Guide to Developing and Running an ERDF Project
It is important that all recipients of ERDF fully understand the responsibilities associated with the acceptance of funding, the rigour against which they will be tested for evidence of compliance with EU regulations and the systems and processes they need to ensure the availability of evidence, at the right time, in support of ERDF funded activity.
The Guide to Developing and Running an ERDF project is a suite of guidance notes to assist any ERDF practitioner going through the project handling process, from the initial development phase, through the detailed development phase (i.e. business case) and onto the delivery and management phase.
In addition you will find it useful to refer to the combined indicators technical note which details definitions and evidence requirements relevant to all ERDF outputs, results and impacts. You can access these documents here.
Types of ERDF Guidance
There are 4 types of guidance, each with a difference focus and purpose, as follows;
'How To' Guides - brief, practical, simple regional guides on how to apply ERDF rules on specific topics, providing examples, hints and tips do's and don'ts etc
Eligibility Guidance - more detailed technical regional notes on specific ERDF topics
Programme Level Guidance - detailed guidance specific to North East Programme such as programme management and strategic issues
UK Guidance - national ERDF guidance. These set the context for the more programme specific or topic specific guidance detailed above
In addition to the guidance documents there is a series of useful ERDF templates which can be downloaded.
