The paper touches upon the question of using the European Union funds as perceived by the inhabitants of the Silesian Voivodship municipalities. Research on the recognizability of particular programmes, from which projects, enterprises and training courses have been financed, are presented in the course of the paper. The inhabitants of the municipalities were to indicate the areas of urgent needs which, according to them, could be financed or co-financed using the funds allocated for the realization of the Cohesion Policy
