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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...

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...

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 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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Developing a harmonic sustainable public procurement framework

On 15 December 2022, SAPIENS Lead Researcher Rodrigo Lozano, Early Stage Researcher Felippe Santos, and Lead Researcher Maria Barreiro-Gen published together their article entitled "Developing a harmonic sustainable public procurement framework". This article was published (open access) in the...

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New playbook on Inclusive Public Procurement

Lead Researcher Associate Professor Marta Andhov participated in the UNDP Business Call to Action’s (BCtA) 12th Annual Forum as an expert in Public Procurement. At the event, the playbook on Inclusive Public Procurement was released. As part of the launch event, the UNDP team assembled a panel of...

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