Overview of European Funding

Jane Locke

EU Projects Manager

Europe 2020

• New programme period 2014-20

• Smart, sustainable, inclusive economic growth

• Previous programmes about economic equality across Europe - cohesion

• New programme will be about promoting European economies as competitors on a world stage - growth

EU Programmes

• National programmes– Structural (ERDF and ESF) and rural

(EAFRD)

• Cross border– FCE and 2 Seas

• Transnational– North Sea and North West Europe

• Europe-wide– Horizon2020, Erasmus + etc

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National£40M ERDF£40M ESF£13M EAFRD

£250M FCE£139m 2 SEAS£115M North Sea£279M NWE

RDPE LEADER Programme likely to be £10M?

Thematic Objective SIF2

SeasFCE

NorthSea

NorthWest

Europe

InterregEurope

Research & innovation

Access to ICT

Competitiveness of SMEs

Promoting a low carbon economy

Promoting climate change adaption

Protecting the environment

Promoting sustainable transport

Promoting employment and supporting labour mobility

Promoting social inclusion and combating poverty

Investing in education skills and lifelong learning

Investment Priorities

EUSIF – Priorities and Funding

£81 Million ESF/ERDF to be divided between priority themes:

• Education and skills - £20M• SME competitiveness - £16M• Innovation – £11M• Social Inclusion - £9M• Low Carbon Economy - £8M• Employment and labour mobility - £7M

£6M will be spent on these themes through a Community Led Local Development approach in urban and rural areas

EU SIF – Priorities and Funding

£13M EAFRD aimed at 4 priorities in rural areas:

• Building knowledge and skills in rural areas;• Funding new and developing non-agricultural,

micro, small and medium sized rural business;• Funding small scale renewable and broadband

Investments in rural areas; and• Support for tourism activities in rural areas.

INTERREG European Territorial Cooperation

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INTERREGEuropean Territorial Cooperation

RDPE Programme

• Successfully completing the Leader programme

• Roll out Leader approach to 2 new local action groups in Norfolk

• Using new flexibility to add ERDF and ESF funds to rural funds for holistic approach

• Using new flexibility to use Leader approach in Norwich and Great Yarmouth

Role of Economic Development• Able to help with:

– Identifying best funding opportunity– Help with identifying project partners internally

and externally– Provide access to dedicated facilitators– Assistance to draft applications– Help to set up and run a project

• Meanwhile – working on compliance systems across council

Contacts

• Carolyn Reid – Interreg FCE• Karen Gibson –ETC Programmes (Interreg)

• Jane Locke – National Programmes

• Eliska Cheeseman – Rural Programmes

• Eve Cronin – Skills Programmes

• Karen Bailey – ERDF Facilitator