[Translate to English:] Neues europäisches Bauhaus

The project Big Buyers Working Together set up a Community of Practice on New European Bauhaus (CoP NEB), the first European initiative to connect sustainable public procurement (SPP) to the NEB principles. Join us and learn how you can too make a difference!

The Big Buyers Working Together (BBWT) project set up a Community of Practice on New European Bauhaus (CoP NEB), the first European initiative to connect sustainable public procurement (SPP) to the NEB principles. NEB is an interdisciplinary initiative launched in 2020 that expresses the EU’s ambition to create beautiful, sustainable, and inclusive places, products and ways of living.

It was developed as a co-creation space for a joint cultural project for Europe, which also aims to push the market to follow NEB principles. As such, public procurement can play a key role in the advancement of NEB. However, so far, there has been no working group trying to connect NEB to sustainable public procurement, providing a great opportunity for the CoP participants to do pioneering work.

  • The community will focus its work on the neighbourhoods, as they act as living labs for innovation and community participation, with a particular focus on existing buildings, their revitalisation, retrofitting, improvement of existing infrastructure and community inclusion and on how SPP can help make them more sustainable and inclusive.
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  • The CoP kicked off its work in April 2024, during the Big Buyers Working Together Annual Event. The CoP will develop guidance/recommendations for public buyers, share best practices, organise market dialogues, study visits, trainings and experts' briefings. It is currently composed of members from Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Greece and Croatia and is still open to welcome other public authorities that are interested in the topic.
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  • If you are a public authority and you are interested in joining the work of the CoP, please reach out to big.buyers(at)eurocities.eu.
  • For an overview of the European Commission’s work with NEB, and more information on case studies of how sustainable public procurement may connect to the NEB values, BBWT recently organised a webinar that can be found on the Public Buyers Community Platform.

 

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