European Investment Bank

Increased lending
for
growth and jobs

The EIB gives an exceptional response for exceptional times in the on-going financial and economic crisis in the EU. The EIB Group will significantly step up its lending activities for the 2013 to 2015 period to support the recovery of EU growth.

European Investment Bank

EIB: sustainable growth and jobs
This short film explains how the European Investment Bank generates sustainable growth and employment across the European Union and beyond.
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What is the European Investment Bank?
This leaflet explains clearly the role of the EIB, its remits, activities and operating methods.
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Helping a Baltic Sea wind-farm power 340,000 German homes
Germany has ambitious plans to boost green-electricity production. To help, we are funding major off-shore wind farms in the Baltic Sea.
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The EIB: who benefits?
See the positive impact our financing has on people’s quality of life, both inside and outside the EU.
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The EIB, a responsible bank
A brief introduction on EIB’s corporate responsibility.
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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.

European Investment Bank

European Investment Bank

EIB: sustainable growth and jobs

What is the European Investment Bank?

Helping a Baltic Sea wind-farm power 340,000 German homes

The EIB: who benefits?

The EIB, a responsible bank

Backing higher education across Europe

Jean-Claude Trichet praises EIB role

The EIB receives award for its work in Africa

EIB-IDB: a decade of cooperation

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