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A taste of things to come Preparation for the New Strategy Jo Laverick Executive Director Background Allocation of 539.6m (473m) for NELEP 2014-20 13m (11m) rural EAFRD funding - tourism, market towns and business

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A taste of things to come – Preparation for the New Strategy

Jo Laverick – Executive Director

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Background

Allocation of €539.6m (£473m) for NELEP 2014-20
€13m (£11m) rural EAFRD funding - tourism, market towns and

business support. (LEADER)

€157m (£132m) allocated to County Durham as a Transition

Region

Additional €9m (£7.7m) for County Durham as part of the Youth

Employment Initiative

Proposed investments are aligned to EU thematic objectives;

Innovation, ICT, SME, Low Carbon, Climate Change, Energy Efficiency, Sustainable Transport, Employability, Social Inclusion and Skills

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Focus: Funds to support the EU 2020 Strategy –

smart, sustainable and inclusive growth

1. Innovation and R&D
2. ICT: Improving access; quality and usage
3. SMEs: Improving competitiveness, incl. in the agricultural and aquaculture

sectors

4. Shift to low carbon economy
5. Climate change adaptation and risk management
6. Environmental protection & resource efficiency
7. Sustainable transport and unblocking key networks
8. Employment and labour mobility
9. Social inclusion and fighting poverty

10.Education, skills and lifelong learning 11.Improving institutional capacity for efficient public administration (‘Technical Assistance’)

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Process

National Programme with strong role for North East

LEP

LEP Strategies on spend proposals submitted to

Government in Jan 2014

Negotiation with Government Jan to April 2014
Member State Partnership Contract to EU Commission

May 2014

6 month negotiation
Spend Jan15 at the earliest

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Opportunities

Transition Region – Durham money for Durham, initially
Durham Programme and CDEP recognised as part of

Governance and decision making process

Greater flexibility over spending than non Transition areas
40% match funding required.

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Durham Planned Activities split of ERDF / ESF funding aligned against EU Thematic Objectives Thematic Objective Activities Amount (£) % of Prog % of ERDF / ESF

1. Innovation

Innovation Business Support and Capital Development

20,000,000 14.9% 23.3%

2. ICT

Digital Durham

4,000,000 3.0% 4.7%

3. SME

Full package of support to Durham businesses from pre start to start up and growth, including social enterprise development, range of capital schemes and infrastructure development, Access to Finance (JEREMIE) and Opt Ins with UKTI, MAS and Growth Accelerator

38,440,000 28.7% 44.7%

4. Low

Carbon

Business Energy Efficiency Programme, development of Renewable Energy Village, Energy efficiency measures utilising retrofit activities on public and private assets

12,060,000 9.0% 14.0%

5. Climate

Change

Flood mitigation at key employment sites

4,000,000 3.0% 4.7%

6. Energy

Efficiency

0.0%

7. Sustainable Transport

Sustainable Transport schemes including East Durham Railway Station, Durham City Urban Traffic Control, Durham Transport Development

7,500,000 5.6% 8.7% ERDF sub total 86,000,000 64%

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Thematic Objective Activities Amount (£) % of Progra mme % of ERDF / ESF 8. Employability YEI, Employment and Brokerage Support and NEETS 12,900,000 9.6% 26.9%

9. Social

Inclusion Big Lottery Opt In, CLLD, promoting social inclusion activities including developing volunteering opportunities 11,720,000 8.7% 24.4%

10. Skills

Graduate Support, Mixed Apprenticeship Packages, Work based learning programme, Business Education Engagement and Business & School Engagement 23,380,000 17.4% 48.7% ESF sub total 48,000,000 36% Total (ERDF and ESF) 134,000,000

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County Durham EU Investments: Approach and Asks

Partnership approach
Established EU

Workstreams to develop areas of activity aligned to priorities

Agreed Investment Plan to

illustrate Durham priorities, areas of activity, proportions

f resources, measures of

success and outputs aligned to EU priorities, through the CDEP

County Durham Thematic Workstreams

Innovation
Digital Demand
Business Support
Pre & Start Up Enterprise
Infrastructure
Energy/Sustainability
Volunteering
Education & Business Links
Youth Employment
Access to Finance
Apprenticeships
Higher Level Skills
Social inclusion

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Some Points to Consider…

LEADER is an approach.
It isn’t a generic grant scheme: need to think about economic

development

Support is needed for communities to engage with it.
LEADER: Not to duplicate main EU programme, but look for

alignment

Jobs and growth, jobs and growth, jobs and growth…
Concentrate on what is special, and delivers jobs and growth
Not easy to deliver as individual organisation or small business

but still has potential for creative thinking through a partnership approach.

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Info and Contacts

NELEP: North East Strategic Economic Plan (More & Better Jobs): http://www.nelep.co.uk/media/5080/draft-north-east-strategic-economic-plan.pdf Durham draft EU Investment Plan: http://content.durham.gov.uk/PDFRepository/EUNarrativev10February2014.pdf VONNE: Voluntary Sector Support www.vonne.org.uk Volunteering & Social Inclusion Work stream: Jo Laverick, Durham Community Action: Joanna.Laverick@durhamrcc.org.uk County Durham Economic Partnership - contact: Heather Orton, DCC, RED Technical guidance: BIS The Development and Delivery of European Structural and Investment Fund Strategies, Supplementary Guidance July 2013 East Durham LEADER: Louise Johnson, East Durham LEADER Manager, Louise.Johnson@eastdurhamleader.org.uk