Terminated in academic year 2008/2009

EU Cohesion Policy

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	English
Code	120-0537/01
Abbreviation	EUCP
Course title	EU Cohesion Policy
Credits	8
Coordinating department	Department of International Economic Relations
Course coordinator	prof. Ing. Karel Skokan, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1.Introduction. Cohesion policy and the convergence in the European Union.
2.Evaluation of economic and social cohesion in the EU – Cohesions Reports.
3.Programming framework of the EU structural aid.
4.The general logic of programming Structural Funds`assistance in the EU.
5.The general structure and content of programming documents for the EU
Structural funds.
6.Horizontal priorities in the programming documents of Structural Funds in
the EU.
7.Use of the EU structural aid in the Czech Republic: Programming period 2004 –
2006
8.Implementation and evaluation system of programming documents for the EU
Structural funds.
9.Cohesion Fund in the EU and the Czech Republic.
10.Community Initiative Programmes of the EU.
11.EU cohesion policy in programming period 2007 - 2013.
11.The framework of EU Cohesion policy in the Czech Republic: Programming
period 2007 – 2013.Strategic programming documents for the EU Structural Funds
in the Czech Republic.
13.Structure and content of Operational programmes in the Czech Republic:
Programming period 2007 – 2013. Convergence objective, Regional
competitiveness and employment objective, European territorial cooperation
objective.

Literature

BACHTLER, J., P. BERKOWITZ, S. HARDY and T. MURAVSKA. EU Cohesion Policy. Reassessing Performance and Direction. New York: Routledge, 2017. ISBN 978-1-138-22464.
BACHTLER, J., J. OLIVEIRA-MARTINS, P. WOSTNER and P. ŻUBER. Towards cohesion policy 4.0: structural transformation and inclusive growth. Abingdon, Oxon: Taylor & Francis, 2019. Regional studies policy impact books, volume 1 (2019). ISBN 978-0-367-24367-8.
LUX, Gábor a Gyula HORVÁTH, ed. The Routledge Handbook to regional development in Central and Eastern Europe. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018. Routledge handbooks. ISBN 978-1-4724-8571-7.

Advised literature

EUROPEAN COMMISSION. Cohesion in Europe towards 2050. Eighth report on economic, social and territorial cohesion. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2022. 353 p. .
EUROPEAN COMMISSION. European Structural and Investment Funds 2022 Summary report of the programme annual implementation reports covering implementation in 2014-2020. COM(2023) 39 final. Brussels, 2023.
KRISTENSEN, Iryna, A. DUBOIS and J. TERÄS, ed. Strategic approaches to regional development: smart experimentation in less-favoured regions. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. Regions and cities, 134. ISBN 978-1-138-08435-3.

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