Guidelines for the Implementation of Financial Instruments: Building on FIN-EN – sharing methodologies on FINancial Engineering for enterprises

The project – sharing methodologies on FINancial ENgineering for enterprises (FIN-EN) – aimed to enhance cooperation between regional and national authorities across Europe on the methodologies and instruments used for implementing financial instruments in the framework of EU Structural Funds, in order to find concrete solutions to common problems and promote a more efficient and effective use of financial instruments in the future. FIN-EN is a network of 13 regional and national institutions from 13 different EU Member States, managing 45 financial instruments under 2007-13 Structural Funds programmes, with a total budget of circa €3.5 billion, without the support of the European Investment Fund (EIF).