Press secretariat

The western Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk has put new trolleybuses into service as a result of more than €3,6 million in European Union funding, strengthening urban mobility. Ivano-Frankivsk acquired new nine trolleybuses, which started operating in April, through a €3 million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) and a €615,000 EU grant to the Ivano-Frankivsk City Council.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending LINZ AG, the utility company of the Austrian city of the same name, €200 million to integrate energy, water and wastewater networks into a single system that will be greener and more efficient. The project will reduce the carbon footprint of Austria’s third-largest city and improve services for around 400,000 people as well as numerous businesses in the Linz area.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) Group, the European Commission and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) are partnering to support Biovac’s development of Africa’s first end to end multi-vaccine manufacturing facility, in a landmark public private financing effort designed to strengthen the continent’s health security and vaccine self-reliance.