24 September 2024
Thanks to the Alter’NA EAFRD guarantee instrument, Héloïse Brunel and her husband Olivier were able to set up as first-generation farmers, after professional retraining.
24 September 2024
The European Social Fund (ESF) powered risk-sharing microfinance facility enabled Yanina Taneva, founder of Ideas Factory, to deliver impactful projects in Bulgaria’s poorest regions. The Sofia-based association is driving community-led social changes in places where they are scarce – across generations, in cities and remote villages, and for individuals and municipal authorities.
23 September 2024
Building on the success of a financial instrument created for a 2007-2013 pilot, the Polish National Fund for Social Entrepreneurship (NFSE) – set up in the 2014-2020 period with €37 million – is helping to protect hundreds of social economy enterprises all over the country. RAZEM (meaning “together” in Polish), an association that supports 200 children and young people with mental and physical disabilities, was fortunate enough to be able to rely on the fund’s support at a difficult time.
23 September 2024
At the flagship FI Campus 2024 held in Brussels this June, experts shared useful advice and knowledge about financial instruments under the European Maritime and Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF).
14 June 2024
Stay Fit Gym – an enterprise promoting physical training, mental health and sustainability in Romania, received support and funding from Morphosis Capital, under an ERDF financial instrument.
The ESF powered Risk-Sharing Micro-Finance Facility invests in social entrepreneurship to address the needs of vulnerable groups. Promoted by FMFIB, Bulgaria's Fund Manager of Financial Instruments, and implemented by SIS Credit and Mikrofond, this financial instrument has supported the creation of over 1 500 jobs in Bulgaria.
SIH joined forces with Slovenská sporiteľňa to address the lack of affordable and social housing in Slovakia, leveraging public resources to make more than 350 rental apartments available for over 600 people across the country.
ERDF financial instruments boost the competitiveness of Italian enterprises, bolstering their resilience and growth.
31 May 2024
Thanks to the EERE Malta financial instrument powered by ERDF resources, Fonicom has successfully managed to reduce its energy consumption, thereby minimising its environmental footprint.