There are cases where the final project scope depends on costs, i.e. the cheaper the funding, the greater the scope of the project. An education project evaluated in-depth is a good example where lower-cost EIB funding clearly provided some financial additionality. This effect made a difference to the affordability of some projects and to the scope of others. In some cases, EIB involvement may also have helped to keep down the parallel commercial lenders' pricing and so produced a further, indirect reduction in costs.