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1 1 Yorkshire Universities Technical Assistance (YUTA) Project and the ESIF Good Practice Guide (GPG) 2 December, Sheffield Ian Rowe Sue Brownlow

2 2 Yorkshire Universities represents 12 higher education institutions in Yorkshire: Bradford, Hull, Huddersfield, Leeds, Leeds Beckett, Leeds Trinity, Leeds College of Art, Leeds College of Music, Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam, York, and York St John. Why a Technical Assistance Project? YU history of working with Structural Funds To inform members about the new programme Capacity to develop ideas/projects Funding availability Why a Good Practice Guide? To capture good practice from the HE sector Apply within the context of the 2014-2020 ESIF

3 About the Guide Practitioner-led For leaders and senior managers in Universities and LEPs Focused on the new ESIF programme Audience-led content

4 Topics covered National perspectives New programme overview Good practice experience: Supporting innovation SME engagement New opportunities: Widening participation and higher level skills Student enterprise and employability Social innovation Low carbon economy and resource efficiency Next steps

5 Strategic engagement: Four key aspects of good practice Strategic fit – Find the space where University strategy, Local Growth strategy and ESIF priorities meet – Focus on outcomes not activities Partnering not bidding – Co-creation of the investment concept – With business, community and investment partners Operations not projects – Bundles of activity to address high level outcomes – Will usually require a collaborative approach Multi-level engagement – Internally and externally – Great communications – Strategic leadership is vital

6 Key features of successful R&D and Innovation projects Be clear about specialist niches in global R&D and innovation Focus on commercial growth, not just world-class R&D Encourage innovation sub- group of LEP or ESIF committee Work with business to develop and advocate the proposal Innovation Centres as a hub for innovation support, not just for tenants Link through to wide range of university support Promote and explain innovation to SMEs Charge market rents (or more)

7 Examples of SME Engagement supported by ESIF Postgraduate programmes KESS Wales CUC Research UHI Postgrad research awards Digital City Fellowships (Teesside and partners) Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation Graduate placements Unlocking Potential (Cornwall and South West) GO Wales Graduate Recruitment & Placements (Teesside) Graduate Entrepreneurship (Huddersfield and Yorkshire Universities partners) Innovation Vouchers Innovation University Enterprise Network (Coventry, Wolverhampton) Scottish Innovation Vouchers Knowledge Action Network (Manchester Met and partners) Yorkshire Innovation Fund West Midlands Innovation Vouchers

8 Key features of successful SME engagement projects Long-term, joined-up strategy, through combined operations Local partnerships to offer single contact point to SMEs Part of Local Growth Hub offer Placements and postgraduates are attractive to new SMEs Use of simplified cost options Use of ESF

9 New Opportunities – key issues Social innovation means social issues and socially inclusive process Opportunities for knowledge transfer and innovation in low carbon technologies Focus widening participation & higher level skills on ESIF priorities Enterprise and employability - enhancements to mainstream undergraduate tuition

10 What might a Higher Level Skills Operation look like? Integrated and multi-partner operation which: Delivers targeted widening participation activity … demonstrate how this clearly goes beyond mainstream University WP activity Drives demand from SMEs for undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate projects, provides a simple gateway and offers targeted subsidy … eg contributes to costs for first-time SMEs or collaborative postgraduate programmes in S3 areas Supports SME and institutional costs of developing new industry partnerships and innovative approaches to student employability involving employers … highly targeted on local skills shortages where student recruitment is the key barrier eg ICT

11 Next steps for Universities Senior representation on ESIF committee / Innovation sub-group (and use it) Informal agreement about Universities ESIF role Focus – think operations Consider new opportunities Involve external partners in development of ideas Communicate, in business language Set up skilled team(s) to drive project development

12 12 Where next for YUTA? Project identification and development – (agri-science, health innovation, energy, manufacturing supply chains, SME innovation, high level skills) Challenges LEP engagement Developing wider partnerships Match funding The Importance of a sector group Sharing information and ideas Creating solutions to shared challenges A sector voice with government

13 Questions? Sue Brownlow suebrownlow@gmail.com Ian Rowe i.rowe@yorkshireuniversities.ac.uk suebrownlow@gmail.com i.rowe@yorkshireuniversities.ac.uk


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