The Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund: Who will get how much?

The Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund are available in all the EU countries.

Since 2004 the European funds have been available in 10 “new EU Member States” - Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.

Since January 2007, they have been available in the former Candidate Countries : Bulgaria and Romania.

3 funds are at your disposal:

1. European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) 2. European Social Fund (ESF) 3. The Cohesion Fund (CF)

All in all, 268 European regions can benefit from the funds.

How much will your region get depends mainly on the level of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita comparing to the EU average. In another words, it depends to which "objective" your region belongs.

EU cohesion policy has 3 objectives:
- Convergence’ objective (red & pink regions on the map),
- Competitiveness and Employment’ objective (blue & dark blue regions),
- European Territorial Cooperation’ objective (all regions)

The objectives determine which regions will benefit from which funds.

Distribution of the total EU cohesion policy budget: € 347 billion (current prices)
’Convergence’ objective	’Competitiveness and Employment’ objective	’European Territorial Cooperation’ objective
81.5 %	16 %	2.5 %
ERDF, ESF, CF	ERDF, ESF	ERDF

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STRUCTURAL FUNDS GLOSSARY

General provisions ERDF – ESF– Cohesion Fund (2007-2013)

This webpage is a summary of the regulation which defines the common rules, standards and principles applicable to the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the European Social Fund (ESF) and the Cohesion Fund.

European regional development fund

The ERDF aims to correct the imbalances within the EU’s regions by reducing the gap between the levels of development and contributing in the conversion of the regions. The EU ERDF website provides a complete definition of this structural fund and information on its areas of intervention in accordance with the 3 objectives (Convergence, Regional Competitiveness and Employment, European Territorial Cooperation).

European Social Fund

As one of the structural funds, the ESF is the EU’s financial instrument for supporting economic development and for investing in people within the EU. This website provides more information on European social fund (its definition, its fields of activity and the ESF projects) as well as an interactive map with funding areas and programme details per region.

Glossary Inforegio
Glossary of useful terms and acronyms with their definitions related to the European Regional Policy.

Financing sustainable energy projects through the Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund in 2007-2013

This publication is useful for European municipalities, private companies, associations, energy agencies and other actors, especially from the New Member States, who plan to finance their sustainable energy projects from the Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund in the next programming period 2007-2013.

You will find here:
- Overview of the European Funds and the European priorities in the field of sustainable energy in 2007-2013 .
- List of Operational Programmes that will support sustainable energy projects in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Romania and Slovenia in 2007-2013.
- Concrete examples of the projects co-financed from the European Funds in the years 2000-2006 : Advises on project design, Overview of other financial sources, Useful contacts and documents.

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