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INCLUSION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

European funding as a resource

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Working groups

• Strengthening research, technological development and innovation ERDF

• Enhancing access to and use and quality of ICT ERDF• Supporting the shift to a low-carbon economy ERDF• Promoting employment and supporting labour mobility

ESF

• Promoting social inclusion and combating poverty ESF• Investing in education, skills and lifelong learning ESF

WEST MIDLANDS EUROPEAN STRUCTURAL WEST MIDLANDS EUROPEAN STRUCTURAL FRAMEWORK 2014 – 2020FRAMEWORK 2014 – 2020

KEY THEMESKEY THEMES

Collating and determining activities to determine regional priorities and where value can be added: • Promoting employment and supporting labour

mobility • Promoting social inclusion and combating poverty• Investing in education, skills and lifelong learning


Links to ESF working group (i)Links to ESF working group (i)

Enhancing the competitiveness of Civil Society to add value to and deliver services / activities to address issues of: • High unemployment and unskilled workforce• Low education, skills and improve life long learning• Engaging with poverty and increase social inclusion• Wrap around support to employment • Promoting social inclusion and combating poverty• Growing enterprising activities


Links to ESF working group (ii)Links to ESF working group (ii)

Technical Assistance – aiming at assisting organisations in obtaining and administering European programmes

Community Grants – allows community groups to provide soft skills training to individuals (first steps to lifelong learning)

WEST MIDLANDS EUROPEAN STRUCTURAL WEST MIDLANDS EUROPEAN STRUCTURAL FRAMEWORK 2014 – 2020FRAMEWORK 2014 – 2020What we have known......What we have known......

But there are no guarantees , so what do we want from this?......But there are no guarantees , so what do we want from this?......

Higher education, continuation of

placementsemployment

Grow your own workforce and

employment sectors

Require co-ordinated activity and sharing data

Apprenticeships,Supported volunteering,Work based training,

Can ESF be a potential funding route for future-proofing inclusion and Economic Growth?

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Appointed a Policy Associate (Europe) in May 2012 Data collation Contextual seminars starting in September 2012 Submission to European Advisory Panel – October 2012

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