Source: Annual activity reports  DG REGIO and DG EMPL

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Belgium

• Simplify and reinforce coherence between employment incentives, activation policies, labour matching, education, lifelong learning and vocational training policies for older people and youth.

Bulgaria

• Accelerate the national Youth Employment Initiative, for example through a Youth Guarantee.
• Adopt the School Education Act and pursue the reform of higher education, in particular through better aligning outcomes to labour-market needs and strengthening cooperation between education, research and business.

Denmark

• Improve the quality of vocational training to reduce drop-out rates and increase the number of apprenticeships.

Estonia

• Continue efforts to improve the labour-market relevance of education and training systems, including by further involving social partners and implementing targeted measures to address youth unemployment.

Note: The data shows the percentage of the total funds allocated per Member State that has been paid by the Commission, on the basis of claims submitted and incudes the payments for territorial cooperation.

Data: European Commission

According to data generated from the KSI SIMIK 07-13 National Information System, since the start of programmes until 23th June 2013, 268 100 applications (correct from the formal point of view) were submitted for the global amount of co-financing (both Community and national funds) of PLN 550.9 billion.

During the same period, 86 123 contracts for co-financing were signed with beneficiaries, for the amount of PLN 357 billion (83 658 336 847  EUR*) amount of co-funding on the part of the EU of PLN 246.7 billion, which constitutes 86.3 percent of allocation for the 2007-2013 period.

The value of beneficiaries’ expenditure recognised as eligible, resulting from submitted payment claims was PLN 214.8 billion (50 343 593 561 EUR*), and in the part of EU co-financing – PLN 152.3 billion.

*Exchange rate: 1 EUR = 4,2667 PLN

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Source: Polish Ministry of EU Funds

Source: Polish Ministry for Regional Development