General background: 

## General economic, banking and finance courses 

The European Investment Bank employees a variety of profiles including banking and finance professionals, but also lawyers, human resources experts, IT specialists and others, with no banking and finance background. 

The EIB is keen on equipping its staff members from those different horizons and professional backgrounds with the necessary basic understanding of the functioning of the banking industry, and the specificities of the EIB in this landscape. 

Target group 

To deal with the above challenge, the EIB wants to develop the knowledge of about 800 colleagues. These staff members have a variety of professional backgrounds and expertise in Banking. To illustrate the variety of profiles, some colleagues are in support staff positions with no banking fundamentals knowledge; some are engineers working closely with banking experts within the EIB business cycle, without a prior specific knowledge of the banking sector. The majority are based in Luxemburg but there are also colleagues in external offices around the world. 

Learning objectives 

By the end of the course, participants will be able to: 

• Understand that there are different types of banks and be able to describe what they do & why 

Have insight into how a bank makes money and how regulation places guardrails around how it does so 

• Differentiate between traditional lending institutions and International Financial Institutions 

Understand who needs financing and why 

• Understand the role of the European Investment Bank and how it promotes growth 

Understand the European Investment Bank’s lending priorities and its product suite 

The EIB welcomes any other topics that the provider sees as important to be covered to tackle the challenge described above. 

The learning plan should focus not only on courses, but also on how to embed the new skills into practice. 

