Stimulating Innovation Procurement

Horizon Europe calls for interconnected Innovation Ecosystems with the program, “Stimulating innovation procurement”. The program’s intended outcomes include: Creating long-term national and regional policy frameworks for innovation procurement as well as integrating innovation procurement into sectoral strategies Developing action plans including expenditure targets and monitoring systems to be applied by various levels of government and defining a set of incentives mechanisms to drive innovative procurement The implementation and expansion of collaborative procurement initiatives handled by national, regional and municipal governments to enable the commercialization of innovations in the public and also private sectors and thus offering market opportunities to European innovators and promoting cross-European procurement. The planned opening date is June 14, 2022. The deadline is September 27, 2022, 17:00:00 Brussels time.