InvestEU Programme

Sustainable Investment, Innovation and Job Creation

The InvestEU Programme builds on the successful model of the Investment Plan for Europe, the Juncker Plan. It will bring together, under one roof, the European Fund for Strategic Investments and thirteen other EU financial instruments.

Triggering more than €372 billion in additional investment over the period 2021-27, the InvestEU Programme aims to give an additional boost to sustainable investment, innovation and job creation in Europe.

The InvestEU Fund supports the following four Policy Windows, focusing on investments where the EU can add the most value:

• sustainable infrastructure: financing projects in sustainable energy, digital connectivity, transport, the circular economy, water, waste, other environment infrastructure and more;
   
• research, innovation and digitalisation: financing projects in research and innovation, taking research results to the market, digitisation of industry, scaling up larger innovative companies, artificial intelligence and more;
   
• small and medium-sized enterprises: facilitating access to finance for small and medium-sized companies (SMEs), small mid-cap companies. This includes capital support for SMEs that were negatively affected by the Covid-19 crisis;
   
• social investment skills: financing projects in skills, education, training, social housing, schools, universities, hospitals, social innovation, healthcare, long-term care and accessibility, microfinance, social enterprise, integration of migrants, refugees and vulnerable people, and more.

The InvestEU Fund provides support to final recipients that are deemed economically viable according to internationally accepted standards.

The guarantee available under the InvestEU Fund is implemented via selected financial partners, or ‘implementing partners’. To become an InvestEU implementing partner, interested parties need to respond to a call for expressions of interest. The Commission then enters into negotiations with them to define the type of financial product they wish to implement and the conditions attached to it. The negotiations are concluded by signing a guarantee agreement granting the status of InvestEU implementing partner.

Project promoters should apply directly to implementing partners who will offer tailor-made financing solutions based on the financial products supported by the EU guarantee.

Financial intermediaries should also consult the offering of implementing partners active in their regions proposing relevant products: it is up to them to select financial intermediaries through procedures such as calls for expressions of interest.