About MyEU

Why MyEU?

The UK Government will spend about £809 billion this year, and less than 2% of this goes to the EU.

We wondered what impact that spending was having in the UK, and made this site to find out.

This isn't a complete list — we know that there are data sources and projects we haven't captured yet. Got something that should be on the map? Get in touch.

The myeu team are: John Lees-Miller, Hope Thomas, Kiyana Katebi and Andrew Weeks.

Thanks to Tech for UK and Best for Britain for their support.

Data and Methodology

myeu.uk is open source and powered by open data. Here is a table of all the project funding on the map.

We used data from the following datasets to create myeu.uk:

• European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) 2014-2020. ESIF includes money from the European Social Fund (ESF) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). We got this data from separate datasets for:
  • England, from Gov.uk (Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.)
  • Scotland, from Gov.scot (Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.)
  • Wales from Gov.wales (Welsh Governement © Crown copyright 2018 licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.)
  • Northern Ireland from Department for the Economy NI (Department for the Economy © Crown copyright 2018 licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.).
• All funding direct from the EU budget centrally administered by the Commission from 2017 and 2016 from the Financial Transparency system (c) European Union, 1995-2018
• Creative Europe funding 2014-2020, which is the EU's programme for support for cultural and audiovisual funding. (c) European Union, 1995-2018
• Erasmus + funding 2007-2018, which is the EU's programme for support for young people. (c) European Union, 1995-2018
• Projects funded by the European Union under the seventh framework programme for research and technological development (FP7) from 2007 to 2013 and Horizon 2020 from 2014 to 2020 from the EU Open data portal. (c) European Union, 1995-2018
• Common Agricultural Policy Funding data from the Detail Data Portal for 2014 and 2015 and from DEFRA for 2016 and 2017 (both licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.). This includes the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD).
• Postcode data from FreeMapTools . Postcode data contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2017, contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2017 and contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2017
• Global Research Identifier Database (GRID) from Digital Science, shared under the Creative Commons Public Domain 1.0 International licence .
• NHS staffing data are from NHS Digital's HCHS staff by staff group, nationality and organisation, September 2017 and June 2018 dataset from June 2018, shared under the Open Government License.
• Interreg North-West Europe Programme data are from the Interreg NWE list of beneficiaries, (c) NWE Secretariat.
• LIFE Programme data are (c) European Union, 1995–2018.

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What action can I take?

If you're interested in taking action off the back of this dataset, one thing you can do is email your MP to tell them your feelings. Emailing your MP can really help. Contact your MP and tell them how you feel.

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