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
28/01/2011 Comunidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain) Supporting public infrastructure with a social vocation € 100 000 000 Construction, refurbishment and extension of pre-school, primary and secondary education and vocational training buildings and related infrastructure in the Madrid region.
28/01/2011 Fonds Du Logement Des Familles Nombreuses De Wallonie (Belgium) Strengthening social integration € 80 000 000 The project consists in granting some 1 500 social mortgage loans and some 500 zero-interest écoprêts (“green loans”) to large, low-income families.
28/01/2011 Nuevo Microbank (ex Microbank) (Spain) Supporting micro, small and medium-sized enterprises
Strengthening social integration 		€ 100 000 000 Partial financing of Microbank's lending to micro-firms and individuals, primarily for the purpose of job creation.
18/11/2010 Bulgarian Development Bank (BDB) (Bulgaria) Supporting micro, small and medium-sized enterprises € 20 000 000 Support to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Bulgaria.
18/11/2010 Société Générale - Expressbank (Bulgaria) Supporting micro, small and medium-sized enterprises € 5 000 000 Creation and maintenance of viable jobs in the Bulgarian small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector by securing the funding of on-going investments.
18/11/2010 Republic of Croatia (Croatia) Supporting public infrastructure with a social vocation € 6 480 000 Construction of the new annex of the Zagreb prison and rehabilitation of the existing buildings. Through the provision of additional capacity and the refurbishment of the existing premises, the project aims to improve living conditions for around 900 inmates and ensure their basic rights. In addition, by creating adequate capacities for rehabilitation programmes for inmates, the project should provide improved conditions for their future re-socialisation.
18/11/2010 PKO BANK POLSKI SA (Poland) Supporting micro, small and medium-sized enterprises € 150 000 000 Partial financing of fixed productive assets in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) aimed at promoting the creation and preservation of viable jobs.
18/11/2010 Republic of Serbia (Serbia) Managing the environment € 32 000 000 Modified into: Partial financing of the construction and/or rehabilitation of houses and infrastructure damaged by the spring 2014 floods in Serbia.
18/11/2010 Investitionsbank Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) Strengthening social integration
Managing the environment 		€ 50 000 000 The purpose of the Project is to promote investments to improve living conditions in urban and rural areas and protect the environment throughout the Federal State of Schleswig-Holstein.
18/11/2010 Hungarian Development Bank Private LTD Company - MFB ZRT (Hungary) Strengthening social integration
Supporting micro, small and medium-sized enterprises 		€ 125 000 000 Multisector project: Municipalities and SMEs.
17/09/2010 Municipality of Nicosia (Cyprus) Strengthening social integration € 40 000 000 Partial financing of urban investment, infrastructure upgrading and rehabilitation projects in the centre of the City of Nicosia and its surroundings. The project is expected to have positive effects on the economic development, living conditions and social cohesion of the city's inhabitants by facilitating access to credit for the upgrade of local infrastructure.
17/09/2010 KfW (Germany) Strengthening social integration € 7 500 000 A loan to KfW that will in turn be financing investment costs pertaining to the water supply system in Kamza and rural roads in northern Albania.
17/09/2010 Slovenska izvozna in razvojna banka dd (SID) (Slovenia) Strengthening social integration
Managing the environment 		€ 40 000 000 Part-financing of municipal investments aimed at improving the living conditions in urban and rural areas. Part-financing of municipal investments aimed at improving the energy efficiency of productive assets and existing infrastructure, also linked to the non-industrial scale production of energy with renewable sources.
17/09/2010 CaixaBank (ex La Caixa) (Spain) Supporting public infrastructure with a social vocation € 40 000 000 Support the rehabilitation, modernisation and development of Sant Pau Hospital in Barcelona.
17/09/2010 Vlaamse Maatschappij Voor Sociaal Wonen NV (Belgium) Strengthening social integration € 150 000 000 Providing social mortgage loans to low-income households.
17/09/2010 Region of Podkarpackie (Poland) Strengthening social integration
Supporting public infrastructure with a social vocation 		€ 51 400 000 Partial financing of regional investments in the "Improving living conditions in urban and rural areas" and "Health" sectors of action.
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.
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