Does This Change Everything?

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Our lives have changed with the coronavirus crisis. But have they changed forever? In Does This Change Everything? European Investment Bank experts examine the implications of the COVID-19 crisis for sectors from education and digitalisation to urban mobility and medicine—and for your everyday life.

To find out what coronavirus means for climate change and the fight against it, we spoke to Nancy Saich, chief climate change expert at the European Investment Bank, the EU Bank. 

How does coronavirus impact climate action? Does the response to the crisis show that big threats like climate change really can be beaten? Find out from our climate change expert.

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Our lives have changed with the coronavirus crisis. But have they changed forever? In Does This Change Everything? European Investment Bank experts examine the implications of the COVID-19 crisis for sectors from education and digitalisation to urban mobility and medicine—and for your everyday life.

To find out what coronavirus means for the privacy of your data, we spoke to Dennis Kessler, head of the data governance unit at the European Investment Bank, the EU Bank. 

How does coronavirus impact data privacy? If we give up private information to help fight COVID-19, can we be sure it won’t be misused? Find out from our data privacy expert.

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 Our lives have changed with the coronavirus crisis. But have they changed forever? In Does This Change Everything? European Investment Bank experts examine the implications of the crisis for sectors from education and digitalisation to urban mobility and medicine—and for your everyday life.

To quote the Hungarian scientist Albert Szent-Györgyi, the man who discovered vitamin C, “Research is four things: brains with which to think; eyes with which to see; machines with which to measure; and, fourth, money.” What machines, money, and more importantly, cooperation is needed to further the research of doctors and clinicians already working around the clock to treat COVID-19 patients? Find out from Marcin Golec, a medical doctor and health economist at the European Investment Bank.

Coronavirus medical research financing means better support for doctors and clinicians treating patients. But where does it come from? Find out from our health care expert.

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Our lives have changed with the coronavirus crisis. But have they changed forever? In Does This Change Everything? European Investment Bank experts examine the implications of the COVID-19 crisis for sectors from education and digitalisation to urban mobility and medicine—and for your everyday life.

To find out what the coronavirus means for public infrastructure run by public-private partnerships that has been hit by the lockdown, we spoke to Julia Kennedy at the European PPP Expertise Centre in the European Investment Bank.

How does the coronavirus impact public-private partnerships? What will happen to the many projects for hospitals, schools, roads, airports hit by the lockdown? Find out from one of our experts.

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Our lives have changed with the coronavirus crisis in a multitude of ways. But have they changed for good? And have they changed for the better? In this episode of Does This Change Everything? we ask what the impact will be in developing countries – and for development finance.

We’re speaking with Christian Elias, the European Investment Bank’s head of unit for public sector operations in East and Southern Africa. 

What happens if the coronavirus hits developing countries, where healthcare is a luxury? Find out from our development expert.

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Our lives have changed with the coronavirus crisis. But have they changed forever? In Does This Change Everything? European Investment Bank experts examine the implications of the COVID-19 crisis for sectors from education and digitalisation to urban mobility and medicine—and for your everyday life.

To find out what coronavirus means for the public sector, we spoke to Marcin Golec, a medical doctor and health care economist with the European Investment Bank’s life sciences division. Golec talks about how digitalisation could help health care services evaluate the effectiveness of treatments faster, for the current pandemic and for non-communicable diseases like diabetes and cancer.

How will coronavirus impact digitalisation of health care? Will digitalisation change health services in the future? Find out from our health care expert.

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Those of us who can are teleworking and our kids are tele-learning. Our lives have changed due to the Covid-19 crisis and become more digital. But have our lives changed forever? And what does this mean for digitalisation globally? In this episode of Does This Change Everything? We find out what has changed for the service providers who bring us all these digital services, and what will change for the policy makers who oversee this industry.

We spoke to Benoit Denis, the European Investment Bank’s senior economist in digital infrastructure. 

With our lives turning digital, coronavirus may have accelerated a revolution. But we need to make sure no-one gets left behind. 

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Our lives have changed with the coronavirus crisis. But have they changed forever? In Does This Change Everything? European Investment Bank Group experts examine the implications of the COVID-19 crisis for sectors from education and digitalisation to urban mobility and medicine—and for your everyday life.

To find out what coronavirus means for the private credit market, we spoke to Francesco Battazzi, head of diversified debt funds at the European Investment Fund. 

How does coronavirus impact private credit? Can SMEs look to alternative lenders for help during the COVID-19 crisis? Find out from our private credit expert

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Our lives have changed with the coronavirus crisis. But have they changed forever? In this installment of Does This Change Everything? we try to find out why everybody is talking about the impact on small businesses. Why are they hit especially hard? And what could be done to help?

To find out what coronavirus means for small businesses, we spoke to Anna Fusari, who is the European Investment Bank’s head of division for banks and corporates in the Adriatic Sea region. The reason we’re speaking about small businesses with someone who lends to banks is that the European Investment Bank finances small businesses through local banks. Additionally, Anna has been working hard on the EIB’s response to help SMEs affected by COVID-19. 

For SMEs, coronavirus created a demand and supply shock that squeezes small businesses between falling demand and paying the rent. How can they survive? 

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