Activities of María IRIGOYEN PÉREZ related to 2011/2107(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the Green Paper ‘From challenges to opportunities: towards a common strategic framework for EU research and innovation funding’
Amendments (6)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that greater coordination is needed between the future ‘Common Strategic Framework’ for regional policy and the future ‘Common Strategic Framework’ for research and innovation programmes, reiterates that this coordinated action must strive to involve regional and local authorities more in the design and execution of these policies and to tailor the priorities more to the specific needs of each region; calls on the Commission to set out how this is to be achieved in practice;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the regions, in line with the ‘smart specialisation’ approach, to develop tailored innovation strategies; calls on the Commission therefore to encourage the EU’s research programmes and funds to coordinate with the Structural and Cohesion Funds; stresses that territorial cooperation must be optimised with a view to greater complementarity between regions;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Points out that innovation above all lies at the interface with practice; recommends, therefore, as the necessary complement to excellence in research, placing the focus of regional support on support for applications, without preventing research capacity from being built up, in order above all to enable companies, and especially SMEs, to develop innovative methods;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Believes that research and innovation play a fundamental role which creates a more sustainable urban development, promotes the wellbeing of the population and is based on environmental and social sustainability and energy efficiency; recommends therefore that regional aid promotes this goal;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. In the light of the need to improve the extent to which SMEs are benefiting from support for research and innovation, considers that this should be made a focus of cohesion policy, for example in relation to internationalisation or promotion of entrepreneurshipsince they are the main providers of employment in the EU, considers that cohesion policy needs to support SMEs’ access to funding and reduce the burden of bureaucracy to which beneficiaries are subjected;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission, despite the differences in systems of governance, to aim to achieve maximum harmonisation of rules for the funding of programmes; considers that, in line with the existing general framework for budgetary adjustments, there should be a commitment to optimising funding by encouraging international coordination between national and regional funding agencies in order to develop a strategic research and innovation agenda approve at European level;