EU cohesion funding supports projects in a wide range of areas.
Cohesion funding for 2021-2027 targets 5 policy objectives and 24 specific objectives. A specific focus is given to some types of regions and communities. This section will be updated to take account of progress with adoption of 2021-2027 funding programmes over the 2nd half of 2022.
The EU is making specific efforts to support certain types of regions and communities:
The ERDF supports primarily the themes below (the wording reflects the 2014-2020 period’s narrative, but covers both 2014-2020 and 2021-2027 periods)
In addition, EU cohesion funding supports projects in the following fields: