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Education

Education projects financed by the EIB cover a wide range of investments, developing education at all levels across the European Union.

Investments include:

  • construction and maintenance of secondary school facilities in less advanted areas
  • development of new ICT techniques such as e-learning, emcompassing the provision of broadband infrastructure and related hardware, helpdesk services, teacher training etc
  • design, construction, financing and facilities management of vocational third-level education centres
  • student loan facilities

The UK is one of the countries that has attracted most of the Bank's financing in education. Since 1997, the EIB has signed education projects for almost EUR 1 billion in the UK. Lending to ten of these projects was advanced under a private-public partnership financing scheme. Five were financed using the Structured Finance Facility.