Flash Eurobarometer 531 (Citizens´ Awareness and Perception of EU Regional Policy)

Awareness and assessment of the EU regional policy.<br>Topics: awareness of EU co-financed projects in the own city or region; sources 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; awareness of: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and / or Cohesion Fund, Interreg, European Solidarity Fund, Just Transition Fund, European Social Fund, Next Generation EU / Recovery Plan / REACT EU, Erasmus+, Horizon Europe, Connecting Europe Facility; awareness of EU regional policy support to member states in health emergency response and economic recovery in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic; personal benefit in daily life from a project funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) or the Cohesion Fund; impact of EU funded projects in the own area on personal identification as EU citizen; preference for concentrating support on poorer regions or for supporting all regions equally; prioritized regions to support: regions with high unemployment, border regions, deprived urban areas, developed regions in order to maintain their competitiveness, remote rural or mountain areas; importance of supporting the own city or the own region by EU regional policy actions in the fields of: research and innovation, small and medium-sized businesses, renewable and clean energy, broadband internet access, environment, transport facilities, vocational training, education / health / social infrastructure, tourism and culture, integration of refugees and migrants; preferred level of decision-making about EU regional policy projects: local, regional, national, EU; awareness of cooperating regions from different countries due to EU regional funding; awareness of the strategy to promote cooperation between countries around the: Baltic Sea, Danube river, Adriatic and Ionian Sea, Alpine area; naming of EU outermost regions.

Demography: age; sex; nationality; age at end of education; occupation; professional position; type of community; own a mobile phone and fixed (landline) phone; household composition and household size; region.

Additionally coded was: respondent ID; country; type of phone line; nation group; weighting factor.