SUSTAINABLE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT

Sustainable public procurement

Brasov City, Romania

THE INNOVATION:

Starting with a thorough research of the green public procurement legislation, the aim of the innovation was the greening of the local public procurement. With the support of Mihaela Fratila, expert on public procurement, the municipality of Brasov is the first municipality at national level that coordinates the national programme ‘Milk and pastry’ in schools at the city level, which allowed the integration of local producers. The children attending school in Brasov city benefitted from local dairy products and pastries during the 2021-2022 school years due to these efforts.

LOOKING AHEAD:

The main goals for the nearby future is ensuring local products for all the three components of the national programme (i.e: dairy products, pastries and fruits), as well as the development of the educational component of the programme, that should ensure the proper education of children towards a healthy lifestyle (maturing). A long-term objective is the development of the necessary infrastructure in order to make the transition towards warm and nutritious meals in schools.

More Information:
Contact Person: Mihaela Fr??il?
Email: [email protected]

Info about the Innovators and the Innovation portraits Catalogue

FoodSHIFT 2030 aims to launch an ambitious citizen-driven transition of the European food system towards a low carbon circular future, including a shift to less meat and more plant based diets. This transition is necessary in order to address the pressing challenges for food and nutrition security, contribute to the EU commitment of reducing GHG emissions by at least 40% by 2030, and revitalize urban-rural linkages and partnerships.

To do so, it establishes FoodSHIFT Accelerator Labs for maturing, combining, upscaling and multiplying existing food system innovations across nine front-runner city-regions. In turn these innovations contribute to the FoodSHIFT vision.

An Innovation Catalogue called “Innovation Portraits” was created to snapshot each of the Food Innovations connected with each of the FoodSHIFT Accelerator Labs (FALs) across the 9 city regions.

Info about the Innovation Portraits Catalogue

The Innovation Catalogue will snapshot each of the Food Innovations connected with each of the FoodSHIFT Accelerator Labs (FALs) across the 9 city regions. Each FAL has a dedicated innovation focus and each chapter will present innovation cases from a particular FAL. For each of the innovations presented, a snapshot of the innovation concept and purpose will be given, alongside the key impacts the innovation has in relation to the FoodSHIFT Impact Pathways and the acceleration ambitions of the innovation.

In addition, each innovation portrait is also categorized according to its Innovation Dimension. These dimensions indicate what kind of innovation is being presented, and where in the value chain it plays a role. This is indicated by these tabs. The dimensions are defined as follows:

Product – Innovations in this category address new or updated products, including quality, safety and market impact.

Process – These innovations are relevant to new technologies for processing, logistical improvements, infrastructure and new/improved services.

Social – Innovations in this category are relevant to changes in behaviour (e.g. consumers/citizens), development of new relationships and inclusiveness.

Governance – The innovations address policy developments, including food planning, subsidies, taxing, certificates & labelling.

Learn more about all the Innovation portraits: https://foodshift2030.eu/meet-the-people-changing-your-food-system/