Abstract: “The EU Cohesion Policy is influencing behaviour of many companies in EU. According to the Europe 2020 strategy should the EU policies improve competitiveness of companies within EU and improve employment. The research question of this research concern what type of training highly improves employment in companies. The research is done on the European Social Fund assistance in the Czech companies within 2008 – 2011. The results show that training in internationally certified fields have highest impact on employment. On the contrary, soft skills training have only marginal effect, or even negative.”

Keywords: companies, impact evaluation, training, employment, European Social Fund, Cohesion Policy