” in Deploying the European Green Deal (Routledge 2023) 177–194 (with Willem A. Janssen) – “The Requirement to Obtain Consent from the Relevant Authorities Constitutes a Contract Performance Condition: Annotation on CJEU Case C-295/20 Sanresa” (2022) European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review (EPPPL) 17(2) 127–130 – “Business and Human Rights: The State as a Buyer” (2021) EPPPL 16(1) 52–64

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