GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

The proposals should focus on the following activities:

• accessible dedicated training portfolios, to improve skills and capacities to design innovative procurement;
• awareness-raising and enhanced knowledge on innovation procurement legal frameworks for public buyers and evaluators of innovative procurements;
• enhanced innovation knowledge and skills within buyers, raising awareness about co-design process between SMEs and buyers (public and private) that may help to discover the most up-to-date innovative technological solutions, and assist in their development and further acquisition;
• scale up best examples on the definition of needs and design of programmes, procedures and long-term strategies in the field of innovation procurement;
• set up new experts networks and/or local competence centres or advance existing ones, including the coaching services to set up innovation procurement, legal assistance, the support on the definition of resources and tools, and the exchange of best practices;
• public and private buyers’ cooperation and partnerships with the innovation deployment actors, particularly innovative SMEs and start-ups community, research institutions and technological organisations in order to tap into the under-exploited innovative potential of these type of companies.