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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...

New scientific article on the interplay between the EU Deforestation Regulation and EU Public Procurement

Towards Deforestation-Free Public Procurement?Reflections on the Interplay between the Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) and Public Procurement in the EU Our ESRs Chiara Falvo and Federica Muscaritoli have recently published an Open Access article on the topic of...

Does gender equality matter? Gender responsive corporate procurement efforts of inter-governmental organizations

New publication on Gender responsive procurement SAPIENS Network ESR 10 Dibya Rathi has recently published an open-access article titled: "Does gender equality matter? Gender responsive corporate procurement efforts of inter-governmental organizations". The article...

Sustainable Public Procurement in the EU: Experiences and Prospects

In 2014, SAPIENS lead researchers Jean Monnet Professor Dacian Dragos and Associate professor Bogdana Neamtu wrote a chapter titled "Sustainable Public Procurement in the EU: Experiences and Prospects" for the book Novelities in the 2014 Directive on Public Procurement. The book was edited by...

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