Summary sheet
- Services - Information and communication
The project will support the company's ongoing research and development (R&D) activities, which are essential to enhance the promoter's offerings for the healthcare industry. The investment programme, to be implemented between 2025 and 2028, will support the digitalisation of the healthcare industry in Italy, France and beyond.
The project's investment will focus on software development and operations (DevOps) activities driving a portfolio of digital transformation sub-projects designed to enhance the entire healthcare service sector.
The project comprises the promoter's investments in software development for clients in the healthcare sector. The project will support the digital transformation of the healthcare industry in Italy and other countries of operation, including France. The promoter's R&D collaborations with universities, research institutes, and customers contribute to knowledge diffusion and positive spillover effects. The investments in digital technologies are fully aligned with EU policy objectives (Digital Europe Programme, Europe's Digital Decade: digital targets for 2030) and strengthen the competitiveness of the sector while contributing to the Bank's Policy objective "Innovation, Digital and Human Capital". A part of the project will also contribute to the transversal "Economic and Social Cohesion" and the "Security and Defence" PPGs.
EIB's financing provides a strong signalling effect on the quality of the project (facilitating other financiers) and addresses market failures associated with R&D activities, including imperfect competition, information asymmetries, and incomplete markets for innovative technologies.
The project activities neither fall under the Annexes I nor II of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) EU Directive 2011/92/EU (amended by the Directive 2014/52/EU), therefore the project is not subject to an EIA procedure.
The promoter is a private company not operating in the utilities sector and not having the status of a contracting entity, thus not being subject to EU rules on public procurement. However, if during the project appraisal, the EIB were to conclude that the promoter is subject to EU public procurement legislation, then the European Commission will be duly informed, which would require the promoter to apply those rules.
Arranger: Banca Finint S.p.A.