It is almost impossible to forget that Europe faces now one of its most serious challenges in the last decades. The pandemic of COVID-19 has exposed challenges on
cohesion, on integration and an immediate need to devise a strategy for economic recovery. Innova FI has been focussing on identifying good practices and exchanging knowledge on financial instruments. Within this topic, we address the three main pillars: equity, debt and guarantees in order to produce and share insights on the way different partners have implemented these instruments across Europe and how well they performed in terms of reaching the intended goals.