Re: Call for Projects for the 2025 UNECE PPP and Infrastructure Award

Dear Member,
With reference to the letter sent to our Chamber by TOBB, the letter of the Ministry of Trade dated 13.09.2024 and numbered 100770376 forwarded to our Union, with reference to the letter conveyed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, states that a call for projects, participation in which is free of charge, has been published by the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Secretariat of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) within the scope of the "2025 UNECE PPP and Infrastructure Award" (UNECE PPP and infrastructure award 2025) to be presented within the framework of the 9th UNECE International PPP Forum planned to be held in May 2025; that it is open to applications from public institutions, private companies, academia, civil society organisations and international/regional organisations; that the best PPP and infrastructure projects contributing to digital and green transformations supporting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be selected; that the conditions of the relevant competition can be accessed via the link https://unece.org/ppp/forum9/award; and that the online participation form must be submitted to the Secretariat by 15 November 2024.

The qualities expected of the projects in the said competition are presented below:

• Using digital solutions and technologies to strengthen their services, performance and sustainability in order to support the SDGs,

• Promoting the development of sustainable and green digital ecosystems,

• Supporting the development of digital PPP and infrastructure projects (for example, telemedicine and other digital public services)
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• Supporting the progress of digital transformation,

• Using green and sustainable PPP procurement practices,

• Promoting green transformation

Kind regards,
Elazığ Chamber of Commerce and Industry