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.
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 - PDF - 27kb
Chapter 2 Socio Economic Analysis - PDF - 367kb
Chapter 3 Strategy - PDF - 108kb
Chapter 4 Priorities - PDF - 348kb
Chapter 5 Cross Cutting Themes - PDF - 49kb
Chapter 6 Financial Allocations - PDF - 21kb
Chapter 7 Coordination - PDF - 50kb
Chapter 8 Implementing Provisions - PDF - 152kb
Chapter 9 Abbreviations - PDF - 18kb
Chapter 10 Definitions - PDF - 6kb
Chapter 11 EC Cohesion Policy Flow Diagram - PDF - 5kb
Chapter 12 Annexes - PDF - 946kb
A number of projects supported by the ERDF Programme will be delivering products which are part of Solutions for Business, the Government's package of publicly funded business support designed to help companies start and grow. More information on Solutions for Business is available here.