The project concerns the creation of a holding fund (whose anticipated name "OSER Bourgogne-Franche-Comté" is currently being validated) mobilising ESIFs. The Bourgogne Franche-Comté region designates the EIF as its agent to manage this holding fund for the competitiveness of regional companies. The EIF becomes the manager of the holding fund whose strategic objective is to set up underlying financial instruments to finance regional VSE-SMEs, namely a guarantee instrument and a co-investment instrument. Financial intermediaries, selected through an open, transparent, non-discriminatory and objective selection procedure by the EIF following the publication of a call for expressions of interest, will implement the financial instruments in the territory.