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HotSW ESIF 19 03_15
- 1. Paul Taylor Head of Strategy & Operations EU Funding – Get the latest Thursday 19th March 2015
- 2. 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?
- 3. The Heart of the South West
- 4. Our priorities in a nutshell Creating the Conditions for Growth Maximising Productivity and Employment Opportunities Building on our Distinctiveness Place 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 Business 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 People 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.
- 5. 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
- 6. European Structural & Investment Funds (ESIF) EuropeUKHeartoftheSW “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
- 7. The Heart of the South West ESIF Strategy – 3 goes in to 5 HotSW ESIF 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
- 8. 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?
- 9. 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?
- 10. 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.
- 11. 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.
- 12. 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