The starting point of this diploma thesis is a general characteristics of the Regional Policy of the European Union, with a special focus on the relation to the Czech Republic. The fundamental part of the thesis consists in the description of present experience of the town Vlašim with drawing finances from the EU´s Structural Funds, as well as the characteristics of successfully realized projects on its territory. The thesis aims to elaborate the gathered materials into a clearly organized methodical material which can also be used as an aid for those persons who are interested in the Regional Policy of the EU.

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The topic of master thesis is the regional policy of the European Union and use of the Structural Funds in a current program period 2007-2013. The master thesis deals with the Operational Program Education for Competitive Advantage and possibilities of financial grants enabling development in the area of education in the district of Domažlice belonging to NUTS II. South-West. In the theoretic part of master thesis the description of the structural politics, its´ principles and the European funds are targeted. The most important passage represents the practical part - a project named: "Support of education in French at the Grammer School J. Š. Baara in Domažlicích." The project consists of detailed budget and description of monitor indicators.

In the work was performed situational analysis the Tábor region in terms of natural, historical, cultural and tourism infrastructure. Another part was questionnaire survey - citizens´views and tourists to offer in tourism in the region Tábor. In addition, it seeks to find possibilities for its further development of tourism in the region using funds from the EU. Part of this work is to propose a project and product package for cyclist to support tourism development to Tábor.

This thesis deals with description and evaluation of the status quo in terms of Slavonice city in a question of drawing funds from both the national and European sources. Work consists of the theoretical and practical parts. The theoretical part consists of regional issues and EU structural policy and the Czech Republic, municipalities and financing its development. The practical part includes socio-economic characteristics of Slavonice city, which is connected to SWOT analysis of discussed area and outline a strategy that would lead to positive development of the city. Another part of this work is a summary of the grants from national and regional resource analysis and utilization of financial resources from EU funds in individual programming period. In conclusion, this work is presented a proposal for new financial incentives and design project, which reacts at 11th Call for NUTS II South-West.

This study introduces a new firm-level dataset containing over two million projects co-funded by the European Union´s (EU) structural and Cohesion funds in 25 EU member states in the multi-annual financial framework 2007-2013. Information on individual beneficiary firms and institutions published by regional authorities is linked with business data from Bureau van Dijk's ORBIS database. Moreover, we show how modern text mining techniques can be used to categorise EU funded projects into fifteen thematic categories proposed by the European Commission. A first analysis of the dataset reveals substantial heterogeneity of beneficiaries and projects across and within countries. While in the majority of lagging regions the largest project expenditure is dedicated to transportation and energy infrastructure, in most other regions the major part is assigned to innovation and technological development as well as business (including SME) support. In an econometric analysis we control for project and firm characteristics and find that the highest single project values are associated with older beneficiary firms that are larger in size. Furthermore, the projects with topmost expenditure are carried out in Dutch and British regions. / Series: Department of Economics Working Paper Series

The diploma thesis deals with topic of political-administrative relations in Czech Republic only a little elaborated. The main aim of the thesis is to understand and find characteristic features of political-administrative relations in the region with the smallest and largest fluctuation of the regional political leader in Czech Republic. The work in research exploits the information from the previous knowledge and the already established theory of politico-administrative relations, which are significantly differentiated and varied and also offers data from its own empirical research carried out at the regional offices. After the theories of J. D. Aberbach et al., F. Schreues et al., G. Peters and especially the main theory of P. E. Mouritzen and J. H. Svara are presented, the author presents the findings of the qualitative research in the last chapter and tries to include them into these theories and typologies, and to specify the nature of the relations examined at the regional level and to draw attention to their possible influences and consequences on the functioning of regional polity.

Region policy of the European Union seems to be one of the most important policy at the supranational level. While it represented only a negligible item on the european budget in the 80s, today it occupies, from the expenditure volume point of view, a second place already. During this dynamic period of time Cohesion policy has become an object of number of political but also special discussions, gained many favorers and opponents. With regard to the considerable amounts of money it has granted, it is worth of detailed attention. Italy has become the seond largest beneficiary from the Structural funds between 1989 an 2006. Its economy is characterised by a substantial geografic dualism where its Southern "periphery" has been struggling with continuous socio-economic difficulties. These regions have had a change to benefit from the generous Structural funds for a considerable period of time. This study tries to analyse the effectiveness of these financial resources, in other words, it considers empirical analysis of the marginal growth effects of these resources on the Southern Italian regions.

This thesis deals with problems of European structural funds, especially it is focused on utilisation of the financial resources of the European Social Fund from 2004 to 2006. The first part of the thesis is a theoretical view of the economics on the regional policy. Following part is a description of the structural funds system and then there is an evaluation of the effectivity of the structural funds on the base of one soft project, which was realized in the Prague by non-profit organization established by Magistrate of Prague. In conclusion I discuss advantages and disadvantages of the European structural funds.

The aim of the diploma thesis is to provide an overview and comparison of the systems of regional policies in Czech Republic and Slovak Republic. Firstly there will be described the beginning and progression of the regional policy in a global scale. This part will be followed by the comparison of regional structures and territory splitting of the referenced countries. There will be described the individual factors (natural, economic, demographic etc.) which influenced the state of development of regional policy in Czech Republic and Slovakia until 1990 and then since 1990. And at last but not least there will be described the changes after joining the EU. Lastly there will be focus on effectiveness of the regional policy in terms of the EU and as well its effectiveness between Czech and Slovak republic.