ANI hosted the first workshop in Portugal on the European project Procure2Innovate. The event was held in Lisbon on the 26th of March and was attended by the national community of contracting entities in projects of Public Procurement of Innovation funded by the Horizon 2020 programme. This initiative was part of the project activities, which aims to implement a Skills Centre in Public Procurement of Innovation (PPI) in Portugal.

The workshop was divided into two blocks. First, there was a plenary session with interventions from ANI, representative of the PCP project, the CSA project and ZENIT project. Then, in the World Café block, the group was divided into three tables for discussion and meeting of contributions on a set of questions to be answered by the workshop, this lasted 20 minutes.

Programme:

1 p.m. - Concentration of the participants at lunch, in the ANI, Welcome and framework of the activities

2 p.m. - Block I: Presentation session of national and international experiences

ANI: Activities in public procurement of innovation in the context of the Procure2Innovate project

2:15 p.m. - Experience in supporting public procurement of innovation in Germany

ZENIT: Path travelled to the PPI - KOINNO's skills centre's services

2:45 p.m. - Public procurement of innovation in European legislation and the experience of EU funding

ZENIT: Procedures for the purchase and promotion of innovation, with EC funding

3:15 p.m. - Discussion

3:20 p.m. - The ProEmpower project experience

SPMS: PCP project example

3:35 p.m. - The BundleUP project experience

Power Parity: CSA project example (PT coordination)

3:50 p.m. - Discussion

3.55 p.m. - Break

4:15 p.m. - Block II: Thematic discussion session in World Café format

4:20 p.m. - Group divided into three worktables

A – Financial Instruments; B - Support and training; C – Practical aspects of PPI procedures

5:20 p.m. - Worktables reports

Reporters: Summary of the discussions

5:30 p.m. - Balance and conclusions

5:45 p.m. - Closure

Objectives:

• To bring together a community of Portuguese entities with interests in the public procurement of innovation (CPC/PPI).
• To share ANI's activities in the public procurement of innovation, in particular the involvement in the H2020 programme, with this community.
• To identify needs already felt by public entities, as competitors to H2020 programme notices, and as buyers of innovation in the context of their projects’ activities.
• To understand the dynamics of the national companies in their response to the calls for contests launched by the H2020 programme’s CPC/PPI projects.
• To analyse the possibility of having a competency structure in PPI in PT.