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InvestEU Fund

The InvestEU Fund is a market-based and demand-driven instrument, with a strong emphasis on EU policy priorities. It supports the following 4 Policy Windows:

• Sustainable infrastructure

Financing projects in sustainable energy, digital connectivity, transport, the circular economy, water, waste, other environment infrastructure and more.

• Research, innovation and digitalisation

Financing projects in research and innovation, taking research results to the market, digitisation of industry, scaling up larger innovative companies, artificial intelligence and more.

• Small and medium-sized companies

Facilitating access to finance for small and medium-sized companies (SMEs), small mid-cap companies. This includes capital support for SMEs that were negatively affected by the Covid-19 crisis

• Social investment and skills

Financing projects in skills, education, training, social housing, schools, universities, hospitals, social innovation, healthcare, long-term care and accessibility, microfinance, social enterprise, integration of migrants, refugees and vulnerable people, and more

EIB Group and other InvestEU implementing partners provide direct and intermediated financing solutions for both private and public projects promoters (‘final recipients’). Project promoters should apply directly to implementing partners who will offer tailor-made financing solutions based on the financial products supported by the EU guarantee. Financial intermediaries should also consult the offering of implementing partners active in their regions proposing relevant products: it is up to them to select financial intermediaries through procedures such as calls for expressions of interest - eligible InvestEU Implementing Partners.

Small mid-caps, SMEs and social or micro-enterprises should apply to their local commercial or public banks whose financial products are covered by the EU guarantee in their country or region. The local intermediary will inform them if a particular financing programme is covered by the InvestEU Fund - access to finance.

InvestEU "Just Transition" scheme

InvestEU "Just Transition" scheme is part of the Just Transition Mechanism that will provide a budgetary guarantee under the InvestEU programme across the four policy windows and an InvestEU Advisory Hub that will act as a central entry point for advisory support requests.

EU countries can also use InvestEU as a tool to implement their recovery and resilience plans under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF).

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List of projects (EFSI 2014-2020)

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