Financing PPP schemes - Choices, challenges and opportunities - Montesquieu Instituut

Target group

The workshop should be of particular interest to those planning to use, or currently involved in using, PPP to implement infrastructure projects. These include policy makers, officials from public administrations and their professional advisers in EU Member States, candidate countries and beyond. It should also be of interest to private sector service providers, lenders, investors and academics and to officials in European institutions and organisations.

Description

PPP projects are likely to continue to play a key role in meeting Europe’s infrastructure gap. Given the huge infrastructure investment amounts required - some estimates suggest investment needs of between €1.5 trillion and €2 trillion in transport, energy and digital networks to 2020 - and the pressures facing government budgets, attracting private capital to finance infrastructure is crucial. At the same time, it has become more difficult to obtain bank loans with the long maturities required by infrastructure projects as commercial banks face capital and liquidity constraints.

This practitioners’ workshop aims to present and assess the current and possible future options for private sector finance for PPP to modernise EU infrastructure, including the role of public sector finance, multi-lateral lending institutions, equity investors and bond finance as well as bank lending. This will include an update on the latest experience on the implementation of the Europe 2020 Project Bond initiative.

The workshop will address economic, financial, operational and legal considerations and use experience to date to assess the risks, challenges and opportunities arising from different means of financing infrastructure projects. It will draw together experience at European level and from different Member States.

Method

Presentations, plenary discussions and exchange of experiences from different countries.

Objectives

The objectives of the workshop are to ensure that participants understand the risks, challenges and opportunities associated with different means of financing infrastructure projects and how to use them effectively.

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