The ERDF Programme will focus on five priority areas of activity :
• Priority 1 - Promoting Innovation and Research & Development
• Priority 2 - Stimulating Enterprise Development
• Priority 3 - Achieving Sustainable Urban Development
• Priority 4 - Developing Inter-Regional Activity
• Priority 5 - Technical Assistance
For more information on each of the 5 priorities, including their Investment Frameworks, which set out activities and operations to be delivered under the Programme, select the individual priority sections via the left hand menu or from the priority thumbnails below.
An explanation of the Programme including all aspects from the activities to support to the management arrangements are explained in the Operational Programming document. This is available to download in full from the Related Documents, however for ease of reference the individual chapters are available below:
Chapter 1 Executive Summary
Chapter 2 Socio Economic Analysis
Chapter 3 Strategy
Chapter 4 Priorities
Chapter 5 Cross Cutting Themes
Chapter 6 Financial Allocations
Chapter 7 Coordination
Chapter 8 Implementing Provisions
Chapter 9 Abbreviations
Chapter 10 Definitions
Chapter 11 EC Cohesion Policy Flow Diagram
Chapter 12 Annexes
This priority aims to improve the region’s capacity to translate innovation into commercial outcomes that result in a step change in business productivity and performance.
This priority aims to increase enterprise in the West Midlands in order to improve regional economic performance.
This priority aims to address the significant concentrations of economic need and seeks to generate major employment opportunities accessible to those communities.
This priority aims to support the three main priorities in tackling problems that are applicable to the region and to maximise learning from current and future inter-regional activity.
This priority will provide a resource which will support and contribute towards delivering the overall regional strategy by assisting the necessary activities associated with Programme management.