PPI4cities intends to support the cities in BSR region to improve their public services and achieve their ambitious innovation goals through developing pragmatic tools, which would facilitate the uptake of public procurement of innovation. It will do so by bringing together a portfolio of capacity building material and tools that enable the various actors of the cities to exploit structured content and move forward faster and with greater confidence and certainty in adopting PPI.

The project will also act as a network of BSR cities, for cities, dedicated to public procurement of innovation. Through peer exchange, networking and training, project fosters political commitment and boosts collective expertise, equipping cities to put PPI at the centre of smart city development. It will work on development of physical as well as virtual tools based on artificial technologies and gamification techniques in order to improve the engagement of the stakeholders and the target group into the development and piloting of the solutions.

Project website: https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/ppi4cities/