Aim of this work is to analyze the possibility of drawing funds from European Union funds to finance community development activities. Given that the Slovak Republic is an EU member, is also able to draw funds from these sources and improve the living standard of citizens. Based on previous development of public finances, reform of local government, the structure of income and expenditure of municipalities in Slovakia and analysis of the specific communities, work assesses the impact of actually drawn from EU funds on the municipal budget, a municipality to be self -- financing EU projects and predicts the development in the future.

The aim of this study is to compare companies and NGOs in the projects of EU Structural Funds. In the theoretical part were presented EU funds, in particular the European Social Fund and European Regional Development Fund. Then there was described the situation of companies and nongovernmental organizations in the Czech Republic. In the fourth section of the theoretical part are possible operational programs, which can be used by companies and NGOs. In the practical part there was selected for the qualitative research Operational Programme Humans Resources and Employment. Studied the effect of subsidized organizations like the Project on civic associations, charitable company, limited liability company and stock company before and after project.

This thesis analyses the EU budget in relation with the budgetary system in the Czech republic. The theoretical part deals with EU budgetary politics, the Czech state budget and the local budgets in the Czech republic in general. Both cooperation and effectivness of the structural funds are evaluated in the analytical part of the thesis on the basis of the project co-funded by the Regional Operating Program NUTS II North-East. The analytical part consists of the questionnaire survey too, whose results show the actual needs and problems of the inhabitants. All the text was filled in the graphs and tables.

This thesis examines the regional differentiation of Spain and the regional politics in the context of Spanish economic situation within the EU. The first chapter looks at Spain as an EU member, focusing on its profile from the perspective of economic level and growth. Included comparative analysis of the Spanish economy emphasizes the nominal and real convergence with the Eurozone based on the most influential variables. The second chapter deals with the causes and development of the Spanish regional disparity, highlighting various economic sector specializations of distinct regions, impacting employment and productivity. This chapter also touches the topic of social and information inequality. The third and final chapter is dedicated to structural and cohesive policies of Spain during the past program periods as well as the current financial perspective of 2007-2013, focusing on the tools of the EU providing regional aid. Spain within the process of fund redistribution, existing successful results as well as concrete impact on Andalucia's regional economy are also described.

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 thesis is focused on an overall assessment of the appropriateness of the provision of public goods in the Czech Republic in the form of Public Private Partnership (PPP). The theoretical part of the thesis deals with the general issue of providing public goods and characteristics of PPP as an alternative to the institute of public contracts. This theme is further developed by analysis of the possible forms of PPP projects with financial assistance from the Structural Funds. The practical part is devoted to analysis of the implemented municipal PPP project of construction and operation of parking house. For the project effectiveness evaluation are used outputs from the calculated financial model which are supplemented by the application of theoretically possible co-financing from EU funds.

The aim of the thesis is to evaluate the effect of drawing funds from structural funds of EU to specific areas of the Czech Republic which is the region Tachov and micro-regions, which are located there. A sub-goal is to determine whether the observed micro-regions fulfill its role in the region, and whether there are other forms of small regional groups which are able to effectively draw and allocate financial resources from EU funds. The first part is a concise definition of regional policy and its implementation in the Czech Republic accompanied by a description of EU funds, which goes from support to the regions. The next section is characterized by the region Tachovsko and its micro-regions. The area is analyzed from both an economic and social terms and is conducted SWOT analysis. Next chapter deals with the operational programs that are relevant for the investigated area. The central part deals with the evaluation of projects in the both programming period, in 2004-2006 and in 2007-2013. It created a comprehensive overview of all completed and ongoing projects that are examining the impact of utilization of EU funds. Base on these findings are suggested for the region and both micro-regions for one thing in the drawing of funds EU and for another in activities in the field of micro-regions.

The thesis clarifies the role of tourism in regiona development. The first chapter deals with the characteristics of tourism in the Czech Republic and its economic importance. The second chapter presents the EU regional policy with a focus on tourism. The last chapter deals with a specific project, which was succesful in application for grant from the Regional Operational Programme NUTS II Severovýchod. The thesis should explain why tourism is supported by the EU as well as provide comprehensive information to persons interested in EU grants in the area of tourism.

This study presents a new firm- and project-level dataset containing data on over two million projects co-funded by the EU structural and cohesion funds in 25 EU member states during the programming period 2007-2013. Information on individual beneficiary firms and institutions is linked with business data of Bureau van Dijk's ORBIS database. Moreover, text mining techniques are applied to categorise the EU cohesion policy projects into fifteen thematic categories. Stylised facts reveal substantial regional heterogeneity in the distribution of funds to certain projects and beneficiaries (with respect to their size or industry). Furthermore, regional funds distribution differs across less developed and higher-income as well as urban and rural regions. In an econometric analysis, we control for project and firm characteristics that we expect to determine the single project's value, which is confirmed by the results. Nevertheless, there remains unexplained variation in individual project volumes, which differs systematically across countries.

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the impact of the EU’s Structural Fund (SF) policy between 2000-2007 on regional economic growth in Sweden. A regional convergence analysis is performed in order to examine if the SF policy’s overall aim of convergence is reached. Furthermore the study examines the growth of important Structural Fund goal indicators as employment, education and new firm formation in the Objective 1, 2 and 3 areas. The main growth- and convergence theories and their connection to regional policies such as the SF policy is used as the theoretical framework and form the study’s hypothesis. The results show that absolute β-convergence exists between the Swedish urban areas. The growth of the goal indicators show that the Objective 1 and 2 areas, which received most part of the SF support have achieved their aims in increasing employment and new firm creation. In addition the Objective 2 areas have increased their share of population with higher education compared to the areas that did not receive either Objective 1 or 2 support. The Objective 3 areas, which received the least part of the SF support had a lower mean growth in employment than the areas that received no direct Objective 3 support. In addition the urban areas that only received Objective 3 support had a lower growth in share of population with higher education. From the results we can reach the overall conclusion that the positive impact of the SF policy on the goal indicators seem to be the largest in the areas that received most part of the funding. The final conclusion is that the SF are effective in enhancing economic growth in the areas of intervention. / Syftet med denna uppsats är att analysera EU:s Strukturfondspolitiks inverkan på regional ekonomisk tillväxt i Sverige mellan 2000-2007. En regional konvergensanalys utförs för att undersöka om Strukturfondspolitikens övergripande konvergens mål uppnås. Vidare undersöker studien viktiga Strukturfondmålindikatorers tillväxt, såsom sysselsättning, utbildning och nyföretagande, i Mål 1, 2 och 3 områdena. De viktigaste tillväxt- och konvergensteorierna och deras koppling till regional politik, såsom Strukturfondspolitiken används som den teoretiska bakgrunden och formar studiens hypotes. Resultaten visar att absolut β-konvergens existerar mellan de svenska kommunerna. Resultaten för målindikatorernas tillväxt visar att Mål 1 och 2-områdena som har mottagit största delen av Strukturfondsstödet har uppnått sina mål att öka sysselsättningen och starta nya företag. Dessutom har Mål 2-områdena haft en högre ökning av andelen av befolkningen med högre utbildning jämfört med områdena som inte mottog något Mål 1 eller 2-stöd. Mål 3- områdena som har mottagit den minsta delen av Strukturfondsstödet hade en lägre tillväxt av sysselsättning jämfört med de områden som inte mottog något direkt Mål 3-stöd. De områden som enbart mottog Mål 3-stöd hade dessutom en lägre tillväxt av befolkning med högre utbildning. Utifrån resultaten kan vi dra den övergripande slutsatsen att den positiva påverkan av Strukturfondspolitiken på målindikatorerna verkar vara störst i de områden som har mottagit största delen av Strukturfondsstödet. Den slutgiltiga slutsatsen är att Strukturfondspolitiken sannolikt främjar den ekonomiska tillväxten i insatsområdena.