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Financing social enterprises in Portugal

What are the challenges that Social Enterprises in Portugal are faced with regarding access to financing, which is a critical factor for their development? The Institute commissioned a report from Quaternaire and Laboratorio de investimento social to answer this...

Innovation Camp 2017

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The EIB Institute is collaborating with Jonk Entrepreneuren Luxembourg in the organisation of the Innovation Camp 2017.

Human smuggling across the Mediterranean Sea

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Smuggling networks play a key role in the migrant crisis currently facing Europe. Combining a review of the literature and interviews with irregular migrants and smugglers, Luigi Achilli, from the Migration Policy Centre, presented an attempt to understand the...

Supporting access to clean water in Rajasthan

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Some 70% of households living in rural areas or urban slums in India do not have access to toilets; roughly 60% of the country’s 1.2 billion people still defecate in the open. An EIB grant of EUR 3 800 is supporting a project by PADEM, a Luxemburgish NGO, to make...

A journey from the City to social finance

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How do you move from mainstream finance to social finance? The answer is “people”, says James Fairweather, Director of Big Issue Invest. Mr Fairweather was a successful fund manager for many years and is now a Director of Big Issue Invest, the social...

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