4th annual EU conference on EAFRD financial instruments for agriculture and rural development in 2014-2020
In total 250 participants from 20 Member States met to discuss the role of financial instruments in supporting agriculture and rural development and also heard about the future of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) at the conference in Sofia on 5 and 6 June 2018, during the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU
EAFRD financial instruments in the 2014-2020 programming period
The seminar ‘EAFRD financial instruments in the 2014-2020 programming’, held on 24 May (afternoon) and 25 May 2018 (full day) at the premises of the Polish Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in Warsaw, focused on awareness raising, information sharing and training how financial instruments can help to deliver objectives of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD)
Second ESF Conference ‘Financial instruments funded by the European Social Fund – boosting social impact’
The two-day conference was opened by Marianne Thyssen, European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility, who highlighted the importance of investing in people and the need to structure investment platforms for social impact investment
ESF financial instruments supporting employment, entrepreneurship and social inclusion in the 2014-2020 programming period
The fi-compass thematic workshop on 31 January 2018 in Rome welcomed a high number of participants from ESF managing authorities, financial intermediaries and other stakeholders from different Member States, interested in exploring the opportunities that ESF financial instruments offer under TO8 and TO9
The event brought together over 350 participants from managing authorities, bodies implementing or considering to implement financial instruments as well as other financial instruments stakeholders from across the EU