Využití Evropského sociálního fondu ve Slovenské republice

This bachelor thesis disserts on the European Social Fund and its utilization in the Slovak Republic, primarily in the current program period 2007-2013. The European Social Fund, as a fond which focuses on the development of human resources and the actions against the unemployment, contributes to the implementation of the objectives of the Policy of economic and social cohesion, which was constituted exactly for the purpose of decreasing the differences between the European regions especially in terms of standards of living and economical advancement. Whereas the European social fund is only one out of the other European structural funds which conduces to the realization of the Policy of economic and social cohesion, there are also mentioned some information about these other structural funds in this thesis. There is also a brief comment on the topic of the European social fund in the Czech Republic on account of possible comparison with the Slovak Republic. The practical part of the thesis is devoted to the collation of the Slovak operational program with the Czech operational program including the analysis of the content essentials in terms of the thematically similarly aimed appeals which were proclaimed within the chosen operational programs.