2030 EU Policies and Financial Instruments
Content
- History, facts and basics of EU integration
- The institutions and decision-making in the EU
- The financial framework and an EU budget
- Centralized/decentralized and return EU funds/EU grants
- EU policies with exclusive competencies of the EU
- EU policies with shared competencies
- EU financial instruments of regional and urban development
- EU financial instruments of employment and social inclusion
- EU financial instruments for agriculture and rural development (and fisheries)
- EU financial instruments for research and innovation
- New challenges of EU policies and their funding
- Case studies of EU policies and absorption of EU funds
Objectives and competences
Objectives:
- student understands the theoretical foundations that underpin EU policies and their financial instruments
- student justify the division of responsibilities between Member States and the EU in implementing and monitoring the effects of the EU’s policies
- student analyzes EU policies and their funding sources
- students understand the different approaches and tools to analyze EU policies
- student is able to find the financial resources of the EU (co-) financing of projects selected
Competencies:
- student will be able to interpret and compare the developments in EU policies and their financial instruments
- student will be capable of understanding and analysis of the functioning of the EU and its policies
- student will be able to participate in the preparation of EU (co)financed national or local development programs
- student is able to substantively and financially to place public and private programs/projects in the EU area
- the student is able to connect and transfer the acquired knowledge into practice