Programme: European Investment Bank

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Programme	European Investment Bank
Acronym	EIB
Type of Fund	Financial Instruments
Description of programme "European Investment Bank"	The European Investment Bank aims to promote growth and jobs in innovation and skills, SMEs, climate action and strategic infrastructure across the EU. The EIB supports Europe’s economic recovery by implementing the European Fund for Strategic Investments, part of the Investment Plan for Europe. Outside the EU, the EIB’s activities reflect EU external policy. The EIB is active mainly in the pre-accession countries and eastern and southern neighbours. The EIB also operates in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries, Asia and Latin America, financing local private sector development, social and economic infrastructure and climate action projects.
Link	Link to Programme
Thematic Focus	Employment & Labour Market, Clustering, Development Cooperation, Economic Cooperation, Research & Innovation, Technology Transfer & Exchange, Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, Circular Economy, Sustainability, Natural Resources, Children & Youth, Education & Training, Digitisation, ICT, Telecommunication
EU Macro-Regions	Danube Region, Adriatic and Ionian Region, Alpine Region, Baltic Sea Region
Funding area	EU Member States Andorra Albania / Shqipëria Algeria / الجزائر Armenia / Հայաստան Azerbaijan Belarus / Беларусь Bosnia and Herzegovina Egypt / مِصر‎ Georgia / საქართველო Iceland / Ísland Israel / ישראל / إسرائيل Jordan / الأردن Kosovo Lebanon / لبنان Libya / ليبيا Liechtenstein Moldova Montenegro / Crna Gora/Црна Гора Morocco / المَغرِب North Macedonia / Северна Македонија Norway / Norge Palestine / دولة فلسطين Russia / Россия Serbia / Сpбија Switzerland / Schweiz / Suisse / Svizzera Syria / سوريا Tunisia / تونس Turkey / Türkiye Ukraine / Україна Oukraïna Others
Origin of Applicant	EU Member States Andorra Albania / Shqipëria Algeria / الجزائر Armenia / Հայաստան Azerbaijan Belarus / Беларусь Bosnia and Herzegovina Egypt / مِصر‎ Georgia / საქართველო Iceland / Ísland Israel / ישראל / إسرائيل Jordan / الأردن Kosovo Lebanon / لبنان Libya / ليبيا Liechtenstein Moldova Montenegro / Crna Gora/Црна Гора Morocco / المَغرِب North Macedonia / Северна Македонија Norway / Norge Palestine / دولة فلسطين Russia / Россия Serbia / Сpбија Switzerland / Schweiz / Suisse / Svizzera Syria / سوريا Tunisia / تونس Turkey / Türkiye Ukraine / Україна Oukraïna Others
Project Partner	No
Eligible applicants	Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, SMEs (between 10 and 249 employees), Microenterprises (fewer than 10 employees), Start Up Company, Enterprise (more than 250 employees or not defined)
Applicant details	'Others' refers in this case to several other states in different regions. Please click on the following link for further details: https://www.eib.org/en/projects/regions/index.htm
Type of Funding	Loan, Loans, guarantees and equity
Contact Details	https://www.eib.org/de/infocentre/contact/index.htm

Subprogrammes of European Investment Bank

European Investment Fund

The central mission of the European Investment Fund (EIF) is to to support Europe's small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) by helping them to access finance. To this end, the EIF aims at satisfying existing and future market needs by designing innovative financial products addressed to their partners (banks, guarantee, leasing and microfinance institutions, private equity and venture capital funds, among others), acting as their financial intermediaries. By offering an Integrated Risk Finance Product Range of SME finance to their intermediaries, the EIF complement the products offered by the European Investment Bank (EIB). While the equity instruments aim to improve the availability of risk capital for high-growth and innovative SMEs, the EIF also targets the debt requirements, as many SMEs seek finance through this more traditional route. Therefore the EIF also provides guarantees and credit enhancement through securitisation to improve the lending capacity of their financial intermediaries and thus the availability and terms of debt for beneficiary SMEs.