Impact assessment of human resources development programs funded by the European Union on improving beneficiaries’ quality of life

Abstract

The European Union has invested over 3.3 billion euros in Romania in human resource development programs that took over 1,200,000 beneficiaries. So far, no studies have been published that capture their actual impact on increasing the quality of their lives or there were very few published studies. This paper is shown the results of some qualitative research carried out by the method of focus group research that captures those aspects.