10 years of fi-compass insights - LIVE at FI Campus 2025
10
Dec
2025
Main topics: Celebrating fi-compass’s 10 years, the Showcase winners, favourite fi-compass deliverables, future financial instruments, past achievements and challenges in implementation, and the innovative uses of reflows.
This podcast was recorded live at FI Campus, featuring expert speakers and moderated by Desmond Gardner, Financial Instruments Advisor, European Investment Bank: Guest speakers: Cecilia Gyalog, Head of EU Strategy and International Relations at MFB in Hungary; Inga Beiliūnienė, Head of International Relations at the National Promotional Bank in Lithuania; Iva Petkova, Director of the FLAG Fund and the Sustainable Cities Fund in Bulgaria; and Grzegorz Orawiec, Director in the Ministry of Development Funds and Regional Policy in Poland.
A discussion with Iveta Ivánová, Andrzej Urbanik, and Nathalie Van Neck from DG Regio, hosted by Francisca de Novais e Silva, European Investment Bank.
Main topics: combinations of grants and financial instruments, audit methodology, smart growth and sustainable finance, energy efficiency in housing, and horizontal selection criteria in the implementation of financial instruments.
What to expect at FI Campus 2024; how FIs can help decarbonise our economies, through energy efficiency and renewables; the role of FIs in fostering SME competitiveness and resilience across the EU.
New Audit Methodology for financial instruments in the 2021-2027 programming period
14
Mar
2024
Discover the implications of the European Commission's New Audit Methodology for financial instrument through insightful discussions with experts Dana Greceanu and Iva Međugorac.
Equity instruments under the European Regional Development Fund, the ERDF
23
Feb
2024
A discussion on the fascinating world of equity instruments under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and how they're giving a boost to Europe's most innovative start-ups.
Financing RePowerEU – shared management financial instruments combined with grants
8
Nov
2023
Financing energy efficiency building renovation with shared management financial instruments combined with grants, success stories from Latvia and Lithuania. A discussion with Kristina Vaskelienė, INVEGA, Lithuania and Aleksejs Kaņējevs, ALTUM, Latvia, hosted by Robert Pernetta, Holding Fund Manager, European Investment Bank.
Quasi-equity finance – а new ERDF model financial instrument
4
May
2023
Main topics: Experts from the DG REGIO and IBB Ventures answer your questions about the quasi-equity model financial instrument. A discussion with Sara Dagostini, policy officer at the European Commission’s DG REGIO and Markus Lehmann, finance director at IBB Ventures, hosted by Anna Zurek, from the fi-compass team at EIB.
