The Action

This EC initiative, launched by the European Commission DG Environment and executed by the  International Training Centre of the ILO (ITCILO) in Turin, is about raising awareness and dissemination of the EC GPP Policy in 20 EU Member States.

It is also about building the necessary capacity for EU-wide use of the GPP criteria included in the EC Green Public Procurement Training Toolkit for the ten priority product and service groups.

A survey of the current status of GPP in 20 EU Member States: those where GPP appears to be less frequent than in the so-called “Green 7” (Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK)

• Read more on the ITCILO-EC GPP Status Assessment Survey

Contact with these 20 EU Member States and appointment of two national GPP experts per country. This group of 40 national experts will be trained, become members of the expanded project team and take part in a distance-learning GPP activity and an experience-sharing e-forum.

• Read more on the first group of 20 experts, appointed by the 10 EU Target Countries in April 2009
• Read more on the second group of 20 experts appointed by 10 EU Target countries in November 2009

Training of the team of national experts through a Training of Trainers Programme. The programme has two components: a distance learning phase over the internet (www.itcilo.org/gpp); and a  face-to-face TOT Seminar at the ITCILO Campus in Turin.

• Read more on the ITCILO-EC GPP TOT Programme

Dissemination and awareness raising events (run by the IGPP-trained national experts, with the support of the ITCILO). These will be one-day events addressing 80-100 key national GPP stakeholders. They will be held in national language.

• Read more on the GPP national conferences