Companies, SMEs and association

The Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) supports the development of high performing, sustainable and efficiently interconnected trans-European networks in the fields of transport, energy and digital services.

In addition to grants, the CEF offers financial support to projects through innovative financial instruments such as guarantees and project bonds. These instruments create significant leverage in their use of the EU budget and act as a catalyst to attract further funding from the private sector and other public sector actors.

CEF Energy

The Just Transition Mechanism (JTM) is a key tool to ensure that the transition towards a climate-neutral economy happens in a fair way, leaving no one behind. The Just Transition Fund (JTF) is one of its three pillars (together with the InvestEU Just Transition Scheme and the Public Sector Loan Facility). As the new instrument of the Cohesion policy supports the territories most affected by the transition towards climate neutrality to avoid regional inequalities.

The European Social Fund Plus (ESF+), with a budget of almost € 99.3 billion for the period 2021-2027, provides an important contribution to the EU’s employment, social, education and skills policies, including structural reforms in these areas.

The Fund is one of the cornerstones of recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and will help address challenges related to labour participation, education and health systems and increased inequalities.

The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) aims to strengthen economic, social and territorial cohesion in the European Union by correcting imbalances between its regions. In 2021-2027 it will enable investments in a smarter, greener, more connected and more social Europe that is closer to its citizens.

The ERDF will enable investments to make Europe and its regions:

European agricultural fund for rural development (EAFRD) is an instrument of the EU’s common agricultural policy (CAP) that focuses on resolving the particular challenges of rural areas. The government appoints the Managing Authority whose task is to inform potential beneficiaries of the support that is available, the rules that apply and the level of the EU contribution.

The Cohesion Fund provides support to Member States with a gross national income (GNI) per capita below 90% EU-27 average to strengthen the economic, social and territorial cohesion of the EU. The Cohesion Fund supports investments in the field of environment and trans-European networks in the area if transport infrastructure (TEN-T).

It is also possible to use the CF in the form of financial instruments.