Our Mission is to further the objectives of the European Union by making long-term finance available for sound investment.
The EIB Group promotes Corporate Responsibility through its mission and activities in the service of the European Union, through the way it implements these and through its internal management.
The EIB attaches great importance to engaging with civil society and building cooperative relations with its representatives.
Since 1997, the EIB has been deploying throughout the European Union a venture capital facility designed to strengthen the equity base of high-technology SMEs and those with strong growth potential.
Operations under this heading encompass financing for:
They are being mounted in close cooperation with the banking and financial communities in the Member States.
On 7 December 2000, the EIB and the European Investment Fund (EIF) signed a Master Agreement strengthening the relations between the two institutions in general and streamlining the type of operations offered by each institution (see EIB Group).
An important point of this agreement concerns the transfer of the management of all existing EIB risk capital investments to the EIF.
The EIF will be the only point of contact for all venture capital and SME portfolio guarantee transactions within the EIB group. Consult www.eif.org to find the list of intermediaries.
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