Sustainability and Procurement: The SAPIENS Network Conference

This final conference of the EU Horizon 2020 funded SAPIENS (Sustainability in International, European, and National Systems) Network will address a multitude of the legal, economic, political, and management issues around procurement and sustainability, from the protection of the environment to labour rights, fair trade, and women empowerment. 

Topics include: 

• Sustainability and procurement solutions at Global level
• Industry 4.0 for sustainable procurement
• Sustainability in the procurement chapters of third generation trade agreements
• Delivering sustainable procurement through collaboration
• Sustainability, procurement, and the circular economy
• Measuring lifecycle costing in public procurement
• Enforcing sustainable procurement in contract performance
• Gender-smart procurement systems
• Empowering SMEs through public procurement
• Measuring the impact of sustainable award criteria in public procurement
• Sustainable procurement tools to fight climate change
• Fostering sustainable procurement in construction
• Sustainable procurement tools for circular textiles  
• Buying sustainability for the collective table

Speakers include: 

• Steve Schooner and Chris Yukins (George Washington University)
• Lucien Cernat inv. (European Commission)
• Nicole Darnall (Arizona State University)
• Martin Burgi (LM University of Munich)
• Eliza Niewiadomska (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development)
• Marta Andov (University of Copenhagen)
• Albert Sanchez-Graells (University of Bristol)
• Anna Maria La Chimia (University of Nottingham)
• Dacian Dragos and Bogdana Neamtu (Babes Bolyai University of Cluj)

Details and registration:

The SAPIENS Network Conference | SAPIENS Network

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 956696.