On 27 and 28 May 2026, Forum Compraverde Buygreen returns to Rome at WeGil (Largo Ascianghi 5). The event is the leading national and European platform dedicated to Green Public Procurement (GPP) and sustainable purchasing policies, promoted by Fondazione Ecosistemi. The 2026 edition marks an important milestone: the 20th edition of the States General of Green Public Procurement, taking place at a crucial moment for Europe, as the revision of the EU Public Procurement Directive and the reshaping of European industrial and climate policies are underway.
Green Public Procurement now represents a central lever of European industrial policy, capable of shaping markets and production value chains well beyond the environmental dimension. Through public demand, innovation, investment flows, production standards and organisational models can be steered in a strategic direction. In a context defined by the energy transition, strategic autonomy and global competition, public spending becomes one of the most effective tools to strengthen competitiveness, resilience and economic cohesion.
Forum Compraverde 2026 takes place at a decisive moment for the European Union. The revision of the Public Procurement Directive and the debate on European competitiveness bring the role of public demand back to the centre of policy discussion. The objective is not to simplify by lowering ambition, but to strengthen the capacity of public spending to guide markets towards innovative, sustainable and strategically autonomous production models. What is at stake is not only environmental sustainability, but Europe’s industrial position in the decades ahead.
“Green Public Procurement is one of the most powerful economic policy tools available to the European Union,” says Silvano Falocco, Director of Forum Compraverde Buygreen and Fondazione Ecosistemi. “When guided by coherence and long-term vision, it can strengthen European industrial value chains, support innovation and reduce strategic dependencies. The 20th edition of the Forum comes at a time when Europe must decide whether public demand will remain a spectator or become a driver of transformation.”
The 20th anniversary edition will serve as a platform for dialogue among European and national institutions, public and private companies, territories and communities.
The 2026 concept translates into two days, twenty thematic events and twenty concrete solutions: an operational atlas of the transition. Not a simple conference programme, but a structured pathway presenting implemented policies, measurable results and replicable models.
The programme will be organised around four thematic clusters – Governance and Policies, Industrial and Economic Value Chains, Territorial and Climate Transition, Culture, Education and Communities – bringing together institutional leadership, industrial competitiveness, territorial innovation and cultural transformation.
Over the past twenty years, the Forum has built a broad and competent community, involving more than 2,300 speakers, hundreds of conferences, awards, academies and European projects. It has supported the evolution of GPP in Italy and strengthened dialogue with European institutions.
The 2026 edition will further reinforce this trajectory with new initiatives dedicated to the 20th anniversary, including an audiovisual narrative on the transformation driven by GPP in Italy and across Europe, and the consolidation of the “We Green” cultural archive, gathering experiences, projects and results developed over time.
The full programme will be published in the coming week.
