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European investment

Attracting European funding to the region is one of SEEDA’s strategic priorities. We use European funds to invest in the projects that we know will help the region prosper. We channel a number of European programme funding streams into areas such as the rural economy and social and biotechnology development.

These programmes are:

Non-SEEDA managed programme:

FP7 is the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. This is the EU's main instrument for funding research in Europe and it will run from 2007 to 2013. It supports research to respond to Europe's needs in terms of jobs and competitiveness, and to maintain leadership in the global knowledge economy.

For further information please visit the FP7 website.

For help with FP7 in the UK, please visit the website here.

Previous programmes SEEDA has been involved with include:

Policy and debate

The Joint Europe Committee (JEC),set up by SEEDA and what is now South East England Partnership Board, considered and made recommendations to their respective bodies on European issues that affected the South East and on behalf of those bodies to promote and lobby for the region's interests in Brussels. Minutes of these meetings are available here. Visit the South East Regional Assembly website for information on the JEC.

Grow

The Grow project was a €7.5million programme and ran from June 2005 to December 2007.

Further information can be found here.

BioSmile

The overall objective of the BioSmile project was to strengthen and promote the competitiveness of North West Europe in the field of biotechnology, through transnational cooperation within and between polycentric urban areas, medium-sized cities and their regions in the BioSmile region.

Further information can be found here.

Espace Manche Development Initiative (EMDI)

EMDI with a total £900,000 ERDF, aimed at fostering and strengthening Franco-British cross-Channel co-operation. The project stemmed from a strong political will within the Arc Manche partnership and the conviction that the Channel area is the relevant scale to address a full range of common strategic issues. Its follow-up cross-border CAMIS (Channel Arc Manche Integrated Strategy) project has just secured £1.5million ERDF.

Connected Cities

Connect Cities, which was granted £750,000 ERDF, was an inter-regional project aimed at identifying and implementing measures to provide sustainable transport and mobility to cities and regions in order to strengthen their territorial cohesion and improve the quality of life of its citizens.