Table 2.
Cohesion Policy funding categories and intervention fields for the period 2014–2020.
| Categories and Intervention Field Dimension | Code | Intervention Field |
|---|---|---|
| A—Energy infrastructure | 009 | Renewable energy: wind |
| 010 | Renewable energy: solar | |
| 011 | Renewable energy: biomass | |
| 012 | Other renewable energy (including hydroelectric, geothermal, and marine energy) and renewable energy integration (including storage, power to gas, and renewable hydrogen infrastructure) | |
| 013 | Energy efficiency renovation of public infrastructure, demonstration projects and supporting measures | |
| 014 | Energy efficiency renovation of existing housing stock, demonstration projects, and supporting measures | |
| 015 | Intelligent Energy Distribution Systems at medium and low voltage levels (including smart grids and information and communication technology (ICT) systems) | |
| 016 | High-efficiency co-generation and district heating | |
| A—Environmental infrastructure | 017 | Household waste management (including minimization, sorting, recycling measures) |
| 018 | Household waste management (including mechanical biological treatment, thermal treatment, incineration, and landfill measures) | |
| 019 | Commercial, industrial, or hazardous waste management | |
| 020 | Provision of water for human consumption (extraction, treatment, storage, and distribution infrastructure) | |
| 021 | Water management and drinking water conservation (including river basin management, water supply, specific climate change adaptation measures, district and consumer metering, charging systems, and leak reduction) | |
| 022 | Wastewater treatment | |
| 023 | Environmental measures aimed at reducing and/or avoiding greenhouse gas emissions (including treatment and storage of methane gas and composting) | |
| A—Transport infrastructure | 028 | Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) motorways and roads—core network (new build) |
| 029 | Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) motorways and roads—comprehensive network (new build) | |
| 030 | Secondary road links to TEN-T road network and nodes (new build) | |
| 031 | Other national and regional roads (new build) | |
| 032 | Local access roads (new build) | |
| 033 | Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) reconstructed or improved road | |
| 034 | Other reconstructed or improved road (motorway, national, regional, or local) | |
| A—Sustainable transport | 043 | Clean urban transport infrastructure and promotion (including equipment and rolling stock) |
| 044 | Intelligent transport systems (including the introduction of demand management, tolling systems, IT monitoring, control and information systems) | |
| B—Public facilities | 049 | Education infrastructure for tertiary education |
| 050 | Education infrastructure for vocational education and training and adult learning | |
| 051 | Education infrastructure for school education (primary and general secondary education) | |
| 052 | Infrastructure for early childhood education and care | |
| 053 | Health infrastructure | |
| 054 | Housing infrastructure | |
| 055 | Other social infrastructure contributing to regional and local development | |
| C—Business development | 068 | Energy efficiency and demonstration projects in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and supporting measures |
| 069 | Support to environmentally friendly production processes and resource efficiency in SMEs | |
| 070 | Promotion of energy efficiency in large enterprises | |
| 071 | Development and promotion of enterprises specialized in providing services contributing to the low-carbon economy and to resilience to climate change (including support to such services) | |
| C—ICT | 080 | E-inclusion, e-accessibility, e-learning, and e-education services and applications, digital literacy |
| 081 | ICT solutions addressing the healthy active aging challenge, and e-health services and applications (including e-care and ambient assisted living) | |
| C—Environment | 083 | Air quality measures |
| 084 | Integrated pollution prevention and control (IPPC) | |
| 085 | Protection and enhancement of biodiversity, nature protection, and green infrastructure | |
| 089 | Rehabilitation of industrial sites and contaminated land | |
| 090 | Cycle tracks and footpaths | |
| D—Employment | 102 | Access to employment for jobseekers and inactive people, including the long-term unemployed and people far from the labor market, also through local employment initiatives and support for labor mobility |
| 103 | Sustainable integration into the labor market of young people, those not in employment, education or training, including young people at risk of social exclusion and young people from marginalized communities, including through the implementation of the youth guarantee | |
| 104 | Self-employment, entrepreneurship and business creation including innovative micro, small- and medium-sized enterprises | |
| 105 | Equality between men and women in all areas, including in access to employment, career progression, reconciliation of work and private life, and promotion of equal pay for equal work | |
| 106 | Adaptation of workers, enterprises, and entrepreneurs to change | |
| 107 | Active and healthy aging | |
| 108 | Modernization of labor market institutions, such as public and private employment services, and improving the matching of labor market needs, including through actions that enhance transnational labor mobility, as well as through mobility schemes and better cooperation between institutions and relevant stakeholders | |
| E—Inclusion | 109 | Active inclusion, including with a view to promoting equal opportunities and active participation, and improving employability |
| 110 | Socio-economic integration of marginalized communities such as Roma | |
| 111 | Combating all forms of discrimination and promoting equal opportunities | |
| 112 | Enhancing access to affordable, sustainable, and high-quality services, including healthcare and social services of general interest | |
| 113 | Promoting social entrepreneurship and vocational integration in social enterprises and the social and solidarity economy in order to facilitate access to employment | |
| 114 | Community-led local development strategies | |
| F—Lifelong learning | 115 | Reducing and preventing early school-leaving and promoting equal access to good-quality early-childhood, primary, and secondary education including formal, non-formal, and informal learning pathways for reintegrating into education and training |
| 116 | Improving the quality and efficiency of, and access to, tertiary and equivalent education with a view to increasing participation and attainment levels, especially for disadvantaged groups | |
| 117 | Enhancing equal access to lifelong learning for all age groups in formal, non-formal, and informal settings, upgrading the knowledge, skills, and competences of the workforce, and promoting flexible learning pathways including through career guidance and validation of acquired competences | |
| 118 | Improving the labor market relevance of education and training systems, facilitating the transition from education to work, and strengthening vocational education and training systems and their quality, including through mechanisms for skills anticipation, adaptation of curricula, and the establishment and development of work-based learning systems, including dual learning systems and apprenticeship schemes |
Source: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 215/2014, of 7 March 2014, Annex I—Nomenclature for the categories of intervention of the Funds under the Investment for growth and jobs goal and of the Youth Employment Initiative. Main categories of intervention (European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the European Social Fund (ESF), and the Cohesion Fund (CF)): A—infrastructure providing basic services and related investment; B—social, health, and education infrastructure investment; C—development of endogenous potential; D—promoting sustainable and quality employment and labor mobility; E—promoting social inclusion, combating poverty, and any discrimination; F—investing in education, training, and vocational training for skills and lifelong learning.