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Summary
A central aspect of the Procure4Health community is to enable procurers to learn about and adopt innovation procurement practices, tools, approaches and policies for deploying sustainable and innovative solutions in health- and social care. Procure4Health capitalises on the consortium’s experience in innovation procurement and from partners expertise in implementing sustainable practices in Pan-European healthcare.
The objective of a twinning can be the transfer of knowledge and experience around a variety of perspectives; around the use of a product or service (e.g., a specific procurement tool), process or methodology (e.g., value-based procurement approaches), strategy (e.g., effective procurement policies), or a procurement business model.
Documents: P4H-2nd-Call-for-Twinnings_Documentation-Kit
Detailed Call Description
The public procurement of innovation seeks to bring closer cutting-edge processes and technology to the public sector as a user who can benefit from these advances, both directly to the citizens who receive or use the services and goods purchased by the public sector and the public sector itself.
Procure4Health will thus provide an appropriate environment for public and private procurers, as well as the wider Health & Social Care services community, to effectively share knowledge, build capacities of procurers, define common needs and advance innovation procurement in the EU Procure4Health – Request for Twinning proposals.
Twinnings are a community (peer to peer) tool that enables exchange of knowledge on a particular topic by bridging knowledge from experienced actors to less experienced ones. A twinning can focus on knowledge-exchange between two or more partners. The main concept behind twinnings is to avoid reinventing the wheel by adopting knowledge, enabling partners to learn from existing experiences that have already successfully tackled the same problems and barriers, found solutions for them, and thus help adoption to significantly shorten the adoption/implementation time and related costs.
Twinnings aim to transfer knowledge and experience around the use of a product or service, process or methodology, strategy or a procurement business model.
- Knowledge transfer meetings
- Meetings with local stakeholders
- Organisational readiness of innovation procurement efforts
- Field visits
- Viability studies
- Dissemination events
- Travelling necessary for the twinning
Find out more funded activities in the request for twinning proposals!
The focus of the twinnings is on local, regional or national health and social care procurers that want to learn about or adopt innovative solutions, procurement techniques or similar related matters available elsewhere.
Twinning activities must involve the transfer of know-how between Twinning partners, it focuses on knowledge exchange between two or more partners.
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FUNDING: Get up to €30 000 to cover a wide range of Twinnings’ activities such as travels, meetings, training sessions and much more to share experiences.
Thematic Categories
- Health
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Large Enterprises
- Local Authorities
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Participation in this request for twinning proposals is open on equal terms to public and private procurers, or groups of procuring organisations, operational in the provisioning of Health and social care established in a Member State (MS) of the European Union (or its Horizon-associated countries).
This means that the Call for Twinnings is open for submissions from organizations that provide health or social care, and not open to solution providers.
There are no restrictions on participants countries, they can be from the same or from different countries.
Applicants awarded in the 1st round of Twinnings are not eligible for funding in this 2nd call.
For applicants based in the United Kingdom (UK): Please note that after the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, the rules on access to EU funding for economic operators established in third countries will also apply to applicants from the UK, depending on the status of negotiations. Should such access not be guaranteed by applicable legislation, applicants from the UK could be excluded from the awarding procedure.
Please note that twinnings cannot be awarded to certain Hungarian public interest trusts and entities maintained by them, in accordance with Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/2506 of 15 December 2022 on measures for the protection of the Union budget against breaches of the principles of the rule of law in Hungary.
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Don’t miss the chance to submit your questions before 30 November 2023. You can do so by sending an email to: hello@procure4health.eu