LEA _D2.3 Followers and Procurers Network LEA – N analysis and strategy

This document is a mid-term report ( M12) on the progress of how to create a strong European buyers network in education based upon LEA task 2.4 and to fulfill the objective of gathering a criticial mass of procurers.  The buyers network will be named the LEA – Network or  in brief LEA – N. 

Critical mass of procurers refers to the size the buyers network needs to reach in order to efficiently and competitively demonstrate that innovation procurement can rupture  traditional roles / systems towards innovation and create a positive impact on learning outcomes.  It  is also the size the procurers network should attain in order to sustain efficiency in challenging and steering the market towards its needs and providing simplfied future implementation of PCP / PPI in Education  on an EU level. 

In LEA  no specific targeted amount of members is predefined, however, the critical mass of Member States represented is set to minimum 15 in order to guarantee a European coverage.   A LEA – N strategy was made in the LEA Baseliine ( D2.1)  to divide the creation of the network in two parts:

Creation of LEA Followers strategy M1 - 12

Creation of LEA – Network strategy M 12 – 24 

This report describes  the outcome of the first part and provides a strategy for the second part.  Additionally the report provides a description of identfied and on- going innovation procurement process as Best Practice in Europe outside LEA .