Interdisciplinary UUCePP PhD Forum 2021
On November 30th, 2021, the Utrecht University Centre for Public Procurement (UUCePP) will host its first interdisciplinary PhD Forum “Public Procurement for Societal Challenges”. The call for papers successfully brought the attention of an international group of 12 PhD candidates from different disciplines and approaches grouped in four thematic sessions that will present their recent work on public procurement.
This year’s theme: Public Procurement for Societal Challenges
The theme for the 2021 forum is ‘Public Procurement for Societal Challenges’. Undeniably, our society faces a wide range of issues, such as climate change, corruption, inequality, safety, to name a few. Procurement from the public sector involves more than 250.000 authorities in the European Union and around 14% to 19% of the GDP. From this perspective, the public procurement sector can help the economy be innovative, resource and energy-efficient, and socially inclusive. Academic research can help diagnose and improve how procurement boosts sustainability, promotes innovation, protects human rights, and provides a secure institutional and legal environment.
Program
The PhD forum offers an open scenario to discuss recent research in public procurement that addresses those societal challenges. The forum will bring together 12 PhD candidates from different disciplines and approaches grouped in four thematic sessions.
The forum will take place from 9:00 until 17:30 in four panel sessions: (I) Procurement & Industrial development, (ii) Procurement & civil society, (iii) Sustainability procurement, and (iv) innovative procurement.
Organising committee
The Public Procurement PhD Forum is organised under the auspices of UUCePP’s academic directors prof. Elisabetta Manunza and prof. Fredo Schotanus, and academic secretary dr. Willem Janssen. The organising committee consists of PhD candidates Bram Vroege LLM, David van Wijnen LLM, Ruben Nicolas MSc and Jakub Supera MSc. Should you have any questions, feel free to reach out to publicprocurementforum@uu.nl.
About UUCePP
The Utrecht University Centre for Public Procurement is an interdisciplinary research centre in the field of public procurement both from a legal and economic perspective. The Centre is a joint effort of the Utrecht University School of Law and the School of Economics of the Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance.
Its aim is to contribute to an improvement of the utilisation, regulation, promotion, social and sustainable use of public procurement. The UUCePP team carries out scientific and applied interdisciplinary research and provides innovative education for students as well as for a variety of market parties and (semi-) public institutions. As part of its scientific activities, the Center is organizing this forum and aims to promote knowledge and interdisciplinary dialogue.