European Social Fund (ESF)
The European Social Fund is Europe’s main instrument for investing in people. It helps people find employment or create businesses, supports disadvantaged groups, improves education and makes public services more efficient.
An aggregated presentation of Cohesion Policy 2014-2020 (ERDF / ESF / CF / YEI) is available on this page.
- Finances: Planned
- Finances: Implemented
- EU Payments
- Achievements
- Projects
Budget adopted for the period:
€140 382 915 509
The planned EU financing, national co-financing and total financing are visible using the filters provided in the blue bar above. Based on the filter chosen the planned financing over the period 2014-2020 is presented below 1) by fund and 2) broken down by major theme. (The source dataset is available on the link ”Explore this dataset”).
Finances planned: detailed
Cohesion policy uses a categorisation system to provide detailed thematic information on the finances planned (and implemented). The detail captured under the "intervention fields" is linked to the high level themes and presented below for the ESF in an interactive sankey chart. TIPS: Click on the chart elements or use the drop down menus to filter by countries, funds, themes, etc. Users can also hold crtl and click selection to select multiple elements. Press "reset selection" in case of non-response.