16 December 2024
An interview with Afrodisio Miguel Alcalde Domínguez, Manager of the Agricultural Division, Unicaja, Salamanca to find out more about how this instrument helped support farmers and agri-businesses in Spain.
16 December 2024
A conversation with Aleksejs Kaņējevs, ALTUM, on the energy efficiency programmes for multi-apartment buildings in Latvia.
16 December 2024
At a time when affordable housing has become a critical issue across Europe, an innovative ERDF-backed financial instrument in Slovakia is making a real difference.
16 December 2024
Nestled in the scenic Pomorskie Voivodeship on Poland’s Baltic coast, a pioneering regional public financial institution has been successfully promoting investments in renewable energy sources (RES). The history of Pomorski Fundusz Pożyczkowy (PFP, Pomorskie Loan Fund) dates back to 2004, the year Poland joined the EU.
16 December 2024
The EUR 60 million loan agreement between Banca Etica and the EIB, signed on 1 July 2024, focuses on refugee inclusion as one of three priority areas, alongside gender equality and development in southern Italy.
24 September 2024
Thanks to the Alter’NA EAFRD guarantee instrument, Héloïse Brunel and her husband Olivier were able to set up as first-generation farmers, after professional retraining.
24 September 2024
The European Social Fund (ESF) powered risk-sharing microfinance facility enabled Yanina Taneva, founder of Ideas Factory, to deliver impactful projects in Bulgaria’s poorest regions. The Sofia-based association is driving community-led social changes in places where they are scarce – across generations, in cities and remote villages, and for individuals and municipal authorities.
23 September 2024
Building on the success of a financial instrument created for a 2007-2013 pilot, the Polish National Fund for Social Entrepreneurship (NFSE) – set up in the 2014-2020 period with €37 million – is helping to protect hundreds of social economy enterprises all over the country. RAZEM (meaning “together” in Polish), an association that supports 200 children and young people with mental and physical disabilities, was fortunate enough to be able to rely on the fund’s support at a difficult time.
23 September 2024
At the flagship FI Campus 2024 held in Brussels this June, experts shared useful advice and knowledge about financial instruments under the European Maritime and Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF).
14 June 2024
Stay Fit Gym – an enterprise promoting physical training, mental health and sustainability in Romania, received support and funding from Morphosis Capital, under an ERDF financial instrument.
The ESF powered Risk-Sharing Micro-Finance Facility invests in social entrepreneurship to address the needs of vulnerable groups. Promoted by FMFIB, Bulgaria's Fund Manager of Financial Instruments, and implemented by SIS Credit and Mikrofond, this financial instrument has supported the creation of over 1 500 jobs in Bulgaria.
SIH joined forces with Slovenská sporiteľňa to address the lack of affordable and social housing in Slovakia, leveraging public resources to make more than 350 rental apartments available for over 600 people across the country.