The third edition of the annual fi-compass flagship event, ‘FI Campus’, organised by the European Commission (DG REGIO, DG EMPL, DG AGRI and DG MARE) in partnership with the European Investment Bank (EIB), took place in Brussels on 4-5 December 2019. The conference, which had the theme ‘Looking ahead to 2021 and beyond’, attracted over 400 participants from managing authorities, financial intermediaries and other stakeholders from 26 Member States.
Thematic workshop on social innovation and entrepreneurship
The event gathered almost 100 experts from Portugal and across Europe, letting them exchange and discuss the opportunities and challenges of setting up financial instruments aimed at delivering measurable social impacts
5th annual EU conference on EAFRD financial instruments for agriculture and rural development in 2014-2020
The conference attracted over 200 participants, who exchanged experience on the EAFRD supported financial instruments in developing agricultural and agri-food economies
Implementation of financial instruments in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia
This fi-compass workshop brought together managing authorities and other stakeholders involved in ESIF financial instruments in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia to discuss how such instruments can be deployed in a number of specific areas and sectors
ESF Financial Instruments for Social Impact: The Portuguese Social Innovation Initiative
This internal workshop, dedicated to European Commission staff, was aimed at raising awareness about the potential for financial instruments co-financed by the ESF to support initiatives and enterprises with measurable social impact, thus enabling the participants to pass-on the workshop’s takeaways to managing authorities across the EU and to the ESF community at large