Periodic Reporting for period 1 - SAPIENS (Sustainability And Procurement in International, European, and National Systems)
Okres sprawozdawczy: 2021-03-01 do 2023-02-28
The United Nations have developed detailed guidance on sustainable procurement for the UN system so that procurement is harnessed to promote social justice and human rights, to ensure environmental sustainability and to build a future of equitable development and prosperity.
The objective of the Sustainability and Procurement in International, European, and National Systems (SAPIENS) is to foster interdisciplinary research into the evolving use of public procurement (PP) to address the social and environmental challenges of the 21st century with a view to create a significantly increased European knowledge base and research capacity on the law, the economics and the business sciences of SPP, thus helping Europe in addressing social and environmental challenges. By including SPP implementation into the analysis, SAPIENS aims at having an impact on the actual uptake of SPP in Europe and beyond and to significantly foster SPP as an already emerging sub-discipline of sustainability studies through its interdisciplinary approach and the inclusion of new SPP objectives, instruments, and techniques (and their effectiveness). SAPIENS will address a pressing need by training a cohort of SPP specialists capable of addressing the three dimensions of the SDGs (social, economic, environmental).
The network is an interdisciplinary collaboration, pooling world-leading researchers from relevant disciplines of law and economics and business studies. Moreover, SAPIENS is an intersectoral network of Beneficiaries and Partner Organisations (POs) including international organisations, Central Purchasing Bodies - CPBs and CAs, R&D centres, a lobbyist and a US academic institution. The network will not only train a specialised cohort of experts in SPP, but will also support and enhance the process of educating procurement professionals and convert research results into open access training materials, policy papers and procurement tools for a wider uptake, thus contributing to the achievement of the SGDs.
SAPIENS will have four key areas of impact: 1) on the ESRs, their skills, and future career prospects; 2) on the development of a strongly linked interdisciplinary academic community with specialised knowledge of SPP; 3) on the European research and policy agendas on SPP and the implementation of SDGs and their targets; and 4) more broadly, on awareness of both stakeholders, including Contracting Authorities, and the public of the potential of SPP to contribute in addressing the most pressing issues our society is facing and in achieving the SDGs. SAPIENS has already facilitated new collaborations and aims at building partnerships beyond the network’s lifetime further strengthening academic and applied research involving the Partner Organisations with the effect to facilitate further developments in the uptake of SPP. This will also lead to further sector-specific and intersectoral training of future cohorts capable of efficient interdisciplinary work.