1. ERDF ‘Open for business’
Project Workshops 2016
Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough
Enterprise Partnership (LEP)

2. 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

3. ERDF Programme overview
Operational Programme
Managing authority (DCLG)
ESIF Strategy
ESIF Sub-committee
Outline and Full Application process
Four Priority Axes

4. PA1: Strengthening Research, Technological Development and Innovation

5. PA1 Investment Priorities
1a: Enhancing research and innovation infrastructure and capacity
1b: Promoting business investment in research and innovation

6. PA2: Enhancing access to, and use and quality of, ICT

7. 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

8. PA3: Enhancing the competitiveness
of SMEs

9. 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

10. PA4: Supporting the shift towards a low carbon economy
in all
sectors

11. 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

12. Project basics Minimum of £1million Minimum 3 years
Max. 50% match funding
Outputs and Results
EU guidance: Publicity, State Aid,

13. The application process

15. Questions?

16. ERDF contact details Michael Barnes Head of EU Programmes
Paul Bourgeois
ERDF Facilitator
Stuart Thomas

17. LEP contact details The Incubator Alconbury Weald Enterprise Campus
Huntingdon
Cambridgeshire
PE28 4WX
Tel:
@yourLEP