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Sixth edition of the Certificate of Inclusive Finance
The Institute is supporting the sixth edition of Certificate in Law and Regulation of Inclusive Finance organised by the University of Luxembourg’s Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance and ADA from 17 to 27 January 2022. Twenty one participants from 14 countries...
Applications to the Social Innovation Tournament 2022 are open!
Don’t miss your chance to apply with your promising idea or project that is ready to be launched or scaled up. Let the SIT journey begin! The 15 finalists will compete for a first prize of €75 000 and a second prize of €30 000 in both the General and Special...
New SIT Alumni 2021 stories
A German-Polish venture finds sunscreen that is safe for humans and the environment and an Italian company reuses tonnes of pulp waste to make fabric that won’t hurt the environment — discover two new stories from our SIT Alumni 2021. More soon
SIT Alumni highlighted on International Migrants Day
18 December is International Migrants Day. Approximately 281 million people were international migrants in 2020 representing 3.6% of the global population. Migrants contribute to society with their knowledge, networks and skills — building stronger, more resilient...
Predicting cashflow patterns with AI
Can Artificial Intelligence help in predicting cash flow timing and patterns for the EIB ? Researchers from the University of Zagreb’s Laboratory for financial and risks analytics tried to answer this question in the first STAREBEI research grant with a Croatian university. Results were presented in December 2021.
Twelve sites selected for 7 Most Endangered 2022
Twelve endangered heritage sites from nine European countries have been shortlisted by an advisory panel for the 7 Most Endangered programme 2022 run by Europa Nostra and the EIB Institute and supported by Creative Europe. Ranging from one of the most authentic polder...
Goethe University Frankfurt wins European Ethics Bowl
A team from Goethe University Frankfurt won the European Ethics Bowl 2021, a competition to raise awareness of the relevance and complexity of current ethical issues in the European context. The Final was held on 9 December, designated by the UN since 2003 as...
Find out more about the SIT 2021 finalists
Changing the way farmers water their fields, simplifying and improving the treatment of critical patients in intensive care, reducing electricity production greenhouse gas and a solution to make angiography safer — read the incredible stories of the SIT 2021 finalists...
2021 SIT finalist Wasser 3.0 gets German award
Wasser 3.0, one of the 15 SIT 2021 finalists, recently received a “green founders” prize at the German Next Economy Award competition organised by Stiftung Deutscher Nachhaltigkeitspreis (German Sustainability Award Foundation) in cooperation with Deutscher Industrie-...
Europa Nostra co-chairs Climate Heritage Network for Europe
Europa Nostra, the Institute’s partner in the 7 Most Endangered programme, recently became the co-chair of the Climate Heritage Network (CHN) for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. The announcement took place during the CHN 2021 General Assembly held...
A cultural response to the climate crisis
How can visual artists bring a cultural response to the climate crisis? On 19 November 2021, in Madrid, the International Association of Corporate Collections of Contemporary Art (IACCCA) organised a symposium Art in the Time of Ecological Disruption IACCA members,...
Cultural heritage green paper in French and Spanish
Putting Europe’s shared heritage at the heart of the European Green Deal is the goal of the European Cultural Heritage Green Paper now available in French and in Spanish. The Institute supported the Green Paper launched by Europa Nostra and ICOMOS on 22 March 2021...
Disability awareness: SIT Alumni take up the challenge
To mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on 3 December, the EIB Institute is proud o highlight the achievements of Social Innovation Tournament (SIT) Alumni to improve the well-being and daily lives of people living with disabilities. Helping...
Haiti earthquake relief
The EIB, through the EIB Institute, donated €250 000 to Save the Children and Malteser International, two NGOs operating in Haiti, to help alleviate the consequences of the earthquake and provide some relief to the population. The most recent earthquake struck...
EIBURS call for proposals now over
The call for proposals for new EIBURS research grants is now over. Universities and research centres had until 15 Novemberl to submit their proposals. The two calls were The future of schooling: harnessing the potential of digital education technology, and The...
UNU-MERIT Maastricht wins EIBURS 2021-2024
United Nations University (UNU-MERIT) Maastricht has been selected for an EIBURS research grant on “Impact of gender mainstreaming in infrastructure projects – Evidence from a water project in Madagascar”. The research will be based on the JIRAMA III project near...
SIT Alumni showcased at EVPA conference 2021
Eight SIT Alumni pitched their innovative solutions to investors during the Investors for Impact forum organised in Porto from 15 to 17 November as part of the European Venture Philanthropy Association (EVPA) Impact Month. From an app to fight violence against women...
New research contract with EUI
The Institute has signed a new research contract for young researchers (STAREBEI) with the European University Institute in Florence on “The European Investment Bank at the origins of a European environmental policy”. This is the 60th such contract since the programme...
Financing regenerative forests
How should financial instruments be designed to promote the regenerative capacity of forests was the topic of a STAREBEI research grant which results were presented in October 2021 at the EIB by Eveline Waigand, from the University of Luxembourg.
First Sciences Po chair conference
On November 29, from 15:00 to 17:30 PM, the Sciences Po European Chair for Sustainable Development and Climate Transition, supported by the EIB through the EIB Institute, is organizing its first conference on the theme “How to organize trade-offs to conserve...