Are you a microfinance institution? Are you a social enterprise finance provider, an incubator or a business accelerator offering support to social enterprises? Are you looking to improve your capacity to make the most of InvestEU Fund resources and enhance the access to finance of micro and social enterprises?
The EIB is providing targeted capacity building services for microfinance and social enterprise finance providers in the form of tailored training, workshops, peer-to-peer exchanges and study visits on a wide range of topics related to financing micro and social enterprises. It also provides rating, assessment and evaluation services to such providers.
Our services
- Training, coaching and mentoring schemes tailored to the needs of microfinance/social enterprise finance institutions
- Investment readiness training
- Training modules and workshops on the European Code of Good Conduct for Microcredit Provision (“Code”)
- Advisory support on Code compliance and evaluation on the Code implementation
- Peer-to-peer training and study visits to learn from experiences and practices of other microfinance/social enterprise finance providers
- Institutional assessments and ratings
Sectors covered
Microfinance and social enterprise finance.
Who benefits
Microfinance institutions and social enterprise finance providers, including banks, investment funds, fund-of-funds, co-investment schemes, impact investors and social enterprise support organisations, such as incubators and accelerators.
Request support
The InvestEU Advisory Hub support is available via a central entry point on the European Commission’s website.
While addressing your advisory request, you can indicate the EIB as the provider of services for your project.
More information on the EIB advisory services under InvestEU
To find out more about the services offered by the EIB under the InvestEU Advisory Hub send an email to eib-advisory@eib.org.