On the 18th of May 2017 Lodzkie Region will held the first, introductory and informative, meeting of regional authorities and observers within the GPP4Growth project, which will gather representatives of local self-government and three stakeholders’ institution, that is: Centre for Public Procurement and Public-Private Partnership (University of Lodz, Faculty of Law and Administration), Entrepreneurship and Economic Development Research Institute (Lodz Academy of Management), and the City of Lodz Office. The event will begin with a brief presentation about the GPP4Growth project goals given by the hosting partner and will be followed by papers on various issues regarding public procurement from legal aspects to case studies from Poland. In the second part of the meeting there will be a workshop allowing for active participation of all partners and stakeholders and a discussion on future actions in the project.     

AGENDA
1st meeting with stakeholders

09:45 – 10:00    Registration and welcome coffee
10:00 – 10:30    Welcome speech and short information about GPP4Growth project –
Marcin Pawlak, V-ce Director of the Regional Policy Department, Lodzkie Region
10:30 – 11:00    Public procurement rules – professor Maria Królikowska-Olczak, Centre for the Public Procurement and Public-Private Partnership, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Lodz
11:00 – 11:30    Green public procurement in the procurement process - introduction to legal issues - dr Anna Górczyńska, Centre for the Public Procurement and Public-Private Partnership, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Lodz
11:30 – 12:00    Coffee break
12:00 – 12:30    European projects implemented in the area of green public procurement - good practices – professor, University of Social Science in Lodz, Institute for Enterprise Research And Economic Development EEDRI

12:30 – 13:30    Green public procurement – Self-government examples – The City of Lodz - Tomasz Jakubiec – Director of  City Strategy Bureau, The City of the Lodz Office

13:30 – 14:30    Small table discussion – with stakeholder members and representatives of local government units (Suggestions for further action, expectations for our actions etc.)
14:30 – 15:00    Lunch