Future Europe

Find out how Portugal science toys help children across Europe learn about science:

•     Providing constructive learning through fun scientific experiences.

•     Helping children learn as individuals and transmit their scientific knowledge to others.

•     Introducing science to girls who often used to feel excluded from the subject.

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Find out how a state-of-the-art Ireland healthcare training helps medical students from all over the world.

•     Providing previously unimaginable training through ‘real life’ simulations using special mannequins

•     Helping students record and evaluate their performance with support from peers and colleagues—without risk to patients

•     Hospitals feel the benefits already as visiting medical students are “much calmer”

•     When do patients “have a good cry”?

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Find out how a floating terminal makes Lithuania more independent of Russian gas supply:

·        Visit the offshore jetty and hear technicians describe the sometimes dangerous work they do

·        Learn how the European Investment Bank’s Lithuania gas investment makes the country’s energy supply more independent

·        Learn about the contribution to Lithuania’s economy

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Find out how Luxembourg coped with fast population growth in its schools:

·        Fast population growth put Luxembourg education under pressure until the investment from the European Investment Bank

·        How to make a school energy efficient

·        How a renovated school builds student motivation

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Find out how a food waste factory in the Netherlands is changing food production and making a social impact:

•      Transforming waste and surplus ingredients into delicious new products

•      Providing a new facility for experts and entrepreneurs to learn, plan and discuss food recycling

•      Pioneering a new system to reduce food waste by 50% by 2030

•      70% of the factory’s workers are disabled

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Find out why a Croatian entrepreneur decided to build the world’s fastest electric car in Zagreb:

·        How did he make an electric car with a 360 km per hour top speed

·        Listen to an electric car as it goes from 0 to 60 miles per hour in 2.5 seconds

·        Learn how this electric car can be used in other vehicles, including wheelchairs

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Find out how a Tallinn Airport investment makes Estonia a key link between Europe and Asia:

·        On Europe’s periphery, Tallin is winning the fight against bigger airports, with passenger traffic up 20% a year

·        Learn about the smart infrastructure upgrade by the Tallinn Airport investment from the European Investment Bank

·        How does Estonia’s northerly position help Tallinn win the fight for flights against bigger European airports

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Find out how electronic payments infrastructure helps small businesses compete with big firms:

·        iZettle expands the tools small businesses can use to sell their products

·        How cash-free is Sweden? Very. Hear how that happened

·        The European Investment Bank gave early support to the electronic payments infrastructure company

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Find out how a big Romania energy efficiency programme to renovate Soviet-era apartment buildings in Bucharest helps in the fight against climate change:

·        20% of Romanians can’t afford to heat their homes. After these renovations, heating bills are cut 50% to 60%

·        Some of the residents didn’t like the idea of moving their pigeon coops from their roofs—until they found out how much money they’d save

·        The European Investment Bank finances a bigger portion of the deal than usual, because it represents action against climate change

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Find how a Belgium smart cities infrastructure programme transformed one small town’s historic centre:

·        Smart Cities infrastructure tailored to new needs of citizens

·        How to create a Smart Cities programme for any city or town

·        Programme revitalises town centres across Belgium

·        One third of Belgian citizens have benefited from Belfius/European Investment Bank project

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