European Social Fund Plus (ESF+)
The European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) 2021-2027 is the main EU instrument for investing in people with an initial allocation of EUR 98 billion available for programming. Under the "More Social and Inclusive Europe" policy objective it helps people find employment or create businesses, supports disadvantaged groups, improves education and makes public services more efficient. ESF+ also integrates the priorities supported in 2014-2020 under the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) and the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD). Learn more about the ESF+ on this webpage.
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.
The initial EU allocations to the cohesion policy funds (before any transfer of resources) are set out in this datastory.
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:
€138 846 530 936
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 Social Fund Plus, EUR billion
Total Budget by Member State (daily update): European Social Fund Plus, EUR billion
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 ESF+ 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.
TIPS: Click on the chart elements or use the drop down menus to filter by countries, funds, themes, etc. Users can also hold crtl and click selection to select multiple elements. Press "reset selection" in case of non-response.