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Shaping Tomorrow: Call to participate in Our Gender-Responsive Public Procurement Survey
Dear SAPIENS Community, We're embarking on a new research initiative and invite you to be a part of it. Our upcoming survey on gender-responsive public procurement (GRPP) practices aims to investigate a key societal issue of gender inequality and socially responsible...
Key take aways for public procurement on the implementation of due diligence in the garment and footwear sector
Public buyers often buy from retailers, and retailers play a role in simplifying access to remedy. If a retailer has 800 brands, such was the case of one of the participant retailers, there is no way that a trade union will know how each of those 800 mechanisms work....
Toward Deforestation-free Procurement? Reflections on the interplay between the new Deforestation Regulation and Public Procurement in the EU – Working Paper Series
1. Launching SAPIENS Network Working Paper Series The SAPIENS Network is thrilled to announce the launch of its Working Paper Series, an initiative dedicated to showcasing the research of our Early...
Public Procurement Research Trends in 2023
Introduction Public procurement involves the acquisition of goods, works, and services for use by public bodies, as well as the provision of various services to their citizens. Consequently, it is a...
Exploring Sustainable Public Food Procurement in Portugal
ESR 15 secondment with ISLE Association From the end of September to the end of December 2023, I, Chiara Falvo, ESR15 at the SAPIENS Network and Ph.D student in Law at the University of Turin, had...
The eForms Regulation and Sustainable Public Procurement Data Collection
New Publication! Our Early Stage Researcher Nadia Sava (Early Stage Researcher 4, Babeș-Bolyai University, supervised by Professor Dacian Dragoș, Babeș-Bolyai University) published a paper entitled...
Sapiens Network attends the 10th Nottingham Public Procurement Research Students Conference
Sapiens Network Lead Researchers, Martin Trybus and Marta Andhov, together with the Early Stage Researchers (ESRs), Xinyue Xue and Natalia Spataru attended the 10th Public Procurement Research...
EU Net-zero Industries and Critical Raw Materials Acts: implications for Public Procurement
1. Introduction Last 22nd November I had the chance to attend the first day of Nohrcon, a conference mainly addressed to public procurement officials and practitioners in the Nordics. On that day,...
