Greener
Boosting industry engagement in green procurement
European Erasmus+ project that aims to support companies participation in Green Public Procurement
Project Objectives
GREENER aims to support companies' participation in Green Public Procurement
Improve the skills of procurers and administrative profiles focusing on SMEs, with regard to GPP criteria, including ecolabels, material passports, product eco-design and design for recyclability, extended producer responsibility, waste prevention, packaging material and sharing, collaborative economy, reuse, and refurbishment
Enhancing the responsiveness of curricula of traditional profiles, such as administrative professionals working in SMEs tendering departments, to the future demand of skills (upskilling – reskilling training path)
Improve regional actors’ readiness and create knowledge awareness on the influence of green public procurement on the adoption of sustainable consumption and production patterns by businesses operating in the region
Green public procurement
Green Public Procurement (GPP) is defined as "a process whereby public authorities seek to procure goods, services and works with a reduced environmental impact throughout their life cycle when compared to goods, services and works with the same primary function that would otherwise be procured.
Partners
The project consortium is formed by six different organizations that reach both industry and academic perspectives of public procurement processes. It encompasses organizations from four european countries: Bulgaria, Belgium, Italy and Spain.
