Activities of Elena GENTILE related to 2015/2006(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Promoting youth entrepreneurship through education and training (A8-0239/2015 - Michaela Šojdrová) IT
Amendments (8)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas young people can benefit immensely from practical entrepreneurial experiencefrom entrepreneurial training and education, which could contributes to new business creation and, employability and boosts well as innovation in the wider organisations in which they are employeds;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Member States to use existing EU-level funding resources (e.g.: the European Social Fund) to support initiatives pursuing links with businesses and offering entrepreneurship education to low income young people, regardless of socio- economic background or gender, with a particular focus on early school dropoutleavers, young people in danger of long-term unemployment and young people with disabilities;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Member States to be proactive in simplifyingCommission and the Member States to improve the regulatory frameworks of social businesses, to promote them and monitor the quality of the employment practices of such businesses and to safeguard workers’ rights in this context;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Member States to offer micro-scholarships and micro-loans schemes to innovative students in secondary and tertiary education respectively in order to start their own ventures or projectorder to start their own ventures or projects, and to put measures in place to protect young people against indebtedness;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Member StatesStresses the need to improve the entrepreneurial culture within tertiary education by establishing the conditions to supportsupporting and facilitating the creation of new companies based on academic research (spin-offs), reducing the bureaucratic burden involved in establishing such companies and promoting the benefits of commercialising research;
Amendment 109 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to foster the sharing of ideas, knowledge, experience and best practices and to develop benchmarks, models, common instruments and projects to promote youth entrepreneurship;
Amendment 114 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Calls for a closer collaboration with the private sector and social partners to encourage a risk-taking, entrepreneurial and innovative culture (e.g. through structural commitments like facilities for innovation and exchange of ideas);
Amendment 117 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5d. Calls on the Commission to examine factors which discourage women from taking up an entrepreneurial career path and to ensure that educational systems as well as related measures and activities actively strive for gender equality.