Organised by EIB Group Office in Romania together with Habitat for Humanity Romania
Date and time: 8 October 2026, at 09:00
Venue: EIB Group Office in Romania, 31 Vasile Lascăr Street, 4th floor, Bucharest
Language: English
This EU Breakfast in Romania will bring together European and Romanian stakeholders to discuss the country’s housing needs, current challenges and opportunities for developing social and affordable housing solutions. Habitat for Humanity Romania will provide a perspective from the ground, including lessons from its Social Rental Agency initiative, while the EIB will share experience from successful housing models across Europe and outline its potential financing and advisory offer.
The discussion will focus on what Romania can learn from European experience and, importantly, what conditions would need to be created to develop a strong project pipeline and market appetite for social and affordable housing investment.
The objective is to connect Romania’s housing needs with the growing European housing investment agenda and identify the partnerships, policy conditions, project structures and financing solutions needed to move from dialogue towards a potential Romanian housing pipeline.
Housing affordability has become a major priority across Europe, with the European Commission’s European Affordable Housing Plan and forthcoming Affordable Housing Act setting a new framework for increasing the supply of social and affordable housing and mobilising investment. Against this backdrop, the EIB Group is significantly scaling up its housing activities. Between 2021 and 2025, the EIB Group provided €18.4 billion in financing for affordable and sustainable housing, supporting 84,000 newly built homes, 580,000 renovated homes and 664,000 households with better housing. In 2025 alone, housing financing in innovation, renovation and new construction reached a record €5 billion, with the Group targeting €6 billion in 2026 and aiming to help deliver one million homes across Europe by 2030.
09:00 – 09:30 | Guest Arrival & Networking
09:30 – 10:15 | Official Opening & Scene Setting
Highlights of Affordable Housing Act
10:15 – 11:00 Panel I: Overview of the social and affordable housing situation in Romania. Understanding the Challenge. Where do we stand on the legislative side?
Lessons from the Habitat for Humanity Romania – Habitat provides the reality check
Core question: What are the biggest barriers preventing Romania from delivering more social and affordable housing at scale.
Moderator: Roberto Pătrășcoiu, CEO Habitat for Humanity Romania
Panellists:
11:00 – 11:30 | EIB SPOTLIGHT: What can Romania learn from Europe? EIB experience in social and affordable housing. Showcasing 2-3 EIB backed European examples. EIB Group impact including the three-pillar approach.
INNOVATE – New construction technologies and industrialized construction
RENNOVATE – Energy-efficient renovation and bringing existing stock back into use
BUILD – New affordable and sustainable housing
Presentation: EIB (European Investment Bank). Introducing the EIB’s broader toolkit: loans, guarantees, equity and advisory
11:30 – 12:15 | Panel II: From European Experience to Romanian Opportunity- What would it take to build a housing investment pipeline in Romania?
Key question: How can Romania connect its housing needs with the growing European capacity to finance affordable housing?
What can potentially be financed?
What projects and promoters exist?
Financial sector: Where is market appetite- and what is missing
How can the EU Framework support investments?
Moderator: Ana Maria Mitroi-Ciobică, Senior Sector Specialist, EIB
Panellists:
12:15 – 12:45 | Conclusions
Policy: what needs to change?
Projects: where are potential opportunities?
Promoters: who could deliver them?
Prep: what needs to happen before projects become financeable?
Finance: what role could EIB potentially play?
Market: how do we create greater appetite?
National Director,
Habitat for Humanity
Romania
Head of the European Investment Bank (EIB) Group Office in Romania
Head of the European Parliament Liaison Office in Romania
Vice-President
of the European
Parliament
Acting Head of European Commission Representation in Romania
Head of European Commission Housing Task Force
Director, Ministry of Development, Public Works and Administration
Member of Romanian Parliament
Mayor Sector 2, Bucharest
Executive Director, CONCORDIA Humanitarian Organization
Director of Sustainable Developement, BID Romania
Director General Adjunct Large Corporate, Banca Transilvania
Senior Program Manager, ROPEA
Director, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in Romania
Board Director, European Investment Bank
