Within the project PPI4Waste, IAT, UNIZAR and Mancomunidad del Sur organised a meet-the-market event entitled “Dialogue market-innovation: moving towards a Circular Economy in municipal waste management”. This event aimed at promoting initiatives of public procurement of innovation in the field of municipal waste management.

It gathered professionals from the waste management sector, providers of innovative solutions, public administrations and members of the scientific community.

Download the presentations (in Spanish):

• Promotion of innovation from the demand side. Public Procurement of Innovation framework in Spain.
  
  • Diana Alonso (Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness)
  • Miguel Ortiz (Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology)

 

• Principales aspectos a considerar en los pliegos de contratación de procesos de Compra Pública Innovadora
  • José María Gimeno Feliú.Universidad de Zaragoza-OBCP -TACPA

 

• Strategic framework for the Circular Economy in municipal waste management
  
  • Teresa Barrés (Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment)

 

• Preparation and implementation of Public Procurement of Innovation in municipal waste management: PPI4Waste Project
  • Anne Furphy (Andalusian Institute of Technology and PPI4Waste project coordinator)

 

• Panel 1. Dialogue with the market: Packaging
• Public procurers
  • Rafael Mir (GRHUSA)
  • Jorge Soria (LIPASAM)
  • Blanca Valenzuela (Mancomunidad del Sur)
• Suppliers
  • Álvaro Molina (ECOEMBES)
  • Patricia Serrano (FCC)
  • Francisco José Vea (Tetma)

 

• Panel 2. Dialogue with the market: Biowaste
• Public procurers
  • Rafael Mir (GRHUSA)
  • Jorge Soria (LIPASAM)
  • Blanca Valenzuela (Mancomunidad del Sur)
• Suppliers
  • José María Gómez (Biomasa Peninsular)
  • Pablo Bernal (URBASER)
  • Sergio Gómez (Greene Waste to Energy)
  • Patricia Serrano (FCC)