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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...

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...

Towards socially responsible public procurement

On 31 March- 1 April, the Academy of European Law (ERA) held the Annual Conference on European Public Procurement Law 2022 in Trier, Germany. As one of the speakers at the conference, SAPIENS Network Coordinator Prof. Roberto Caranta (University of Turin) gave a presentation on the main practical...

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Commentary to the EU Case C-295/20 Sanresa

Our Early Stage Researcher Ezgi Uysal (ESR 7, University of Turin) published an open access annotation on Case C-295/20 Sanresa of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The commentary was featured in Vol. 17 Issue 2 of the European Procurement and Public Private Partnership Law Review...

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The legal regime of smart contracts in public procurement

Our Early Stage Researcher Nadia Sava (ESR4, Babes-Bolyai University) and our Lead Researcher Dacian Dragos (Jean Monnet Professor of Administrative and European Law at the Babes-Bolyai University) published together a paper entitled The legal regime of smart contracts in public...

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