Forest Bioeconomy in action
Understanding how actors across Europe perceixe bio-based solutions in public procurement is essential to creating and sustaining ways forward for bio-based solutions to support a circular bioeconomy. Discover the result of phase 1 of a Bioregions survey conducted during the first quarter of 2021.
Regional profiles for public procurement in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, inculding the findings from interviews, webinar and online documents.
Regional profiles for public procurement in North Karelia, Finland inculding the findings from interviews, webinar and online documents.
Regional profiles for public procurement in the Basque Country, Spain, including the findings from interviews, webinar and online documents
Selected results and highlights of a PP survey form the basis for a roundtable discussion with interventions from leading experts in their fields. The second webinar on PP was held on 15 April 2021.
The first Bioregions webinar on current regional public procurement practices brought together stakeholders from the three Bioregions on 27 November 2020 for a discussion on the current practices and future aspirations.
No one size fits all, and each region must create it own recipe to increase the uptake of bio-based solutions in public procurement. Discover seven essential ingredients that might help foster a regional bioeconomy.
Introducing different types and concepts of public procurement: green, sustainable, innovative, circular public procurement all sets different focus to specific areas of sustainable development via procurement. The report looks at overlapping areas in these concepts and their implications, procurement, as an innovation driver and facilitator of sustainability and circularity in regions.
Regional profiles, challenges and ways forward in the Bioregions gives a background on EU directives on public procurement and shows what regions can learn from each other, towards the integration of sustainable, bio-based solutions in the procurement to foster a regional forest bioeconomy.
