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Using European Data in Journalism
Barr, Caelainn
The European Union is awash with numbers. Data about how european citizens live and our taxes are spent are widely available - the challenge lies in using them. Figures are published on a centralised, national and regional basis with little in common. Data formats, presentation and quality vary greatly. How can we use this information as citizens and journalists to understand the union and generate stories? Why should journalists and developers work together to look at European data? Using practical and live examples of data use including commission expenses and structural funds we will demonstrate how to get EU data, how to prepare it for analysis, the trends to look out for and how to translate it into a story.
Slides: idr-502_1 -  PDF
Video: idr-502_2 -  MP4
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Collecting the EU's Regional Funds
Lindenberg, Friedrich
One of the key funding mechanisms of the European Union is the Regional Policy, which helps to implement infrastructure projects across the 27 member states. Money is allocated along a set of objectives and disbursed at the regional level, by 60-odd managing bodies. But who is getting the money and what is it really spent on? The answer lies distributed across the local administrations and has only been collected into a common database once, in 2010. It took the TBIJ and Financial Times eight months to gather the information, leading to a series of disclosures about misallocated funds and shady projects. This is why we believe that there should be a constantly-updated database of these reports, maintained by an open community and available as a resource to journalists and policy makers at any time. The right time to start such a data commons, as the 2007-2013 budgetary cycle of the EU is coming to a close and it's time to get a picture of how well the goals set out for 347 billion Euros of funding during this period have been reflected in actual projects. We want to make a map of member states and regions where open data projects are already collecting this data and then form small teams to take on the uncharted terrtories, find PDF reports and to convert them to clean and useable data. So, join the ERDF Ghostbusters and help us to map the European money!
Slides: idr-494_1 - PDF
Video: idr-494_2 - MP4
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Public Opinion on European Union - April 2012
Tabery, Paulína
In April 2012 Public Opinion Research Centre investigated if Czechs believe, that decisions of the EU are in behalf of the Czech Republic and ordinary people (like themselves). There was also investigated, whether, according to Czech citizens, values such as democracy, equality, cooperation, tolerance, justice and solidarity are applied in the European Union. Moreover, CVVM probed satisfaction with EU membership and Czechs also talked about measure of their pride in context of being citizens of European Union.
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Comparison of service offerings and their impact on local development in selected areas - Novohradsko and Veselsko
HŘIBOVÁ, Jitka
The work deals with the explanation of services and their impact on local development. It focuses on the analysis of the services offered in two areas surveyed on the Novohradsko and Veselsko. This is the assessment of supply and quality of services to the needs of the population and visitors. Based on the results relating to the service offerings are designed measures in each area would be improved and expanded range of services. To develop these services are designed to further the possibility of drawing money from funds of the European Union.
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Subsidy accounts Secondary School
NOVOTNÁ, Kristýna
The aim of my thesis was an analysis procedure in obtaining grants from the funds of the European Union. It concerned particularly a regional operational programme NUTS II Southwest, which is established for the region of cohesiveness - Southwest - Southbohemian and Pilsen region.
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Unit-linked life insurance and its investment strategies
HÁLEK, Jakub
This thesis is focused on services within unit-linked life insurance and strategic decisions in their selection. We characterize Czech Republic's insurance market and European Union market as a whole. The purpose of thesis is to analyse specific conditions on unit-linked life insurance market in Czech Republic. Unit-linked life insurance products of selected insurance companies are compared within this work.
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International trade with writing instruments
KADLECOVÁ, Michaela
The purpose of this thesis was to analyse current situation in the stationery market within European Union. The results show that there is a strong competition in this business branch. In the member states of EU, there are more than 60 cooperating stationery manufacturers that are associated under the EWIMA organization. EWIMA plays an important role in the process of harmonisation of relevant legal provisions of individual member states with common legal framework of EU. The legal provisions of EU are focused mainly on the consumer protection, harmlessness of products, safety, environmental protection and also at waste management and treatment of chemicals.
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Economic research bulletin (2003, No.1)
Česká národní banka
First, Aleš Bulíř looks into the scope of nominal exchange rate fluctuations in Central European countries to establish the causes of those fluctuations. Next, Tomáš Holub investigates the factors of equilibrium real exchange rate appreciation in the Czech Republic, again from an international perspective. In this context, the effects of price convergence to the level of EU countries are analysed in more detail. Finally, Vladislav Flek discusses the impact of real catching-up with EU productivity levels, within the framework of the Balassa-Samuelson Effect.
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