Target audience: public procurers

Modality: Online

This webinar provides public procurers across Europe and beyond with essential knowledge on securing funding for innovative projects, particularly when budgets are limited, and introduces strategies for leveraging external funding to drive innovation in the public sector.

Equip public procurers with the knowledge of funding opportunities:

  • Navigate the European funding landscape to access financial resources that support innovative procurement

  • Learn how to leverage funding mechanisms to kickstart and scale innovation within the public sector

  • Learn from public buyers about their real PCP cases

  • How they identify unmet needs and funding opportunities to address them

  • Promote knowledge exchange among public procurers, external experts, and project partners

Moderator: Jozef Kubinec, Director of methodology, analytics and innovation procurement at Ministerstvo vnútra Slovenskej republiky


Speaker: Azra Atalan, Legal Procurement Consultant, Corvers (EAFIP,  SPIN4EIC)


Speaker: Céline LOR, Project coordinator (Video analytics, AI, Innovation) at SNCF Security Directorate

TENTATIVE AGENDA

14:00 – 14:10 Module P3.0

Welcome & Objectives

  • Purpose of the event

  • Introduction of the ECLIPSE project

    Speaker: Consortium partner representative

14:10 - 14:20 Module P3.1

Innovation Procurement Introduction (recap)

Speaker:

  • Jozef Kubinec, Innovation Procurement Specialist

14:20 - 14:45

Case gallery: Experience of public buyer - Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français

14:45 - 15:20 Module P3.2

Funding Landscape Overview of current European funding sources available for public procurers to start innovating when proprietary budgets are limited (“soft landing” into public sector innovation).

Speaker: Jozef Kubinec, Innovation Procurement Specialist

15:20 - 15:30

Video: Leveraging VC funding

15:30 - 15:50

EU support for public procurers: SPIN4EIC, EAFIP

Speaker: Azra Atalan, Legal Procurement Consultant, Corvers

15:50 – 15:55

Discussion

15:55 – 16:00

Wrap up

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