This guide covers potential beneficiaries of European Union (EU) funding and aims to familiarize the reader with EU funding. For more detailed information, you can consult the website of the European Commission. The Guide is available for download directly here or through the Documentation - Community Guidance Documents tab.

If you would like to know what the European Union held in 2015, the General Report ' The EU in 2015 ' answers this and other questions. In this document you can find out what progress the EU has made in the implementation of its priorities, the measures taken to boost employment, growth and investment and the role it played in the agreement reached in Paris on Climate Change.

There are been elaborated some small films about projects supported under the National Strategic Reference Framework in the 2007 to 2013 programming period. These video pieces aimed to disclose the impact that European Union Funds have in lives of Portuguese people. With duration between one and fifteen minutes, this short films could be watched at AD&C youtube canal.

It was recently published by the European Commission (EC) the Pocket Guide on the initiative "Innovation Union" under the Europe 2020 Strategy, which aims to create a Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive Growth. The future of Europe is linked to its innovation capacity. The solution is the "Innovation Union", a rich initiative in actions which aims to a Europe that favors innovation.

The study by Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation, coordinated by Augusto Mateus, analyzes in detail the development of Portugal over the first three decades of European Union integration.