Empower the consumer!

Empower the consumer!

In the fight against climate change, the residential sector is one of the areas with the greatest potential for energy savings: the cleanest and cheapest energy choice is not to waste it, said Professor Massimo Filippini, ETH Zurich, at an EIB Institute seminar. But...
Impact investing for PPPs

Impact investing for PPPs

Impact investing aims to incorporate environmental, social and governance factors into investment decision-making. But how, especially in Public-Private-Partnerships (PPPs)?The project for the new hospital of Treviso (Northern Italy) offers an interesting case-study...
Doing the right project

Doing the right project

The right project should answer “strategic fit and business needs, provide value for money, be commercially viable as well as affordable, fundable and achievable”, said Joe Flanagan, adviser to the Welsh Government and State of Guernsey on Better Business...
Machines need a human touch

Machines need a human touch

“Machines need a human touch to ask the right questions” said Surajeet Ghosh, Head of EU Analytics at Amazon – Kindle at  a seminar organised by the EIB Institute about machine learning, a type of artificial intelligence that provides the ability to learn to computers...