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Citizen funding market assessment report

- 17 December 2021

The objective of this report is to analyze existing experience where public financing instruments (PFI) were used to support the set-up of Citizen Financing Schemes. The report explores financial cooperation between public authorities and cooperatives/crowdfunding platforms by assessing the strategic and operational considerations of combining public funds with citizen funding through Public Financing Instruments and presenting several case-studies that could be used by Pilot Regions as a first step when developing their CFs4EE Financing Scheme.

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