14 Amendments of Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ related to 2015/2327(INI)
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the programme’'s high educational, societal, political and economic relevance is reflected in the budget increase of 40% for the programme period, and in the commitment rate of the foreseen budget which has reached nearly 100% with a high number of applications;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recognises that, according to reports from stakeholders at all levels, the first two and half years of programme implementation were difficult and challenging but improvements have been made in the meantime;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights the fact that vocational education and training (VET) and VET mobility play a vital economic and social role in Europe as a mechanism leading to equal opportunities for all citizens, including those from socially disadvantaged groups, unemployed young people, migrants and women, who are all under-represented in VET; calls on the Commission and the Member States to position VET as a choice which leads to a promising career, make it accessible to all, ensure gender balanceequal opportunities and non- discrimination, and guarantee that it is adequately funded;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses the importance of informal and non-formal education, youth workers, participation in sports and volunteering in the Erasmus+ Programme as a way to stimulate the development of civic, social and intercultural competences, to foster social inclusion and active citizenship of young people and to contribute to the development of their human and social capital;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to work with the Members States on stronger cooperation between education establishments and key stakeholders (businesses, VET facilities, research organisations, social partners, local/regional authorities and the youth sector) in order to enhance the responsiveness of the education and VET systems to labour market needs, and to guarantee that this cooperation is reflected in Erasmus+; believes that active involvement offeedback of the beneficiaries inand the design and implementatioir involvement in the design of the programme increases its success and added value; National Agencies have to be an inherent part of this monitoring process;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Acknowledges the importance of the EU Structured Dialogue on youth, a participatory process that gives young people and youth organisations the possibility to be engaged in and to influence EU youth policy-making and welcomes the support the programme is providing to National Working Groups and the KA3 Structured Dialogue projects;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Considers that merging of the long- standing brand names (Comenius, Erasmus, Erasmus Mundus, Leonardo da Vinci, Grundtvig and Youth in Action) as important tools in promoting the variety of the programme; calls on all stakeholders to continue to use them in order to maintain and strengthen the identity of the sectoral, into one programme may have created certain confusion among stakeholders and beneficiaries and suggests that the Commission should further highlight the relationship of Erasmus+ programmes, to ensure better recognition and to overcothe previous brand names any confusion among beneficiarid variety of its sub-programmes;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Encourages the Commission to continuimprove its efforts towards an open, consultative and transparent way of working and to further improve its cooperation with partners at all levels of implementation;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Encourages the European Commission to give more flexibility to national agencies to move funds within key actions in order to overcome the potential funding gaps between the individual actions, based on beneficiaries needs;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls on the Commission to simplify and develop user-friendly administrative procedures and to consider gradual acceleration of the application procedure within Erasmus+;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Encourages the Commission to strengthen youth work and informal and non-formal education development practices within the programme by supporting youth organisations and other youth work providers;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Welcomes the simplification introduced by the use of lump-sum and flat-rate funding; notes, however, the need to increase the operational support to European networks under KA3 "Support for policy reform" in order to maximise the promotion and dissemination of the opportunities offered by Erasmus+;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to take relevant steps for volunteering to be eligible as a source of own contributions to the project budget, bearing in mind that Erasmus+ enables the recognition of volunteer time as co-financing in the form of contributions in kind;
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls not only for the current budget level to be secured for the next programme generation under the new MFF, but considers a further budget increase, particularly in the funding for youth field, to be an important step for the continued success of the programme;