Each region is allocated funds based on a combination of their share of:
population,
number of unemployed people in regions with an unemployment rate above the EU average,
the shortfall to the EU’s target employment rate of 75% of people aged 20 to 64,
the shortfall to the EU’s target of 40% for the number of people aged 30 to 34 who have completed tertiary education,
the overshoot of the EU’s target of less than 10% of those aged 18 to 24 who left education early,
the gap between their GDP and that of the most prosperous region in the EU, and
population living...