#1 COVID-19 responses to public procurement in the EU & Academic life in these times

We critically discuss the Commission guidance on COVID-19 and public procurement, and what we think are some of the challenges that contracting authorities face these days. Also, we discuss the approaches taken by some of the Member States to address the COVID 19. For the happy fun dessert time, we chat about academic life and especially teaching online in these times. TABLE OF CONTENTS 00:00 – 17:14 Entrée 00:11 – 03:47 Agenda 03:47 – 17:13 Relevance of public procurement during COVID-19 17:14 – 32:17 Main course 17:34 – 28:59 How different Member states addressed procurement issues during COVID-19 29:00 – 32:17 Urgent v. regular procurement 32:18 – 43:06 Dessert 32:19 – 36:39 Academic life and COVID-19 36:40 – 43:06 Students and technological affordances during COVID-19