Almost 100 participants took part in the fi-compass Thematic Workshop on social innovation and social entrepreneurship, which took place in Lisbon on 10 September 2019. This was the latest event under the European Social Fund (ESF) workstream of the fi-compass advisory platform.
Jonathan Denness, who became the Head of the Financial Instruments and International Financial Institutions Relations Unit at the Commission’s Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO) in January 2019, spoke to fi-compass about the importance of financial instruments in complementing traditional Cohesion Policy delivery modes.
Why financial instruments and why use them in your Member State/region?
A new video case study has been published on the fi-compass website that features the financial instrument to support Research, Development and Innovation set up by the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research (MIUR). This video includes contributions from the managing authority, financial intermediaries and final recipients describing the positive impact of investments by the MIUR financial instrument.
The fi-compass Multi-region assistance (MRA) project Revolving Instruments for Cities in Europe (RICE) is in the focus of an article in the summer 2019 edition of DG REGIO’s Panorama Magazine.
This ‘fi-compass Showcase 2019’ submission is an English language summary of the second edition of the ‘Report on Financial Instruments co-financed by the European Structural and Investment Funds’, prepared by the Agency for Territorial Cohesion in Italy. The report addresses the policy measures in Italy, in the form of loans, guarantees and equity capital investments, envisaged by the Operational Programmes for implementing the cohesion policy. It describes market dynamics, the programming, implementing and system activities for financial instruments.
This ‘fi-compass Showcase 2019’ submission is an English language summary of the second edition of the ‘Report on Financial Instruments co-financed by the European Structural and Investment Funds’, prepared by the Agency for Territorial Cohesion in Italy. The report addresses the policy measures in Italy, in the form of loans, guarantees and equity capital investments, envisaged by the Operational Programmes for implementing the cohesion policy. It describes market dynamics, the programming, implementing and system activities for financial instruments.
This ‘fi-compass Showcase 2019’ submission is a video story about Neurovalens, a small company from Northern Ireland producing wearable technology. Their product called Modius is a second generation wearable technology combining neuroscience and technology to solve health issues. Dr Jason McKeown, Co-founder and CEO of Neurovalens discusses in the video how Invest NI supported his business through the ‘Access to Finance’ financial instrument to grow.
This ‘fi-compass Showcase 2019’ submission is a video story about Neurovalens, a small company from Northern Ireland producing wearable technology. Their product called Modius is a second generation wearable technology combining neuroscience and technology to solve health issues. Dr Jason McKeown, Co-founder and CEO of Neurovalens discusses in the video how Invest NI supported his business through the ‘Access to Finance’ financial instrument to grow.
