Circular Pp Project

Project name: Using innovation procurement and capacity building to promote Circular Economy Acronym: Circular PP Priority: Capacity for innovation Implementation period: 01/10/2017 - 30/09/2020 The main focus of this project is to use public procurement in the Baltic Sea Region as a catalyst to enhance the market uptake of innovative circular products and services by building capacity among all stakeholders of the value chain (namely procurers, suppliers and policy makers) and introducing the principles of circular economy thinking in the call for tenders in a close feedback dialog with SMEs. For a successful delivery of the project, a partnership with a combination of contracting authorities, technical partners with different areas of specialisation and non-for profit organisations has been sought. In addition, there is a number of organisations interested in working on the topic of circular procurement, that have committed to making use of learning opportunities within the project, support in the dissemination activities or even undertaking circular procurement pilots by including circular criteria in their procurements. Project’s approach. For the achievement of the goal, the project team will follow a four steps approach: 1. Research of state of the art in Circular Procurement and identification of improvement potentials, at local, national and transnational level. Building necessary capacity on circular procurement for all relevant stakeholders of the procurement value chain, namely public procurers, SMEs, policy and decision makers; 3. Delivering pilot circular procurements aligned with the defined priority areas to enable learning by doing and ensure the projects develops practical capacity building material (e.g. training, guidance, future recommendations, etc.) 4. Disseminating widely the project outcomes among public procurers and SMEs across Europe, using strategic partners and relevant channels.