EIC presents winners of European Innovation Procurement Awards

The European Innovation Council (EIC) presented the winners of the European Innovation Procurement Awards at the Belgian Council Presidency's Innovation Procurement Conference on 20 March 2024. The awards recognise outstanding initiatives that drive innovation and address societal challenges across the European Union.

In the 'Innovation procurement initiative' category, the winner is the Group for Innovation Procurement (GPI) initiative of Sardinia Research (Sardegna Ricerche) from Italy. 'GPI' receive the award for having created a regional action plan for Innovation procurement and a ‘Group for Innovation Procurement’ that encourages public buyers in their region to implement innovation procurements.

In the category of 'Facing societal challenges: green energy transition', the winner is 'REGEN3TIQ', submitted by Beam Cube (BEAM³) from France. 'REGEN3TIQ' receives the award for their innovative digital twin solution that reduces the energy consumption, and the entire lifecycle ecological footprint of public infrastructure and construction works as well as the purchasing, maintenance and management cycle linked to those type of works.

The winner in each category is awarded € 75,000.-.

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