Magistro baigiamajame darbe išanalizuota ir įvertinta Europos Sąjungos parama vandentvarkos sektoriui Lietuvoje, vandentvarkos sektoriaus teisinio reglamentavimo pagrindai, iškeltos sektoriaus teisinio reguliavimo ir ekonominio gyvybingumo problemos, Europos Sąjungos Sanglaudos fondo paramos įtaką šiam sektoriui bei pateikti pasiūlymai, kaip spręsti sektoriaus problemas ir užtikrinti, kad ES parama skatintų teigiamą sektoriaus reformą. Pirmoje darbo dalyje teoriniu aspektu tiriamas Lietuvos Respublikos poreikis naudotis Europos Sąjungos parama, ES ISPA ir Sanglaudos fondų reikalavimai ir jų pritaikymas Lietuvoje, apžvelgiama fondų valdymo sistema ir finansuojamos vandentvarkos sektoriaus priemonės. Antroje dalyje nagrinėjamas vandentvarkos sektoriaus reguliavimas Lietuvoje, Sanglaudos fondo paramos planavimo ir skirstymo principai, įvertinama paramos teikimo tvarkos trūkumui ir privalumai ir Sanglaudos fondo poveikis šiam sektoriui. / Master’s work covers analysis and assessment of the European Union assistance to water sector in Lithuania, basics of water sector legal regulation, identification of problems related to the sector’s legal framework and economic viability, assessment of EU Cohesion fund impact on this sector and submission of proposals how to solve those problems and ensure that EU assistance has a positive effect on propmotion of the reform in this sector. In the first part of the work a need for the Republic of Lithuania to use the European Union assistance, requirements of EU ISPA and Cohesion funds as well as their adoptation in Lithuania is analysed and review on the funds’ management system and measures financed in the water sector is presented. The second part of the work analyses regulation of water sector in Lithuania, principles of planning and allocation of Cohesion fund assistance. It also assesses shortages and benefits of the current system of assistance distribution and impact of Cohesion fund to water sector.

The thesis introduces European regional policy which provides the framework for policy of economic, social and territorial cohesion. It characterizes its objectives and financial instruments. The second part of the thesis is focused on Visegrad group in the central European region. The most important chapter deals with drawing money from structural funds and its allocation in the regions in each V4 country. The countries are also compared according to selected criteria. Final part of the thesis presents the future of the EU cohesion policy.

The assistance from the EU funds is a contribution to Lithuanian economic development, upturn in the economy, better quality of life and it plays the significant role for the environmental protection. The project is the main measure for using the EU support. The EU financed projects management has a very complicated management mechanism, which involves a number of national and other interested authorities, as well as fulfils a number of necessary procedures. The management system efficiency of the water sector projects financed by the EU Cohesion fund is the research object in this work. The aim of this work consists of the project cycle analysis through the management system. There were identified significant problems in the each stage of the project cycle as well as evaluated administration capabilities of the EU support managed institutions and project final beneficiaries. There were presented proposals for the EU Cohesion fund water sector projects management system efficiency increasement.

This Thesis is called "Opportunities of culture funding for Strakonice region". The main topic of thesis is rescue culture heritage, its financial support from the EU or National budget of the Czech republic. The Diploma Thesis consists of two parts, theoretic and practic one. The first part includes the kinds of financial supports, a present and a future progression of Czech and European regional culture field. One of chapters, the charter 2. 5. 4 is more focused on the Czech culture strategy. The regional policy has ben elevated since 2014. The culture sector will be the main part the European economy strategy because of its social and economic potential. The second part is about the concrete regional artefacts which have been reconstructed with a financial supports by the owners, national or European funds. The last part have been concentrated for resume of the achieved results and a recommendation for the future culture progression.

This paper describes the management procedures and policy objectives of financial sources in relation to rail transport. Besides the Cohesion Fund and the European Regional Development Fund, this paper defines a variety of alternative sources suitable for EU railways such as TEN-T or Marco Polo, the EIB and the EBRD loans or PP. The theoretical part is supported by real-life examples of rail transport projects. An analysis of the project achievements in terms of outputs and outcomes is also provided in this paper

Thesis focuses on analysis of the possibility of drawing financial resources from EU funds for the railway infrastructure in the Czech Republic. The aim of the work is the analysis of the whole project cycle, and also the utilization of financial resources of EU funds for railway infrastructure in other countries of the European Union.

The main intention of the author consisted in understandable presentation of the application of Structural and Cohesion Funds in a member state of the European Union, particularly in the case of a small-sized company. The purpose of the diploma thesis was to provide the reader with an overview of European Union Structural and Cohesion Funds in general and of those available in the Czech Republic as well. The opportunities to gain funding from European Union of one small sized Czech firm were examined in the last part of the essay. The case study of Czech enterprise proved that the co-financing of projects in a member state can be cumbersome but also very beneficial when approached properly.

The aim of this diploma thesis ?Comparison of utilisation of European funds for regional development in Czech republic and in France? is to show how these two different countries use the European funds for regional development and to compare the utilisation of the European funds. Only funds used for the regional development are described and compared. These are the European regional development fund (ERDF), the European social fund (ESF) and the Cohesion fund (CF). The thesis is dividend into two parts. The theoretical part deals with the description of the state of Czech republic and France in the European union, funds (ERDF, ESF, CF), Regional policy and its objectives. The practical part describes the practical use of the fund in Czech republic and in France, operational programmes and their main objectives. For more detailed description are choosed the operational programmes aimed at the social integration, jobs and education. The most important chapter is The Comparison of utilisation of European funds for regional development in Czech republic and in France. The thesis ends with the chapter suggestions and recommendations and the chapter conclusion offers the summary of the most important data.

One of the goals of the economic, social and territorial cohesion is to reduce regional disparities between member states of the European Union. For this purpose the structural funds and the Cohesion Fund were established(among other things). The theoretical part of this thesis presents the issue of regional disparities and ways how to measure them. In view of the lack of consistent definition of this concept, there are number of measurement and evaluation methods. Furthermore, the work focuses on the implementation of cohesion policy and ways of measurement of their impact on development and growth of regions. The practical part of this thesis presents, evaluates and compares the regional disparities between the regions of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic via selected methods and assesses the impact of the financial support provided from the Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund in the programming period 2007 - 2013 on economic growth of regions in the Czech and Slovak Republics. Following indicators are included: gross domestic product, unemployment rate, gross fixed capital formation and the rate of economic activity. The influence of the subsidy on the economic growth of regions is validated through the panel data analysis, namely a panel model with fixed effects, and Granger causality test. First, we investigated the impact of this support on the economic performance of regions where it is verified whether there is a relationship between economic performance of NUTS III regions in the Czech and Slovak Republics, characterized by gross domestic product and the unemployment rate, and the amount of the subsidy. Furthermore, it is verified whether the amount of subsidy depends on the level of regional gross domestic product. Dissertation contributes to the discussion about the impact of support from EU funds in the Czech and Slovak Republics, focusing on the regional level, and answers the question of reducing regional disparities using the Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund.

This master‘s thesis describes the process associated with financial benefit from ESF. It includes the feasibility study concept and the barriers to realization of project. The feasibility study is integral part of appeal for financial benefit from ESF.