KEINO Academy for sustainable procurement management

Many skills are required for successful public procurement such as substance competence, budget and pricing expertise, operational procurement competence, expertise in procurement law and communication skills. In addition to higher education in Finland that provides some degrees and courses on public procurement, KEINO Academy, as part of the KEINO Competence Centre, annually offers competence enhancing activities (events and courses online and offline as well as guidance through email) for public purchasing authorities.
KEINO Academy includes free of charge tools for analyses of purchases to evaluate the procurement sustainability, e.g. maturity of the management, analysis of sustainability and carbon neutrality of procurements (tool “hankintapulssi”), as well as impact assessments (tool Upright Impact model).
KEINO Competence Centre is part of the implementation of the Finnish Government Programme and its operations are steered and funded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment. KEINO supports and helps Finnish public contracting authorities with the development of sustainable and innovative procurement. By implementing life cycle thinking and life cycle management skills in everyday procurement processes, sustainability goals will be much easier achieved. In Keino Academy, public authorities are networked, thus offering important peer support for learning process.