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From PhD to Book: Rewriting the Rules of Public Procurement for a Circular Economy

Last summer, in July 2025, I successfully defended my PhD dissertation at the University of Hasselt before a committee of esteemed EU specialists in public procurement and circular economy. But that milestone was just the beginning. Over the past year, I have refined...

The EU Sustainable Public Procurement Reform: the Green, the Mandatory and the Digital – Working Paper

Introduction Nadia Sava (ESR 4) publishes her Working Paper in the SAPIENS Network WP Series. Nadia Sava focuses her research on the use of emerging technologies in the public procurement process so as to foster sustainability. In this Working Paper, she explores  the...

Empowering Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Public Procurement – Policy Brief

Continue the SAPIENS Policy Brief Series with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in public procurement!

New publication on Sustainable Food Procurement

The SAPIENS Network is excited to announce its contribution to the book Sustainable Food Procurement. Legal, Social, and Organisational Challenges, co-edited by experts Mark Stein, Maurizio Mariani, Roberto Caranta and Yiannis Polychronakis and published on February 23, 2024, by Routledge. This...

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Mandatory Sustainability Requirements in EU Public Procurement Law

Mandatory Sustainability Requirements in EU Public Procurement Law: Reflections on a Paradigm Shift Mandatory Sustainability Requirements in EU Public Procurement Law - Reflections on a Paradigm Shift edited by SAPIENS Network Coordinator Prof. Roberto Caranta and Prof. Willem A. Janssen is...

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