European Union policies are implemented through financial instruments such as loans, guarantees and grants. Financial instruments are implemented by various European programs, which are defined in multi-year financial plans. In the period 2014-2020, we find more than 300 of them, and they are generally divided into centralized and decentralized. The Program for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) is a complementary and centralized program that worked in the fields of permanent employment and improvement of working conditions, anti-poverty measures, social security and protection and promotion of social innovation. It is divided into three strands, Progress, EURES and Microfinance and social entrepreneurship strand. The aim is to present the operation of EaSI programme and its implementation in Slovenia. From the review of the existing literature, it became clear that EaSI issued 50 tenders and co-financed more than 400 projects. Through the analysis of implemented projects within EaSI programme in Slovenia, it was found that organizations and companies from Slovenia participated in twenty-five projects and twenty projects were also implemented in Slovenia. On average, projects received a little more than 900 thousand euros, and the results of the projects generally brought added value to Slovenia and had a positive impact on the side of the selected group of people. The thesis contributed to the understanding of financing, drawing of EU funds, and above all to the understanding of the operation of the same EaSI programme. Slovenia's participation in the EaSI programme and the basic characteristics of projects in Slovenia are also presented.
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