Course Details

Structural Policy of the EU

Academic Year 2025/26

NVA071 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-ARS / ARP Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

Ing. Lucie Vaňková, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Structural Economics and Management

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

2 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/296008

Lecture

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Principles of the structural and regional policy of the EU – development.
  • 2. Structural funds and other funds and institutions financing structural and regional policies – European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), European Social Fund (ESF), European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGR), European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance (FIFG); Cohesion Fund, European Investment Bank.
  • 3. Legislative support of structural and regional policies – basic documents in the field of primary and secondary legislation; Committee of the regions.
  • 4. – 5. Priorities of the structural and regional policy of the EU – aims of the structural policy in the individual programming periods, regions which are receiving help from structural funds, description of chosen projects.
  • 6. The initiatives of the European Community – initiatives of the European Community with a focus on initiatives with a regional dimension.
  • 7. Cross-border cooperation in the EU – euroregions, programmes supporting the development of euroregions (INTERREG), description of selected projects.
  • 8. – 9. The Czech Republic and cross-border cooperation – euroregions in the Czech Republic, development (PHARE-CBC programmes) and the current state, problems of cooperation and future prospects, description of selected projects with a focus on successful projects.
  • 13. Regional division of the EU - NUTS units of hierarchical levels 1 and 2 according to the individual countries of the EU, their basic demographic and economic characteristics.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Basic information about the European Union
  • 2. Publications and external relations of the European Union
  • 3. Documents of the European Union
  • 4. The European Union bodies
  • 5. The European Union institutions
  • 6. Budget of the European Union
  • 7. Policies of the European Union
  • 8. Policy of economic, social and territorial cohesion
  • 9. Programs financed from the European Union
  • 10. Particular kinds of financed programs
  • 11. Successful realized projects
  • 12. Examples of successfully realized projects