Consortium

Global Approach Consulting, in short G.A.C. Group, is an international innovation consultancy firm supporting its clients and partners by following the slogan Innovation & Performance for Impact. Established in 2002, G.A.C. employs 200+ specialists spread across its headquarters in Issy-les-Moulineaux / France and several offices in France, Germany, Romania, Brazil, Canada, and Singapore.
G.A.C. provides expertise in the area of innovation, internationalisation, coordination and animation of collaborative networks and platforms, financial performance & human resource performance, and delivers economic studies including innovation strategies, territorial innovation development, evaluation and impact assessment. The G.A.C. “public sector” team is based in the Sophia-Antipolis office and has been traditionally focused on European collaborative research and innovation projects and especially boosting the stakeholder engagement across industries and thematics, in order to support the value creation and exploitation of research and innovation results with positive impact on both the environment and society.
G.A.C. specialists provide a 360° support to innovation projects and stakeholders across the whole value chain, from ideation to commercialisation, from IP advice to project management, R&D public funding and new market access, from internationalisation strategy development to innovation marketing. The team gathers of consultants and thematic experts specialised in various industries and sectors and and with in-depth insights and knowledge on specific industry and societal challenges and which closely follow disruptive and Incremental technological developments. Besides being specialists for diverse types of analyses and methodologies, the team has expertise in impact maximisation, stakeholder engagement, different kinds of co-creation methods, capacity building and mutual learning activities, as well as impact evaluation techniques.

Aerospace Valley is the leading European competitiveness cluster in the aerospace sector in South-West of France. With its diverse ecosystem of leading groups, start-ups, SMEs, research laboratories, public actors, and training organisations, Aerospace Valley is the only community in the world that brings together all the actors in the value chain from all segments of the aeronautics and space sector. AV is contributing to the development and competitiveness of its members (more than 800) through innovation by promoting collaborative research and development projects. Our actions are mainly focusing on supporting emergence of services, creation and development of space-related start-ups, fostering the development of our members through access to new markets (topics and export).

Corvers Procurement Services is a leading legal and economic consultancy firm specialized in European public procurement law, innovation procurement, IPR, ICT and contracting. With over 20 years of experience – Corvers acts as advisor and external legal expert (on national as well as European level). Corvers provides advice and guidance regarding public procurement strategies and methodologies to public procurers around Europe and conducts research specifically in relation to innovation and sustainability.

Expertise areas include pre-commercial procurement (PCP), public procurement of innovative solutions (PPI), ICT infrastructure, public-private partnerships (PPP), sustainable construction (public buildings, social housing, road infrastructure), public utilities (e.g. water) and R&D projects.
Since 2015 Corvers is contractor for the European Assistance for Innovation Procurement-initiative (EAFIP) – a contract awarded by the European Commission (DG Connect) to promote innovation procurement and provide training and local assistance to public procurers and policy makers interested to implement innovation procurements (PCP and PPI) of ICT based solutions across the EU Member States. Within this context Corvers published a Toolkit on Innovation Procurement, developed the EAFIP-methodology for Innovation Procurement and provided technical assistance in innovation procurement to over 23 procurement organisations across Europe.

The City of Haarlem together with the citizens and other stakeholders work on the challenges, such as the climate adaptation, circular economy, energy transition, safe and sustainable neighborhoods, social, healthy and inclusive city. The City of Haarlem is a beautiful historical city situated in the West of the Netherlands. City of Haarlem is a frontrunner on sustainability, circular procurement and social responsibility.

Climate Alliance is a non-profit association founded in 1990. With nearly 2,000 members spread across more than 25 European countries, Climate Alliance is Europe’s largest city network dedicated to comprehensive and equitable climate action. Climate Alliance has a staff of around 50 people from 13 countries covering 15 languages. 35 officers provide thematic expertise in the fields of local climate strategies. Besides the European Secretariat in Frankfurt and the EU office in Brussels, Climate Alliance has Coordination offices to help support members in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Luxembourg and Hungary.  The City network has built up expertise across all thematic fields of climate change mitigation and adaptation. Climate Alliance led EU-wide Initiatives like the Sustainable Investment Forums (EASME 2016-2019) and the Clean Energy for EU Islands Secretariat (DG ENER 2018-2020), is leading the Energy Poverty Advisory Hub (DG ENER 2021-2023) and is engaged in the Covenant of Mayors Office since the beginning (2008).

EIT Climate-KIC is a Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC), working to accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon, climate-resilient society.
Supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, we identify and support innovation that helps society mitigate and adapt to climate change. We believe that a decarbonised, sustainable economy is not only necessary to prevent catastrophic climate change, but presents a wealth of opportunities for business and society.
We bring together partners in the worlds of business, academia, and the public and non-profit sectors to create networks of expertise, through which innovative products, services and systems can be developed, brought to market and scaled-up for impact.

Vtrek is an economic consultancy firm offering expert services to help contracting authorities across Europe to buy innovation.
With advice, analysis and developed methodologies Vtrek assists project managers and procurers in designing and conducting (innovation) procurement projects. Vtrek’ s services may involve State-Of-The-Art (SOTA) analysis, developing business cases, value calculations and procurement scenarios enabling well-founded decisions along the (innovation) procurement process.

Taking a systems perspective, Vtrek identifies opportunities to create or enhance value along the procurement life cycle, determine the best ways to accomplish this, and provide recommendations for implementation. Vtrek’ s approach is outcome-driven, where cost savings and service efficiency translate to intensified market impacts in innovation and sustainability. Areas of specialization are high technology and ICT – from Pre-commercial Procurement (PCP), to the Public Procurement of Innovative Solutions (PPI), and innovation partnerships as well as green and social public procurement.

Vtrek – together with sister company Corvers Procurement Services – co-developed and piloted the business case methodology for innovation procurement first presented under the European Assistance for Innovation Procurement (EAFIP) project and is still active in several EAFIP assisted projects.

EURADA, the European Association of Development Agencies, is a network of 68 Regional Development Agencies from 23 countries and as such connects regional development and innovation experts from Europe and beyond to disperse their activities, achievements and best practices. We also promote the exchange of experiences between our members and the recognition of development agencies as specific mechanisms and entities of regional economic development.

ISEM – International Security and Emergency Management Institute is a non-profit organisation providing publicly beneficial services. ISEMI is a professional platform of former or active police and national security officers, military, civil protection and crisis management experts from around the world with necessary security clearance and relevant long-term experience in crime prevention, counter-terrorism and CBRN-E threats in the fight against organised crime, environmental crime, trafficking in human beings, cybercrime, drugs and weapons smuggling. Our team also has a broad experience in intelligence analysis, defence policy, border protection, critical infrastructure protection, countering hybrid threats, rescue and emergency assistance, health protection, and justice and prosecution.

GECOsistema is a specialist company providing advanced engineering cloud-web, data-science and modeling studies and services in the field of environmental, climate risk and geospatial intelligence.