10 Amendments of Fabio Massimo CASTALDO related to 2018/2117(INI)
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas academic freedom is a key element to advance to sustainable development, in particular to the achievement of the SDGs enshrined in the 2030 Agenda, where quality education, scientific research and innovation occupy a central place;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
E a. whereas, especially in fragile contexts, students, educators and education facilities can become deliberately or indiscriminately targets of attacks due to airstrikes, shelling or armed combats; whereas they can also become targets of violence by state security forces and non-states armed groups for political, military, ideological, sectarian, ethnic, or religious reasons; whereas, according some estimates of independent NGOs, notably the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA), between 2013 and 2017, there were more than 12,700 attacks, harming more than 21,000 students and educators in at least 70 countries;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
(a a) recognise that claims to academic freedom fall under existing human rights law as independently as well as interdependently derived from the rights to freedom of opinion, expression and the right to education since these rights already include a protection for academic freedom;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
(c a) recognise and provide concrete support for the increasing number of academics and intellectuals who have to leave their countries and to those who are forcibly displaced because of conflicts and global challenges, such as climate change;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point c b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point c b (new)
(c b) highlight that attacks on academic freedom can also take place through cyberattacks as academics today make more and more use of internet and social media to express their ideas and opinions;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point c c (new)
Paragraph 1 – point c c (new)
(c c) Highlight that in today`s changing world political repression combined with economic insecurity ha multiplied the challenges for knowledge production and critical thinking;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d
Paragraph 1 – point d
(d) support the production, dissemination and use of relevant information, as well as the organisation of workshops and, training courses, and action campaigns in order to raise awareness and, improve the capacity to advocate andadvocacy capacity and mobilise key stakeholders to defend academic freedom;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point e
Paragraph 1 – point e
(e) work with UN, international agencies and, civil society and involve students to create a mechanism or a project for monitoring and reporting attacks on higher education and individual scholars, to strengthen and promote monitoring in order to raise awareness, hold perpetrators to account and improve efforts to prevent and respond to attacks on academic freedom;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point j
Paragraph 1 – point j
(j) review existing programmes and resources for academic mobility and circular mobility, including their criteria, application procedures, requirements and schedules, for the purpose of eliminating obstacles which might preclude otherwise qualified at-risk academics or students from being able to obtain access to programme opportunities, placements or other resources;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point k
Paragraph 1 – point k
(k) create new initiatives within existing programmes, such as Erasmus+ and the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions of new EU-funded programmes to support the placement of at-risk academics and students with international protection status at European higher education and research institutions; promote innovative programmes, involving independent institutions, to help those who would like to carry on with their work in their countries despite the risks and enhance the skills of those who are forced to flee so that they will be able to get back and help re-building their societies;