The EIB Group and the College of Europe signed a Memorandum of Understanding in 2015 in order to reinforce and extend collaboration between the two institutions.

The agreement encourages teaching at the College of Europe by EIB staff in areas of competence of the EIB (investment projects and their financing, European policies, economics, law or global issues..) as well as training activities mutually beneficial to College of Europe students and to EIB staff. An EIB seminar on Infrastructure project management is taught yearly at the College by EIB staff and selected students from the College regularly visit the EIB in Luxembourg or attend the EIB Summer School.

An EIB course also started in March 2021 for students of College of Europe Natolin.

Joint events to exchange knowledge and expertise and to stimulate discussion on areas of interest are also organised. EIB Vice-President Jonathan Taylor and EIF Head of Research Helmut Kraemer-Eis spoke at the Seventh Bruges European Business Conference, on Capital Markets Union and Financing of SMEs (March 2016) and in January 2017 and November 2022, the College Department of European Economic Studies organised workshops about the Investment Plan for Europe and the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) and Scarring, hysteresis and investment in Europe.

The College of Europe is the world’s first university institute of postgraduate studies and training in European affairs with a campus in Bruges, Belgium and in Natolin, Poland. It was founded in 1949 by leading European figures, such as Salvador de Madariaga, Winston Churchill, Paul-Henri Spaak and Alcide De Gasperi, in the wake of the Hague Congress of 1948.