FEBEA has set concrete objectives:
- support the exchange of information and experiences and cooperation between national networks and social economy and finance practitioners in Europe and in the European free trade area;
- represent its members at the EU institutions and the financial and political organizations and leverage different political levels and European institutions;
- concretely support the efforts of its members, including in the creation of banking and financial instruments that are necessary to accomplish their goals. For this purpose, FEBEA has created a financial cooperative, SEFEA, as well as a set of social financial tools managed by its members to promote the emergence of these new alternative finance initiatives;
- training and advice to its members.