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
10/06/2010 Government (Cyprus) Supporting public infrastructure with a social vocation € 95 000 000 Partial financing of projects to refurbish and upgrade schools in order to respond effectively to modern education requirements. The project, comprising the construction, extension and rehabilitation of school infrastructure provides support to government strategies in the education field through actions to, inter alia, increase capacity, allow better access for handicapped students and improve safety through anti-earthquake measures.
10/06/2010 Government (Serbia) Strengthening social integration
Supporting public infrastructure with a social vocation
€ 35 000 000 Improvement and upgrading of housing for young researchers and science and education infrastructure.
10/06/2010 Bankia, S.A. (Spain) Supporting public infrastructure with a social vocation € 8 000 000 Facilitate access of Roma youth to jobs through the provision of vocational training, counselling and related services.
10/06/2010 City of Warsaw (Poland) Strengthening social integration
Supporting public infrastructure with a social vocation
€ 51 000 000 Partial financing of municipal investments in the Improving living conditions, Health, Education and Infrastructure of administrative services sectors of action.
10/06/2010 Irish National Development Finance Agency (Ireland) Supporting public infrastructure with a social vocation € 125 000 000 Partial financing of Thornton Hall Prison.
10/06/2010 Novo Bank S.A. (Portugal) Strengthening social integration
Managing the environment
€ 100 000 000 Municipal Investments and Protection of the Environment.
25/05/2010 Government (Türkiye) Managing the environment € 250 000 000 Support for the Istanbul Seismic Risk Mitigation and Emergency Preparedness Project (ISMEP) aimed at improving the city’s preparedness for a potential earthquake by enhancing the institutional and technical capacity for disaster management and emergency response, strengthening critical public facilities for earthquake resistance, and supporting measures for better enforcement of building codes and land use plans.
20/05/2010 Sewerage Board of Limassol - Amathus (Cyprus) Managing the environment € 130 000 000 Partial financing of environmental investments in the greater Limassol area. The main objective of the project is to upgrade and expand the existing infrastructure in order to create additional capacity and improve the system's reliability and well as to extend drainage and sewerage networks and treatment facilities to surrounding areas.
20/05/2010 Crédit Agricole SA (France) Managing the environment
Supporting public infrastructure with a social vocation
€ 150 000 000 Partial financing of social investments aimed at responding to the increased financing needs of French local authorities and other public bodies for carrying out environmental protection related investments such as increasing the energy efficiency of public buildings.
20/05/2010 Government (North Macedonia) Supporting public infrastructure with a social vocation € 46 000 000 Reconstruction and expansion of Idrizovo and Skopje prisons, and construction of Kumanovo prison and Tetovo juvenile detention facility.
20/05/2010 Finnvera PLC (Finland) Supporting micro, small and medium-sized enterprises € 100 000 000 Creation and preservation of viable jobs in Finnish SMEs.
20/05/2010 Crédit Coopératif (France) Strengthening social integration
Supporting public infrastructure with a social vocation
€ 100 000 000 Improved quality of life in urban and rural areas, health and education.
20/05/2010 Montenegro (Montenegro) Strengthening social integration € 25 000 000 Purchasing excess supply of apartments at below market prices via government reverse auction, and mortgaging them to lower income persons eligible under national legislation for social housing.
25/03/2010 Türkiye Kalkinma Bankasi (Türkiye) Supporting micro, small and medium-sized enterprises € 50 000 000 Part-financing of job creation and preservation in the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) throughout the country.
25/03/2010 Bankia, S.A. (Spain) Strengthening social integration
Managing the environment
€ 60 000 000 Partial financing of eligible investments in water infrastructure improvements located throughout Spain.
25/03/2010 VUB Banka (Slovak Republic) Strengthening social integration
Managing the environment
€ 50 000 000 Financing of investment projects undertaken by local and regional authorities and/or other related public sector entities.
29/01/2010 Société Wallone du Logement (Belgium) Strengthening social integration € 125 000 000 Part-financing of energy efficiency investments in social housing, in particular through improvements in heating and ventilation systems, hot water production and insulation. The aim of the project is to substantially reduce the service charges paid by social housing tenants and to control, on a lasting basis, the energy bills in social dwellings.
29/01/2010 Bank Ochrony Srodowiska SA (Poland) Strengthening social integration
Managing the environment
€ 50 000 000 Partial financing of eligible investments undertaken by local governments and other public-sector entities in the improving living conditions and protection of the environment sectors of action.