FINANCING HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT AT REGIONAL LEVEL. COMPARISON BETWEEN HRD PRE-ACCESSION FUNDS AND EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND ABSORPTION

The European Social Fund interventions in Romania in the field of Human Resources Development, as established in the National Strategic Reference Framework 2007-2013, will assure investment in human capital, modernization of education and training systems, increasing the access to employment and strengthening the social inclusion for vulnerable groups. The present paper presents an analysis for making comparison between the pre-accession funds and structural funds in the field of human resources development and to depict conclusions regarding the absorption capacity at the level of development regions (NUTS2 structures).