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Understanding the Realities of nZEB Adoption in Romania: A Closer Look at Developers and Procurers

The European Union (EU) has established ambitious climate neutrality goals for 2050, reinforced by directives such as the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) and the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED). These frameworks mandate the widespread adoption of...

Do Civil Society Organizations Have a Role in Promoting Sustainable and Gender-Responsive Public Procurement?

Public procurement, simply put, is the process of buying goods, works, and services by the public sector. At first glance, it may seem like the only stakeholders are the government employees making the purchases and the suppliers providing the goods and services....

New Publication: Analysing the Drivers for Sustainable Public Procurement

1. Drivers for sustainable public procurement Early Stage Researcher Felippe Santos, SAPIENS Lead Researcher Rodrigo Lozano, and Lead Researcher Maria Barreiro-Gen recently published their open-access article entitled “Analysing the drivers for sustainable public...

New Article On The Adoption of Mandatory GPP Criteria

Our Early-Stage Researcher, Aura Iurascu (Hasselt University) published an open-access journal article titled ‘How Will the Adoption of Mandatory GPP Criteria Change the Game? Lessons from the Italian Experience’. The article was published in Vol. 18, Issue 1, 2023, of the European Procurement and...

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New book: Centralized public procurement in Brazil

Our Early Stage Researcher Felippe Santos co-edited with his colleague Virgínia Lopes a book entitled "Compras públicas centralizadas no Brasil: teoria, prática e perspectivas" ("Centralized public procurement in Brazil: theory, practice, and perspectives", Editora Fórum 2022, in Portuguese). This...

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