Under the framework of the European Commission's Multiannual Programme for Enterprise (MAP), EIF has provided a counter guarantee covering the loan guarantee activities of Malta Enterprise (ME) in Malta. The cooperation will support the establishment of an SME loan guarantee scheme in Malta. Base...
This working paper uses machine learning to identify Cleantech companies in the Orbis database, based on self-declared business descriptions. Identifying Cleantech companies is challenging, as there is no universally accepted definition of what constitutes Cleantech. This novel approach allows t...
Under the framework of the European Commission's Multiannual Programme for Enterprise (MAP), EIF has provided a counter-guarantee covering the guarantee activities of Polfund Fundusz Poręczen Kredytowych S.A. (Polfund) in Poland. The cooperation will benefit Polfund as a young institution with a ...
Under the framework of the European Commission's Multiannual Programme for Enterprise (MAP), EIF has provided a EUR 29m counter guarantee covering the counter-guarantee activities of Fundo de Controgarantia Mutuo (represented by SPGM Sociedade de Investimento, S.A.) in Portugal. Thanks to the MAP...
EIF is pleased to announce that it has recently established a first ever partnership with an intermediary in Turkey, facilitating enhanced access to debt finance for Turkish SMEs. Kredi Garanti Fonu Isletme ve Arastirma A.S. (Credit Guarantee Fund or KGF) will benefit from an EIF counter-guarante...
On 20 February 2004, EIF signed a EUR 5.5m loan guarantee agreement under the framework of the European Commission's "Multiannual Programme for Enterprise (MAP)" with the Slovene Enterprise Fund (SEF). Established in 2000 as a legal successor to the Small Business Development Fund of the Republic...
EIF has signed a EUR 13.6m loan guarantee agreement under the framework of the European Commission's "Multiannual Programme for Enterprise (MAP)" with the Lithuanian limited liability company INVEGA. Established in 2001 and 100% owned by the Lithuanian State, INVEGA 's objective is to support Lit...
Under the Loan Guarantee Facility of the "Multiannual Programme for Enterprise (MAP)", EIF has today signed a EUR 20m agreement with Raiffeisen Bank SA (RB) in Romania, marking the EIF's first agreement with an intermediary in Romania and marking EIF's fifth guarantee deal in an Acceding/Accessio...
Under the framework of the European Commission's Multiannual Programme for SMEs, EIF has signed a commitment to provide a EUR 50m guarantee to Ceskà Sporitelna in the Czech Republic. Under the terms of the agreement, EIF provides a direct guarantee to Ceskà Sporitelna with respect to eligible inv...
After a record year in terms of number and geographic span of agreements signed under the European Commission's Multiannual Programme (MAP) mandate, EIF wraps up its 2004 MAP activity with an important deal in Poland, marking a first ever contract with a Polish intermediary. Under the terms of th...
Under the framework of the European Commission's Multiannual Programme for Enterprise (MAP), EIF has provided a EUR 14.6m guarantee covering the loan guarantee activities of The Credit Guarantee Fund for Small and Very Small Enterprises (TEMPME S.A.) in Greece. Thanks to the MAP agreement, the pr...
EIF has signed an agreement with Bulgaria's Encouragement Bank under the Loan Guarantee window of the European Commission's MAP mandate. EIF's guarantee will cover the credit risk of a portfolio of SME loans originated by Encouragement Bank. Thanks to the MAP support, SMEs will benefit from reduc...
EIF has signed a new agreement under the MAP Loan Guarantee Facility with the Italian credit institution, MCC, which manages the national public guarantee scheme for SMEs in Italy. EIF already had signed an agreement with MCC under the SME Guarantee Facility within the Growth & Employment Ini...
On 16 December 2003, EIF signed an agreement with the Mortgage and Land Bank of Latvia (Hipoteku banka) under the Loan Guarantee window of the European Commission's MAP mandate. EIF's guarantee will cover the credit risk of a portfolio of SME loans originated by the bank, with a particular focus ...
A guarantee from the European Investment Fund enables the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark (EIFO) to aid Danish businesses in the creative and cultural sectors.
The partnership will make available DKK 300 in new lending Danish businesses in the creative and cultural professions with access...
The notice of implementation of the New Multiannual Programme for enterprise and entrepreneurship, in particular SMEs (MAP 2001-2005) , has been published today in the Official Journal of the European Communities. The European Commission and the European Investment Fund (EIF) had signed on 18 Dec...
Reimer BÖGE's (EPP-ED, DE) report on Policy Challenges and Budgetary Means of the enlarged Union 2007 -2013 was accepted on 8th June 2005 by the European Parliament by 426 votes in favour to 140 against and 122 abstentions. The report asks the "Commission to make proposals to accompany the implem...
The paper provides a pan-European assessment of EU credit guarantees to SMEs. Summarising previous research studies, this paper investigates the firm-level economic impact of around one million guaranteed loans under the EU MAP and CIP programmes from 2002 to 2016. These loans represented a total...
Luxembourg, 26 April 2004 - Just as Estonia marks its entry as a Member of the European Union on 1 May, so too is EIF marking its entry into a first ever Estonian guarantee deal. EIF has agreed to provide a EUR 11.1m counter-guarantee under the framework of the European Commission's "Multiannual ...
The European Commission and the European Investment Fund (EIF) signed today in Luxembourg the agreements on the implementation of the Multiannual Programme for enterprise and entrepreneurship, in particular SMEs (MAP2001-2005). The MAP provides the new legal basis for the EU-funded financial inst...
Climate change generates extreme weather events with devastating consequences like wildfires. “Droughts and rising temperatures are causing wildfires that are burning areas the size of India every year. Our Earth has a fever,” says Thomas Gruebler, co-founder and CEO of OroraTech. “18% of global ...
EIF has agreed to provide a EUR 11m counter-guarantee under the framework of the European Commission's "Multiannual Programme for Enterprise (MAP)" with the Romanian financial institution BRD Groupe Société Générale. By entering into this agreement, the second in Romania following the deal signed...
EIF has provided a guarantee under the MAP Micro-credit Facility to the UK organisations, The Prince's Trust and The Prince's Scottish Youth Business Trust. The Micro-credit Facility will support the continuation of the activities by covering 75% of all newly granted micro-loans, and by providing...
Based just outside Ljubljana, Schwarzmann is a company active in the field of steel structures, designing, manufacturing and assembling prefabricated steel-structure business and production facilities since 1993. “We have built more than 2100 buildings and facilities in 25 countries around the wo...
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January 2004
EIF CORPORATE OPERATIONAL PLAN
2004 – 2006
CONTENTS
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The inspiration behind indoo.rs came from a long and stressful airport layover that fellow students Bernd Gruber and Markus Krainz experienced. Running into unexpected difficulties in navigating the building and locating the various amenities, they realized the potential benefits of an innovative...
The European Investment Fund (EIF), Banque Populaire and the Federation Nationale des SOCAMA (SOCAMA) have signed the first loan guarantee agreement in France under the EU programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (COSME). The COSME agreement will pro...
Soria is one of the least densely populated areas in Spain. With agriculture being its most prominent economic sector, villages can feel almost uninhabited and abandoned. It’s not where you’d expect technological entrepreneurship to thrive, but there are some innovative entrepreneurs, like David ...
The EIF and Bank BPH S.A. (BPH) have signed a guarantee agreement under the Competitiveness and Innovation Frame work Programme (CIP) helping to provide enhanced access to finance for Small and Medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Poland. Businesses in Poland can now access over 700 million zlotys...
Raiffeisenbank (Bulgaria) EAD is the first private-owned Bulgarian Bank to sign a Portfolio Guarantee issued by the European Investment Fund (EIF) under the European Union's (EU) Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) for Bulgaria. The Portfolio Guarantee amounts to EUR 72 mln. ...
Federfidi Lombarda is a regional guarantee institution which provides guarantees benefiting SMEs in the artisan and industrial sectors in Lombardy, through partner mutual guarantee institutions which share risk with banks and also obtain favourable borrowing conditions for businesses. During thi...
Drones can see almost like humans, capturing and analysing visual information from different sources. They can avoid obstacles in real time, navigate a map and hover over a fixed position without the need for a GPS signal. In today’s world of fast paced technology developments, we rarely take the...
There’s little doubt that the world today is a smaller place than it used to be. Travelling, particularly in Europe, is becoming easier and easier. But one thing most travellers can agree on is the added value of having a local show you around. It immediately does away with logistical complicatio...
On 21st February, EIF signed a mandate with the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI: Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial ), a public business entity of the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce. The mandate, known as 'Neotec', is the culmination of ...
EIF Annual General Meeting 2007
Intervention by
Heinz Zourek
Director-General,
DG Enterprise and Industry, European Commission
• Introduction
Good afternoon everyone. It’s a great pleasure for me to address the General Meeting of the
Fund as we draw to a close what has been anothe...
Annual General Meeting – 07/05/2007
European Investment Fund
Annual General Meeting 2007
Activity Report
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The European Investment Fund and Kredi Garanti Fonu (KGF) have signed a EUR 45 million guarantee agreement under the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) helping to provide enhanced access to finance for Turkish businesses. SMEs in Turkey could now have access to over EUR 100 ...
The EIF and Polfund (Fundusz Poreczen Kredytowych S.A.) have signed a counter-guarantee agreement under the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) helping to provide improved terms and increased volumes of guarantees offered by Polfund to support small and medium sized enterpr...
Alleanza di Garanzia is a specially-created joint venture of regional guarantee institutions, operating in Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto, Emilia Romagna and Tuscany. In addition to financing SMEs' business development, this guarantee deal also features new products for the SME market which aim to fo...
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and Latvijas Hipoteku un zemes banka (State JSC "Mortgage and Land Bank of Latvia"), have signed a guarantee agreement under the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) providing enhanced access to finance for small and medium sized businesses...
The EIF and Cultura Sparebank have signed a guarantee agreement under the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) helping to provide enhanced access to finance for micro businesses in Norway. Micro enterprises in Norway could now benefit from micro-loans in excess of NOK 12 m (...
The European Investment Fund has just concluded three guarantee operations, totalling EUR 50 million, under the SME Guarantee Facility's special Window for Micro-credit . These are the first operations signed under this new Scheme, which is part of the Community-funded Multi-annual Programme for ...
“When we started in 2012, nobody believed that this sort of thing could be done. So we kept a low profile – also to avoid being ridiculed, you know what I mean?!” says Peter Platzer, CEO of Spire Global. Spire is a data and analytics company that collects data from space to solve problems on eart...
2001 figures for EIF show an outstanding increase in comparison to the previous year. A total amount of EUR 1.75 billion was signed in 2001 in respect of 39 guarantee operations and 57 investments in venture capital funds (EUR 958 million and EUR 800.1 million respectively). This figure represent...
EUROPEAN INVESTMENT FUND December 2007
EIF
CORPORATE OPERATIONAL PLAN
2008-2010
1. INTRODUCTION
Reflecting EIF's dual statutory objectives of contributing to the pursuit of Community
objectives and generating an ap...
The new venture capital fund Revent Venture invests in startups that address environmental and societal challenges.
The EIF provides €20 million, backed largely by the European Recovery Programme.
The European Investment Fund (EIF) has committed €20 million to the new Berlin-based Revent Vent...
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EIF and First-Step Microfinance , have signed a guarantee agreement under the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) helping to provide enhanced access to finance for micro businesses in Ireland. Micro enterprises in Ireland could now have access to over 3 million euros of addit...
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EIB lending in the European Union’s poorer regions helped reduce the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2021 the EIB Group provided €36.6 billion of finance to EU cohesion regions, representing 46.8% of the Group’s total financing volumes in 2021.
Climate and cohesion goals are inte...
When the Rhine feeds its tributaries The Düssel curves around the village of Gruiten as it meanders through the valley where the first specimen of Neanderthal man was excavated. Before it reaches the Rhine only 17 kilometres away, the river splits into four different streams. A map of these final...
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EIF CORPORATE OPERATIONAL PLAN 2009-2011
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European Investment Fund
Fund
Investment
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annual report 2001
2001 ACTIVITIES
Venture capital: EUR 800 million
invested in 57 venture capital funds
Guarantees: EUR 958 million
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The EIF is a European institution, majority owned subsidiary of the EIB, whose main
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sized Enterprises (SMEs). It interve...
Digitalisation of SMEs in Romania
An assessment of the level of digitalisation of SMEs
in Romania and recommendations to increase their
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The EIF is a European institution with a specific remit to support the creation,
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ANNUAL ACTIVITY REPORT OF THE AUDIT BOARD
TO THE GENERAL SHAREHOLDERS’ ANNUAL MEETING
FOR THE 2005 FINANCIAL YEAR
1 May 2006 – European Investment Fund
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