A new round of European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) is coming on stream at the end of March 2015. ERDF will flow via the Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs), for Kent this will be via the South East LEP (SELEP). Kent Innovation & Enterprise (KIE) has been directly involved in the development of the ERDF strategy for SELEP and early information from the SELEP is that expressions of interest will be invited at the end of March.
There will be new opportunities in the 2014-2020 programme for activities focusing on higher level skills, social innovation and the low carbon economy with Universities in a strong position to exploit this new funding stream.
KIE will be holding an ERDF Workshop on Monday 30th March 9 a.m. to 10.30 a.m. in Keynes Seminar Room KS16 to outline SELEP’s commitment to supporting ERDF and also to update you on the funding call and the process for applying for funding.
If you are interested in finding out more about ERDF register for the Workshop by emailing enterprise@kent.ac.uk or call Ext 7376.