The InvestEU programme has been supporting sustainable investment, innovation, and job creation in Europe since its launch in March 2022. The EIB Group is one of InvestEU’s key implementing partners alongside other international and national counterparts.
By helping to mobilise private investments in addition to public funding, InvestEU has been at the core of channelling long-term funding to the EU’s top policy priorities, notably innovation and digitalisation, growth and competitiveness, sustainability and green transformation, as well as social impact, skills and human capital.
To achieve this, it relies on a three-pillar structure comprising the InvestEU Fund, the InvestEU Advisory Hub, and the InvestEU Portal. The InvestEU Fund relies on an EU budgetary guarantee of €26.2 billion, which programme partners are able to leverage in order to maximise InvestEU’s impact. These resources are fuelling, among others, the EIF’s debt financing and equity investments for European SMEs, individuals, and infrastructure projects. InvestEU’s overall target is to trigger €372 billion in investments by 2027.
With the backing of €14.8 billion of InvestEU Fund resources (combined from the main EU and the Member State compartments), and with the addition of EIF’s own resources that prove our alignment of interest, we are currently deploying €28.8 billion in financing solutions – expected to mobilise €190 million in investments at the level of final beneficiaries.
Of these around €23 billion have already been signed – of which around 40% in equity and 60% in debt financing agreements. These results make us confident in the overall success of our InvestEU implementation progress. Our support reaches SMEs, individuals, households, and infrastructure projects across all EU Member States.
As an InvestEU Implementing Partner, we have developed six portfolio guarantee products to improve access to debt finance in the following policy areas: SME Competitiveness, Sustainability, Innovation and Digitalisation, Cultural and Creative Sectors, Microfinance and Social Entrepreneurship, Skills and Education.
The initiative aims to reduce financial risks thanks to the EIF’s support, encourage EU businesses to increase exports to Ukraine and revitalise trade, strengthen ties with the EU, and contribute to Ukraine’s economic recovery.
We’re deploying equity investments across five Thematic Strategies to deepen and develop the market, address Horizontal Priorities and to attract private investment. These equity instruments support venture capital, private equity and private credit funds.
The Defence Equity Facility - part of the EIB Group’s strategic priority to support the EU’s security and defence objectives - supports venture capital and private equity funds that are investing in European companies developing innovative defence technologies with a ‘dual-use’ potential.
The InvestEU Climate and Infrastructure funds support high priority thematic strategies, including a primary focus on climate action and environmental sustainability. The underlying investments are expected to be a substantial contributor to the ambitious targets set out in the European Green Deal.
The InvestEU Capacity Building Investment Product aims to support the EU's emerging microfinance and social entrepreneurship and skills and education ecosystems, by building up the institutional capacity of financial intermediaries that have not yet reached sustainability or that are in need of risk capital to sustain their growth and development in these areas.
The InvestEU programme also provides for an opportunity to Member States to add funds to the EU guarantee’s provisioning by voluntarily channelling a part of their Cohesion Policy Funds or of their RRF funds to the Member States compartment for each policy area.