Course Details
Structural Policy of the EU
Academic Year 2024/25
TG07 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
2 credits
Semester
Forms and criteria of assessment
Offered to foreign students
Course on BUT site
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. and 5. Priorities of the structural and regional policy of the EU – aims of the structural policy in the years 1989-1999 (Aims 1 - 6), in the period of 2000-2006 (Aims 1 - 3) and in the period 2007-2013, regions which are receiving help from structural funds, description of chosen projects.
6. The initiatives of the European Community – initiatives of the European Community in the periods 1989–1999, 2000–2006 and 2007–2013 with a focus on initiatives with a regional dimension.
7. Cross-border cooperation in the EU – euroregions, programmes supporting the development of euroregions (INTERREG I - III), description of selected projects.
8. and 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.
10.- 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