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European Funding
• Quick introduction to the Local Enterprise Partnership
• How will European funding be managed and delivered
• The role of the Heart of the South West Local Enterprise
Partnership and other agencies
• Likely priorities for funding and for what areas
• Likely timing and processes for seeking funding
• Any questions?
Our priorities in a nutshellCreating the Conditions for
Growth
Maximising Productivity and
Employment Opportunities
Building on our
Distinctiveness
Pla
ce
Infrastructure for growth:
Transport and accessibility
Digital infrastructure
Sustainable solutions for
flood management
Energy Infrastructure
The infrastructure and facilities
to create more and better
employment:
Enterprise infrastructure
Strategic employment sites
Unlocking housing growth
The infrastructure and facilities
needed to support higher value
growth:
Specialist marine sites
Innovation infrastructure
Our environmental assets
Bu
sin
ess
Creating a favourable business
environment
A simpler, more accessible,
business support system
Achieving more sustainable and
broadly based business growth:
Reaching new markets
Globalisation
Supporting higher value growth:
Innovation through Smart
Specialisation
Building innovation
capacity
Peo
ple
Businesses and individuals can
reach their potential:
Skills infrastructure
Accessibility to
education/employment
Employer engagement and
ownership
Increasing employment,
progression and workforce skills.
Moving people into
employment
Supporting people to
progress to better jobs
Improving workforce skills
Creating a world class workforce
to support higher value growth:
Enterprise and business
skills
Technical and higher level
Skills for our
transformational
opportunities.
How can the LEP help?
What the LEP is not:
An agency of Government like the RDA designed to as a delivery arm of central
government, nor are we simply a funding body.
What the LEP is:
A genuinely local platform for collaboration across public and private sectors, to
achieve mutual economic aims.
We support:
• Funding bids for national Government – e.g. Growth Deal & support for Exeter
Science Park
• Devising strategies for directing European funds to where they’re needed most
• Influencing national Government strategy – e.g. road and rail investment
• Strategic partnerships – e.g. with neighbouring LEPs or other national partners
• Economic policy development
European Structural & Investment
Funds (ESIF)
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“The Commission”
“The Managing
Authorities” (x3)
Five funds designed to deliver
the Europe 2020 Strategy.
Three national ‘Operational
Programmes’ for three funds.
EUROPEAN COMISSION
UK GOVERNMENT
LOCAL SUB-COMMITTEE:
Delivery
One ESIF Strategy for the
Heart of the South WestLEP: Strategy
ESIF Local Implementation Plan
The Heart of the South West ESIF
Strategy – 3 goes in to 5
HotSWESIF
Strategy
ERDF: Economic
growth
ESF: Skills, employment & inclusion
EARDF: Rural Development
Reaching New Markets
Social & Economic Inclusion
Digital
Innovation through high
growth sectors
Enterprise & SME
Competitive-ness
Integrated Activity A: Maximising innovation through smart specialisation
ESF
£4.9m
Employer led solutions to address higher level skills. Demand led and focused primarily on higher level skills needs of our Smart Specialisation sectors. Examples include:- Skills for innovation- Increasing participation in areas with higher level skills shortages- Promoting and increasing higher level apprenticeships- Boosting demand for STEM subjects
Integrated Activity B: Enterprise & SME competitiveness
ESF
£16.9m
- Start-up support and leadership and management skills – linking to ERDF start-up support activities, focus on leadership, management and entrepreneurial skills
- Linking students and graduates to industry and retaining higher level skills – Creating opportunities for students and graduates to engage with SMEs and supporting capacity of SMEs to innovate.
- Improving workforce skills – Investing in Level 2, intermediate technical and higher level skills.
Areas of activity likely to
be of interest?
Integrated Activity D: Digital
ESF
£4.8m
- Digital inclusion – addressing a key barrier to social and economic inclusion
- Intermediate, technical and Higher level digital skills – for users, ICT professionals and leaders and managers.
Integrated Activity E: Addressing social & economic inclusion
ERDF
£4.8m
- SME Competiveness - Social Enterprise Support and Development (including Local Impact Fund)
- Social Inclusion - Enterprise as a route out of worklessness
ESF
£16.5m
- Social Inclusion - Supporting the hardest to reach access economic opportunities.
- Supported approaches for young people – such as personalised case workers, engagement and employability.
- Tackling ‘in work poverty’ – helping people in poorly paid, seasonable, part-time, self employed into better paid positions.
Areas of activity likely to
be of interest?
Some additional complexity
• Transitional and more developed areas
All of Europe is organised into more developed, less developed, or
transitional areas. This affects the amount of funding available for different
activities and the ‘intervention rate’ (i.e. how much co-funding you’re
expected to find to be able to bid for EU funds). Read the ESIF Strategy for
more.
• Open calls, national calls and opt-ins
Funding is ‘normally’ accessed through open calls where the activity the
managing authority wants to ‘buy’ is specified in detail. In some cases
arrangements have been made where the match funding has been pre-
agreed with organisations, like the Big Lottery Fund, meaning the match is
already there and projects can bid without the co-funding already lined up.
Hear from Catherine for more.
Accessing funding
• Familiarise yourself with the parts of the ESIF Strategy that look most
relevant to what your organisation wants to deliver.
• Keep your eye on the website where calls will be published. Register to
LOGASNET as soon as possible – it can take 10 days to register!
• Small number of calls to go live before the end of this month – possibly
tomorrow!
• Give South West Forum and me any feedback you have on the
provision of information and/or support you feel you need. We will try
and help where we can.
• Where there are important priorities that you collectively, as a sector,
feel need to be addressed, engage with your representative on the
Committee.
Further information• European Commission – Structural Funding page (for the real swots):
http://ec.europa.eu/contracts_grants/funds_en.htm
• Gov.uk – ESIF page (slightly more plain English and about UK delivery
arrangements – you’re keen but not a swot):
https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/making-european-funding-work-better-for-
the-uk-economy
• Heart of the South West LEP – ESIF funding page (top notch succinct and clear
information, of course!):
http://heartofswlep.co.uk/news/european-structural-and-investment-funds-strategy
• LOGASNET (forget the bureaucracy – just show me where to sign up to bid for
cash):
https://logasnet.communities.gov.uk/logasnet/(S(zvrgci2ij3ghyqsj32z1o3xc))/PlainDi
alogController.aspx?STATE=LOGON-DETAILS