All CEB loans must be approved by the Bank's Administrative Council in accordance with the Bank’s social mandate. All loan projects have to meet specific technical and social criteria, and be in strict conformity with the Bank’s environmental, procurement and compliance guidelines and policies.

The sectoral lines of action underpin the CEB’s five-year development plan, which forms the Bank’s medium term-strategy. The current Strategic Framework organises these lines into: Investing in people and enhancing human capital; Promoting inclusive and resilient living environments and Supporting jobs and economic and financial inclusion corresponding to the new strategic priorities established by the CEB to better support the social policies of its member countries.

An exhaustive list of projects approved since 2010 is below. For more insights and impact stories of CEB social investment projects, see our Projects in focus.

List of projects approved

Date Borrower Line of action Amount Summary
24/01/2014 Government (North Macedonia) Supporting public infrastructure with a social vocation € 97 000 000 Contributing to implementation of the country's healthcare reform by providing improved conditions for the provision of tertiary health care services. Specifically, the project encompasses the construction and modernisation of the Clinical Centre "Mother Teresa" and the Regional Clinical Hospital in Shtip.
24/01/2014 Europejski Fundusz Leasingowy S.A. (Poland) Supporting micro, small and medium-sized enterprises € 130 000 000 Partial financing of productive investments in SMEs aiming at promoting the creation and preservation of viable jobs.
24/01/2014 Société Générale (France) Supporting public infrastructure with a social vocation € 39 800 000 Opening of two new penitentiary centers in Valencia and Riom, which will firstly help to reduce the overcrowding of prisons and the number of prisoners per cell by increasing the number of cells.
14/11/2013 Sparkasse Bank DD (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Supporting micro, small and medium-sized enterprises € 10 000 000 Partial financing of productive investment sub-projects undertaken by micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) throughout the country.
14/11/2013 SKB Banka d.d. (Slovenia) Supporting micro, small and medium-sized enterprises € 50 000 000 Implementation of investment projects in the field of creation and preservation of viable jobs in micro, small and medium sized enterprises (MSMEs) throughout Slovenia.
14/11/2013 PerMicro S.p.A. (Italy) Supporting micro, small and medium-sized enterprises € 6 000 000 Promotion of financial inclusion for low income persons, resident foreigners and ethnic minorities.
14/11/2013 Raiffeisen Leasing d.o.o., Zagreb (Croatia) Supporting micro, small and medium-sized enterprises € 10 000 000 Partial financing, through leasing, of productive investments in micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) aiming at promoting the creation and preservation of viable jobs.
14/11/2013 Instituto de Crédito Oficial (Spain) Supporting micro, small and medium-sized enterprises € 300 000 000 Partial financing of productive investment projects undertaken by existing and start-up SMEs located throughout Spain.
20/09/2013 Unicredit Bank Czech Republic (Czech Republic) Strengthening social integration
Managing the environment
Supporting micro, small and medium-sized enterprises
€ 50 000 000 Supporting productive investment projects undertaken by Czech and Slovak municipalities and mixed-ownership companies focused on local infrastructure modernisation and increase in quality of public service provision.
20/09/2013 Hungarian Development Bank Private LTD Company - MFB ZRT (Hungary) Strengthening social integration
Managing the environment
Supporting micro, small and medium-sized enterprises
€ 75 000 000 Financing of municipal sub-projects focused on investments for upgrade of run-down urban areas, The programme will also involve investments in rural infrastructure development, such as facilitation of access to jobs in urban centres for people living in rural areas with higher unemployment rates.
20/09/2013 Capital City of SR Bratislava (Slovak Republic) Strengthening social integration
Managing the environment
€ 40 000 000 Improvement of living conditions in urban areas, by the revitalisation and modernisation of urban public infrastructure, and protection of the environment with the upgrading and replacement of old trams and trolleybuses with new and more efficient ones.
20/09/2013 Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Ziraat Bankasi AS (Türkiye) Supporting micro, small and medium-sized enterprises € 50 000 000 Strengthening social integration by fostering the creation and preservation of viable jobs through productive investments in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
20/09/2013 Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Ziraat Bankasi AS (Türkiye) Supporting micro, small and medium-sized enterprises € 50 000 000 Strengthening social integration by fostering the creation and preservation of viable jobs through leasing for productive investments in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
20/09/2013 BZ WBK Leasing SA (Poland) Supporting micro, small and medium-sized enterprises € 50 000 000 Partial financing of productive investments in micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) aiming at promoting the creation and preservation of viable jobs through leasing.
20/09/2013 JSC Bank Republic (Georgia) Supporting micro, small and medium-sized enterprises € 7 936 508 Job maintenance, and whenever possible, job creation through the productive investments in the micro, small and medium-sized enterprise (MSME) sector.
20/09/2013 Municipality of Lublin (Poland) Strengthening social integration € 66 666 667 Support to municipal investments inscribed in the City of Lublin multi-annual investment programme for the improvement of living conditions in the city through construction and upgrade of roads, transport networks, sports and educational facilities.
20/09/2013 Banco Santander SA (Ex Banco Santander Central Hispano) (Spain) Supporting micro, small and medium-sized enterprises € 100 000 000 Partial financing of productive investment projects in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
14/06/2013 HBOR (Croatia) Strengthening social integration
Supporting micro, small and medium-sized enterprises
€ 90 000 000 The aim of the programme is to provide part-financing for the productive investment projects undertaken by local authorities for improving social infrastructure and increasing public service standards and by micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in support of job creation and preservation.
14/06/2013 JSC TBC Bank (Georgia) Supporting micro, small and medium-sized enterprises € 23 006 135 Creation and preservation of jobs through financing productive investments by micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs).
14/06/2013 Goverment (Republic of Moldova) Supporting public infrastructure with a social vocation € 39 000 000 Part-financing of investments for the construction of a new Chişinau penitentiary to enhance the physical conditions of detention and strengthen the capacity of the Department for Penitentiary Institutions for designing, building and managing modern penitentiary infrastructure.