EIB-Universities Research Action

The European Investment Bank channels most of its institutional relations with Universities through an EIB-Universities Research Action consisting of three different programmes.

• EIBURS, the EIB University Research Sponsorship Programme, which provides grants to EU University Research Centres working on research topics and themes of major interest to the Bank.
• STAREBEI, STAges de REcherche BEI, a programme for financing young researchers working on joint EIB-University projects.
• EIB University Networks, a sponsoring mechanism for university networks, focused on areas of interest to the EIB.

The EIB may also award small grants, to support specific activities of Universities that have a clear EU-wide interest, through the fund managed by the Subsidies Committee.

There is also a programme for short-term traineeships at the EIB offering a small number of students in their final years of University the possibility to discover how a EU institution operates.