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Themes

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.

Addressing the specific needs of certain regions and communities

The EU is making specific efforts to support certain types of regions and communities:

Themes for the ERDF

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)

Further fields of support

In addition, EU cohesion funding supports projects in the following fields: