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Emma Buckman Interim Strategy Manager Heart of the South West LEP

ESF in Action Conference

3rd October 2014

Strategy Development

Strategic Economic Plan

• Finalised in March
• Overarching economic plan

for the area http://www.heartofswlep.co.u k/strategic-economic-plan ESIF

• Plan setting out how we will

use EU Structural funds to deliver our priorities

• Formally submitted to

Government at the end of January, but can’t be finalised until the ‘National Operational Programme’ has been signed off

Our core aims

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

• wnership

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

• pportunities.

ESIF 2014-2020

• England Programme, steered locally by

HOTSW ESIF strategy

• The role of the strategy is to set out the types
• f activity we expect to see funded in this

programme

• Strategy available on-line
• http://www.heartofswlep.co.uk/news/europe

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EUSIF - background

• Proposals for

investment of:

– ERDF (place blind) – ESF (place blind) – EAFRD (rural only)

• Split by Transition

(Plymouth, Torbay and Devon) and More developed (Somerset)

• Submitted 31st Jan

Transition More Developed Total ERDF £43.25m £14.34m £57.60m ESF £28.84m £14.34m £43.18m EAFRD Not split £15.54m

Approach

• EUSIF – a tool for implementation of the SEP

priorities.

• EUSIF investment supporting a large number

(but not all) of SEP priorities

• Same vision, mission, evidence base
• Looked at how we could link SEP priorities

together in the form of integrated activities

5 Integrated Activities

• A. Maximising Innovation through

Transformational Opportunities and Smart Specialisation

• B. Enterprise and SME Competitiveness
• C. Reaching New Markets
• D. Digital
• E. Social and Economic Inclusion

ESF Activities

Integrated Activity Group ESF Activities A - Innovation

• Employer led solutions to address higher level skills

B – SME Competitivenes s

• Start-up support and leadership and management skills
• Linking students and graduates to industry and

retaining higher level skills C – New Markets

• No ESF Activity

D - Digital

• Digital Inclusion
• Intermediate, Technical and Higher Level Skills

E – Social Inclusion

• Supporting the hardest to reach access economic
• pportunities
• Supported approaches for young people
• Tackling ‘in work poverty’

Opportunities to input

• People theme group consulted on SEP

priorities and broad ESF activities

• Planned event on14th November to engage

with wider stakeholders and partners to define/shape scope and details

How will activity happen?

Opt-Ins

• Three ESF Opt-In providers

– DWP – SFA – BIG Lottery

• HOTSW currently

negotiating Opt-In activity

• Majority of ESF allocation is

likely to go through this route ‘Calls for Proposals’

• Managing Authority to issue

‘Calls for proposals’

• Organisations can apply

against the call

• ESIF committee sets out an

implementation plan, identifying areas for calls each year.

What Next?

• Finalising the ESIF strategy, potentially

tweaking to reflect UK/EC negotiations up until OP signed off

• Setting up the ESIF Area Committee (closing

date 9th Oct)

• Working up implementation plan
• ESF OP signed in the Autumn
• Programme live early in New Year

• 130m in total
• 63m in 15/16
• 8th largest overall
• 9th largest per capita

Heart of the SW – Growth Deal

Growth Deal 1+

• Currently in development
• Capital funding only
• FE Colleges invited to submit proposals
• Desire to engage with private sector in future

deals

heartofswlep.co.uk

Emma Buckman Interim Manager of Strategy Heart of the South West local enterprise partnership emma.buckman@heartofswlep.co.uk 01364 661137