Flash Eurobarometer 298 (Citizens’ Awareness and Perceptions of EU Regional Policy, wave 2)

Awareness and assessment of the EU regional policy.<br>Topics: awareness of EU co-financed projects in the own city or region; source of information on EU-support for the own region or city; assessment of the impact of the support on the development of the own city or region and reasons for negative assessment; personal benefit in daily life from a project funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) or the Cohesion Fund; assessment of supporting poor regions by the EU regional policy as a good thing; preference for concentrating support on poorer regions or to support all regions equally; prioritized regions to support: regions with high unemployment, border regions, deprived urban areas, growth regions, remote rural or mountain areas; importance of supporting the own city or the own region by EU regional policy actions in the fields of: transport facilities, energy networks, renewable and clean energy, research and innovation, broadband and internet access, environment, small businesses, employment training, education / health / social infrastructure, tourism and culture; preferred level of decision making about EU regional policy projects: local, regional, national, EU; awareness of cooperating regions in different countries due to EU regional funding; attitude towards increasing the funding of regional cooperation between different countries; only in Baltic Sea region countries was asked: awareness of the strategy to promote cooperation between these countries.

Demography: sex; age; age at end of education; occupation; professional position; type of community.

Additionally coded was: language of the interview; interviewer ID; country; date of interview; time of the beginning of the interview; duration of the interview; type of phone line; region; weighting factor.