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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...

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!

Unlocking Emissions Reduction: How Public Procurement Can Drive Sustainable Change

Insights from the Policy BriefIn this policy brief, ESR12 Federica Muscaritoli continues her research on the interplay between EU public procurement and climate change mitigation law. In the EU, Green Public Procurement (GPP) has traditionally involved the voluntary...

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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