The "Innovative Enterprise week Sofia 2018 – Financial Instruments Fostering Research and Innovation" aims at raising awareness of the potential for the financial instruments, facilities and accompanying measures launched, especially under Horizon 2020 to enhance access to finance for research and innovation. The event intends to bring together more than 300 key actors to discuss the opportunities and further needs of financial instruments fostering research and innovation.A particular focus of the conference will be to enhance interactions between the financial instruments to help innovative firms access finance more easily: Innovfin, COSME's financial instruments, European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF), the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), European Innovation Council as well as with instruments at regional, national and local level.Are you policy-maker, financial intermediary (such as bank or other lender and risk-capital fund), representative of the research, innovation and/or business community (including SMEs and medium and large midcaps) and interested in knowing more about the financial instruments fostering research and innovation, CONFIRM YOUR INTEREST before 1 June 2018 to attend the conference.The event is an initiative by the European Commission, organised by Tech Tour Gloabl eood together with the Republic of Bulgaria – Ministry of Education and Science, run in association with the European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Investment Fund (EIF), in collaboration with the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of Europe and heavily involving the Bulgarian ecosystem.The conference is taking place at Sofia Tech Park, 14-15 June 2018.