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Backing higher education across Europe

Investment in higher education and research is a key ingredient for growth in Europe’s knowledge economy. We are working across Europe to help maintain investment in skills. For example, EIB loans are supporting the Hungarian student loan scheme, helping to upgrade research facilities in Irish universities and backing the establishment of research centres in Spain.
 

Jean-Claude Trichet praises EIB role

According to Jean-Claude Trichet, the former president of the European Central Bank, the EIB is playing an “important” role helping the European economy adapt to new realities. He also underlined the support we have given small and medium sized businesses during and since the crisis.
 

The EIB receives award for its work in Africa

The EIB received the award for Infrastructure Bank of the Year in Africa from Infrastructure Investor. The magazine’s readers recognised the Bank’s role in the financing of Morocco’s Ouarzazate solar complex, one of the region’s biggest solar project. The EIB is lending EUR 100m out of the EUR 345m European blending contribution to the project (EIB, Germany’s KFW, France’s AFD and Neighbourhood Investment Facility) with the EIB as lead institution. The cost of the project is approximately EUR 650m.

 

EIB-IDB: a decade of cooperation

We have been working with the Interamerican Development Bank for ten years. Together, we have contributed to sound, sustainable projects worth USD 5.2bn in Latin America and the Caribbean. For example, we are helping to fund the expansion of the Panama Canal and this in accordance with strict environmental and social standards. To find out more please see this video.

 

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