The European Commission has launched the Public Buyers Community Platform, an innovative platform designed to facilitate cooperation and knowledge-sharing between public buyers across Europe.

This Platform is a unique digital space where public procurement stakeholders, including public authorities, industry, SMEs and academia, can come together to exchange good practices, share experiences and discuss challenges, including sustainability and the circular economy.

Four calls for proposals are currently open to provide funding for projects implementing the Green Deal at local and regional level. Please note that these calls are open to all legal entities that are eligible to apply for funding under the Horizon Europe programme.

Are you looking for ways to finance your climate action? Don't miss the PROSPECT+ capacity-building programme on innovative financing schemes!

Are you looking for support with rolling out investments financed by the European Regional Development Fund and Cohesion Fund under cohesion policy's Policy Objective 2 for 2021-2027 on a greener, low-carbon transition towards a net-zero carbon economy?

Apply now to become a member of one of the three Working Groups on Energy, Climate and Environment. These groups will bring public authorities rolling out cohesion policy funds together with stakeholders to discuss specific issues and challenges regarding the use of these funds to deliver the European Green Deal.

On 31 January, the Commission launched an online public consultation on what the new product priorities under the proposed Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) should be.

The aim is to make products on the EU market increasingly sustainable, by enabling far-reaching performance and information requirements – known as "ecodesign requirements" – to be set on a wide range of them to improve their circularity, energy performance and other environmental sustainability aspects. 

 

The European Commission has launched a call for evidence and a public consultation with a view to the European Critical Raw Materials Act, announced by Commission president Ursula von der Leyen during her 2022 State of the Union address. Interested parties can provide their input until 25 November 2022.

The initiative called Microplastics pollution – measures to reduce its impact on the environment aims to tackle microplastics unintentionally released into the environment. It will focus on labelling, standardisation, certification and regulatory measures for the main sources of these plastics.

The European Commission would like to hear your views on microplastics pollution. Give your feedback!

Interested in contributing to EU efforts to fight food loss and waste? Don’t miss the opportunity to submit your application!

The Commission is calling for applications from private sector organisations with expertise and proven track record in food waste prevention to re-establish, together with public entities, the EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste for its second mandate (2022-2026).

The New European Bauhaus is a creative and interdisciplinary initiative, a space of encounter to design future ways of living, at the crossroads between art, culture, social inclusion, science and technology, in the name of simplicity, functionality and circularity. Its team is planning a series of information sessions to present the opportunities to contribute to the initiative. 

The roadmap for the EU strategy for sustainable textiles has been published and will be open for feedback until 2 February 2021.