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HaePPI | Erasmus+

Promotion of innovation in the European habitat and e‑health sectors through the public procurement of innovative solutions to increase the competitiveness of European SMEs (HaePPI)

Project implementation period: 2019-12-01 to 2022-05-31

Project No. 2019-1-DK01-KA202-060224

Project countries: 5 (Denmark, Spain, Slovenia, Lithuania, Poland)

Project partners:

  1. Region Nordjylland (North Denmark Region)

  2. Universidad de Zaragoza

  3. Styrian Technology Park (Stajerski Tehnoloski Park d.o.o.)

  4. UAB “De Futuro” (iVita Cluster)

  5. Uniwersytet Lodzki

  6. Agrupacion Empresarial Innovadora de Fabricantes de Muebles y Afines de la Region de Murcia

More information about the project: https://www.haeppi-project.eu/

The European project HAePPI aims to promote the connection between two different industrial sectors — the housing and the health sectors — to collaborate in tenders for innovative public procurement and R&D+i projects.

The objective of the HAePPI project is to develop an Innovative Public Procurement training tool aligned with the needs of SMEs in the housing sector that usually offer hospital equipment. Employees in housing and health sector companies are, for the most part, unaware of the opportunities that innovative public procurement can offer them, and they need an innovative and open training program.

This program will provide an adapted curriculum that will allow professionals in both sectors (housing and health) to acquire the specific, basic, and transversal skills currently required to foster innovation in their companies. The program will also help expand their niche market through this type of public purchase.

Innovative public procurement (IPP) is an administrative action to promote innovation through public procurement. It entails the acquisition by public authorities of new goods and services introduced for the first time into the market and developed by companies that opt for such a tender.

The development of IPP is addressed by working on both the demand side — the public manager bidding for innovative public procurement contracts — and the supply side, meaning companies competing in tenders and receiving support to participate and submit innovative offers.

The HAePPI project partnership is strategically formed by six organisations from different countries with demonstrated experience in achieving the project objectives. The working team consists of two universities with high experience in public procurement policies: the University of Zaragoza, responsible for managing the Observatory of Public Procurement (ObCP), and the University of Lodz in Poland.

Two clusters directly aligned with the project’s objectives are also part of the consortium: the Innovative Business Association of Furniture Manufacturers and Related in the Region of Murcia (AMUEBLA) and IVITA – a health cluster of Lithuania. The Styrian Technology Park of Slovenia, experts in innovation management, and the public entity and project coordinator, the Nordjylland Region of Denmark, complete the partnership.

For more information, please visit the project website: https://www.haeppi-project.eu/