Lump Sum Digital Interventions Call OC00S21X1838
To deliver additional bolt-on activity to existing ESF projects in response to COVID-19 which addresses the digital divide, by providing access to information and services, through digital technologies.
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This additional activity must be wholly focussed on the loan of equipment and provision of data to existing ESF participants who would not otherwise have access to the internet, as complimentary to existing ESF provision.
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call specification.
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Completion date
Projects must be financially completed (i.e. have a proposed Financial Completion Date) no later than 31st December 2023; however, the Managing Authority reserves the right to vary the maximum duration in exceptional circumstances.
Details
Through this call the Managing Authority is seeking project(s) to support 80 SME businesses as the main beneficiaries, however the proposal will also benefit individual participants. The service will be a gateway for employers to access information on a range of skills related initiatives, including, skills and training, industry placements, apprenticeships and traineeships. The service will coordinate and sign-post working in partnership with local delivery organisations including; colleges, private training providers, and business representative organisations. Brokering opportunities to encourage and increase work experience, work placements, traineeships, apprenticeships, and graduate placements particularly through wider employer engagement and involving supply chains.
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The impact of the COVID-19 across the Oxfordshire economy has increased the need for businesses to invest in reskilling their workforce and adapt to the new market conditions created by the pandemic. Alongside this, EU transition provides additional challenges for businesses, and SMEs in particular, to forward plan and consider how their operations need to respond in the new economic landscape.
The pandemic has highlighted;
disparities in and between sectors – with some – visitor economy for example seeing significantly higher job losses whilst other sectors (e.g. health and social care) struggling to recruit
the visitor economy (encompassing tourism, hospitality, retail, arts and culture) is the most significantly affected by the lockdown measures introduced and the economic impact this has had, and may not recover to pre-COVID levels until 2022/23 at the earliest
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