HORIZON-EIE-2026-01-CONNECT-01: European network of national competence centers for innovation procurement

Many public buyers around Europe still lack experience on innovation procurement and need training and guidance. To tackle this challenge, several countries around Europe have set up national competence centers that cooperate with policy makers in their country to implement capacity building measures for innovation procurement. With support of Horizon 2020 funding, in the past, five new competence centers were set up and started collaborating with five existing competence centers across borders. Europe wide benchmarking identified that there are still significant gaps in national capacity building [...]