COHESION OPEN DATA PLATFORM

European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)


The ERDF 2021-2027, with an initial allocation of EUR 215 billion available for programming for the investment in jobs and growth goal, invests under all five cohesion policy high level "policy objectives". It has a strong focus on the policy objectives "Smarter Europe" and "Greener Europe". Learn more about the ERDF on this webpage.

The ERDF also finances Interreg in the EU27 under the "European territorial cooperation goal". That financing is presented separately on the Interreg page.

The initial EU allocations to the cohesion policy funds (before any transfer of resources) are set out in this datastory. An aggregated presentation of Cohesion Policy 2021-2027 (ERDF / ESF+ / CF / JTF) under the "investment in jobs and growth" goal is available on this page.

In the folders below, the chart present information on investment plans, finances implemented, EU payments made and achievement targets in the adopted programmes.

Budget adopted for the period:

€299 685 473 309

The planned total financing, EU share or national co-financing can be visualised in the charts below using the filter buttons above. Based on the filter chosen the planned financing 2021-2027 is presented below 1) by major theme and 2) by country. The source dataset is available on the link ”Explore this data”.

Total Budget by Theme (daily update): European Regional Development Fund, EUR billion

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Refresh Date: 23/10/2026

Total Budget by Member State (daily update): European Regional Development Fund, EUR billion

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Finances planned: detailed

Cohesion policy uses a categorisation system to provide detailed thematic information on the finances planned with data regularly transmitted on progress in implementation. The detail captured is linked to the high level "policy objectives" and presented below for the ERDF in an interactive sankey chart. The values presented in the popup show the planned EU amount, the estimated EU amount in decided projects and the estimated EU share of spending reported by decided projects.


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Finances Planned (detailed): Planned EU financing by detailed ERDF themes (categorisation)

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Period Covered: up to 31/08/2026Refresh Date: 23/10/2026