Procure2Innovate aims to improve institutional support within a range of sectors that buy innovation, through the creation and expansion of competence centres for buying innovation in ten European Union member states. The project, funded by the European Commission under Horizon 2020, brings together a consortium of 19 partners from the following countries: Austria, Germany, Spain, Estonia, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden.

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iBuy – Enhancing the role of public authorities as innovation enablers through public procurement – is a European project funded by the European Commission, which aims to develop innovative models suitable for mobilising public and private stakeholders based on the ‘entrepreneurial discovery process’ associated with research and innovation strategies for smart specialisation in the field of innovation public procurement, promoting an European perspective and ensuring the durability and transferability of the results achieved.

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The aim of the project is to test the implementation of a centre of excellence for public procurement of innovation in Portugal, through the pilot introduction of best practices in this area.

More specifically, the project aims to:

• To establish, within the framework of existing public organisations, a centre of expertise for the CPI, with the aim of optimising its organisational and operational structure.
• Develop and test a range of services designed to support public procurement of innovation, raising awareness the public administration’s approach to public innovation contracts (PICs) and their importance;
• To build the capacity of public bodies through the sharing of experiences and the comparative analysis of best practices developed by teams at ANI and IMPIC, both by trialling support models for public procurement of innovation and by transferring tools and methodologies already validated in European centres of expertise on public procurement of innovation, adapting them to the national context;
• To communicate and publicise the activities of the Centre of Expertise (CPI), to provide contracting authorities and other stakeholders with access to appropriate knowledge and information, as well as specialist assistance in the field of public procurement for innovation, and to promote cooperation with other equivalent bodies at European and international level.