Europe is producing high-quality, innovative security solutions, but many of them never make it to the market. This is where procurers come in. Procurers can act as a catalyst for innovation, shaping the security market and enabling it to respond to ever new challenges. iProcureNet aims to create an ecosystem of procurers, prescribers, legal advisors and other key stakeholders of security procurement, to share procurement trends and needs, and open pathways for joint procurement.
Cross-border security procurement has the potential to become a catalyst for innovation. iProcureNet will contribute to overcome the current obstacles on this way.
In an innovative three-cycle process, iProcureNet will map the European procurement environment, compare national investment strategies, identify innovation needs, and analyse security markets. Security procurement practitioners as well as experts from academy and industry contribute to the development of common and standardised joint procurement practices and innovative approaches, and thus prepare a larger uptake and a common European security market.
iProcureNet, that is also a lively community of experts from practitioners‘ organisations, industry and academia, policy makers or engaged citizens – involved or interested in the procurement of security innovation. The community can connect, be informed, engage and collaborate with other stakeholders through the iProcureNet Online Platform (iPOP).
In 2024, iProcureNet is happy to share the key achievements form work-package leaders, who managed to constantly shared good practices and new ideas while keeping track of the expected results. This specific work is to be highlighted as some partners built strong bridges between different players in the security field in Europe. This remarkable accomplishment allowed iProcureNet to contribute to other EU funded projects and networks of practitioners, to better understand EU priorities and needs in terms of security, as well as how the PPI is expected to add value.
