Deadline: 22-Jun-2022
The European Commission (EC) is inviting nominations for the Facing Societal Challenges Award to reward those innovative procurement practises aimed to face covid-19 pandemic and/or its consequences during the recovery phase.
The European Innovation Procurement Awards aim to recognise public and private buyers, natural persons and those legal entities supporting these practices across Europe in their efforts to promote and stimulate innovation procurement and the innovative ways the solutions are procured.
The Awards also aims to demonstrate how innovation procurement positively transforms the economy by not only creating new and sustainable markets, but also by tackling societal challenges such as climate change.
Aims
The awards aim to:
- Stimulate the innovation procurement uptake;
- Acknowledge and support the efforts done by procurers, and natural persons or legal entities supporting them to deliver better services and/or to bring products to the market in an innovative way; and
- Build a diverse European community of public and private buyers to share, work together and inspire each other in the design of innovative procurement processes, and particularly in the delivery of public services.
Funding Information
- Facing Societal Challenges Category Winner EUR 75000.
- Facing Societal Challenges Category Runner Up EUR 25000.
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible, the applicants must be:
- For the facing societal challenges category, eligible applicants are any public and/or private procurer, as well as individuals/natural persons, located in one of the Member States (including overseas countries and territories, OCTs) or Associated Countries to Horizon Europe;
- Winners of former European Innovation Procurement Awards editions, as well as runners-up of the edition organised one year prior to the current edition are not eligible.
- Applicants that have already received an EU or Euratom prize cannot receive a second prize for the same activities.
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