ERDF ‘Open for business’ Project Workshops 2016 Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough Enterprise Partnership (LEP)
Agenda Welcome ERDF Programme overview Priority Axis 1 – Research and Innovation Priority Axis 2 – ICT Priority Axis 3 – SME Competitiveness Priority Axis 4 – Low Carbon Economy Q & A and Close Agenda
ERDF Programme overview Operational Programme Managing authority (DCLG) ESIF Strategy ESIF Sub-committee Outline and Full Application process Four Priority Axes
PA1: Strengthening Research, Technological Development and Innovation
PA1 Investment Priorities 1a: Enhancing research and innovation infrastructure and capacity 1b: Promoting business investment in research and innovation
PA2: Enhancing access to, and use and quality of, ICT
PA2 Investment Priorities 2a: Extending broadband; roll-out of high-speed networks; emerging technologies and networks for the digital economy 2b: Developing ICT products and services and enhancing demand for ICT
PA3: Enhancing the competitiveness of SMEs
PA3 Investment Priorities 3a: Promoting entrepreneurship 3c: Advanced capacities for products, services and SME development 3d: Supporting the capacity of SMEs to grow and innovate
PA4: Supporting the shift towards a low carbon economy in all sectors
PA4 Investment Priorities 4a: Renewable energy production and distribution 4b: Business energy efficiency and renewable energy use in businesses 4c: Energy efficiency, smart energy management and renewable energy use in public infrastructure and in housing 4e: Low carbon strategies 4f: Low carbon technology research, innovation and uptake
Project basics Minimum of £1million Minimum 3 years Max. 50% match funding Outputs and Results EU guidance: Publicity, State Aid,
The application process
Questions?
ERDF contact details Michael Barnes Head of EU Programmes michael.barnes@gcgp.co.uk Paul Bourgeois ERDF Facilitator paul.bourgeois@gcgp.co.uk Stuart Thomas stuart.thomas@gcgp.co.uk
LEP contact details The Incubator Alconbury Weald Enterprise Campus Huntingdon Cambridgeshire PE28 4WX Tel: 01480 277180 www.gcgp.co.uk @yourLEP