In May 2023, our Early-Stage Researchers Natalia Spataru, Valentina Bianchini and Xinyue Xue were seconded to our partner organisation George Washington University Law School in Washington DC, USA. In this blog post, Xinyue shares her experience researching relevant rules and practices for promoting small businesses in US federal procurement. Her PhD project at the University of Birmingham focuses on facilitating Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in public procurement.
Event Summary On 20-21 April 2023, the bi-annual project meeting of the SAPIENS Network was held in Budapest, Hungary, hosted by the Corvinus University of Budapest, one of the beneficiaries of the network. The event aimed to monitor the research progress of the Early...
The purpose of this advanced training is for PhD students to learn how to:
COMMUNICATE – share their research in an efficient, authentic, understandable, and interesting way
DISSEMINATE – identify and translate their research findings to prospective broader audiences, including various stakeholders and journalists
IMPACT – transform their academic research into actual societal impact
Our early stage researchers Laura Treviño-Lozano and Ezgi Uysal participated on the 28th of November 2022 in Oxford Pogo’s session on ‘Supply chain due diligence and public procurement’ and on the 8th of December 2022 on WorldCC Foundation 's compliance and...
Institute of European Law Annual Lecture 2022 On 5th December, the Institute of European Law of the University of Birmingham hosted its 2022 Annual Lecture. This year the SAPIENS Network Coordinator, Prof. Roberto Caranta delivered an online lecture on sustainability...
The fifth SAPIENS Network’s Advanced Training Course (ATC5) focused on the implementation of practical tools that are used by contracting authorities as technical specifications in public procurement, with the aim to support the implementation of a more sustainable...
