In May 2023, our Early-Stage Researchers Natalia Spataru, Valentina Bianchini and Xinyue Xue were seconded to our partner organisation George Washington University Law School in Washington DC, USA. In this blog post, Xinyue shares her experience researching relevant rules and practices for promoting small businesses in US federal procurement. Her PhD project at the University of Birmingham focuses on facilitating Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in public procurement.
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French regulatory interventions on the Circular Economy and mandatory GPP criteria.
I. Introduction In recent years, national laws focusing on circular economy requirements have increased substantially. Our network has already examined the significant accomplishments achieved in Italy due to the establishment of legally binding minimum environmental...
Case C-598/19 Conacee – Reserved Contracts and Additional National Criteria Beyond Those Laid Down in Article 20(1) of Directive 2014/24/EU on Public Procurement
The following blog post has been authored by the SAPIENS Network lead researcher Associate Professor Marta Andhov and senior researcher at the PurpLE project Michał Kania. In this blog post, the authors analyse Case C-598/19 Conacee, which concerns Article 20(1)...
SAPIENS Researchers Contribute to the The Greens/EFA in the European Parliament Study on Shaping SPP Laws in the EU
1. Societal Impact of SAPIENS Research Our lead researchers Marta Andhov, Roberto Caranta, Olga Martin-Ortega, in collaboration with Willem A. Janssen, contributed to the Greens/EFA in the European Parliament study on the legislative developments of Sustainable...
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,...
The backstage of Nickel supply for the European green transition: Considerations for EU public buyers on mining workers in the Philippines.
The European Green deal will need to look not only on the ways in which government's activities, like public procurement, will stop harming the environment and contribute to tackle climate change, but also how will they mitigate the social footprint of the energy and...





