The Use of the European Social Fund in the Czech Republic

This work examines the effects of implememtation of solidarity principle of the European Union. The hypthesis is tested on the example of evaluation of the impact of the Structural Fonds in the Czech Republic. The aim of this work is to confirm or reject the hypothesis that the division of financial aid coming from structural funds is consistent with solidarity principle. The thesis works with the presumption that the financial aid coming from structural funds is devided according to the solidarity principle and in correspondence with provision of tertiary education in individual NUTS regions. The solidarity principle is based on a simple rule that the highest amounts of money flow to the regions that provide the lowest possibilities for university education. The first part of this work concentrates on confirmation of solidarity principle while the students remain immobile. The other part desist from the imobility of students. It is trying to identify how many students commute to other NUTS II regions and to what extent it can this influence solidarity principle implemented in the Czech Republic