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            • 1. Assess the needs
            • 2. Integrate initiatives to broader strategy
            • 3. Ensure sufficient resources
            • 4. Write good terms of reference
            • 5. Select a trainer
            • 6. Engage in the needs assessment
            • 7. Actively participate in the initiative
            • 8. Invite others to join in
            • 9. Monitoring framework and procedures
            • 10. Set up an evaluation framework
            • 11. Assess long-term impacts
            • 12. Give space and support others
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        • Guide to Gender Impact Assessment
          • Step 1: Definition of policy purpose
          • Step 2: Checking gender relevance
          • Step 3: Gender-sensitive analysis
          • Step 4: Weighing gender impact
          • Step 5: Findings and proposals for improvement
        • Following up on gender impact assessment
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        • Guide to Institutional Transformation
            • 1. Creating accountability and strengthening commitment
            • 2. Allocating resources
            • 3. Conducting an organisational analysis
            • 4. Developing a strategy and work plan
            • 5. Establishing a support structure
            • 6. Setting gender equality objectives
            • 7. Communicating gender mainstreaming
            • 8. Introducing gender mainstreaming
            • 9. Developing gender equality competence
            • 10. Establishing a gender information management system
            • 11. Launching gender equality action plans
            • 12. Promotional equal opportunities
            • 13. Monitoring and steering organisational change
        • Dealing with resistance
          • Discourse level
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            • 1. Strengthening accountability
            • 2. Allocating resources
            • 3. Organisational analysis
            • 4. Developing a strategy and working plan
            • 5. Establishing a support structure
            • 6. Setting objectives
            • 7. Communicating gender mainstreaming
            • 8. Introducing methods and tools
            • 9. Developing Competence
            • 10. Establishing a gender information management system
            • 11. Launching action plans
            • 12. Promoting within an organisation
            • 13. Monitoring and evaluating
      • Gender Equality in Academia and Research
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          • What is a Gender Equality Plan?
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          • Which stakeholders need to be engaged into a GEP
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          • Horizon Europe GEP criterion
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          • Why change must be structural
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          • GEAR step-by-step guide for research organisations, universities and public bodies
            • Step 1: Getting started
            • Step 2: Analysing and assessing the state-of-play in the institution
            • Step 3: Setting up a Gender Equality Plan
            • Step 4: Implementing a Gender Equality Plan
            • Step 5: Monitoring progress and evaluating a Gender Equality Plan
            • Step 6: What comes after the Gender Equality Plan?
          • GEAR step-by-step guide for research funding bodies
            • Step 1: Getting started
            • Step 2: Analysing and assessing the state-of-play in the institution
            • Step 3: Setting up a Gender Equality Plan
            • Step 4: Implementing a Gender Equality Plan
            • Step 5: Monitoring progress and evaluating a Gender Equality Plan
            • Step 6: What comes after the Gender Equality Plan?
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            • Training: awareness-raising and capacity building
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      • Gender-sensitive Parliaments
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        • Self-assessment, scoring and interpretation of parliament gender-sensitivity
          • AREA 1 – Women and men have equal opportunities to ENTER the parliament
            • Domain 1 – Electoral system and gender quotas
            • Domain 2 - Political party/group procedures
            • Domain 3 – Recruitment of parliamentary employees
          • AREA 2 – Women and men have equal opportunities to INFLUENCE the parliament’s working procedures
            • Domain 1 – Parliamentarians’ presence and capacity in a parliament
            • Domain 2 – Structure and organisation
            • Domain 3 – Staff organisation and procedures
          • AREA 3 – Women’s interests and concerns have adequate SPACE on parliamentary agenda
            • Domain 1 – Gender mainstreaming structures
            • Domain 2 – Gender mainstreaming tools in parliamentary work
            • Domain 3 – Gender mainstreaming tools for staff
          • AREA 4 – The parliament produces gender-sensitive LEGISLATION
            • Domain 1 – Gender equality laws and policies
            • Domain 2 – Gender mainstreaming in laws
            • Domain 3 – Oversight of gender equality
          • AREA 5 – The parliament complies with its SYMBOLIC function
            • Domain 1 – Symbolic meanings of spaces
            • Domain 2 – Gender equality in external communication and representation
        • How gender-sensitive are parliaments in the EU?
        • Examples of gender-sensitive practices in parliaments
          • Women and men have equal opportunities to ENTER the parliament
          • Women and men have equal opportunities to INFLUENCE the parliament’s working procedures
          • Women’s interests and concerns have adequate SPACE on parliamentary agenda
          • The parliament produces gender-sensitive LEGISLATION
          • The parliament complies with its SYMBOLIC function
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      • Gender Budgeting
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        • Who is this toolkit for?
        • What is gender budgeting?
          • Introducing gender budgeting
          • Gender budgeting in women’s and men’s lived realities
          • What does gender budgeting involve in practice?
          • Gender budgeting in the EU Funds
            • Gender budgeting as a way of complying with EU legal requirements
            • Gender budgeting as a way of promoting accountability and transparency
            • Gender budgeting as a way of increasing participation in budget processes
            • Gender budgeting as a way of advancing gender equality
        • Why is gender budgeting important in the EU Funds?
          • Three reasons why gender budgeting is crucial in the EU Funds
        • How can we apply gender budgeting in the EU Funds? Practical tools and Member State examples
          • Tool 1: Connecting the EU Funds with the EU’s regulatory framework on gender equality
            • Legislative and regulatory basis for EU policies on gender equality
            • Concrete requirements for considering gender equality within the EU Funds
            • EU Funds’ enabling conditions
            • Additional resources
          • Tool 2: Analysing gender inequalities and gender needs at the national and sub-national levels
            • Steps to assess and analyse gender inequalities and needs
            • Step 1. Collect information and disaggregated data on the target group
            • Step 2. Identify existing gender inequalities and their underlying causes
            • Step 3. Consult directly with the target groups
            • Step 4. Draw conclusions
            • Additional resources
          • Tool 3: Operationalising gender equality in policy objectives and specific objectives/measures
            • Steps for operationalising gender equality in Partnership Agreements and Operational Programmes
            • General guidance on operationalising gender equality when developing policy objectives, specific objectives and measures
            • Checklist for putting the horizontal principle of gender equality into practice in Partnership Agreements
            • Checklist for putting the horizontal principle of gender equality into practice in Operational Programmes
            • Examples of integrating gender equality as a horizontal principle in policy objectives and specific objectives
          • Tool 4: Coordination and complementarities between the EU Funds to advance work-life balance
            • Steps for enhancing coordination and complementarities between the funds
            • Step 1. Alignment with the EU’s strategic engagement goals for gender equality and national gender equality goals
            • Steps 2 and 3. Identifying and developing possible work-life balance interventions
            • Step 4. Following-up through the use of indicators within M&E systems
            • Fictional case study 1: reconciling paid work and childcare
            • Fictional case study 2: reconciling shift work and childcare
            • Fictional case study 3: balancing care for oneself and others
            • Fictional case study 4: reconciling care for children and older persons with shift work
            • Additional resources
          • Tool 5: Defining partnerships and multi-level governance
            • Steps for defining partnerships and multi-level governance
            • Additional resources
          • Tool 6: Developing quantitative and qualitative indicators for advancing gender equality
            • Steps to develop quantitative and qualitative indicators
            • ERDF and Cohesion Fund
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            • Additional resources
          • Tool 7: Defining gender-sensitive project selection criteria
            • Steps to support gender-sensitive project development and selection
            • Checklist to guide the preparation of calls for project proposals
            • Checklist for project selection criteria
            • Supplementary tool 7.a: Gender-responsive agreements with project implementers
          • Tool 8: Tracking resource allocations for gender equality in the EU Funds
            • Ensuring gender relevance in EU Funds
            • The tracking system
            • Steps for tracking resource allocations on gender equality
            • Step 1: Ex ante approach
            • Step 2: Ex post approach
            • Examples of Step 2a
            • Annex 1: Ex ante assignment of intervention fields to the gender equality dimension codes
            • Annex 2: The EU’s gender equality legal and policy framework
          • Tool 9: Mainstreaming gender equality in project design
            • Steps to mainstream gender equality in project design
            • Step 1. Alignment with partnership agreements’ and Operational Programmes’ gender objectives and indicators
            • Step 2. Project development and application
            • Step 3. Project implementation
            • Step 4. Project assessment
          • Tool 10: Integrating a gender perspective in monitoring and evaluation processes
            • Steps to integrate a gender perspective in M&E processes
            • Additional resources
          • Tool 11: Reporting on resource spending for gender equality in the EU Funds
            • Tracking expenditures for gender equality
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      • Gender-responsive Public Procurement
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            • Tool 3: Decision tree to assess the gender relevance
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            • Tool 4: Guiding questions for needs assessment
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            • Tool 5: Decision tree for the choice of procedure for GRPP
            • Dividing the contract into lots
            • Tool 6: Guiding questions for dividing contracts into lots for GRPP
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            • Tool 7: Guiding questions for applying GRPP under the light regime
            • Tool 8: Guiding questions for applying GRPP under the light regime
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            • Tool 9: Decision tree for setting GRPP selection criteria
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            • Tool 10: Formulating GRPP award criteria
            • Tool 11: Bidders’ concepts to ensure the integration of gender aspects
            • Use of labels/certifications
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            • Tool 12: Checklist for including GRPP contract performance conditions
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            • Tool 13: Template for a GRPP monitoring and reporting plan
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          • Principle 5: Considering children’s experiences
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        • Still far from the finish line
        • Snail’s-pace progress on gender equality in the EU continues
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      • 2. Domain of work
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      • 3. Domain of money
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      • 4. Domain of knowledge
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      • 5. Domain of time
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      • 6. Domain of power
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        • Limited opportunities for women to influence social and cultural decision-making
      • 7. Domain of health
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Gender Budgeting

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  • Back to toolkit page
  • Who is this toolkit for?
  • What is gender budgeting?
    • Introducing gender budgeting
    • Gender budgeting in women’s and men’s lived realities
    • What does gender budgeting involve in practice?
    • Gender budgeting in the EU Funds
      • Gender budgeting as a way of complying with EU legal requirements
      • Gender budgeting as a way of promoting accountability and transparency
      • Gender budgeting as a way of increasing participation in budget processes
      • Gender budgeting as a way of advancing gender equality
  • Why is gender budgeting important in the EU Funds?
    • Three reasons why gender budgeting is crucial in the EU Funds
  • How can we apply gender budgeting in the EU Funds? Practical tools and Member State examples
    • Tool 1: Connecting the EU Funds with the EU’s regulatory framework on gender equality
      • Legislative and regulatory basis for EU policies on gender equality
      • Concrete requirements for considering gender equality within the EU Funds
      • EU Funds’ enabling conditions
      • Additional resources
    • Tool 2: Analysing gender inequalities and gender needs at the national and sub-national levels
      • Steps to assess and analyse gender inequalities and needs
      • Step 1. Collect information and disaggregated data on the target group
      • Step 2. Identify existing gender inequalities and their underlying causes
      • Step 3. Consult directly with the target groups
      • Step 4. Draw conclusions
      • Additional resources
    • Tool 3: Operationalising gender equality in policy objectives and specific objectives/measures
      • Steps for operationalising gender equality in Partnership Agreements and Operational Programmes
      • General guidance on operationalising gender equality when developing policy objectives, specific objectives and measures
      • Checklist for putting the horizontal principle of gender equality into practice in Partnership Agreements
      • Checklist for putting the horizontal principle of gender equality into practice in Operational Programmes
      • Examples of integrating gender equality as a horizontal principle in policy objectives and specific objectives
    • Tool 4: Coordination and complementarities between the EU Funds to advance work-life balance
      • Steps for enhancing coordination and complementarities between the funds
      • Step 1. Alignment with the EU’s strategic engagement goals for gender equality and national gender equality goals
      • Steps 2 and 3. Identifying and developing possible work-life balance interventions
      • Step 4. Following-up through the use of indicators within M&E systems
      • Fictional case study 1: reconciling paid work and childcare
      • Fictional case study 2: reconciling shift work and childcare
      • Fictional case study 3: balancing care for oneself and others
      • Fictional case study 4: reconciling care for children and older persons with shift work
      • Additional resources
    • Tool 5: Defining partnerships and multi-level governance
      • Steps for defining partnerships and multi-level governance
      • Additional resources
    • Tool 6: Developing quantitative and qualitative indicators for advancing gender equality
      • Steps to develop quantitative and qualitative indicators
      • ERDF and Cohesion Fund
      • ESF+
      • EMFF
      • Additional resources
    • Tool 7: Defining gender-sensitive project selection criteria
      • Steps to support gender-sensitive project development and selection
      • Checklist to guide the preparation of calls for project proposals
      • Checklist for project selection criteria
      • Supplementary tool 7.a: Gender-responsive agreements with project implementers
    • Tool 8: Tracking resource allocations for gender equality in the EU Funds
      • Ensuring gender relevance in EU Funds
      • The tracking system
      • Steps for tracking resource allocations on gender equality
      • Step 1: Ex ante approach
      • Step 2: Ex post approach
      • Examples of Step 2a
      • Annex 1: Ex ante assignment of intervention fields to the gender equality dimension codes
      • Annex 2: The EU’s gender equality legal and policy framework
    • Tool 9: Mainstreaming gender equality in project design
      • Steps to mainstream gender equality in project design
      • Step 1. Alignment with partnership agreements’ and Operational Programmes’ gender objectives and indicators
      • Step 2. Project development and application
      • Step 3. Project implementation
      • Step 4. Project assessment
    • Tool 10: Integrating a gender perspective in monitoring and evaluation processes
      • Steps to integrate a gender perspective in M&E processes
      • Additional resources
    • Tool 11: Reporting on resource spending for gender equality in the EU Funds
      • Tracking expenditures for gender equality
      • Additional resources
  • Resources
    • References
    • Abbreviations
    • Acknowledgements

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Annex 1: Ex ante assignment of intervention fields to the gender equality dimension codes (based on types of interventions for the ERDF, CF, ESF+ and JTF in the CPR)

Please note: the suggested gender equality marker (coefficient) has been added to the original table. In its programmes, a Member State may propose that a coefficient of 40 % be assigned to an area of support marked with an ‘*’. This table demonstrates the potential relevance of this area of support for gender equality, but an assessment is needed as the tool outlines.

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Intervention field (CPR, ADD1, Annex I, 24 June 2021) Generalised marker for ‘Gender equality dimension’
Policy objective 1: A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity 
1 Investment in fixed assets, including research infrastructure, in micro enterprises directly linked to research and innovation activities 0 %
2 Investment in fixed assets, including research infrastructure, in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) (including private research centres) directly linked to research and innovation activities 0 %
3 Investment in fixed assets, including research infrastructure, in large enterprises directly linked to research and innovation activities 0 %
4 Investment in fixed assets, including research infrastructure, in public research centres and higher education directly linked to research and innovation activities 0 %
5 Investment in intangible assets in micro enterprises directly linked to research and innovation activities 0 %
6 Investment in intangible assets in SMEs (including private research centres) directly linked to research and innovation activities 0 %
7 Investment in intangible assets in large enterprises directly linked to research and innovation activities 0 %
8 Investment in intangible assets in public research centres and higher education directly linked to research and innovation activities 0 %
9 Research and innovation activities in micro enterprises including networking (industrial research, experimental development, feasibility studies) 0 %*
10 Research and innovation activities in SMEs, including networking 0 %*
11 Research and innovation activities in large enterprises, including networking 0 %*
12 Research and innovation activities in public research centres, higher education and centres of competence including networking (industrial research, experimental development, feasibility studies) 0 %*
13 Digitising SMEs (including e-commerce, e-business and networked business processes, digital innovation hubs, living labs, web entrepreneurs and ICT start-ups, B2B) 0 %*
14 Digitising large enterprises (including e-commerce, e-business and networked business processes, digital innovation hubs, living labs, web entrepreneurs and ICT start-ups, B2B) 0 %*
15 Digitising SMEs or large enterprises (including e-commerce, e-business and networked business processes, digital innovation hubs, living labs, web entrepreneurs and ICT start-ups, B2B) compliant with greenhouse gas emission reduction or energy efficiency criteria 0 %*
16 Government ICT solutions, e-services, applications 0 %*
17 Government ICT solutions, e-services, applications compliant with greenhouse gas emission reduction or energy efficiency criteria 0 %*
18 IT services and applications for digital skills and digital inclusion 0 %*
19 e-health services and applications (including e-care, internet of things for physical activity and ambient assisted living) 0 %*
20 Business infrastructure for SMEs (including industrial parks and sites) 0 %*
21 SME business development and internationalisation, including productive investments 0 %*
22 Support for large enterprises through financial instruments, including productive investments 0 %*
23 Skills development for smart specialisation, industrial transition, entrepreneurship and adaptability of enterprises to change 0 %*
24 Advanced support services for SMEs and groups of SMEs (including management, marketing and design services) 0 %*
25 Incubation, support to spin-offs and spin-outs and start-ups 0 %*
26 Support for innovation clusters including between businesses, research organisations and public authorities and business networks primarily benefiting SMEs 0 %*
27 Innovation processes in SMEs (process, organisational, marketing, co-creation, user- and demand-driven innovation) 0 %*
28 Technology transfer and cooperation between enterprises, research centres and higher education sector 0 %*
29 Research and innovation processes, technology transfer and cooperation between enterprises, research centres and universities, focusing on the low carbon economy, resilience and adaptation to climate change 0 %
30 Research and innovation processes, technology transfer and cooperation between enterprises, focusing on circular economy 0 %
31 Financing of working capital in SMEs in the form of grants to address emergency situations 0 %
32 ICT: very high-capacity broadband network (backbone/backhaul network) 0 %
33 ICT: very high-capacity broadband network (access / local loop with a performance equivalent to an optical fibre installation up to the distribution point at the serving location for multi-dwelling premises) 0 %
34 ICT: very high-capacity broadband network (access / local loop with a performance equivalent to an optical fibre installation up to the distribution point at the serving location for homes and business premises) 0 %
35 ICT: very high-capacity broadband network (access / local loop with a performance equivalent to an optical fibre installation up to the base station for advanced wireless communication) 0 %
36 ICT: other types of ICT infrastructure (including large-scale computer resources/equipment, data centres, sensors and other wireless equipment) 0 %
37 ICT: other types of ICT infrastructure (including large-scale computer resources/equipment, data centres, sensors and other wireless equipment) compliant with the carbon emission reduction and energy efficiency criteria 0 %
Policy objective 2: A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management and sustainable urban mobility
38 Energy efficiency and demonstration projects in SMEs and supporting measures 0 %
39 Energy efficiency and demonstration projects in large enterprises and supporting measures 0 %
40 Energy efficiency and demonstration projects in SMEs or large enterprises and supporting measures compliant with energy efficiency criteria 0 %
41 Energy efficiency renovation of existing housing stock, demonstration projects and supporting measures 0 %
42 Energy efficiency renovation of existing housing stock, demonstration projects and supporting measures compliant with energy efficiency criteria 0 %
43 Construction of new energy-efficient buildings 0 %
44 Energy efficiency renovation or energy efficiency measures regarding public infrastructure, demonstration projects and supporting measures 0 %
45 Energy efficiency renovation or energy efficiency measures regarding public infrastructure, demonstration projects and supporting measures compliant with energy efficiency criteria 0 %
46 Support to entities that provide services contributing to the low carbon economy and to resilience to climate change, including awareness-raising measures 0 %
47 Renewable energy: wind 0 %
48 Renewable energy: solar 0 %
49 Renewable energy: biomass 0 %
50 Renewable energy: biomass with high greenhouse gas savings 0 %
51 Renewable energy: marine 0 %
52 Other renewable energy (including geothermal energy) 0 %
53 Smart energy systems (including smart grids and ICT systems) and related storage 0 %
54 High efficiency co-generation, district heating and cooling 0 %
55 High efficiency co-generation, efficient district heating and cooling with low lifecycle emissions 0 %
56 Replacement of coal-based heating systems by gas-based heating systems for climate mitigation purposes 0 %
57 Distribution and transport of natural gas substituting coal 0 %
58 Adaptation to climate change measures and prevention and management of climate-related risks: floods and landslides (including awareness raising, civil protection and disaster management systems, infrastructures and ecosystem-based approaches) 0 %
59 Adaptation to climate change measures and prevention and management of climate-related risks: fires (including awareness raising, civil protection and disaster management systems, infrastructures and ecosystem based-approaches) 0 %
60 Adaptation to climate change measures and prevention and management of climate related risks: others, for example, storms and drought (including awareness raising, civil protection and disaster management systems, infrastructures and ecosystem-based approaches) 0 %
61 Risk prevention and management of non-climate related natural risks (e.g. earthquakes) and risks linked to human activities (e.g. technological accidents), including awareness raising, civil protection and disaster management systems, infrastructures and ecosystem-based approaches 0 %
62 Provision of water for human consumption (extraction, treatment, storage and distribution infrastructure, efficiency measures, drinking water supply) 0 %
63 Provision of water for human consumption (extraction, treatment, storage and distribution infrastructure, efficiency measures, drinking water supply) compliant with efficiency criteria 0 %
64 Water management and water resource conservation (including river basin management, specific climate change adaptation measures, reuse, leakage reduction) 0 %
65 Waste water collection and treatment 0 %
66 Waste water collection and treatment compliant with energy efficiency criteria 0 %
67 Household waste management: prevention, minimisation, sorting, reuse, recycling measures 0 %
68 Household waste management: residual waste treatment 0 %
69 Commercial, industrial waste management: prevention, minimisation, sorting, reuse, recycling measures 0 %
70 Commercial, industrial waste management: residual and hazardous waste 0 %
71 Promoting the use of recycled materials as raw materials 0 %
72 Use of recycled materials as raw materials compliant with the efficiency criteria 0 %
73 Rehabilitation of industrial sites and contaminated land 0 %
74 Rehabilitation of industrial sites and contaminated land compliant with efficiency criteria 0 %
75 Support to environmentally friendly production processes and resource efficiency in SMEs 0 %
76 Support to environmentally friendly production processes and resource efficiency in large enterprises 0 %
77 Air quality and noise-reduction measures 0 %
78 Protection, restoration and sustainable use of Natura 2000 sites 0 %
79 Nature and biodiversity protection, natural heritage and resources, green and blue infrastructure 0 %
80 Other measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the area of preservation and restoration of natural areas with high potential for carbon absorption and storage, for example, by rewetting of moorlands, the capture of landfill gas 0 %
81 Clean urban transport infrastructure 0 %
82 Clean urban transport rolling stock 0 %
83 Cycling infrastructure 0 %
84 Digitalisation of urban transport 0 %
85 Digitalisation of transport when dedicated in part to greenhouse gas emissions reduction: urban transport 0 %
86 Alternative fuels infrastructure 0 %
Policy objective 3: A more connected Europe by enhancing mobility
87 Newly built or upgraded motorways and roads – TEN-T core network 0 %
88 Newly built or upgraded motorways and roads – TEN-T comprehensive network 0 %
89 Newly built or upgraded secondary road links to TEN-T road network and nodes 0 %
90 Newly built or upgraded other national, regional and local access roads 0 %
91 Reconstructed or modernised motorways and roads – TEN-T core network 0 %
92 Reconstructed or modernised motorways and roads – TEN-T comprehensive network 0 %
93 Other reconstructed or modernised roads (motorway, national, regional or local) 0 %
94 Digitalisation of transport: road 0 %
95 Digitalisation of transport when dedicated in part to greenhouse gas emissions reduction: road 0 %
96 Newly built or upgraded railways – TEN-T core network 0 %
97 Newly built or upgraded railways – TEN-T comprehensive network 0 %
98 Other newly built or upgraded railways 0 %
99 Other newly built or upgraded railways – electric / zero emission 0 %
100 Reconstructed or modernised railways – TEN-T core network 0 %
101 Reconstructed or modernised railways – TEN-T comprehensive network 0 %
102 Other reconstructed or modernised railways 0 %
103 Other reconstructed or modernised railways – electric / zero emission 0 %
104 Digitalisation of transport: rail 0 %
105 European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) 0 %
106 Mobile rail assets 0 %
107 Mobile zero-emission / electric-powered rail assets 0 %
108 Multimodal transport (TEN-T) 0 %
109 Multimodal transport (not urban) 0 %
110 Seaports (TEN-T) 0 %
111 Seaports (TEN-T) excluding facilities dedicated to transport of fossil fuels 0 %
112 Other seaports 0 %
113 Other seaports excluding facilities dedicated to transport of fossil fuels 0 %
114 Inland waterways and ports (TEN-T) 0 %
115 Inland waterways and ports (TEN-T) excluding facilities dedicated to transport of fossil fuels 0 %
116 Inland waterways and ports (regional and local) 0 %
117 Inland waterways and ports (regional and local) excluding facilities dedicated to transport of fossil fuels 0 %
118 Security, safety and air traffic management systems, for existing airports 0 %
119 Digitising transport: other transport modes 0 %
120 Digitising transport when dedicated in part to greenhouse gas emissions reduction: other transport modes 0 %
Policy objective 4: A more social and inclusive Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights
121 Infrastructure for early childhood education and care 40 %/100 %
122 Infrastructure for primary and secondary education 0 %*
123 Infrastructure for tertiary education 0 %*
124 Infrastructure for vocational education and training and adult learning 0 %*
125 Housing infrastructure for migrants, refugees and persons under or applying for international protection 0 %*
126 Housing infrastructure (other than for migrants, refugees and persons under or applying for international protection) 0 %*
127 Other social infrastructure contributing to social inclusion in the community 0 %*
128 Health infrastructure 0 %*
129 Health equipment 0 %*
130 Health mobile assets 0 %*
131 Digitalisation in healthcare 0 %*
132 Critical equipment and supplies necessary to address emergency situations 0 %*
133 Temporary reception infrastructure for migrants, refugees and persons under or applying for international protection 0 %*
134 Measures to improve access to employment 0 %*
135 Measures to promote access to employment of long-term unemployed 0 %*
136 Specific support for youth employment and socioeconomic integration of young people 0 %*
137 Support for self-employment and business start-ups 0 %*
138 Support for social economy and social enterprises 0 %*
139 Measures to modernise and strengthen labour market institutions and services to assess and anticipate skills needs and to ensure timely and tailor-made assistance 0 %*
140 Support for labour market matching and transitions 0 %*
141 Support for labour mobility 0 %*
142 Measures to promote women’s labour market participation and reduce gender-based segregation in the labour market 100 %
143 Measures promoting work-life balance, including access to childcare and care for dependent persons 40 %/100 %
144 Measures for a healthy and well-adapted working environment addressing health risks, including promotion of physical activity 0 %*
145 Support for the development of digital skills 0 %*
146 Support for adaptation of workers, enterprises and entrepreneurs to change 0 %*
147 Measures encouraging active and healthy ageing 0 %*
148 Support for early childhood education and care (excluding infrastructure) 40 %/100 %
149 Support for primary to secondary education (excluding infrastructure) 0 %*
150 Support for tertiary education (excluding infrastructure) 0 %*
151 Support for adult education (excluding infrastructure) 0 %*
152 Measures to promote equal opportunities and active participation in society 0 %*
153 Pathways to integration and re-entry into employment for disadvantaged people 0 %*
154 Measures to improve access of marginalised groups such as the Roma to education, employment and to promote their social inclusion 0 %*
155 Support to the civil society working with marginalised communities such as the Roma 0 %*
156 Specific actions to increase participation of third-country nationals in employment 0 %*
157 Measures for the social integration of third-country nationals 0 %*
158 Measures to enhancing the equal and timely access to quality, sustainable and affordable services 0 %*
159 Measures to enhancing the delivery of family and community-based care services 40 %/100 %
160 Measures to improve the accessibility, effectiveness and resilience of healthcare systems (excluding infrastructure) 0 %*
161 Measures to improve access to long-term care (excluding infrastructure) 40 %*/100 %
162 Measures to modernise social protection systems, including promoting access to social protection 0 %*
163 Promoting social integration of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion, including the most deprived and children 0 %*
164 Addressing material deprivation through food and/or material assistance to the most deprived, including accompanying measures 0 %*
Policy objective 5: A Europe closer to citizens by fostering the sustainable and integrated development of all types of territories and local initiatives
165 Protection, development and promotion of public tourism assets and tourism services 0 %*
166 Protection, development and promotion of cultural heritage and cultural services 0 %*
167 Protection, development and promotion of natural heritage and eco-tourism other than Natura 2000 sites 0 %*
168 Physical regeneration and security of public spaces 0 %*
169 Territorial development initiatives, including preparation of territorial strategies 0 %*
Other codes related to policy objectives 1–5
170 Improve the capacity of programme authorities and bodies linked to the implementation of the funds 0 %*
171 Enhancing cooperation with partners both within and outside the Member State 0 %*
172 Cross-financing under the ERDF (support to ESF+-type actions necessary for the implementation of the ERDF part of the operation and directly linked to it) 0 %*
173 Enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders to implement territorial cooperation projects and initiatives in a cross-border, transnational, maritime and inter-regional context 0 %*
174 Interreg: border crossing management and mobility and migration management 0 %*
175 Outermost regions: compensation of any additional costs due to accessibility deficit and territorial fragmentation 0 %
176 Outermost regions: specific action to compensate additional costs due to size market factors 0 %
177 Outermost regions: support to compensate additional costs due to climate conditions and relief difficulties 0 %
178 Outermost regions: airports 0 %
Technical assistance
179 Information and communication 0 %*
180 Preparation, implementation, monitoring and control 0 %*
181 Evaluation and studies, data collection 0 %*
182 Reinforcement of the capacity of Member State authorities, beneficiaries and relevant partners 0 %*

Footnotes

[1] For policy objective 5, all dimension codes under policy objectives 1-4 may be chosen, in addition to those specifically listed under policy objective 5.

  • Examples of Step 2a
  • Annex 2: The EU’s gender equality legal and policy framework

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