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Refugee crisis in Colombia: donation results
In November last year, the EIB through the EIB Institute, donated EUR 250 000 to four NGOs to mitigate the humanitarian crisis in Colombia caused by the massive refugee influx from Venezuela. This donation contributed to the emergency aid interventions of the...
Inequality and the art market
As the number and wealth of millionaires increases, the art market is being increasingly financialised, with art becoming a vehicle of investment – a new asset class, said Professor Andrés Solimano, from CIGLOB, at an “Inequality and…” lecture at the EIB in June, organised by the EIB Institute and the University of Luxembourg as part of the “Inequality and…” series.
Seminar on “Rethinking the future of plastics”
Each year, 8 million tonnes of plastics enter the oceans. Though fundamental to our everyday life plastics are one of the most wasteful examples of our existing linear, take-make-dispose economy. We urgently need to rethink the way we make, use, and reuse plastics. On...
European Microfinance Network conference begins
The 16th annual conference of the European Microfinance Network started today in Vienna (Austria) on the theme "Connecting for the future". The EIB Group (EIB, EIF and EIB Institute) is among the sponsors of the event bringing more than 200 participants from 25...
New research published: the EIB and the “Mezzogiorno”
"The EIB fully participated in the national effort for the Southern industrialization" says Antonio Bonatesta, European University Institute (EUI-Florence) whose STAREBEI research on “The EIB and the "Mezzogiorno" in the context of regional development (1958-1973)"...
6th European Research Conference on Microfinance
The EIB Institute is sponsoring the 6th European Research Conference on Microfinance taking place from 3 to 5 June, 2019 at Paris Dauphine University on the theme “New tools, new actors: which aims, values and beneficiaries”. The conference is co-organised by Institut...
Microfinance Centre Annual Conference begins
The 22nd Microfinance Centre Annual Conference sponsored by the EIB Group started today in Istanbul with several pre-conference events. Participants gathered for pre-conference workshops such as "Digital Marketing Made Easy" on how to effectively strategise and...
2019 Scaling Impact Executive Programme
Twenty eight social entrepreneurs from 12 high impact ventures gathered at the IRIS headquarters in Amarante, Portugal for the first part of the Social Innovation Tournament (SIT) Impact Bootcamp 2019.
Resident artists have arrived in Luxembourg!
The four winners of the 2019 edition of the Artists Development Programme (ADP) have started their residency in Luxembourg, where they will spend six weeks producing a body of works. Pamela Diamante (34, Italy) won the thematic focus residency on ‘Disruption: The...
What business model for smart cities assets?
The main challenges to making smart cities assets successful are cooperation between public and private partners and limited financial resources according to a study presented at the EIB by Sciences Po Masters’ students under the framework of a capstone project.
Museum on wheels: the video
A trip to a sustainable future! See how Europe's first ever "museum on wheels" taught 10 000 Italian school-age children in 22 cities how to better use financial and natural resources and combat wastefulness. Launched by the Institute, the Museo del Risparmio and...
European quality principles for cultural heritage
The international Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) has just released the European Quality Principles for EU-funded Interventions with Potential Impact upon Cultural Heritage. "Cultural heritage preservation should be mainstreamed into programming at EU and...
Inequality and … Lecture on “Inequality and the art market”
When? Thursday 6 June 2019, starting at 13:00 The EIB Institute is partnering with the University of Luxembourg, and others in organising a series of lectures under the general theme of “Inequality and …?” Follow the link for more information. The next lecture...
A business model with social impact
How to create a business model with social impact? Nicolas Crochet, co-CEO of Funds for Good, presented the innovative solution his company has found to answer this question at an EIB Institute Midday Goes Social seminar on 7 May 2019.
SIT 2019: Europe’s 15 best social entrepreneurs selected
If you can create impact you must. Fifteen finalists have been selected for the 2019 edition of the Social Innovation Tournament, the flagship initiative of the Institute’s Social Programme recognising and supporting Europe’s best social entrepreneurs. The 15...
Artists Development Programme 2019: winners announced!
ADP 2018 laureates: Antonis Theodoridis, FRAUD/Francisco Gallardo, mentor Darren Almond, Bill Balaskas and Grzegorz Stefanski Four budding artists, out of a pool of 322 applicants, were selected for the...
Webinar on Business models innovations for impact
Rare diseases: donation to ELA
Every week in Europe 20 to 40 children are born with a form of rare disease called leukodystrophies that attacks and destroys the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) in children and adults. To help finance research in a field where public funding is scarce...
Inequality and public opinions
Support for government redistribution of income in order to reduce inequality is at its lowest in the US (35%) compared to Canada (47%) or Western Europe (62% in Germany, 68% in France) said Professor Leslie Mac Call of the City University of New York at an “Inequality and…” lecture organised in April at the EIB by the EIB Institute and the University of Luxembourg as part of the “Inequality and…” series.
First EIB courses at Dresden University
The first series of EIB courses for students from Dresden University’s School of International Studies started last Friday 26 April 2019 with a seminar by Goetz von Thadden (EIB) about the EIB’s history, role and missions.