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Convergence 2007-2013 Latest News (updated 09.05.2012) The latest news on Convergence developments relevant to Swansea from the Welsh European Funding Office and other organisations involved in delivering services funded through the Convergence 2007-2013 ESF and ERDF Programmes.Each article contains links to the 'sponsor' organisation website, and other related articles from this website.
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 MARINE industry experts have joined forces with Swansea Council to help local companies navigate the stormy seas of these difficult economic times.
Social Justice Minister Carl Sargeant has announced £3.4 million to support the continued growth and sustainability of credit unions in Wales.
£22m investment has announced by Deputy Minister for Regeneration, Leighton Andrews, to develop expand and enhance the unique tourism potential of the South Wales Valleys.
Deputy First Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones has launched a new Local Investment Fund - designed to support the growth of more than 4,000 new or small enterprises by generating total investment of some £54 million.
A £49 million initiative to help around 30,000 young people in Wales improve their career opportunities has been launched today (Thursday 7 May 2009) by Jane Hutt, Minister for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills.
.jpg "EU flag (image © European Community, 2008): Link to '08.05.2009 Flying the flag for Europe' Article") A EUROPEAN flag will be flying from several Swansea buildings at the end of the week to mark Europe Day across the continent.
 Third sector organisations are increasingly seeking to diversify their income sources by incorporating strategies and techniques to achieve a sustainable funding base. At a time when there is a strong drive towards increased public service delivery by the third sector in Wales, tendering is beginning to replace the traditional route of grant funding.
Hundreds of businesses in Wales will be helped to win new export orders worth millions, thanks to a new EU-backed Export Assist programme run by the Welsh Assembly Government.
A £49 million initiative to help around 30,000 young people in Wales improve their career opportunities has been announced. The Reach the Heights projects have been awarded £27 million of European Social Fund resources plus match funding from the Welsh Assembly Government and associated sponsors to take forward the programme in Wales. It aims to target 11 - 19 year-olds across West Wales and the Valleys to help them build a brighter future and prevent them from becoming NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training).
Employment specialist JobMatch is reporting a growth in the number of businesses it is helping across the Heads of the Valleys area. JobMatch, which is part funded by £16million from the European Social Fund, has been working to increase the employment levels across the region for over a year and has reported that tough economic conditions are meaning more businesses are utilising its services.
 A company which makes marathon race numbers for athletics vests has been visited by Deputy Minister for Skills John Griffiths. The company, First 4 Numbers in Tondu, have accessed ReAct funding to secure the employment of skilled specialist printer, Richard Barrett who was recently made redundant.
 Unemployed Darren Wyn Lloyd is close to realising his dream of becoming a self-employed pest controller thanks to help from a Welsh Assembly Government initiative.
A £4 million initiative to help tackle the barriers faced by people from black and minority ethnic communities trying to find a job has been announced by Social Justice and Local Government Minister, Brian Gibbons.
Deputy Minister for Regeneration Leighton Andrews has announced a new initiative to tackle digital exclusion in Wales. During the next six years the Assembly Government will spend nearly £20 million including European Regional Development Fund monies, on a new digital inclusion programme to provide community groups, social enterprises and individuals with support to use technologies.
Wales is set to emerge as a hot spot for 21st century language technologies following announcement of a new Welsh Assembly Government initiative. Bangor University has been awarded a £120,000, two-year grant to set up a research network for Speech and Language Technologies in Wales (SALT Cymru).
Deputy First Minister, Ieuan Wyn Jones, has pledged to continue to invest in "Wales' world-beating products and services" following the announcement that the region has scooped a top European award for innovation.
A £12.5m project funded by the European Social Fund and the Welsh Assembly Government, aimed at tackling the difficulties women face when progressing in the workforce, has been launched by Sound of Music Star Connie Fisher.
A £17 million initiative to help graduates get the best start to their career has been given the go-ahead for Convergence funding Jane Hutt, Minister for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills has announced. [Wednesday 11th February].
The first two businesses to be helped by the £68million ProAct scheme, aimed at helping employers deal with a fall-off in orders and provide an alternative to redundancy, have been announced.
A new EU-backed plan to strengthen the social enterprise sector in Wales was launched yesterday (Monday 9th February) by Deputy Minister for Regeneration, Leighton Andrews.
A £57 million package of investment to help Welsh businesses turn innovative ideas into commercial realities, and to support pioneering advances in healthcare, will be announced by Ieuan Wyn Jones, Minister for the Economy and Transport, on Thursday 5th February.
A £750,000 project to extend financial services to help people in Wales struggling to manage their money has been given the go-ahead for Convergence funding.
An EU-backed £5.5million state-of-the-art business centre is set to welcome its first commercial tenants. The Orbit Business Centre, in Merthyr Tydfil, received Objective 1 ERDF funding to encourage and support new and emerging businesses in the area.
£25 Million To Help Businesses Become More Competitive 30 January 2009 A £25 million project designed to support the growth of Welsh businesses has beeen announced by Ieuan Wyn Jones, Deputy First Minister. Enterprise Networks, which has received £12 million from the Convergence European Regional Development Fund through the Welsh Assembly Government, is geared to help 4,200 businesses and 155 social enterprises over the next seven years. It could also lead to the creation of up to 1,200 jobs.
£68m EU funding package for apprenticeships and ProAct to support businesses, employees and learners has been announced.
Deputy First Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones today (Thursday 15th January) announced the approval of a £2 million project which will prepare graduates working in marine sciences in Wales for the commercial world and help grow SMEs in the sector.
Crane operator Malcolm Sewell is advising the growing number of redundant workers across Wales to take full advantage of support made available to them by an EU backed project through the Welsh Assembly Government to retrain for new careers.
EU member states, including Wales, are being encouraged to boost creativity and innovation to face the challenges ahead in a globalised world.
Six new projects to help protect people in Wales from the risk of flooding have received the go-ahead for Convergence funding.
More than 100 people attended WEFO's annual information event to mark the achievements of the Structural Funds programmes in Wales.
A series of events to launch a new European project that will invest in organisations working with economically inactive people will take place in January 2009.
Almost 6,000 jobs will be created following a £45 million investment to help sustain and grow small and medium sized businesses across Wales.
Nearly £43 million will be invested to help the economically inactive back into the labour market and into learning.
Social enterprises in West Wales and the Valleys will benefit from a £7 million project to help them grow.
 A new £50 million project to help thousands of disadvantaged people across four Welsh counties to gain new skills and access work has been announced.
 Two programmes to help Welsh business fight the global credit crash and compete in the Internet Age have been given the go-ahead for Convergence funding. (22.10.08).
The Welsh Assembly Government has announced plans to create a multi-million pound urban development fund (UDF) - one of the first of its kind in Europe - under the European Commission's JESSICA programme.
 An £12.5m innovative project aimed at tackling the difficulties women face when progressing in the workforce has been given the go-ahead for Convergence funding.
A £35m scheme to help people facing redundancy throughout Wales has been announced. The ReAct programme will help over 12,000 redundant workers gain new employment or training and has been made possible with almost £15.8m from the European Social Fund. A £35m scheme to help people facing redundancy throughout Wales has been announced. The ReAct programme will help over 12,000 redundant workers gain new employment or training and has been made possible with almost £15.8m from the European Social Fund.
A £70million Euro-backed initiative to tackle many of the major barriers unemployed people face when wanting to learn new skills or return to work has been launched.
 A £12 million project to help thousands of people on incapacity benefit to find a job in East Wales is to receive EU funding.
 A £11 million scheme to transform the Quadrant Bus Station in Swansea has been given the green light for EU funding.
A new £19 million scheme to help businesses across five Welsh counties has been given the go ahead for European funding.
The new Modern Apprenticeship World Class Skills project will help more than 22,500 people raise their skill levels - with more than 14,000 training places made possible with £40 million of European funding.
Deputy Minister for Skills John Griffiths has welcomed a £60million investment in the Skillbuild programme during a recent visit to see the project in action at Swansea College.
First Minister Rhodri Morgan today has announced in Brussels the first projects to get the go-ahead under the new West Wales and the Valleys Convergence Programme - the successor to Objective One.
 The First Minister, Rt Hon Rhodri Morgan AM, announced at the official launch of the ERDF Convergence programme (5 October 2007) that the application process can now begin for the new round of European funding, which will help continue Wales' transformation into a thriving, enterprising, and sustainable country.
 THE FIRST MINISTER, Rhodri Morgan AM, has announced (20th Sept) that Wales is the first UK region to have its Structural Fund programmes legally adopted by the EU, making way for a total investment of around £3 billion in the Welsh economy over the period 2007 to 2013.
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