Wykorzystanie środków Europejskiego Funduszu Społecznego na doskonalenie umiejętności i kwalifikacji kadr na przykładzie Sektorowego Programu Operacyjnego Rozwój Zasobów Ludzkich 2004-2006

The main goal of structural policy of European Union is to enhance economic and social coherence among member states. In social sphere the instrument of coherence policy is the European Social Fund that allocates funds for undertakings connected with employment policy and human resources development, especially undertakings in the area of vocational activation of the unemployed and endangered of being unemployed, counteracting social exclusion, connected with lifelong learning, staff advancement in economy and development of enterprise, vocational activation of women. In Poland total amount of funds from ESF is directed to priorities of Operational Programme Human Capital. In preparing this programme main role was played by experiences of previous time of preparation, where those issues were achieved under priority 2 of Integrated Operational Programme Regional Development, especially Sectoral Operational Programme Human Resources Development (SOP HRD). The main goal of this paper is to evaluate undertakings fulfilled in the competition scheme of Action 2.3. SOP HRD, containing for example: characteristics of enterprises being supported, motives of participation in projects, scope and kind of the ESF support, themes and evaluation of training usefulness. Another goal is to point to current possibilities of funding undertakings from the ESF, that through human resources development should warrant greater competiveness and development of adaptive potential of enterprises.