NHS European Office

Accessing EU structural funding

Michael Wood, European Policy Manager

25 July

What we will discuss

• • • • • • • Brief background to EU structural funds The kinds of activities it can support The result indicators that investments will be expected to deliver The timetable What should AHSNs do next Useful reading Any questions

European Structural & Investment Funds :Opportunities for AHSNs

Thursday 25 th July 2013

Kevin Richardson

Department for Business, Innovation & Skills

Quick overview of EU SIF

 Covers European Regional Development Funds (

ERDF

) and European Social Funds (

ESF

) -

€6bn

across England from 2014-2020  Support

economic

and

social

development projects – differ from other EU funds in that administered at national level  Funds to be used at a

local level

to increase their

combined impact

alongside other local public and private investments

Proposed Activities (1)

 Build

collaborative research

between enterprises, research & public institutions 

Support businesses

, incl. social enterprises,

to commercialise Research & Development

i.e. bringing new products & business processes to market, incl. those linked to ‘key enabling’, the ‘eight great’, & health science technologies 

Physical infrastructure

equipment) to deliver other proposed activities in this Thematic Objective (incl. incubation space & other

Proposed Activities (2)



Innovation activities

Research & Innovation contributing to low carbon goals, resource efficiency & environ protection, while focusing on business investment in  Intermediate, technical & higher level

workforce

& management

skills

to support Research, Development, & Innovation  Limited support to facilitate

SMEs

networks of innovative firms involvement in

Proposed Activities (3)

Social innovation

 active

leadership

or involvement of civil society at all stages of project design, delivery, & wider adoption  exchange of

knowledge

from & to a research centre to develop, adopt & spread use of new products & services with demonstrable social impact  a final beneficiary that is a

business

acting in a business-like manner or other undertaking 

beneficiary

can continue after the project is complete through wider adoption of those new products & services

Result Indicators

 Increased number of

innovating

market

businesses actively

to bring new products to  Further

embedding

innovation and building greater value chain

connections

within and across relevant functional economies, especially with the use of those enabling technologies that across sectors (smart specialisation indicator)

transfer

Timetable

 7 th October – LEPs send first draft Investment Strategies; to include a) allocation of cash by theme b) indicative types of activity and c) approach to collaboration across boundaries  End Jan ’14 LEPs submit final drafts for approval; likely to include specific proposals for projects  Summer ’14 – programme opens and projects formally appraised, offer letters issued and spend starts  Note. LEP Investment Strategies will change through time; process yet to be identified

What should AHSNs do next?

 Talk to LEPs !! – be part of local consultative process  Identify potential scale & scope of possible activities  Make clear basis for collaboration across LEP boundaries  Build / share? EU funding expertise

Useful reading

• European Commission guide to Social Innovation – • • • • July 2013 Government’s preliminary guidance to Local Enterprise Partnerships – April 2013 NHS European Office briefing LEP to AHSN allocations – May 2013 – June 2013 Provisional findings of Sir Andrew Witty review into • • universities and growth - July 2013 Supplementary guidance to LEPs – July 2013 Framework of European Growth Programme priorities, background analysis – July 2013 • Individual LEP websites

Any Questions?

• Keep in touch as you build and establish your relationships with LEPs..........

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