| Abstract [eng] |
Master degree thesis analyse the employment of the European Union Structural Funds for settlement of young farmers: the cases of Lithuanian and Polish regions. The aim of the MA thesis: to analyse the EU structural funds and its support in order to ―set up young farmers$ in Lithuanian and Polish regions. The theoretical part of Master thesis consists of EU Regional policy conception, theoretical EU structural funds assumptions and Regional policy: the allocation of EU structural funds in Lithuanian and Polish regions. The analytical part of the Master thesis consists of research methodology: the main material which includes the document analysis and informant interview methods, comparative analysis of legal policy and acts in Lithuanian and Polish regions, and analysis of the funding situation in Lithuania and Poland. The research showed that the EU structural funds encourage young farmers to start their own businesses in various agricultural areas and to improve one of the most important cluster i.e., the level of employment in the Member States in the strategy of 2014-2020. Moreover, the analysis showed the main differences in Lithuanian and Polish regions i.e., the biggest problems which young farmers have to face are the differences of strategy implementation, different selection criteria implementation problem in. |
