Public Procurement

Call for Abstracts: Interdisciplinary Public Procurement PhD Forum 2023 (Utrecht)

Pedro Telles

Jan 24, 2023

The Utrecht University Centre for Public Procurement is hosting its bi-annual Interdisciplinary Public Procurement PhD Forum on 16 May 2023 and has an open call for abstracts for Ph.D candidates.The call is available here and it looks like a great opportunity for Ph.D students to meet their peers in person post-COVID and start working on that personal/professional network which will serve them well for many years to come.

After all that is how I met friends like Albert Sanchez-Graells or Carina Risvig-Hamer all those years ago at a similar event at Nottingham University when we were all doing our doctorates.

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If it quacks like a duck...

What's next in terms of events

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