Sustainable Public Procurement in the Digital Age
Blended Programme in Rome
on-site week: 10-14 July 2023
The programme aims to provide participants with hints and a direct engagement on how public procurement can be redesigned through digital tools to achieve sustainability goals.
The programme combines:
- self-paced training on the fundamentals in the areas of digital transformation, sustainability, procurement and supply chain management (accessible on Open edX);
- in-person practice-based lectures on how public tenders can be designed and managed to promote sustainability;
- hybrid group work on a public tender simulation started in presence together with the lectures and presented remotely to Public Procurement Authorities.
PARTICIPANTS
- gain practical experience on how public procurement can be redesigned through digital transformation processes
- gain practical experience on how digital transformation can contribute to achieve sustainability
- Interact with public procurement authorities and develop a project work under their supervision
- gain 3 ECTS
PARTICIPANTS' BACKGROUND
The programme is addressed to master-level students with different backgrounds, namely:
- 60% from Management and Economics
- 20% from Data Science/Statistics/Informatics
- 20% from other backgrounds (Law, Political Science, Psychology, etc.)