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Women refugees get a health app
In this new episode of our series about the 15 inspiring finalists of the Social Innovation Tournament 2020, learn how Hera, a smartphone app, enables Syrian refugee women and children in Turkey to access medical services. Hera enables users to carry their medical...
EIB donation finances rare disease research project
Every week in Europe 20 to 40 children are born with a form of rare disease called leukodystrophy that attacks and destroys the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) in children and adults. But research is improving thanks to a € 26 200 donation made in 2018...
Broadband quality and economic development
The relationship between broadband quality and income or unemployment is not straightforward but rather is based on complex mechanisms, according to the results of a STAREBEI research with Chalmers University (Sweden) presented on 3 February 2021.
SIT Alumni raises €1.5 million
SIT Alumni SkillLab, a technology company that turns skills into career paths, has raised €1.5 million in its seed round of funding from Dutch impact venture fund Rubio Impact Ventures. Founded in 2018, the Social Innovation Tournament (SIT) 2020 finalist started out...
microlux appeals to donors to support microcredit
Have some money to spare but don’t want to give it to charity? microlux, Luxembourg’s first microfinance institution, is calling on the generosity of all to set up a guarantee fund. The fund would guarantee microloans, a portion of which would benefit from a 0%...
A deep breath of innovation
Some 90% of the world’s population lives with a degree of polluted air. In this new episode of our series about the 15 inspiring finalists of the Social Innovation Tournament 2020, learn how Breeze Technologies has designed an air pollution monitor that tracks poor...
Call for applications: Social Innovation Tournament 2021!
We are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the SIT by increasing the amount of the awards! The 15 Finalists will compete for a 1st prize of €75 000 and a 2nd prize of €30 000 in the two categories, the General Category and the Special Category (in 2021 sustainable...
Certificate for inclusive finance: “A learning experience”
The fifth edition of the Certificate in Law and Regulation of Inclusive Finance wrapped up on 28 January 2021, with 50 participants from 27 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe completing the two-week course.
Virtual neighbourhood app creates childcare circle of trust
In this week's episode of our series taking a look at the 15 inspiring finalists of the Social Innovation Tournament 2020, learn how Flemish company Cokido has created a bottom-up solution for parents seeking affordable childcare. By connecting families living in the...
Is money what makes you wealthy?
Forbes Spain doesn’t think so. The magazine recently published its first “The other 100 largest fortunes in Spain” list, ranking candidates not by profits and revenues, but for what they bring to others and society at large. And two Social Innovation Tournament...
A cleaner way to get around town
In this week's episode of the series about the 15 inspiring finalists of the Social Innovation Tournament 2020, learn how CM Fluids, a German biogas transport company envisions fleets of city buses powered by liquid biomethane. “If you would use the whole amount of...
Philanthropy report 2020 now available
2020 was the year the COVID-19 pandemic struck the world and the Institute, as part of the EIB Group’s response to the crisis, coordinated a donation of €1 million, the largest ever made by the EIB Group. Half of this donation went to well-known, non-profit EU...
SAVE Tour goes virtual!
The 2021 edition of the SAVE Tour dedicated to sustainability and financial education is going virtual! On Tuesday, 19 January, students and teachers of all school years will participate in the #SAVEsCOOL launch event, an interactive live stream in which it will be...
Plastic pollution solution
Social entrepreneurs never stop innovating to change the world. In this series read about the 15 inspiring finalists of the Social Innovation Tournament 2020, the flagship event of the EIB Institute, organised yearly to reward Europe’s best social entrepreneurs. In...
Institute supports Inclusive Finance with University of Luxembourg
The Institute is supporting the fifth 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 18 to 28 January 2021. This year’s course will take place online due...
Applications for ADP 2021 now closed
The three calls for applications for the Artists Development Programme 2021 are now closed. A jury – consisting of Jorma Puranen (the mentor), external art advisers and members of the EIB Arts Committee – will now select the winners based on the artistic quality of...
A rolling steam factory for safer farming
Social entrepreneurs never stop innovating to change the world. In this new series we resume our stories about the 15 inspiring finalists of the Social Innovation Tournament 2020, the flagship event of the EIB Institute, organised yearly to reward Europe’s best social...
Last days to apply for ADP 2021!
Young artists from Europe! You have until 10 January at midnight to apply for the three calls for applications of the Artists Development Programme 2021! Disruption: The Imprint of Man Climate Action in the Wake of COVID-19: Build Back Better Geographic call targeting...
A tribute to musical education in Tunisia
In this video, Yahya Mhirsi a young Tunisian pianist with Tunisia88 sums up a very special year
Research at Institut Pasteur progresses thanks to EIB Group donation
Developing diagnostic and serological tests as well as vaccine strategies for preventing SARS-CoV-2 infection have been the areas that have benefited from an EIB Group donation to Institut Pasteur, in France. Since the beginning of 2020, Institut Pasteur has been...