The Participation Fund is a federal financial institution that supports the self-employed, professional people, SCs and starters, including jobseekers who would like to start their own businesses. In addition, the Participation Fund’s objective is to share its know-how by providing financial, technical and administrative services to other institutions, alone or with the collaboration of other organisations. Lastly, the Participation Fund hosts and spearheads BeCeFi, the Belgian Knowledge Centre for SME financing.