Promotional guide to access to financial instruments and investors

This deliverable consists in a promotional guide for researchers, start-ups, SMEs, financial intermediaries able to clarify the main novelties included into the transition towards the new generation of financial instruments (InvestEu). The guide will include success stories, give tips and practical examples on how to approach opportunities both of the EIC Pilot with an emphasis on the EIC Accelerator blended finance and the current set of access to risk finance instruments. It will also make the bridge with previous promotional and training materials by briefly introducing the financial products under the new Invest EU, with particular reference to the Research, Innovation and Digitization as well as the SME Windows. It will be elaborated in close cooperation with the Commission and EIB/EIF services to be as accurate and up to date as possible on the evolutions of the EIC/InvestEU financial instruments and the scope of potential beneficiaries. This guide will be made available in an online-format as a download from project website for interested NCPs as well as for larger public.