Latest News Updates
EUR-Lex Website
3 March 2010
The European Commission’s EUR-Lex website contains information on EU treaties, and legislation, including the Structural Funds Regulations, European Parliamentary questions, and on-line access to the Official Journal.
Scotland’s National Renewables Infrastructure Plan
3 March 2010
Scotland’s National Renewables Infrastructure Plan was published recently and is available for download . The Plan details how Scotland can capitalise on its offshore wind and tidal resources to develop a sustainable and long term industry for the future.
ERDF Operational Programme Changes
4 February 2010
On 22 January 2010 the European Commission (decision C(2010)417 attached) agreed amendments to the LUPS ERDF Operational Programme. Changes were made to eligible areas and activity for ERDF Priorities 1, 3 and 4, and amendments were made to the Programme’s financial tables. Further information can be found here .
Ministerial Announcement of 2010 CPP Allocations
11 January 2010
A European cash injection of more than £34 million will be invested in programmes to develop Scotland's workforce and safeguard and create jobs.
Speaking at a National Job Summit in Glasgow, First Minister Alex Salmond outlined the new allocations from the European Social Fund (ESF) and European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) that will help 28,000 people to gain or sustain employment opportunities through skills development and support the creation of 193 jobs.
Funding of £16 million will be invested in Community Planning Partnership (CPP) initiatives to support and prepare people for work in Glasgow, Dundee, East Ayrshire, Fife, Inverclyde, North Ayrshire, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, South Lanarkshire, West Dunbartonshire and West Lothian. This will help more than 23,000 people to find work.
Funding of £18 million will go towards 43 projects in the Highlands and Islands area which will provide more than 5,000 individuals with help and support to enter employment.
The full press release can be accessed from the Scottish Government website
Download details of the latest Community Planning Partnership Awards for the Lowlands and Uplands Scotland Programmes.
Third Sector Tendering Exercise
8 January 2010
The DWP Scottish Financial Inclusion Champions are looking to support new and innovative financial inclusion activity and are seeking proposals from established Third Sector not-for-profit organisations and partners with a track record in their area to support small-scale financial inclusion initiatives.
They will look to support Financial Inclusion activity across the following areas:
- Employability
- Positive Youth Destinations
- Decreasing Poverty
- Homeless/Vulnerable Housed
- Addiction
- Learning Disabilities
- Mental Wellbeing
For further information on who is eligible to apply, the range of funding and what it can be used for on the Employability in Scotland website, please visit the Employability in Scotland website.
UP-date Newsletter
21 December 2009
The latest edition of the UP-date newsletter has now been published and is available for download.
PMC Meeting Papers
10 November 2009
The papers for the meeting of the Programme Monitoring Committee, held in Edinburgh on 28 October 2009 have now been published and are available for download
Data Protection
5 November 2009
A Note on Information Provided with Transaction Lists and Financial Annexes has now been made available for download
Latest Developments on JESSICA
3 November 2009
The feasibility study for a JESSICA Fund for Scotland, prepared by Ernst & Young has now been made available for download
Level of Bids under Third Application Round
30 October 2009
167 Stage 2 applications were received under the Third Round of the Lowlands and Uplands Scotland Programmes.
Listed below are details of the number and level of bids received under each Programme and Priority:
European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) - No of bids - Grant requested (£)
Priority 1: Research & Innovation - 22 - 40,857,283
Priority 2: Enterprise & Growth - 11 - 10,967,367
Priority 3: Urban Regeneration - 26 - 55,392,875
Priority 4: Rural Development - 11 - 10,952,482
European Social Fund (ESF) - No of bids - Grant requested (£)
Priority 1: Progressing Into Employment - 65 - 27,339,905
Priority 2: Progressing Through Employment - 32 - 20,895,294
Priority 3: Access to Lifelong Learning *
* The Programme Monitoring Committee agreed on 4 September 2009 to recommend that the Managing Authority negotiate with the European Commission to transfer £20 million from Priority 3 to Priority 1 ESF, and as a result, no Priority 3 ESF projects would be considered under the Third Round
Over the coming weeks the IAB will be undertaking technical and eligibility checks on Third Round applications, and as a result the values of individual applications are subject to change.
Applicant organisations will receive written feedback on their Stage 2 submissions in early November. Revised final applications are due for submission by Friday 20 November 2009.
Advice Note for 3rd Round ESF Applicants
15 July 2009
Following the Programme Monitoring Committee meeting on 27 May 2009 there is further advice available for Stage 1 applications to be submitted in the third round for ESF funding under the LUPS Programme 2007-13.
