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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...

Innovation vs. Sustainability? New Open-Access Book shows how Public Procurement can do both

Introduction: A New Era for Public Procurement Innovation and Sustainability Does public procurement need more rules or new ones to be a strategic engine for a greener and innovative Europe? The SAPIENS Network is proud to announce the publication of "Rules for a New...

Harmonising sustainable public procurement through collaboration: a PhD thesis and journey

"A doctoral thesis is far beyond one researcher's work". This statement from my thesis acknowledgements summarises the PhD journey I embarked on at the University of Gävle in 2021, with the support of the SAPIENS Network, which I recently finished. On June 5th, 2025,...

A Transatlantic Analysis of EU and U.S. Strategies In ‘Green Procurement’ – new publication

Our lead researcher, Associate Professor, Marta Andhov (from the University of Copenhagen) and Professor Christopher R. Yukins from our partner organization George Washington University Law School published an article in Government Contractor that discusses green public procurement strategies in the European Union and the United States. The article is made available open-access on the Social Science Research Network.

New book: Centralized public procurement in Brazil

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...