Our Public Policy Goals
In our efforts to support EU priorities, we have centred our activity around newly defined Public Policy Goals, which consist of four key pillars.
Investments in the growth and competitiveness of European businesses constitute a major part of our efforts. In addition, we channel growth finance in the direction of ambitious start-ups to ensure they can scale their business despite a multitude of challenges.
We remain committed to supporting the game-changers who are working on innovative solutions to climate change and the green energy transition as well as those investing in existing clean technologies, resource, and energy efficiency.

From artificial intelligence and space to industrial technologies and cybersecurity, we foster innovative entrepreneurs and small businesses at the earliest stages of their development, supporting disruptive technologies that will shape the digital world of tomorrow.
Skills, education, and training are drivers of growth, competitiveness, and social convergence, which is why we invest in up-skilling and re-skilling, the cultural and creative industries, and social impact entrepreneurs.
We’re the European Investment Fund.
As part of the European Investment Bank (EIB) Group, we design and deploy financial instruments, which enable banks, funds and other financial intermediaries to better serve SMEs.
As a result, we attract more private capital into the SME space, we kick-start new financing markets and ecosystems, and ultimately make more financing available to SMEs across the EU and associated countries.
We manage resources on behalf of the EIB, the European Commission (EC), national and regional authorities and other third parties.
The EIF is a public-private partnership, whose tripartite shareholding structure includes the EIB, the EU represented by the European Commission and various public and private financial institutions.
of transactions signed across the EU and associated countries in 2023