10 Amendments of Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO related to 2010/2307(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Emphasises that the objective of all initiatives must be to educate young people on a continuous basis for the Europe of the future, which means making it possible for all young people to enjoy schooling, vocational training and higher education that lays stress on meeting the technological requirements of a modern and sustainable society; states that education and vocational training need therefore to be adapted to the changing needs of these sectors so that young people can enter the labour market and people with years of experience can retrain;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Emphasises the importance of ensuring that young people in employment in Europe have minimum guaranteed rights in terms of health, safety, income and the right to contribute to a pension plan, irrespective of the type of contract concerned;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Emphasises the necessity of insisting on full recognition of non-formal education as this is an important resource when encouraging team work or creativity and thus enables young people to integrate better into working life;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Emphasises that the transition from school, vocational training or higher education to employment must be better prepared and must follow on directly from education or training, andadapting education systems and vocational training to the real needs of the labour market is one of the keys to combating youth unemployment, for which reason the bridges between school, vocational training or higher education and employment need to be improved immediately; welcomes the ‘European Youth Guarantee’ initiative; believes that social partners and youth organisations should be involved in the development of a sustainable strategy to reduce youth unemployment, in which there must be formal recognition of qualifications obtained;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Recommends that the Commission urge Member States to strengthen their higher education curricula by making it necessary for classroom learning to be complemented by periods of training in public and private enterprises, setting up for this purpose a framework of guarantees and minimum standards regulating the content of and the conditions under which these training periods take place, as in no circumstances should they equate to a job in disguise for the trainee;
Amendment 109 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission to establish a modernisation agenda for existing career guidance systems and to improve connections and cooperation between these systems across Europe; considers that all the Member States should have specialist agencies that are in permanent contact with the agencies in other Member States, so that they may supply reliable and up-to-date information on the opportunities available in the different labour markets in the EU and on the skills each young person must have or acquire in order to fill vacancies in these labour markets;
Amendment 134 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Welcomes the greater role played by the EIB in setting up financing programmes for students as well as in supporting young people setting up their own businesses; believes that the EIB should play an even greater role by investing selectively in high added value sectors in the Member States and particularly in enterprises that are making the most effort to hire young people and provide them with quality training;
Amendment 135 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Highlights the important role played by SMEs in employing a significant proportion of the population, and hence of young Europeans, and believes therefore that facilitating the continuous training of employees of SMEs is vital in order to enhance their skill base and competitiveness; recommends examining the possibility of creating common intra- European training services for SME employees;
Amendment 136 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Stresses the importance of self- employment as a means of fighting youth unemployment and creating new opportunities for young people; urges the Commission, therefore, to set up more ambitious partnership programmes between governments, universities and businesses that will guide and advise young people setting up a new business; calls for a greater culture of youth self- employment to be advocated in all the Member States;
Amendment 149 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses the importance of creating employment opportunities for disabled young people, by establishing suitably adapted training programmes, and of encouraging more employment grants for this important sector of young people in the interests of their greater inclusion and achievement in society;