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Technically speaking, this is a very helpful episode

Learn about the social and business reasons for the “technical assistance” that helps companies and public institutions make their projects bankable. Technical assistance helps make projects bankable by preparing documents, carrying out studies, examin...

An episode of the A Dictionary of Finance podcast, hosted by European Investment Bank, titled "Technically speaking, this is a very helpful episode" was published on April 8, 2018 and runs 21 minutes.

April 8, 2018 ·21m · A Dictionary of Finance

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Learn about the social and business reasons for the “technical assistance” that helps companies and public institutions make their projects bankable.Technical assistance helps make projects bankable by preparing documents, carrying out studies, examining financing alternatives and assisting with contracts, among other things. The aim is to prepare a project to deliver on the purposes for which it was originally conceived.The European Commission finances technical assistance programmes to help participants in a range of business sectors. A Dictionary of Finance podcast called on experts from two of these technical assistance programmes to explain how they work.“Technical assistance is about helping beneficiaries,” says Mark Mawhinney, head of division for the European Investment Advisory Hub. The Hub provides technical assistance under the Investment Plan for Europe and is a partnership between the Commission and the European Investment Bank.The Hub aims to help fill markets gaps. As Mark explains, a market gap occurs when the private sector is not actively engaging in a particular area, because of a lack of demand or some economic structural problem.Reinhard Six, senior engineer in the European Investment Bank’s Energy Efficiency and Small-scale Energy Projects division, does a lot of his work under the umbrella of another joint EIB/Commission programme called European Local Energy Assistance (ELENA). For example, that includes energy audits, which are different from the kinds of audits we talked about in our episode on the balance sheet.An energy audit looks at the energy performance of a building by assessing its technical systems, such as the boiler. It recommends measures to improve the energy efficiency of the building by, for example, replacing the windows.Tweet us @EIBMatt or @AllarTankler. We’d love to hear questions you’d like us to pose about financial issues and your ideas for the subjects of future episodes.Subscribe to ‘A Dictionary of Finance’ podcast via the iPhone podcast app, Stitcher or Spotify. Please rate the podcast on those platforms, too. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Learn about the social and business reasons for the “technical assistance” that helps companies and public institutions make their projects bankable.

Technical assistance helps make projects bankable by preparing documents, carrying out studies, examining financing alternatives and assisting with contracts, among other things. The aim is to prepare a project to deliver on the purposes for which it was originally conceived.

The European Commission finances technical assistance programmes to help participants in a range of business sectors. A Dictionary of Finance podcast called on experts from two of these technical assistance programmes to explain how they work.

“Technical assistance is about helping beneficiaries,” says Mark Mawhinney, head of division for the European Investment Advisory Hub. The Hub provides technical assistance under the Investment Plan for Europe and is a partnership between the Commission and the European Investment Bank.

The Hub aims to help fill markets gaps. As Mark explains, a market gap occurs when the private sector is not actively engaging in a particular area, because of a lack of demand or some economic structural problem.

Reinhard Six, senior engineer in the European Investment Bank’s Energy Efficiency and Small-scale Energy Projects division, does a lot of his work under the umbrella of another joint EIB/Commission programme called European Local Energy Assistance (ELENA). For example, that includes energy audits, which are different from the kinds of audits we talked about in our episode on the balance sheet.

An energy audit looks at the energy performance of a building by assessing its technical systems, such as the boiler. It recommends measures to improve the energy efficiency of the building by, for example, replacing the windows.

Tweet us @EIBMatt or @AllarTankler. We’d love to hear questions you’d like us to pose about financial issues and your ideas for the subjects of future episodes.

Subscribe to ‘A Dictionary of Finance’ podcast via the iPhone podcast app, Stitcher or Spotify. Please rate the podcast on those platforms, too.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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