Funds from the European Union

The aim of this bachelor thesis is to compare two, a "soft" (non-investment) and a "hard" (investment), projects which represent specific applicants' business objectives for funding grants from the EU. The thesis analyzes deriving from the structural funding of the EU in the programming period 2007 2013, it describes main pitfalls in deriving from these resources and evaluates them. The thesis also describes positive and negative aspects that come with this financial support. This bachelor thesis is divided into two parts a practical part and a theoretical part. The theoretical part describes the 2007 2013 funding programmes. The practical part is focused on the analysis of the operational programmes. It also evaluates positive and negative aspects that come with obtained funds, and the constraints associated with the project implementation.