We are frequently approached by researchers for data on cohesion policy financing broken down using the the NUTS territorial classification. Here we set out what is available at NUTS level.

This dataset presents information on EU payments to the ESI Funds programmes as well as to FEAD, IPA-E and ENI supported programmes.
Annual snapshots are provided in the data and therefore the data **must** be filtered by year to have an accurate view of the total EU planned amount and payments made.
Data is reported on cumulative basis, i.e. the amounts shown in 2017 represent the cumulative payments made from the beginning of the programming period (2014-2017 up to date).
The dataset is updated on a daily basis.

A significant share of Cohesion Policy funds are supporting rural areas and communities. Discover how these funds are channelled and what they are used for.

This dataset provides an open data access to the list of cohesion policy programme evaluations completed by the Member States and published since 2015. The evaluations are also searchable through the search functions on this internet page: https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/policy/evaluations/member-states/.
The evaluations cover multiple programming periods (2007-2013 and 2014-2020). Apart from the list, for many evaluations abstracts are also provided.
The list does not include ex ante evaluations for 2014-2020 (Art. 55 CPR).

A guide to understand, download and reuse categorisation data 2014-2020.

The report compares achievements with finances in all ESF CCIs and priority axes at the level of the investment priority, broken down by category of region. Specifically it compares the total number of participants - unemployed + inactive + employed - with a) the total costs of the selected projects and b) the declared expenditure. The data on participants (common output indicators) are taken from Table 4A of the annual implementation reports. The financial data are taken from Table 7 of the AIR.

The report compares immediate and longer-term direct results with outputs achieved in the YEI programmes. For example, the number of ‘unemployed participants who are in education/training, gain a qualification, or are in employment’’ is divided by the number of unemployed participants. The resulting percentage tells the share of participants who obtained a particular type of result, measured by a common indicator.

The report provides the success rates for all ESF operational programmes (CCIs) and priority axes at the level of the investment priority, broken down by category of region. Data on ESF common result indicators are taken from Tables 2A and 2B; data on ESF common output indicators are taken from Table 4A of the annual implementation reports.

As part of the CRII/CRII+ package, at the request of a country, the expenditure declared in 2020-2021 accounting exercise could be financed 100% by EU resources. This option of 100% European co-financing is one of the most popular measures with the majority of modified programmes making use of this possibility.

The data below shows the number modified programmes with 100% EU co-financing in relation to the total number of cohesion policy programmes by country (TC = Interreg programmes). The table also counts the total number of priority exes (investments envelopes) and the number with 100% EU cofinancing.