Subnational finance and investment ten years after the crisis, Event higlights

WG Public Services and Public Procurement - 6 December 2018, Brussels

Working Group Public Services and Public Procurement will meet on 6 December 2018 Brussels. We are happy to invite members to join the meeting.

Study Visit - Building a Public Procurement Strategy (Nantes - 1 October 2018)

Public Procurement, as a tool for the overall strategy in cities - The study visit will bring together technicians from european cities, members of the Public Procurement Partnership of the Urban Agenda for the EU and local technicians and economic operators to exchange on Nantes’ Public Procurement Strategy and its implementation. It’s targeted to members of the UA4EU partnership and representatives from cities and organisations. It aims at providing input to the frame and the structture...

Collecting data on public procurement

Ghent named EU fair and ethical trade capital

The city of Ghent has won the first-ever fair and ethical trade award which celebrates cities' achievements and impact in the areas of social and environmental sustainability in international trade.

Urban partnership on public procurement – give feedback!

The draft action plan of the urban partnership on public procurement is now open for public feedback. It is an opportunity to comment on each of the 7 actions planned by the partnership.

European Commission conference: "Creating value together. Towards joint business opportunities with social economy and traditional enterprises" - 3-4 July 2018, Brussels

This conference is organised on behalf of the European Commission by a Technopolis Group lead consortium in the context of the study “Cooperation between social economy enterprises and traditional enterprises”, commissioned by the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) of the European Commission.

Commission event to support large cities developing innovative and strategic procurement

EUROCITIES helped Commission DG Grow to organise an event for 'Big public buyers', which will take place on 6-7 June in Brussels. This initiative aims to support public buyers to scale up innovation, organise joint statement of demands, learning together on innovation procurement, joint cross border procurement, and strategic procurement, in particular to contribute to the Commission's update of the guide 'Buying social'.

EU trade city award - shortlisted cities officially announced

The shortlisted cities for the EU cities for fair and ethical trade award have been officially announced.

Europe’s first smart city podcast: SCIS hits the airwaves with bi-directional charging