Data for research
DG Regional Policy actively encourages research and the use of data on the ESIF and Structural Funds. Below we indicate some of the data available across different programming periods. Increasingly, this data is made available on the ESIF Open Data Platform in the data catalogue: https://cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu/browse . There you will find metadata pages and link to graphs giving insights into the dataset contents.
The DG REGIO evaluation unit welcomes feedback and will try to respond promptly to requests. Should you need data that is not in the catalogue, or should you require additional explanations (beyond what is in the metadata) please contact us.
Datasets available on the ESIF Open Data platform (with metadata files) - https://cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu/browse
- ESIF 2014-2020 - planned Finance
- ESIF-2014-2020 – finance implementation Details (project selection and expenditure)
- ESIF 2014-2020 - achievements (common indicators – targets and implementation)
- ESIF 2014-2020 – ERDF-ESF-CF – detailed thematic “categorisation” data
- This dataset (first published March 2018) provides historic long-term regionalised (NUTS-2) annual EU expenditure data for different EU funds - ERDF, Cohesion Fund, EAFRD/EAGGF and ESF. It is the most complete dataset of it kind covering 4 programming periods, however, it does not contain thematic information. Historic EU payments - regionalised and modelled
- Geography of expenditure study, August 2015 (Ex post 2007-2013): More information
a. Data on EU Payments
- Regional expenditure study 2000-2006: Breakdown of ERDF, Cohesion Fund and ISPA expenditures by regions, by sectors and by Objectives. The report gives an overview of the results and the methodological issues, the complete data is contained in the annexes
b. Data on budget commitments
For the programming period 2007-2013, progress in implementation was reported by the managing authorities in the programme annual implementation reports (AIR). This led to the capture of monitoring information on (1) allocations decided and how they changed over time, (2) amounts allocated to projects (project selection) and (3) information on ERDF and Cohesion Fund achievements as measured by the use of core indicators (common EU indicators).
- Planned categorisation allocations end-2008 vs end-2015
- Categorisation / project selection data - reported by programmes by combination of dimension codes
- Core indicators data for ERDF/Cohesion Fund - reported by programme
- 2014-2020: Major Projects approved (financial details)
- Period 2014-2020: The categorisation system (with 8 dimensions) was set out in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 215/2014
- Period 2007-2013: The categorisation system (with 5 dimensions) was set out in COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1828/2006