The subject of master's thesis is cohesive strategy. The main goal of the paper work is defining science term cohesive strategy based on the model of applying strategic management at creation of growth strategy of European Union „ Europa 2020“. The first step in giving proposal of science term cohesive strategy refers to exhaustively secondary research of online data bases EBSCO, Scopus, WOS Core Collection and other science literature. By conducted research there was no identification of any science definition of cohesive strategy which confirms assumption of the researcher that the word is about a new field and diferent view of strategic management on to development and implementation of growth strategion and/or development at large corporations and public sector, which is conditioned by great number of intern and extern facts, which are mentioned in master's thesis. To define the term cohesive strategy, in this thesis, the strategic growth of European Union „Europa 2020“ will be analysed, and which is also in the function of achieving goals of the EU cohesion policy. By analysing, necessary elements and markings which strategy has to have so that it would be possible to determinate it as cohesive strategy, are identified. The elements and marking are contained in the following definition: Cohesive strategy combines the strategy of elaborate strategic private sector, functional or divisional areas, into a single strategy, while respecting the principle of vertical and horizontal coherence.