Activities of Krystyna ŁYBACKA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Stresses the importance of the Structural and Investment Funds for improving pre-school, educational and university infrastructure with a view to improving the quality of training and modernising education and training systems so as to offer young people the skills and qualifications that will enable them to find a job and to help workers improve their skills and qualifications;

2016/09/13
Committee: CULT

2016/2147(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Stresses that the current low success rate of 14 % represents a negative trend compared to FP7; regrets that the cuts inflicted by EFSI have deepened this problem; calls on the Commission on avoiding dispersion of the H2020 budget;

2017/04/04
Committee: ITRE

2016/2147(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Insists that research can be a risky investment for private investors and that funding research ~~practice~~ through grants is a necessity; regrets the tendency, in some cases, to move away from grants towards the use of loans; recognises that ~~loans must be available for high TRL, close to market activities, within other types of instruments~~financial instruments (loans, guarantees, equity instruments) should be available for high TRL, close to market activities as part of InnovFin financial instruments, and outside of the FP (e.g. EIB, EIF schemes) ~~outside of the FP~~;

2017/04/04
Committee: ITRE

2016/2147(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Stresses that the transparency and credibility of the evaluation process is crucial for program effectiveness; in this context, highlights the need to improve the feedback and scoring given to participants throughout the selection process, as well as provide them with more detailed and informative Evaluation Summary Reports;

2017/04/04
Committee: ITRE

2016/2147(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Call on the Commission to better define ‘'impact’'; stresses that the assessment of the impact of fundamental research projects should remain flexible and its relative weight in the evaluation procedure should be decreased; asks the Commission to ~~check that~~maintain the balance between bottom- up and top-down calls ~~is maintained~~, and to analyse which procedure (one or two stage) is more useful to avoid oversubscription;

2017/04/04
Committee: ITRE

2016/2147(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Calls on the Commission on implementing effective synergy mechanisms between FP and ESIF, including aligning the state aid rules for RDI projects under H2020 and ESIF; notes that effective use of the Seal of Excellence scheme will only be possible if the above condition is met;

2017/04/04
Committee: ITRE

2016/2147(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Proposes that in order to boost collaboration, enhance the capacity for excellence across Europe, and support lower-capacity regions and institutions, projects that have been granted public funds could be partially carried out in other locations where, for example, it might be more efficient to exploit commercially some of the findings and innovations;

2017/04/04
Committee: ITRE

2016/2147(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Emphasises the need to improve collaboration between research and higher education, as well as strengthen links between the European Research Area and the European Higher Education Area by fostering international research mobility for students and young researchers, as well as developing students´ innovation skills by involving them in research work;

2017/04/04
Committee: ITRE

2016/2147(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)

18b. Stresses the vital role of Marie Sklodowska Curie Action (MSCA) in strengthening the European Research Area; encourages further support for mobility of researchers via MSCA, and the fostering of intersectoral mobility between academia and industry;

2017/04/04
Committee: ITRE

2016/2147(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)

25a. Proposes that the Seal of Excellence currently applied in Innovation in SMEs and Teaming be extended to research proposals in Excellent Science in order to highlight quality research proposals in Excellent Science and help them to seek alternative sources of funding e.g. European structural funds or national research programmes;

2017/04/04
Committee: ITRE

2016/2147(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 b (new)

25b. Encourages the NCPs to be more involved in promoting projects awarded the Seal of Excellence, and assisting in the search for other national or international sources of public or private funding for aforementioned projects by strengthening the cooperation in this field within the NCPs' network;

2017/04/04
Committee: ITRE

2016/2147(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)

28a. Calls on the Commission to provide sufficient flexibility allowing for adaptation to current societal challenges;

2017/04/04
Committee: ITRE

2016/2147(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31

31. NUnderlines the need for sustaining grant financing of R&D&I on a level no lower than the current one; notes that R&D investment by industry has not significantly increased; in view of the generally scarce resources for public R&D spending, calls for industrial competitiveness to be supported by differentiating between mature and emerging sectors, thus allowing larger or more mature industries to participate in projects more at their own cost or through loans;

2017/04/04
Committee: ITRE

2016/2143(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Milan ZVER, Stefano MAULLU, Hannu TAKKULA, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Virginie ROZIÈRE, Marc TARABELLA, Silvia COSTA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Andrea BOCSKOR

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas sport has a specific nature which is based on voluntary structures and is a prerequisite of its educational and societal functions;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Milan ZVER, Stefano MAULLU, Hannu TAKKULA, Marc JOULAUD, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Virginie ROZIÈRE, Marc TARABELLA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Ivo BELET, Andrea BOCSKOR

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

Ga. whereas balanced policies which aim to increase financial transparency, stability and credibility in sport are key to improve financial and governance standards;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Milan ZVER, Marc JOULAUD, Stefano MAULLU, Hannu TAKKULA, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Virginie ROZIÈRE, Marc TARABELLA, Silvia COSTA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Ivo BELET, Andrea BOCSKOR

Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)

Ka. whereas the fight against doping is a matter of public interest and public health;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 (new)

-1. Is concerned with the current challenges which have emerged in the sports industry, such as exploitation of young players, doping, racism, violence, corruption and money laundering among others;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 a (new)

-1a. Stresses that integrity of sport which embodies values such as fair play, solidarity and team spirit is often associated with integrity of sport competitions; underlines that sport needs to remain resistant to influences and elements that could cast doubt and jeopardise the integrity of sporting competitions;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD, Momchil NEKOV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 c (new)

-1c. Reiterates that recent corruption scandals at European and International level have once again flagged the urgent need for in-depth genuine reform of the structures and practices of sport governing bodies, with a view to further improve their governance and fight corruption from within the organisations;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Silvia COSTA, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 d (new)

-1d. Repeats that fighting corruption in sport requires transnational efforts and cooperation among all stakeholders, including public authorities, law enforcement agencies, the sports industry, athletes and supporters;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Is of the opinion that developing a culture of transparency must be complemented by a better separation of powers within the sport governing bodies, better division between commercial and charitable activities and better internal self-regulatory procedure to advance, detect, investigate and sanction sport crimes and illegal activities within the sport organisations;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Is of the opinion that countries bidding for or hosting sport events need to implement socially, environmentally and economic responsible planning, organisation, implementation, participation and a follow up of those events; Calls on the sports organisations and countries hosting the events to avoid undesired changes in the living environment of local residents, including the displacement of local populations;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Supports the initiatives taken by sports organisations to improve governance standards in sport and further urges sport organisations and governing bodies to implement and enforce strict ethical standards and a code of conduct for its management and executive committees and for its members associations;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Milan ZVER, Stefano MAULLU, Hannu TAKKULA, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Virginie ROZIÈRE, Marc TARABELLA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Andrea BOCSKOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on sports organisations to put forward by 2018, and subsequently implement, concrete proposals to enhance their governance and to publish the outcomes;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. ~~Stresses that information-sharing between sports bodies, state authorities and licensed betting operators is essential to detect, investigate and prosecute match- fixing~~Points out that the challenges associated with investigation of international cases of match-fixing involve suspects from various countries with different legal frameworks and definitions; Stresses, therefore, that cross- border sharing of information and expertise between sports bodies, state authorities and licensed betting operators is essential to detect, investigate and prosecute match-fixing, and to better identify irregular bets, big movements of money or athletes betting on their own competitions; Recalls, in this respect, that the 4Th Anti-Money Laundering Directive introduces a requirement for gambling providers to carry out due diligence checks on high transactions;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Urges the Commission and the Member States ~~who have not done so to sign and ratify~~to find a solution to the current impasse in relation to the Council of Europe Convention on the manipulation of sports competitions with a view to its full implementation and ratification;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD, Momchil NEKOV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Supports and encourages education and information programmes and preventive measures on the threat of match-fixing and doping at all levels of sport, both amateur and professional; Calls on the European Commission and Member States to propose concrete measures in the next EU work Plan for the organization of youth-friendly targeted educational campaigns to inform people adequately and improve understanding of those problems at as early age as possible;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Calls on clubs, leagues and federations to implement in their activities awareness raising campaigns and educational programs that will reach out not only athletes but all stakeholders in sport and will help them anticipate all risks linked to match-fixing and doping;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Member States to facilitate doping controls and support national testing programmes and to ensure that information-sharing between state authorities and anti-doping agencies is effective;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. ~~Calls on the Member States and the Commission to work closely with WADA and the Council of Europe~~Notes the importance of the World Anti-Doping Agency for monitoring and coordinating anti-doping policies and rules all over the world; Calls on the Member States and the Commission to work closely with WADA and the Council of Europe, to reinforce the legal and political commitments of the World Anti- Doping Code (WADAC) and to strengthen EU's role in the future functioning and financing of the agency in order to prevent and fight doping more effectively;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Is of the Opinion that the EU should be a major actor in shaping and promoting European anti-doping policy worldwide; Calls on the Commission to establish an international anti-doping platform, together with other intentional stakeholders such as WADA, the Council of Europe and countries from all around the world, to exchange information and best practices on the health and prevention policies in the fight against doping;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)

14b. Is of the opinion that doping is also a growing problem in the recreational sport sector, where education and information campaigns and experienced and professional instructors and trainers are needed to help influence a healthy behaviour relating to doping;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Milan ZVER, Stefano MAULLU, Hannu TAKKULA, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Virginie ROZIÈRE, Marc TARABELLA, Tadeusz ZWIEFKA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Ivo BELET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Calls on the Commission to explore ways of information sharing in the context of violence in sport through the existing networks;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Notes that the threat of health epidemics, hooliganism and terrorism requires new efforts to ensure operational safety and security at sports events; Encourages the Commission to adopt recommendations for the creation of minimum safety standards for sport events to respond to the new challenges in the sport industry and to ensure that players and supporters are as safe as possible; Calls on the Member States to sign and ratify without delay the Council of Europe Convention on an Integrated Safety, Security and Service Approach at Football Matches and Other Sports Events;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Is of the opinion that sports needs to deal effectively with racism and discrimination in order to remain a powerful tool of social inclusion and integration; Condemns strongly all forms of discrimination, racism and sexism in sport ~~and u~~; Underlines the need to prevent such behaviour and to implement various monitoring mechanisms to improve the recording of such incidents and help combat inequalities, social barriers, stereotypes and prejudice;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Stresses that athletes must be protected from abusive practices such as third-party ownership which raise numerous questions of integrity and broader ethical concerns; Calls for joint action at European level to address third- party ownership of players in the European sport and the rights of athletes, trainers and teams;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21a. Welcomes the annual EU Sport Forum promoting dialogue with stakeholders from international and European sport federations, the Olympic movement, European and national sport umbrella organisations and other sport- related organisations; Points out that the dialogue structure with stakeholders, functions of the forum and follow up of the discussion needs to be further improved;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Milan ZVER, Stefano MAULLU, Hannu TAKKULA, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Virginie ROZIÈRE, Marc TARABELLA, Petra KAMMEREVERT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22a. Considers that strengthened rules promoting the local training of players are required in order to increase the pool of new talents across Europe;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Julie WARD, Momchil NEKOV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Calls on the establishment of transparency registers for the payment of sports agents; repeats its call for licensing and registration of sport agents and regulating the profession of sport agents as professional activity;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Milan ZVER, Stefano MAULLU, Hannu TAKKULA, Marc JOULAUD, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Virginie ROZIÈRE, Marc TARABELLA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Ivo BELET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Welcomes initiatives which encourage gender equality in decision- making roles in sport, as well as initiatives which aim at fighting against gender based stereotypes and any kind of harassment in sport;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Silvia COSTA, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Welcomes initiatives which encourage gender equality in decision- making roles in sport; Calls on the sport organisations to pay particular attention to the gender dimension in sport and to commit and improve the gender balance and representation of women in the boards and executive committees of all organisations, which is still at a very low level;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Silvia COSTA, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Emphasises the role of sport in social inclusion and integratingon of refugees, migrants and asylum- seekers and minority groups; Welcomes the first ever Refugee Olympic Team at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and calls for similar initiatives to take place at national and European level so that refugees, migrants and asylum-seekers athletes will have the possibility to compete at sport competitions;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD, Momchil NEKOV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. RUnderlines the importance of education through sport and the potential of sport to help get socially vulnerable youngsters back on track; Calls on the Member States, national associations, leagues and clubs to recognises the importance of grassroots sport in preventing and fighting radicalisation and develop and support initiatives in this respect;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Milan ZVER, Stefano MAULLU, Hannu TAKKULA, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Virginie ROZIÈRE, Marc TARABELLA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Ivo BELET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Recognises the importance of grassroots sport in preventing and fighting radicalisation; in this regard welcomes two pilot projects adopted by the European Parliament "Sport as a tool for integration and social inclusion of the refugees" and "Monitoring and coaching through sports of youngsters at risk of radicalisation";

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Silvia COSTA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD, Momchil NEKOV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Supports effective dual career systems and access to further education and vocational training for athletes; Calls on the Commission and Member States to facilitate athletes' cross-border mobility, harmonise recognition of sport and education qualifications, including the recognition of non-formal and informal education acquired through sports;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD, Momchil NEKOV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)

28a. Calls on the Member States in collaboration with educational institutions to promote cross-border exchange of athletes and provide access to athletic scholarships supported by the necessary facilities resources and academic flexibility for athletes, so that professional sportspeople can simultaneously obtain a university education and compete in sport competitions;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Milan ZVER, Stefano MAULLU, Hannu TAKKULA, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Virginie ROZIÈRE, Marc TARABELLA, Petra KAMMEREVERT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)

28a. Supports the training of dual careers specialists and advisors with exchange of good practices and establishing professional networks;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Milan ZVER, Stefano MAULLU, Hannu TAKKULA, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Virginie ROZIÈRE, Marc TARABELLA, Petra KAMMEREVERT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. Supports the mobility of coaches and other services providers (such as physiotherapists and dual careers advisers) and exchange of good practices with a focus on the recognition of qualifications and technical innovations;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Milan ZVER, Stefano MAULLU, Hannu TAKKULA, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Virginie ROZIÈRE, Marc TARABELLA, Petra KAMMEREVERT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)

29a. Calls on sport organisations together with the Member States to promote minimum standards for coaches that include criminal record checks, training in safeguarding and protection of minors and vulnerable adults as well as doping and match fixing;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD, Momchil NEKOV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 b (new)

29b. Stresses that the lack of physical activity is identified by WHO as the fourth leading risk factor for global mortality having considerable direct and indirect social and economic impact and costs for Member States; Is concerned that despite the considerable costs and significant impact on general health, physical activity levels are falling across some Member States;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD, Momchil NEKOV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 c (new)

29c. Encourages Member States and the Commission to make physical activity a political priority in the next EU Work Plan on Sport, especially for young people and vulnerable communities from socially deprived areas where physical participation is low;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Stefano MAULLU, Milan ZVER, Hannu TAKKULA, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Virginie ROZIÈRE, Marc TARABELLA, Petra KAMMEREVERT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 c (new)

29c. Calls on the international, national federations and other providers of education to ensure that issues related to integrity in sport are included in the curriculum of sport coaching qualifications;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD, Momchil NEKOV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 d (new)

29d. Reiterates that physical education at school is a an essential entry point for children to learn life skills, attitudes, values, knowledge and understanding to help them develop patterns for lifelong physical activity participation and health life style behaviours;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Milan ZVER, Stefano MAULLU, Hannu TAKKULA, Marc JOULAUD, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Virginie ROZIÈRE, Marc TARABELLA, Tadeusz ZWIEFKA, Petra KAMMEREVERT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. Underlines that ~~participation in sport in schools and universities, as well as by older people, is vital~~schools and universities should play a vital role in providing sport opportunities and to maintain healthy lifestyles;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. Underlines that promotion of physical education and participation in sport in schools at a very young age and universities, as well as by older people, is vital; Calls on the Member States to ensure that sport is a subject in the curriculum of schools at all levels of education;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Milan ZVER, Stefano MAULLU, Marc JOULAUD, Hannu TAKKULA, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Virginie ROZIÈRE, Marc TARABELLA, Tadeusz ZWIEFKA, Petra KAMMEREVERT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)

30a. Takes into account that the EU population is ageing, therefore specific attention should be paid to the positive impact that physical activity can have on the health and wellbeing of the elderly;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)

30a. Highlights that sport and physical activity should be better promoted across sectors;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)

31a. Supports the idea of a structured and institutionally-established European labelling system for Active Cities to promote cities which together with local authorities create physically active environment through urban planning and organisation of the city infrastructure in order to encourage health and activity for its citizens;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD, Momchil NEKOV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 b (new)

31b. Calls on Member States to ensure full and equal access to public sports facilities, equipment and apparatus, including investment in their maintenance and foster the establishment of new sports clubs particularly in rural and disadvantaged urban areas;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Silvia COSTA, Julie WARD, Momchil NEKOV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32

32. Stresses that disabled people should have access to all sports facilities, specially trained coaches and adapted physical activity programmes at school; Urges Member States to implement inclusive sport programmes for disabled people at schools and universities, so that pupils and students with disabilities can participate in sport lessons and in sport extra-curricular activities;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Silvia COSTA, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Julie WARD, Momchil NEKOV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)

32a. Recognises the fundamental role of the International Paralympic Games in fostering awareness, fighting discrimination and promoting access to sport for disabled people; Calls on the Member States to step up the efforts towards the inclusion in sport activities of persons with disabilities and increase public media visibility and broadcasting of the Paralympic Games and other competitions involving disabled athletes;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Milan ZVER, Stefano MAULLU, Hannu TAKKULA, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Virginie ROZIÈRE, Marc TARABELLA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 d (new)

32d. Is of the opinion that there are still many challenges to express sexual orientation and gender identity in sport in fear of discrimination and exclusion; Calls on the Member States and sport organisations to take specific measures to ensure equal access and opportunities of people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans or intersex (LGBTI) to participate in sport and in sport competitions;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Julie WARD, Momchil NEKOV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)

33a. Welcomes initiatives brought to promote inclusion, integrity and accessibility in sports through use of new technologies and innovation;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Milan ZVER, Stefano MAULLU, Hannu TAKKULA, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Virginie ROZIÈRE, Marc TARABELLA, Silvia COSTA, Petra KAMMEREVERT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 a (new)

34a. Welcomes transnational sporting events staged in various European countries insofar as they contribute to the promotion of key shared values of the EU such as pluralism, tolerance, justice, equality and solidarity;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD, Momchil NEKOV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36

36. Stresses that funding is an important EU policy toll used to improve key fields of EU activity in sport; Calls on the Commission to allocate more funds to sport and to better mainstream the funds under ERASMUS+, with a focus on grassroots sport and education, to enhance its visibility and to improve the mainstreaming of sport into other funding programmes; Urges the Commission to provide sustainable financial support through the Erasmus+ to implement dual career policies for athletes in the Member States, to promote and support dual career exchange of athletes and foster further research in this area;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36

36. Calls on the Commission to allocate more funds to sport under ERASMUS+, with a focus on grassroots sport and education, to enhance its visibility and to improve the mainstreaming of sport into other funding programmes such as the ESIF or Health Programme;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Silvia COSTA, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD, Momchil NEKOV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37

37. ~~Supports measures promoting the mobility of volunteers in sport;~~ Recognises the important role of volunteers in sport, who contribute to both social and economic value of sport, particularly at grassroots level; Encourages Member States to recognise the work of volunteers in the next EU Work plan for sport by supporting measures to promote the mobility and skills development of volunteers in sport and exchange of best practices in volunteering; Calls on the Commission to allocate in Erasmus +, and in particular the chapter on grassroots sports, a special budget line or a pilot project to promote and help the work of volunteers at grassroots level;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD, Momchil NEKOV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40

40. Maintains that the selling of TV rights on a centralised, exclusive and territorial basis with equitable sharing of the revenue is essential for the sustainable funding of sport at all levels and to ensure a level playing field; Emphasises that sporting events which are regarded as being of major importance for society should be accessible to the widest possible range of people and should not be broadcasted on an exclusive basis;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Julie WARD, Momchil NEKOV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44 a (new)

44a. Emphasises that sport is a powerful factor in creating and strengthening a feeling of local, national and even European belonging;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2142(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Emphasises the particular importance of quality teaching for the outcomes of education; stresses, in this context, the need to guarantee high standards in distance education;

2017/05/12
Committee: CULT

2016/2142(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Stresses the importance of interactivity in improving the quality of distance education through the use of modern communication methods that allow for practical exercises, the involvement of learners in the teaching process and the development of communication skills;

2017/05/12
Committee: CULT

2016/2142(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)

14b. Stresses the need for ongoing monitoring of distance education as part of the ongoing modernisation of teaching methods and tools;

2017/05/12
Committee: CULT

2016/2142(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)

14c. Stresses the need for young people to develop independent learning skills (including organisation of work, information processing, critical thinking and motivation) so that, in future, they can effectively use advanced technologies to develop their skills through distance education;

2017/05/12
Committee: CULT

2016/2142(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Recognises that distance education encourages the development of interdisciplinary fields and the pursuit of international studies;

2017/05/12
Committee: CULT

2016/2142(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)

15b. Calls on universities to expand their provision of distance education;

2017/05/12
Committee: CULT

2016/2072(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Calls on the Member States to increase support for teachers in developing the creative and innovative capabilities of young people, by modernising teaching processes and providing support for cooperation between schools, with a view to exchanging the most effective methods and practices for stimulating creativity and innovation;

2016/09/09
Committee: ITRE CULT

2016/2036(INI)

Julie WARD, Mary HONEYBALL, Damian DRĂGHICI, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Krystyna ŁYBACKA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Draws attention to the importance of coherent and mutually complementary cooperation in connection with the 'knowledge triangle', with a view to meeting EU foreign and security policy objectives, and in particular in connection with action to enhance public security, thus aiding in the search for innovative solutions to global problems and the challenges facing individual states and helping to support European competitiveness;

2016/03/22
Committee: CULT

2016/2008(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Notes that ICT tools can increase the transparency of institutions at all levels and can in particular make EU legislative and policy-making processes more digitised, consultative, inclusive, trusted accountable, and fair, therefore strengthening trust of citizens;

2016/06/09
Committee: CULT

2016/2008(INI)

Julie WARD, Mary HONEYBALL, Damian DRĂGHICI, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Momchil NEKOV

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Recalls that digital education and literacy should not be limited to learning about tools and technologies, but should aim at equipping individuals with the critical thinking skills and digital curiosity necessary to exercise judgement, analyse complex realities, recognise the difference between opinions and facts, and resist all forms of indoctrination and hate speech, becoming therefore not only users of technologies, but responsible and active citizens in connected societies;

2016/06/09
Committee: CULT

2016/2008(INI)

Julie WARD, Mary HONEYBALL, Damian DRĂGHICI, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Momchil NEKOV

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to provide training and support for teachers and educators, including supporting peer learning and exchange of best practices, in formal, non-formal and informal settings, so that educators feel digitally confident and able to prepare and provide the next generation of learners with the transferable skills and creative thinking techniques necessary to adapt in a fast changing world;

2016/06/09
Committee: CULT

2016/2008(INI)

Julie WARD, Mary HONEYBALL, Damian DRĂGHICI, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Krystyna ŁYBACKA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Considers it crucial that the EU should strategically launch e-democracy tools able to provide decentralised sources of independent information and innovative models of learning, and to stimulate citizens’ active participation and political engagement through participatory and direct democracy mechanisms able to reinforce and complement, where possible, representative democracy and to improve the quality of public debates;

2016/06/09
Committee: CULT

2016/2008(INI)

Julie WARD, Mary HONEYBALL, Damian DRĂGHICI, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Krystyna ŁYBACKA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5c. Welcomes the support of civil society projects in the framework of the European programme "Europe for Citizens" in order to encourage citizens to engage in activities directly linked to EU policies, provide opportunities, education and training for direct participation in the policy making process, encourage democratic participation of citizens at EU level and foster European citizenship;

2016/06/09
Committee: CULT

2016/2008(INI)

Julie WARD, Mary HONEYBALL, Damian DRĂGHICI, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Krystyna ŁYBACKA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission to ~~develop and implement specific pilot projects, as provided for in the Digital Agenda, to~~continue its support for initiatives aiming at promoteing and ~~reinforce~~strengthening responsible and active European citizenship schemes~~, democracy being a social experience which needs to be experienced and learned about.~~ through relevant EU funds and programmes, notably Erasmus+, the Connecting Europe Facility, the European Structural and Investment Funds, Horizon 2020 and Creative Europe, as well as through the development and implementation of specific pilot projects, in line with the Digital Agenda as provided for in the Digital Agenda;

2016/06/09
Committee: CULT

2016/0379(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point u Regulation (EC) No 714/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council

(u) 'capacity mechanism' means an administrative or market-based measure to ensure the achievement of the desired level of security of supply by remunerating resources for their availability not including measures relating to ancillary services;

2017/09/25
Committee: ITRE

2016/0379(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 1 Regulation (EC) No 714/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council

1. Member States shall monitor resource adequacy within their territory based on ~~the European resource adequacy assessment pursuant to Article 19~~a national resource adequacy assessment, which should take into account the European resource adequacy assessment pursuant to Article 19. The methodology for conducting the national resource adequacy assessment shall be defined by the Member States and shall take into account the methodology set out in Article 19(4).

2017/09/25
Committee: ITRE

2016/0379(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 2 Regulation (EC) No 714/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council

2. Where the ~~European~~national resource adequacy assessment identifies a resource adequacy concern Member States shall identify any regulatory distortions that caused or contributed to the emergence of the concern.

2017/09/25
Committee: ITRE

2016/0379(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 5 – point a Regulation (EC) No 714/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council

(a) the value of lost load. The methodology for calculating the value of lost load shall allow Member States to take account of local economic conditions;

2017/09/25
Committee: ITRE

2016/0379(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 5 – point c a (new) Regulation (EC) No 714/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council

(ca) The technical conditions of generators and network operators, taking into account the parameters specific to the generation unit concerned, the maintenance of timelines, the specific characteristics of the generation units, transmission shutdowns and factors reducing the value for all generation units;

2017/09/25
Committee: ITRE

2016/0379(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 1 Regulation (EC) No 714/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council

1. Mechanisms other than strategic reserves shall be open to direct participation of capacity providers located in another Member State ~~provided there is a network connection between that~~to the extent that the capacity located in another Member State can~~d the bidding zone applying the mechanism~~ be certified in the capacity mechanism concerned, taking into account the limits set out in paragraphs 2 and 2a.

2017/09/25
Committee: ITRE

2016/0379(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 2 Regulation (EC) No 714/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council

2. Member States shall ensure that authorised foreign capacity capable of providing an equivalent ~~technical performance~~contribution to the system to domestic capacities has the opportunity to participate in the same competitive process as domestic capacity.

2017/09/25
Committee: ITRE

2016/0379(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 2 a (new) Regulation (EC) No 714/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council

2a. A Member State applying a capacity mechanism may limit the direct participation of cross-border capacity: a. only to those price zones which are directly connected with the price zone in which the capacity mechanism is applied; b. only to those price zones which do not apply a strategic reserve mechanism; c. only to those capacity providers who do not participate in any other capacity mechanism in the same supply period. In specific cases where the above- mentioned limits are applied, Member States shall take into account the contribution to generation adequacy of those capacities which could have participated had the limits not been applied.

2017/09/25
Committee: ITRE

2016/0379(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 3 Regulation (EC) No 714/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council

3. Member States shall not restrict authorised capacity which is located in their territory from participating in capacity mechanisms of other Member States.

2017/09/25
Committee: ITRE

2016/0379(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 5 Regulation (EC) No 714/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council

5. CNotwithstanding the limits set out in paragraph 2, capacity providers shall be able to participate in more than one mechanism for the same delivery period. They shall be subject to non-availability payments in case of non-availability~~, and subject to two or more non-availability payments where there is concurrent scarcity in two or more bidding zones where the capacity provider is contracted~~. .

2017/09/25
Committee: ITRE

2016/0379(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 6 Regulation (EC) No 714/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council

6. ~~Regional operational centres established pursuant to Article 32~~Transmission system operators shall annually calculate the maximum entry capacity available for the participation of foreign capacity taking into account the expected availability of interconnection and the likely concurrence of system stress between the system where the mechanism is applied and the system in which the foreign capacity is located. A calculation is required for each bidding zone border.

2017/09/25
Committee: ITRE

2016/0379(COD)

Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Urszula KRUPA, Bolesław G. PIECHA, Bogusław LIBERADZKI, Adam GIEREK, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Janusz ZEMKE

2. If the greenhouse gas emissions of a Member State in either the period from 2021 to 2025 or the period from 2026 to 2030 under Regulation [ ] exceeded its greenhouse gas removals, as determined in accordance with Article 12 of that Regulation, t~~here shall be a deduction from that Member State's~~aking into account flexibilities used pursuant to Article 11 of that Regulation, Member State may choose to deduct annual emissions allocations for the relevant years equal to the amount in tonnes of CO2 equivalent of those excess greenhouse gas emissions for th~~e relevant year~~ose years as one of flexibility options.

2017/02/07
Committee: ENVI

2016/0231(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – point 6

Regulation 525/2013/EU
Article 21

The Commission may issue opinions on the corrective action plans submitted by Member States according to Article 8(1) of Regulation [ ESR ] on binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States from 2021 to 2030, within three months from the date of submission of the corrective action plan.

2017/02/07
Committee: ENVI

2015/2329(INI)

Sylvie GUILLAUME, Julie WARD, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

Ha. whereas it can be noted that Member States tends to disengage from the co-financing of these projects and that local authorities find themselves in difficulties when it comes to European projects with high co-financing rates;

2016/11/21
Committee: CULT

2015/2329(INI)

Sylvie GUILLAUME, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Notes that, owing to budgetary constraints, the total number of funded projects is too small to achieve the programme’s ambitious goals and that only around 6 % of the European Remembrance and Civil Society projects were able to be financed in 2015, which is very low ~~in comparison to~~, ending up in generating more frustration than enthusiasm among those Cre~~ative Europe programme results for the same year (19.64 % for Culture and 45.6 % for MEDIA)~~sponsible for projects, having deleterious effects on the image of the programme itself; indicates that the funding for these two strands of the Europe for Citizens programme should be substantially increased in order to reach the objective of 1,000 projects per year;

2016/11/21
Committee: CULT

2015/2329(INI)

Sylvie GUILLAUME, Julie WARD, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marlene MIZZI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Highlights the fact that the Europe for Citizens’ National Contact Points (NCPs) have an important role in raising awareness and providing support and guidance to potential applicants (in particular first-time applicants in target countries), as well as European and national associations of local and regional government and civil society organisations;

2016/11/21
Committee: CULT

2015/2329(INI)

Sylvie GUILLAUME, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Acknowledges the fact that the impact of the programme remains proportionally high, as is shown by the fact that in 2015 an estimated 1 100 000 participants were involved in the 408 projects selected; considers also that the high number of applications – 2 087 in 2014 and 2 791 in 2015 – and the quality of projects indicate a high level of interest in the programme, and the need for the EU to dedicate more resources to the programme in order to increase the number of projects supported;

2016/11/21
Committee: CULT

2015/2329(INI)

Sylvie GUILLAUME, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marlene MIZZI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. CRegarding the decisive role played by this programme as a prerequisite for citizens' participation in the democratic life of the Union, considers that, given the low rate of success of the European Remembrance and Civil Society projects in the Europe for Citizens programme (6 %), a~~s against 19.64 % for Culture and 45.6 % for MEDIA in the Creative Europe programme), a 60 %~~ substantial increase in the current budget would be necessary in order to achieve a higher target rate ~~of 20 % of funded projects~~; calls, therefore, on the Commission, the Council and the Member States to consider a total financial envelope of approximately EUR 3500 million for the Europe for Citizens programme under the next MFF, which only represent 1 € per citizen;

2016/11/21
Committee: CULT

2015/2329(INI)

Sylvie GUILLAUME, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marlene MIZZI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Recommends that another source of funding be found for the Europe for Citizens Initiative (ECI), which is currently financed under the Europe for Citizens budget and asks Member States to be more involved in the financial support to these projects;

2016/11/21
Committee: CULT

2015/2329(INI)

Sylvie GUILLAUME, Krystyna ŁYBACKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Underlines that operating grants guarantee independence to beneficiaries ~~(i.e. Think Tanks)~~ and offer the possibility of long-term planning to realise vision- oriented activities and to develop expertise; recommends the use of specific criteria, indicators and annual reporting to monitor progress towards their goals ~~and~~, to make sure that these funding schemes do not lead to the beneficiary’s dependency on the Commission, and possibly limit its support up to 50% of the budget of beneficiary organisations;

2016/11/21
Committee: CULT

2015/2329(INI)

Sylvie GUILLAUME, Julie WARD, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Luigi MORGANO, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marlene MIZZI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Commission to gather together all useful information regarding the Europe for Citizens programme (programme guide, priorities, calls for proposals, ongoing and past projects, outcome and lessons learned, newsletter), along with all the programmes, actions, grants and structural funds that come under the umbrella of European citizenship (such as the European Citizens’ Initiative and the European Voluntary Service), in a unique, user-friendly communication portal (one- stop-shop online platform), also accessible to persons with disabilities; recommends that this platform should be used as a public register of the beneficiaries’ contact details and as a tool to access the projects’ descriptions and to find partners in other countries;

2016/11/21
Committee: CULT

2015/2329(INI)

Sylvie GUILLAUME, Julie WARD, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marlene MIZZI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Recommends as well the creation of an online platform for the main organisations working in the field of citizenship and benefiting from the programme in order to pool good practices, reinforce capacities and strengthen visibility once projects finish;

2016/11/21
Committee: CULT

2015/2329(INI)

Sylvie GUILLAUME, Julie WARD, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Luigi MORGANO, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marlene MIZZI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Calls on the Commission to implement an engaging communication strategy for European citizenship by using social networks, constantly updating the content and reaching new audiences in the participating countries, especially those in which the level of participation is lower, in particular young people, persons with disabilities and vulnerable people;

2016/11/21
Committee: CULT

2015/2329(INI)

Sylvie GUILLAUME, Julie WARD, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marlene MIZZI, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Calls on the Commission to increase even more its efforts on the administrative simplification, considering that formal requirements are sometimes difficult to overcome for particularly small organisations that should not be discriminated against for bureaucratic reasons;

2016/11/21
Committee: CULT

2015/2329(INI)

Sylvie GUILLAUME, Julie WARD, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Calls the Commission and the EACEA to publicly account for the expenses incurred through strand 3 on Horizontal Action - Valorisation - Analysis, dissemination and use of project results;

2016/11/21
Committee: CULT

2015/2329(INI)

Sylvie GUILLAUME, Julie WARD, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marlene MIZZI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Welcomes the strong focus on citizens and societal aspects of the EU, allowing EU institutions to directly engage with civil society on the ground; highlights within the priorities of the programme the importance of projects focused on current challenges for Europe, on issues such as migration, social inclusion and intercultural dialogue; invites the Commission and Member States to strengthen the links between the programme's priorities and the policies linked to European citizenship as well as the daily life of European citizens;

2016/11/21
Committee: CULT

2015/2329(INI)

Sylvie GUILLAUME, Julie WARD, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marlene MIZZI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19a. Stresses the need to encourage projects presenting new formats of discussion with citizens, in an attractive format and style, presenting multidimensional approach;

2016/11/21
Committee: CULT

2015/2329(INI)

Sylvie GUILLAUME, Julie WARD, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marlene MIZZI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Stresses the need to enrich the programme with proposals regarding citizens’ participation in the democratic process and in EU decision-making, in a way that contributes to empowering citizens to make use of their rights, for instance through the implementation of e- democracy;

2016/11/21
Committee: CULT

2015/2329(INI)

Sylvie GUILLAUME, Julie WARD, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marlene MIZZI, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Recommends more internationalisation of the programme and proposes to promote cooperation between organisations in the EU and in neighbouring countries on the European values;

2016/11/21
Committee: CULT

2015/2329(INI)

Sylvie GUILLAUME, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marlene MIZZI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Recommends that the next generation of the Europe for Citizens programme should be adopted with a legal base enabling Parliament to be involved in the adoption of the programme as a co- legislator under the ordinary legislative procedure, on equal footing with the Council; encourages the Commission to think of possible solutions to achieve this objective, and considers it to be a necessary precondition for any future discussion with the European Parliament on that matter;

2016/11/21
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marita ULVSKOG, Momchil NEKOV, Petra KAMMEREVERT

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas the Erasmus+ KA1 main target is the removal of barriers to mobility e.g. financial obstacles, recognition of international work/study outcomes for all targeted sectors;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Emphasises that the overall programme is more visible than its predecessor but that the different sectoral programmes lack visibility; recalls in this context that the specific features and characteristics of the different sectors have to be taken into account during the implementation of the programme and that sector-specific formats, such as the youth initiative, must give more importance back to structured dialogue and the Grundtvig workshops; Notes that the European Voluntary Service is an intensive learning and experience format for young people and requires a high- quality framework; emphasises that access to the Erasmus+ programme should remain reserved for civil society players;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Motion for a resolution
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; Although the simplifications introduced through the one size fits all approach for applications have in many cases had an adverse effect and the programme guide is confusing rather than informative;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Points out that the goal of simpler, more user-friendly and more flexible implementation has not yet been reached; underlines in this context the continuing lack of clarity and uneven level of detail ~~in the programme guide~~and general user-friendliness in the programme guide, and the overly complicated application forms which are published in different versions for each application deadline (particularly the youth sector);

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Recalls that despite the programme’s significant overall budget increase, ~~the budgetary profile in the MFF indicates~~only a limited increase for the first half of the programme period has been provided for in the MFF, which has led to the rejection of many high quality projects and hence a low success rate and high dissatisfaction among applicants;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marita ULVSKOG, Momchil NEKOV, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Helga TRÜPEL, Ernest MARAGALL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Believes that the 12.7% increase in the total budget in 2017 compared to 2016 and further annual increases in the remaining programme years will result in higher success rates and greater satisfaction among applicants; welcomes the Commission’s intention to allocate an additional EUR 200 million for the remaining programme period; encourages the European Commission to analyse the programme key actions and sectors that are underfunded, such as KA1 Youth Workers Mobility, KA2, school education, adult education, youth, and those that could benefit the most from the budgetary increase;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Damian DRĂGHICI, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marita ULVSKOG, Petra KAMMEREVERT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Believes that the 12.7 % increase in the total budget in 2017 compared to 2016 and further annual increases in the remaining programme years will result in higher success rates and greater satisfaction among applicants; welcomes the Commission’s intention to allocate an additional EUR 200 million for the remaining programme period; - points out that the budget is to be used exclusively as part of the programme provisions;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Damian DRĂGHICI, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Momchil NEKOV, Marita ULVSKOG, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Petra KAMMEREVERT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Emphasises the added value of Erasmus+ VET actions in supporting the integration or re-integration of disadvantaged groups into educational/vocational training opportunities in order to enhance their transition to the labour market;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Points out the continued social selectivity in enrolment to mobility in some Member States; indicates the high percentage of students in mobility programmes supported by third parties (family, parents, partners); notes that many working students resign from their participation in the mobility programme due to the potential loss in income; encourages the European Commission to further increase financial aid for those who are unable to participate due to financial constraints, and looks for further possibilities to facilitate their mobility in order to make the Erasmus+ truly accessible to all;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10a (new)

10a. Calls on the Commission to guarantee Europe-wide mobility even in times of crisis and to provide options which make it possible for countries participating in the European Higher Education Area to access the Erasmus+ programme.

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Considers the long-standing brand names (Comenius, Erasmus, Erasmus Mundus, Leonardo da Vinci, Grundtvig and Youth in Action) and the corresponding logos 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 programmes, to ensure better recognition and to overcome any confusion among beneficiaries;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Marita ULVSKOG, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Petra KAMMEREVERT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Considers 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, especially in publications and brochures, in order to maintain and strengthen the identity of the sectoral programmes, to ensure better recognition and to overcome any confusion among beneficiaries;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Luigi MORGANO, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Brando BENIFEI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11a (new)

11a. Calls on the Commission to structure the Erasmus+ guide with the aid of the long-standing brand names and use those labels rigorously in the guide.

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Encourages the Commission to continue its efforts towards an open, consultative and transparent way of working and to further improve its cooperation with partners at all levels of implementation; stresses, to this end, the need to involve stakeholders and beneficiaries in the Programme Committee meetings; highlights that, in line with Regulation (EU) No 1288/2013, this could be facilitated by the establishment of standing sub-committees involving representatives of stakeholders and beneficiaries, sectorial National Agencies, Members of the European Parliament and representatives from the Member States;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Commission to ensure the regular exchange of information and good cooperation between the implementation bodies and civil society organisations at European level and national agencies on both decentralised and centralised programme actions; calls on the NA to provide all the necessary information on their homepages in the same format and with the same content;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Krystyna ŁYBACKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13a (new)

13a. Calls on the Commission to review the payment modalities to national agencies, the deadlines for applications and the appropriation periods and to adjust them accordingly; points out that greater flexibility in mobility grants and administrative costs in favour of longer stays abroad should be made possible for the national agencies;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Calls on the European Commission to develop, in collaboration with National Agencies, European implementation guidelines for the National Agencies of the Erasmus+ programme. The aim of this is to increase the transparency of the application and evaluation procedures and ensure that extensive quality feedback is given to all applicants;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Damian DRĂGHICI, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marita ULVSKOG, Momchil NEKOV, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Helga TRÜPEL, Ernest MARAGALL, Silvia COSTA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Encourages further fostering of cooperation between the NAs and EACEA in order to promote centralised actions of the Erasmus+ programme, provide additional information about them to potential applicants and exchange feedback on improving their implementation process;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Damian DRĂGHICI, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marita ULVSKOG

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)

13b. Encourages the facilitating of contacts among European Commission, NAs, programme beneficiaries, representatives of civil society organisations and EACEA by developing a communication platform for exchanging information and good practices where all related stakeholders can receive quality information, as well as share their experiences and suggestions for further programme improvements;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13b (new)

13b. Is concerned over the decreasing number of pool projects under Leonardo and calls for the national agencies to have more decision-making scope on the amount of administrative expenditure subsidies, so that they can take national particularities such as the dual system into account more effectively;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marita ULVSKOG, Momchil NEKOV, Milan ZVER, Ioan-Rareş BOGDAN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Calls on the European Commission to ensure the consistent application of programme rules and regulations across the National Agencies, observing common quality standards, project evaluation, and administrative procedures, thus guaranteeing the uniform and coherent implementation of Erasmus+ programme;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Damian DRĂGHICI, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marita ULVSKOG, Momchil NEKOV, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Helga TRÜPEL, Ernest MARAGALL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)

14b. Underlines the necessity of pursuing improvements in the programme, making it more user-friendly, taking into consideration the importance of differentiating among various sectors and groups of beneficiaries; encourages the European Commission to transform the programme guide and make it more user-orientated and sector-specific;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Damian DRĂGHICI, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marita ULVSKOG, Momchil NEKOV, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Helga TRÜPEL, Ernest MARAGALL, Silvia COSTA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)

14c. Encourages the European Commission to work on improving programme attractiveness by simplifying administrative procedures and requirements, especially for schools and smaller-scale organisations, VET school, adult education, the youth sector and newcomers who often find the programme challenging to participate in;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Damian DRĂGHICI, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marita ULVSKOG, Momchil NEKOV, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Helga TRÜPEL, Ernest MARAGALL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 d (new)

14d. Welcomes the actions of the European Commission to simplify application procedures, project management, accounting and reporting; encourages further reduction of administrative burdens by streamlining forms, making them promptly available in all official languages, and providing clear indication regarding documents needed at each stage;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Calls for further improvement of the relevant IT tools and for the focus to be put on streamlining, user-friendliness and improving connections between the different tools rather than developing new ones;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16a (new)

16a. Calls on the Commission to publish the Erasmus+ guide at the same time as the application forms to make it more accessible and make the deadline easier to meet;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Hannu TAKKULA, Jana TOOM, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Bogdan Brunon WENTA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Welcomes the introduction of the ~~unit cost~~consolidation system into the programme in order to minimise the administrative burden; welcomes also the adjustments made in 2016 and planned for 2017 by the Commission; considers the further increase in ~~unit cost~~consolidation rates to be necessary to provide sufficient financial support for project participants and calls for guarantees that participants and organisations from remote regions and border areas will not be disadvantaged by the consolidation being introduced;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19a. Calls on the Commission to allocate more funds to sport with a focus on grassroots sport and education to enhance its visibility, to promote physical activity and to make sport more accessible to all citizen in EU;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marita ULVSKOG, Momchil NEKOV, Petra KAMMEREVERT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19a. Welcomes the European Commission´s proposition to set up a European Solidarity Corps; encourages the Commission to involve volunteer organizations in developing this new initiative in order to ensure its added and complementary value in strengthening volunteering in the European Union;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marita ULVSKOG, Momchil NEKOV, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Helga TRÜPEL, Ernest MARAGALL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)

19b. Notes the importance of strengthening the local dimension of the EVS; suggests providing the EVS volunteers with stronger support not only before departure, but also upon their return to their local communities in the forms of post-orientated and post- integrated trainings in order to help them to share their European expertise by promoting volunteering at the local level;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marita ULVSKOG, Momchil NEKOV, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Petra KAMMEREVERT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

20a. Notes grant discrepancies between countries and method of its allocations; encourages the European Commission to investigate the outcomes of such differences in an effort to minimise socio- economic disparities in the European Union;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marita ULVSKOG, Momchil NEKOV, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Helga TRÜPEL, Ernest MARAGALL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 b (new)

20b. Underlines that grants to support the mobility of individuals within the Erasmus+ programme should be exempted from taxation and social levies;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Damian DRĂGHICI, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 c (new)

20c. Encourages the further increase of grant rates as well as their adjustment to the cost of living in the country of mobility in order to encourage the participation of socio-economically disadvantaged students, students and staff with special needs, and students and staff from distant regions;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marita ULVSKOG, Momchil NEKOV, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Helga TRÜPEL, Ernest MARAGALL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 d (new)

20d. Suggests more flexibility in moving funds between KAs, and entrusts NAs in this process due to their familiarity with the potential funding gaps in their countries, thus allowing them to narrow these gaps;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marita ULVSKOG, Petra KAMMEREVERT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21a (new)

21a. Calls on the Commission to significantly simplify the application process from the application to the submission of supporting documents; while application forms are simplified, they will be published at the same time as the programme guide (at least 8 weeks before the application deadline in all the official languages), and offers of support and the programme guide will be made more user friendly as all the relevant information for each programme area will be summarised in one chapter; takes the view that the evaluation of applications should be subject to a coordinated and stringent review by a central authority with the support of independent experts;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Damian DRĂGHICI, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marita ULVSKOG, Momchil NEKOV, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Helga TRÜPEL, Ernest MARAGALL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21a. Notes more demanding implementation work for NAs under the current programme; calls on the European Commission to provide NAs with sufficient resources and necessary assistance, thus enabling more efficient programme implementation and allowing NAs to tackle new challenges resulting from the budget increase;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marita ULVSKOG, Momchil NEKOV, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Helga TRÜPEL, Ernest MARAGALL, Silvia COSTA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)

21b. Calls on the European Commission to monitor the quality criteria used by the National Agencies in project evaluations and exchange best practises in this regard; encourages trainings for evaluators in order to continue their development, especially in cross-sector projects, and to allow them to provide quality feedback to all applicants in order to encourage the accomplishment of goals in future projects and to improve the performance of future applicants;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marita ULVSKOG, Momchil NEKOV, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Helga TRÜPEL, Ernest MARAGALL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 c (new)

21c. Calls on the National Agencies to provide full transparency while evaluating projects by publishing the list of selected projects together with their ongoing progress and designated financial support;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Damian DRĂGHICI, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marita ULVSKOG, Momchil NEKOV, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Helga TRÜPEL, Ernest MARAGALL, Silvia COSTA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 d (new)

21d. Stresses that although progress has been made in recognising study periods, credits, competences and skills through non-formal and informal learning gained abroad, these challenges remain; underlines that recognition of international qualifications is essential to mobility and forms the foundation for further cooperation in the European Higher Education Area; highlights the importance of making full use of all EU tools for the validation of knowledge, skills and competences essential to the recognition of qualifications;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marita ULVSKOG, Momchil NEKOV, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Petra KAMMEREVERT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 e (new)

21e. Encourages in Key Action 1 to continue the best function practises from Comenius such as fostering school class exchanges, and the possibility for school staff members to apply individually for mobility grants under Key Action 1;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Damian DRĂGHICI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marita ULVSKOG, Momchil NEKOV, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Helga TRÜPEL, Ernest MARAGALL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 f (new)

21f. Notes that despite the high quality of projects in KA2, many of them have been refused due to limited funding; encourages the European Commission to mark these projects in order to help them attract investments from other sources; encourages Member States to acknowledge “the marked projects” by giving them priority in accessing public funds for their realisation, if such funds are accessible;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marita ULVSKOG, Momchil NEKOV, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Helga TRÜPEL, Ernest MARAGALL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 g (new)

21g. Calls on the European Commission to continue efforts to resolve the funding challenge for European organisations based in Brussels in order to further their contribution to the development of European policies in the fields of education, training, youth and sport;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 h (new)

21h. Notes the NAs' challenges in implementing the International Credit Mobility (ICM); calls for greater flexibility for NAs to allocate resources from some countries and regions for the purpose of meeting the cooperation priorities of the HEIs;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marita ULVSKOG, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Helga TRÜPEL, Ernest MARAGALL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 i (new)

21i. Encourages Member States to incorporate educational mobility as a part of higher or vocational education programmes in order to foster knowledge about learning, training, and youth work, improve the quality of higher education and the VET system, help individuals with upgrading their professional skills, competences and career development;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marita ULVSKOG, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Helga TRÜPEL, Ernest MARAGALL, Silvia COSTA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 j (new)

21j. Encourages Member States, in order to foster the mobility of teachers, lecturers and non-academic staff, to acknowledge their participation in mobility programmes as an important part of their career progression, and if possible introduce a reward system linked to participation in mobility programmes; for example, in the form of financial benefits or reduction of workload;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Damian DRĂGHICI, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marita ULVSKOG, Momchil NEKOV, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Helga TRÜPEL, Ernest MARAGALL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 k (new)

21k. Notes the decreasing number of individual mobility participants due to preferential treatment by European HEIs of an institutionalised mobility system; encourages the European Commission and national authorities to renew opportunities for individual candidates to participate in mobility;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Damian DRĂGHICI, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marita ULVSKOG, Momchil NEKOV, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Helga TRÜPEL, Ernest MARAGALL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 l (new)

21l. Encourages the European Commission to bolster the VET system by promoting VET mobility programmes among its new organisations and smaller institutions, in addition to providing them with assistance in applying for appropriate funding by offering further guidance, on-line trainings, and personalised support in preparing high quality applications for funding through contact with national agencies for the Erasmus+ programme;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Damian DRĂGHICI, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marita ULVSKOG, Momchil NEKOV, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Helga TRÜPEL, Ernest MARAGALL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 m (new)

21m. Urges the Commission to identify current unequal participation of VET institutions in the EU mobility programmes in countries and regions in order to diminish these differences through improved collaboration and exchange of information among national agencies for Erasmus+, supporting teamwork among VET institutions by connecting experienced VET institutions with other institutions, offering policy support measures and specific suggestions to VET institutions, and improving VET institution support systems already in place;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marita ULVSKOG, Momchil NEKOV, Petra KAMMEREVERT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 n (new)

21n. Encourages the promotion of the European educational system around the world, as well as the advancement of individual knowledge worldwide by enhancing all relevant stakeholders (Member States, the HEIs, associations of higher education) to make the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degrees more attractive for HEIs and potential applicants;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Silvia COSTA, Marlene MIZZI, Momchil NEKOV, Petra KAMMEREVERT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 o (new)

21o. Welcomes the particular involvement of the Erasmus+ programme in cooperation and activities in grassroots sport; encourages the European Commission to improve the accessibility and participation in the programme of grassroots actors such as sports clubs; invites the Commission to enhance a cross-sectoral approach on grassroots sport across all relevant actions of Erasmus+ and to coordinate actions in this field in order to ensure their effectiveness and desired impact;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Milan ZVER, Momchil NEKOV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 p (new)

21p. Suggests greater involvement of NAs in education, training, youth and sport policy development by strengthening the links among the European Commission, Member States and National Agencies;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Damian DRĂGHICI, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marita ULVSKOG, Momchil NEKOV, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Silvia COSTA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22a. Calls on the European Commission to involve all relevant stakeholders in the work on next funding programming period, and in the introduction of possible improvements in order to ensure the programme's further success and added value;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Hannu TAKKULA, Jana TOOM, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Bogdan Brunon WENTA

Motion for a resolution
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 to be an important step for the continued success of the programme with specific commitment to secure sufficient funding for both student and youth mobility in the form of increased grants, paying specific attention to increasing the mobility of underrepresented groups;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Motion for a resolution
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 with regard to the total budget to be an important step for the continued success of the programme and only by doing so can the demand in the university sector, which is actually much higher, and particularly also in the adult education and youth sectors be covered;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Damian DRĂGHICI, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marita ULVSKOG

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Calls on the Commission to keep the separate chapters and separate budgets for education and training, for youth and for sport, bearing in mind their specific characters; points out, however, that a different weighting of the programme areas should be carried out and the necessary minimum budget per programme area relative to the actual demand and stated priorities in the EU 2020 Strategy must be adapted and increased;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Damian DRĂGHICI, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Marita ULVSKOG, Momchil NEKOV, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Helga TRÜPEL, Ernest MARAGALL, Silvia COSTA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)

25a. Indicates that disadvantaged groups are only specifically targeted in the youth sector; suggests the extension of the Inclusion and Diversity Strategy to all programme sectors in order to promote social inclusion and the participation of people with special needs or with fewer opportunities in the Erasmus+ programme;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2327(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 b (new)

25b. Advocates allowing mobile students to combine studies abroad with a study-related placement within the programme, thereby providing additional financial assistance abroad, decreasing social selectivity, increasing the number of mobile students, upgrading students´ skills and enhancing the connections between higher education and the work environment;

2016/10/24
Committee: CULT

2015/2281(INI)

Mary HONEYBALL, Marlene MIZZI, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Dietmar KÖSTER, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Julie WARD, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Stresses that quality education is essential to improving the lives of young people who suffer disadvantages socially and economically, as well as those from minority groups;

2016/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2281(INI)

Mary HONEYBALL, Marlene MIZZI, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Dietmar KÖSTER, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 d (new)

11d. Applauds the Commission's attention to the importance of digital skills; underlines that to equip young people for the 21st century these skills are essential;

2016/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2281(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Points out that the provision of open and innovative education and training is a priority area in ET 2020; encourages greater innovativeness and flexibility in teaching, learning and knowledge transfer methods and for full use to be made of the achievements of the digital era in order to enhance the quality, accessibility and effectiveness of educational and training systems;

2016/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2281(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)

13b. Encourages Member States to strengthen the ties between education, research and innovation;

2016/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2281(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Encourages Member States to ensure the effective implementation of reforms agreed on within the framework of the Bologna process, and to commit themselves to working together more effectively to correct its imperfections, so that it better reflects the needs of students and the academic community as a whole and stimulates and supports improvements to the quality of higher education;

2016/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2281(INI)

Mary HONEYBALL, Marlene MIZZI, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Dietmar KÖSTER, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Julie WARD, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Calls on Member States to take additional measures to ensure more effective recognition of diplomas and academic qualifications;

2016/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2281(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Is concerned that the current trend making financial output a prerequisite for all academic activities could mean that the humanities risk being wiped off the research landscape; advocates a more holistic view which emphasises the importance of a variety of disciplines in education and research;

2016/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2281(INI)

Mary HONEYBALL, Marlene MIZZI, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Dietmar KÖSTER, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Stresses the importance of an overall framework of recognition of qualifications as key to ensuring cross- border mobility;

2016/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Ernest MARAGALL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Jana TOOM

Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 c (new)

- having regard to the Declaration of the Ministers in charge of Vocational education and training of 22 June 2015 on a new set of medium-term deliverables in the field of VET for the period 2015- 2020,

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas continuous financial support for mobility measures and activities in lifelong learning and in VET knowledge is crucial, especially in this period of economic crisis;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Calls on the Commission, the Member States, involving EU agencies such as CEDEFOP to improve the VET mobility programmes so that they deliver added value for all participants as regards qualification, recognition and content, and to ensure that quality standards on apprenticeships are introduced;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Stresses the significance and importance of recognisability concerning brand names and logos connected with Erasmus + and its subprogrammes; notes that these brand names should be used in particular for the purpose of Erasmus+ publications and brochures;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Luigi MORGANO, Julie WARD, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Marlene MIZZI, Damian DRĂGHICI, Momchil NEKOV, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Notes the economic and social advantages of international mobility in VET which can at a later stage facilitate workers' mobility as well as contribute to increasing European competitiveness by helping to develop a highly skilled workforce and knowledge-based society;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. ~~Singles out certain problems in~~Insists on the necessity to ease up the implementation of mobility ~~actions~~ in Erasmus+~~, such as reduced funding, problems with the~~ in taking action to raise funding, simplifying the design and use of electronic tools for mobility management, and ~~insufficient~~providing a better targeted information and training t~~argeted at~~o school and colleges staff;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Ernest MARAGALL, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Jana TOOM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Asks the Commission to reduce the high amount of administrative burden for applicants as well as for sending and hosting companies and institutions involved in Erasmus + projects to facilitate both the registration process and projects;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Notes that early school leaving is one of the most distinct problems faced by mobility target groups, and that ~~better~~diverse and flexible vocational options lead to fewer dropouts from education and training;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Luigi MORGANO, Julie WARD, Ernest MARAGALL, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Marlene MIZZI, Damian DRĂGHICI, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Stresses the role of educational systems in better equipping students with both academic and transversal skills, and thereby enhancing their aptitude to match labour market needs as well as increasing their participation in transnational mobility programmes;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Luigi MORGANO, Julie WARD, Ernest MARAGALL, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Damian DRĂGHICI, Momchil NEKOV, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Notes the numerous benefits of transnational placement opportunities for VET institutions including making them more attractive for students, giving the possibility to increase cooperation among partners from different EU countries as well as helping to improve linguistic and intercultural skills of their staff and students;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Luigi MORGANO, Julie WARD, Ernest MARAGALL, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Marlene MIZZI, Damian DRĂGHICI, Momchil NEKOV, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8b. Encourages a holistic approach to VET and apprenticeships, leading to enhanced personal development, and gaining employability skills and occupational competences, as well as encouraging the promotion of vocational education as an equivalent and valid option to academic education;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Luigi MORGANO, Julie WARD, Ernest MARAGALL, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Marlene MIZZI, Damian DRĂGHICI, Momchil NEKOV, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 c (new)

8c. Encourages flexible pathways between VET, general education and higher education, as well as strengthening tertiary VET as a means to address social inclusion, increase participation in higher education, and promote student success;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Luigi MORGANO, Julie WARD, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Marlene MIZZI, Damian DRĂGHICI, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 d (new)

8d. Encourages a more complete and effective integration of practical skills and knowledge with traditional academic programmes of higher learning;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Luigi MORGANO, Julie WARD, Ernest MARAGALL, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Marlene MIZZI, Damian DRĂGHICI, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 e (new)

8e. Notes that improving the quality in VET, in cooperation with social partners and public employment services, through enhanced practical education and apprenticeships, is necessary to meet the labour market needs and societal demands and should facilitate mobility in the lifelong learning process;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Luigi MORGANO, Julie WARD, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Marlene MIZZI, Damian DRĂGHICI, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 f (new)

8f. Underlines the benefits of a dual system of vocational education and training as an important part of general education, and aimed at reducing youth unemployment and linking vocational training to current and future labour market needs;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Luigi MORGANO, Julie WARD, Ernest MARAGALL, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Marlene MIZZI, Momchil NEKOV, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 g (new)

8g. Supports the development of modern technologies and infrastructures in strengthening and modernising national vocational education systems to improve the access and quality of mobility;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Luigi MORGANO, Julie WARD, Ernest MARAGALL, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Marlene MIZZI, Damian DRĂGHICI, Momchil NEKOV, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Calls to improve the access to high quality information on VET possibilities for young people and businesses via available and targeted specialised guidance and counselling services;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Luigi MORGANO, Julie WARD, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Advocates allowing mobile students to combine studies abroad with a study- related placement, thereby providing additional financial assistance abroad and enhancing the connections between higher education and the work environment;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Luigi MORGANO, Julie WARD, Ernest MARAGALL, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Damian DRĂGHICI, Marlene MIZZI, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Asks the European Commission and the Member States to put in place schemes that reduce linguistic and cultural barriers in the organisation of mobility programmes; considers that those schemes should be able to assess implementation progress; stresses that action schemes should, in particular, support the learning of basic elements of the language of the host country, design a basic training model that informs about the key features of the business and working culture of the destination country, and promote and provide specific programmes for the training of teaching staff, concerning mobility management by the training centres;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Luigi MORGANO, Julie WARD, Ernest MARAGALL, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Marlene MIZZI, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)

11b. Promotes the exchange of best practices and political guidelines involving the improvement and benefits of international mobility in VET and apprenticeships, which also contribute to advancing educational research for practical vocational application, as well as improving vocational training practices in companies;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Luigi MORGANO, Julie WARD, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Ernest MARAGALL, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Damian DRĂGHICI, Momchil NEKOV, Marlene MIZZI, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 c (new)

11c. Acknowledges the importance of European Alliance for Apprenticeships to improve the quality and availability of apprenticeships in the EU, and ask the European Commission to give its financial support and strategic priority to encourage all related stakeholders to improve conditions for apprenticeships;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Luigi MORGANO, Julie WARD, Ernest MARAGALL, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Momchil NEKOV, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Draws attention to the diversity and uneven development of validation and recognition systems between Member States, despite growing convergence in the last decade; stresses the need to increase the compatibility between the different vocational education and training systems and to facilitate the validation and recognition of skills and competences acquired in companies or training centres in different Member States;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Enhances mobility in employment, education, apprenticeships and traineeships in national European Youth Guarantee Schemes in order to improve the skills of young people, as well as reduce the geographical skills mismatch in the EU;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Jana TOOM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Emphasises the contribution of traineeships and apprenticeships in equipping young people with the necessary skills to obtain and retain employment;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Notes the progress that have been achieved towards ensuring higher VET´s quality in many Member States, supported by European quality assurance reference framework for Vocational education and training (EQAVET) and encourages those Member States that are currently in the process of developing a national quality assurance approach in accordance to EQAVET; stresses that Member States should put more efforts in order to ensure that quality assurance arrangements take greater account of learning outcomes and that they value and support non-formal learning and work-based learning in either formal or non-formal settings, as appropriate to the national context;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Urges the Commission to examine Erasmus+ application deadlines and approval periods; calls for particular attention to be given prolonged periods of residence abroad, given their enhanced educational value;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Emphasises that mobility actions and/ or services adapted to trainers, tutors and entrepreneurs' needs should be encouraged and highlighted within ERASMUS+;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Luigi MORGANO, Julie WARD, Ernest MARAGALL, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Encourages further measures to facilitate access by disadvantaged groups and people with special needs to Erasmus+ mobility actions; stresses therefore the need for a diversified and customized range of mobility options in training for people coming from immigrant backgrounds and economically disadvantaged families, or for learners from remote regions;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Luigi MORGANO, Julie WARD, Ernest MARAGALL, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Momchil NEKOV, Damian DRĂGHICI, Marlene MIZZI, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Encourages further measures to facilitate access by disadvantaged groups and people with special needs to Erasmus+ mobility actions and to create more flexible and individualised training and learning pathways adapted to people with disabilities;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Emphasises the quality of placements to enable students to acquire desirable professional skills, in addition to highlighting the need, at all levels, for good communication vis-à-vis entrepreneurs to have them on board for further recognition of the experienced acquired by the young people taking advantage of mobility schemes;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Luigi MORGANO, Julie WARD, Ernest MARAGALL, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Damian DRĂGHICI, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Momchil NEKOV, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22a. Stresses the need to simplify Erasmus+ application procedures and ensure that uniform updated application forms are made available promptly and in the language version required;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22a. Encourages the Commission to examine existing geographic disparities among countries and regions in the participation of VET institutions in the EU mobility programmes, and to address these disparities by enhancing cooperation and the exchange of best practises among national agencies for Erasmus+, promoting team actions among VET institutions (linking experienced VET institutions with other institutions), providing policy support measures and tailor-made advice to VET institutions, and strengthening the existing support networks for VET institutions;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Jana TOOM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22 a. Encourages Member States, regional and local authorities to examine the specific learning needs of VET teachers and trainers, to encourage and support the improvement of their competences and qualifications and to provide them with more professional development opportunities;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Luigi MORGANO, Julie WARD, Ernest MARAGALL, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Momchil NEKOV, Damian DRĂGHICI, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)

22b. Urges the Commission to resolve technical implementation problems without delay through the creation of a common user-friendly IT system/IT portal useable by all applicants from all Member States with the same systems and functionalities; notes that systems should be reviewed and made to provide easily applicable and standardised database solutions, while remaining sufficiently flexible to accommodate the different agency locations;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)

22b. Encourages the Commission to promote VET mobility programmes to new bodies and smaller institutions within the VET system, as well as to help them apply for relevant funding by providing more guidance, on- line trainings, and individualised assistance via national agencies for the Erasmus+ programme on the preparation of high quality applications for funding;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Luigi MORGANO, Julie WARD, Ernest MARAGALL, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Damian DRĂGHICI, Momchil NEKOV, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 c (new)

22c. Notes that the Commission's IT tools are too complicated and insufficiently user-friendly, as reflected in the need for the combined operation of numerous incompatible systems, thereby the performance of Erasmus+ contracts, particularly for smaller organisations with less experience of support programmes;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 c (new)

22c. Encourages the Commission to boost its efforts to promote the Erasmus+ programme to VET institutions and to increase its effectiveness and accessibility by making it more flexible and simplifying its application process;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Luigi MORGANO, Julie WARD, Ernest MARAGALL, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Marlene MIZZI, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 d (new)

22d. Encourages improved promotion and visibility for young people and enterprises of such platforms as Drop'pin EURES the aim of which is to facilitate the mobility of young people for apprenticeships, internships, training programs, and e- learning language courses;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2139(INI)

Julie WARD, Ernest MARAGALL, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, György HÖLVÉNYI, Marlene MIZZI, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Silvia COSTA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Advocates that fostering an intercultural and interfaith approach in the educational field is needed in order to address and promote multiculturalism, ~~integration and social cohesion~~social inclusion and cohesion, including through exchange and mobility programmes for all;

2015/10/28
Committee: CULT

2015/2139(INI)

Julie WARD, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Advocates that including culture and enhancing education in EU external relations and development policy provides a tool for conflict resolution, peacemaking and crisis prevention;

2015/10/28
Committee: CULT

2015/2139(INI)

Julie WARD, Ernest MARAGALL, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Marlene MIZZI, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Dietmar KÖSTER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Recognises that intercultural dialogue is a tool for inclusive democratic participation and empowerment of citizens, in particular in relation to common goods and public spaces; argues that as such, intercultural dialogue may significantly contribute to the improvement of democracy and the development of greater and deeper inclusivity and sense of belonging;

2015/10/28
Committee: CULT

2015/2139(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Believes that increasing public investment in inclusive, quality and accessible formal, non-formal and informal education, is the first step to providing equal access and opportunities for all; recalls the need to ensure cultural and social diversity in classrooms and learning settings to promote equity and foster social cohesion among the future generations;

2015/10/28
Committee: CULT

2015/2139(INI)

Julie WARD, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Marlene MIZZI, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Dietmar KÖSTER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Stresses that formal, non-formal and informal education and lifelong learning not only provide knowledge, skills and competences, but should also help learners to develop civic values and become active, responsible, open-minded members of society; recognises the importance of cooperation among all education stakeholders, including parents, families and associative structures; advocates building on children and young people's sense of initiative and engagement in order to strengthen social ties as well as generate a sense of belonging and develop ethical codes to challenge discrimination;

2015/10/28
Committee: CULT

2015/2139(INI)

Julie WARD, Ernest MARAGALL, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Marlene MIZZI, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Dietmar KÖSTER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Recognises the benefit of working at formal, non-formal and informal education levels and to build synergies and partnerships between all levels and forms of learning settings, including across generations;

2015/10/28
Committee: CULT

2015/2139(INI)

Julie WARD, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Dietmar KÖSTER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Encourages the Member States to develop training, empowering educators to meet educational and training needs of children from different cultural and social backgrounds and to address all forms of discrimination and racism;

2015/10/28
Committee: CULT

2015/2139(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Encourages inclusive artistic and sportive educational and training activities for all ages, as well as volunteering, in order to strengthen socialisation processes and the participation of minorities, marginalised communities, migrants and refugees, in cultural and social life including in leadership and decision making;

2015/10/28
Committee: CULT

2015/2139(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Julie WARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Supports the mobility of young people and teachers as well as all forms of cooperation between schools and universities, for example common educational platforms, joint study programmes and joint projects as means to foster understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity and to acquire social, civic and intercultural competences by young people;

2015/10/28
Committee: CULT

2015/2139(INI)

Julie WARD, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Dietmar KÖSTER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls on the Member States to involve migrants, refugees and faith communities in respectful and empowering in~~tegrat~~clusion processes, ensuring their participation in civic and cultural life ~~by designing permanent mechanisms~~in a sustainable way;

2015/10/28
Committee: CULT

2015/2139(INI)

Julie WARD, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Dietmar KÖSTER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Calls on the European External Action Service to include culture as an integral element of external EU policy~~; calls on the Commission to mainstream cultural diplomacy and intercultural dialogue in all EU external relations instruments and in the EU development agenda;~~ , to appoint a cultural attaché in each EU representation in third partner countries and to provide EEAS staff with training on the cultural dimension of external policy; calls on the Commission to mainstream cultural diplomacy and intercultural dialogue in all EU external relations instruments and in the EU development agenda; calls on the EU and the Member States to strengthen the cooperation with international organisations such as the United Nations and its related agencies, in particular UNESCO, UNICEF and UNHCR, and to require an effective and stronger EU representation within their bodies; moreover, calls for cooperation with national cultural institutes towards a better implementation of existing instruments, such as cultural network- based clusters of European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC), and the design of new tools to tackle common challenges in a globalised world;

2015/10/28
Committee: CULT

2015/2139(INI)

Julie WARD, Ernest MARAGALL, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Marlene MIZZI, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Dietmar KÖSTER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure equal opportunities and combat ~~all forms of discrimination~~the economic and social causes of exclusion as well as all forms of discrimination; recalls the key role played by the media, including social media, both as a potential platform for extreme discourses and as a vehicle to counter xenophobic narratives, break down stereotypes and prejudices and to promote tolerance;

2015/10/28
Committee: CULT

2015/2139(INI)

Julie WARD, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Calls on the Commission and the Council to adopt intercultural dialogue as a political objective and guarantee EU support through various policy measures, initiatives and funds, including intercultural dialogue with third countries, especially fragile states;

2015/10/28
Committee: CULT

2015/2138(INI)

Damian DRĂGHICI, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Ernest MARAGALL, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Momchil NEKOV, Luigi MORGANO

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas the knowledge and skills of teachers and other educational staff need to be further developed and updated through initial and ongoing training;

2015/11/26
Committee: CULT

2015/2138(INI)

Damian DRĂGHICI, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Ernest MARAGALL, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Momchil NEKOV, Luigi MORGANO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Recalls the need to ensure, enhance and broaden initial and ongoing professional development opportunities for teachers and educators in order to enable them to incorporate an EU dimension into their teaching, in particular with regard to citizenship education, as well as to implement learner-centred strategies and to adapt their teaching methods to the needs of learners, and to provide them with appropriate support and resources;

2015/11/26
Committee: CULT

2015/2138(INI)

Damian DRĂGHICI, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Ernest MARAGALL, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Momchil NEKOV, Luigi MORGANO, Mircea DIACONU, Silvia COSTA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Stresses the need to enhance teachers' and learners' motivation and opportunities to learn more about the EU through their own first-hand experience, such us visits to the European institutions, contacts with EU officials, traineeship opportunities for students within the EU institutions and through media education, such as the European Youth Portal, making full use of the new information and communication technologies and Open Educational Resources;

2015/11/26
Committee: CULT

2015/2138(INI)

Damian DRĂGHICI, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Ernest MARAGALL, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Momchil NEKOV, Luigi MORGANO, Silvia COSTA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8b. Underlines that learning of foreign languages can play a crucial role in increasing intercultural awareness and providing citizens with the skills needed to live and work in an increasingly complex and globalised world;

2015/11/26
Committee: CULT

2015/2138(INI)

Damian DRĂGHICI, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Ernest MARAGALL, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Momchil NEKOV, Luigi MORGANO, Silvia COSTA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Welcomes the Commission’'s 2016 Work Programme for the implementation of the Erasmus+ Programme and its commitment to concrete actions following up on the Paris Declaration, in particular those aimed at increasing the impact of Erasmus+ on fostering active and democratic citizenship, intercultural dialogue, social inclusion and solidarity, including stronger support for civil society organisations in their key role in education to citizenship;

2015/11/26
Committee: CULT

2015/2138(INI)

Damian DRĂGHICI, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Ernest MARAGALL, Luigi MORGANO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)

15c. Highlights the role information offices of the European Institutions play and welcomes their commitment in fostering relations with the Member States, with national regional and local educational institutions, youth organisations and media in order to bring them closer to each other and to ensure that young people understand the role the institutions play in their daily lives;

2015/11/26
Committee: CULT

2015/2138(INI)

Damian DRĂGHICI, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Ernest MARAGALL, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Momchil NEKOV, Luigi MORGANO, Silvia COSTA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19a. Calls on Member States to encourage and facilitate high quality training on EU topics for teachers, other educational staff, youth leaders and trainers, and to ensure the recognition of such training;

2015/11/26
Committee: CULT

2015/2129(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Damian DRĂGHICI, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Julie WARD, Momchil NEKOV

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Recalls that the fight against the sexual abuse of children needs a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary approach encompassing prevention; insists, for that reason, that measures such as awareness raising, training and education are just as essential in the fight against these crimes as assistance to victims and their families, investigation of crimes and prosecution of offenders;

2017/05/12
Committee: CULT

2015/2129(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Damian DRĂGHICI, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Julie WARD, Momchil NEKOV

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1 b. Notes with concern that the main challenges for Member States in implementing Directive 2011/93 are related to the provisions concerning preventive and intervention measures and assistance, support and protection to child victims; encourages the Commission in its implementation report to provide information on the best practices of actual measures adopted in different Member States and their impact in the fight against sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child abuse images;

2017/05/12
Committee: CULT

2015/2129(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Damian DRĂGHICI, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Julie WARD, Momchil NEKOV, Silvia COSTA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1 c. Reports that sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children offline and online, including child abuse material, continues to be a major concern and a serious crime and violation of fundamental rights of the victims; stresses that these crimes cause short and long term physical, psychological and social harm to children with a continuous risk of re-victimisation and stigmatisation of the victims through the online environment;

2017/05/12
Committee: CULT

2015/2129(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Damian DRĂGHICI, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Luigi MORGANO, Julie WARD, Momchil NEKOV, Silvia COSTA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Calls on Member States in accordance with Article 23 to provide appropriate training and build competences with the new threats in the online environment and the widespread use of and access to mobile technologies and the internet, in particular among the judiciary and police units to assist them to properly investigate and prosecute perpetrators and to offer assistance to the victims;

2017/05/12
Committee: CULT

2015/2129(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Damian DRĂGHICI, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Julie WARD, Momchil NEKOV

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2 b. Repeats that sufficient funds, human resources and investigative powers and tools including developing high-tech capabilities are needed to prevent illegal content online, to provide better and faster identification of victims and offenders and to respond to the new phenomena and expanding trends online, including new distribution and transaction models for child abuse material;

2017/05/12
Committee: CULT

2015/2129(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Damian DRĂGHICI, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Luigi MORGANO, Julie WARD, Momchil NEKOV

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)

2 c. Agrees that awareness-raising materials, channels and campaigns for both children and adults, especially parents and those in contact with children need to be promoted at grass-root level with a view to help them understand and prevent online risks, provide safe online environment and promote positive online experience for children;

2017/05/12
Committee: CULT

2015/2129(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Damian DRĂGHICI, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Luigi MORGANO, Julie WARD, Momchil NEKOV, Silvia COSTA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)

2 d. Encourages the Commission and Member States to promote training and educational initiatives to all relevant stakeholders, including children, parents, teachers, social workers, child protection officers, civil organisations and national authorities; supports age appropriate innovative tools to promote empowerment, media literacy and online safety as compulsory education at schools;

2017/05/12
Committee: CULT

2015/2129(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Damian DRĂGHICI, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Luigi MORGANO, Julie WARD, Momchil NEKOV

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 e (new)

2 e. Calls on Member States and the Commission to enhance its efforts in promptly identifying victims and ensuring that they receive the necessary assistance, psychological support and protection to recover from the abuse; encourages Member States to provide victims a child friendly justice system to avoid secondary victimisation of a child;

2017/05/12
Committee: CULT

2015/2129(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Damian DRĂGHICI, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Luigi MORGANO, Julie WARD, Momchil NEKOV

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Urges Member States which have not yet done so to put in place and support safe and child sensitive reporting and counselling mechanisms, such as telephone or internet helplines and hotlines to which Internet users can report child sexual abuse material they find online and that are capable of assessing this reported content with a view to implementing notice and take-down procedures; takes the view that such hotlines should be allowed to search for child sexual abuse material proactively, as is the case for the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) in the UK;

2017/05/12
Committee: CULT

2015/2129(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Damian DRĂGHICI, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Luigi MORGANO, Julie WARD, Momchil NEKOV

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8 a. Urges Member States to ensure that citizens have access to the service operating hotline 116 000 to report missing children and to provide social support services for children and families in cases when a child goes missing, child abduction and where the life of a child is at risk;

2017/05/12
Committee: CULT

2015/2129(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Damian DRĂGHICI, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Luigi MORGANO, Julie WARD, Momchil NEKOV

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 b (new)

10 b. Stresses that children's personal data must be duly protected and children and parents need to be informed of the risks and consequences of using children's personal data online;

2017/05/12
Committee: CULT

2015/2129(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Damian DRĂGHICI, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Julie WARD, Momchil NEKOV

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 c (new)

10 c. Agrees that multi-stakeholder engagement and cooperation between private and public sector including civil society, law enforcement agencies, agencies working with children, social service, private industry stakeholders such as technology industry, is crucial to effectively detect and fight illegal material and dissemination of child sexual abuse material online;

2017/05/12
Committee: CULT

2015/2129(INI)

Marlene MIZZI, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Damian DRĂGHICI, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Luigi MORGANO, Julie WARD, Momchil NEKOV

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 d (new)

10 d. Highlights also the need for international cooperation and transitional investigation with EU's strategic partners and law enforcement authorities to fight child sexual abuse and exploitation online;

2017/05/12
Committee: CULT

2015/2104(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Momchil NEKOV

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Notes that education plays an important role in human, social and economic development and is a crucial tool in achieving goals laying at the core of the EU foreign policy, such as building peace and stability in the world, long lasting development, intercultural dialogue and combating poverty, both within its borders and at the global level; stresses the importance of an effective cooperation between the EU and the UN aiming at supporting Education for All, improving access and quality education, and strengthening educational systems worldwide;

2015/07/20
Committee: CULT

2015/2088(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Emphasises the importance of developing ‘soft skills’, which make it easier to successfully negotiate the job market and develop a professional career, and which are an essential complement to professional knowledge and experience;

2015/08/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2088(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Emphasises the role higher education institutions play in developing the knowledge and competence graduates require in order to be successful on the job market;

2015/08/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2063(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Emphasises the need to direct efforts towards helping young people develop their own identity, sense of self-worth, community spirit and acceptance of multicultural and multinational societies, given that young people who are searching for an identity and a sense of belonging are particularly vulnerable to extremist rhetoric;

2015/08/13
Committee: CULT

2015/2063(INI)

Milan ZVER, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls on the Commission to find new, creative ways of preventing and combating radicalisation, including schemes for parents whose children could be vulnerable to extremist recruitment;

2015/08/13
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 30 a (new)

– having regard to its resolution of 20 May 2010 on university-business dialogue: a new partnership for the modernisation of Europe's universities1a, __________________ 1a OJ C 161 E, 31.5.2011, p. 95.

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Milan ZVER, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Ernest MARAGALL, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Luigi MORGANO, Momchil NEKOV, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI

Motion for a resolution
Citation 31 a (new)

– having regard to the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI)1b, __________________ 1bProposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Fund for Strategic Investments and amending Regulations (EU) No 1291/2013 and (EU) No 1316/2013 (COM(2015)0010).

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Milan ZVER, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas the youth unemployment problem has not improved much since the beginning of the crisis in 2008; whereas in the end of 2014 there have been around 5 million unemployed young people (under 25) in the EU;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Andrew LEWER, Milan ZVER, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Ernest MARAGALL, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Luigi MORGANO, Momchil NEKOV, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the real purpose of the Bologna Process is to support mobility and internationalisation, as well as to ensure compatibility and comparability in standards and quality of different higher educational systems while respecting the autonomy of universities;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Milan ZVER, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Ernest MARAGALL

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas the Bologna Process, ~~owing to miscommunication and a lack of understanding of its true vision~~while in most countries has been guiding and motivating educational reforms, isn some~~times~~ countries might be perceived as a bureaucratic burden ~~which hampers necessary national reforms~~due to miscommunication and a lack of understanding of its true vision;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Jana TOOM, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Juan Carlos GIRAUTA VIDAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Notes that education is one of the main pillars of our society when it comes to promoting skills development, growth and jobs creation, and that greater investment in education is crucial to tackling youth unemployment;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Milan ZVER, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Notes that the Bologna Process could help to tackle the skills mismatch in the EU if it enabled students to acquire and develop the competencies required by the labour market; and notes that by doing this the Bologna Process could achieve an important goal to enhance the employability of the graduates;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Milan ZVER, Ernest MARAGALL, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Luigi MORGANO, Momchil NEKOV, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Notes that the Bologna reforms resulted in the launching of a European Higher Education Area (EHEA), and have allowed significant achievements in the past 15 years in making higher education structures more comparable, increasing mobility, ~~adjusting educational systems to labour market needs, and improving overall employability and competitivenes~~improving the quality of educational systems as well as the attractiveness of higher education in Europe;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Andrew LEWER, Krystyna ŁYBACKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Notes that the Bologna reforms resulted in the launching of a European Higher Education Area (EHEA), and have allowed s~~ignificant~~ome achievements in the past 15 years in making higher education structures more comparable, increasing mobility, adjusting educational systems to labour market needs, and improving overall employability and competitiveness as well as the attractiveness of higher education in Europe;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Jana TOOM, Juan Carlos GIRAUTA VIDAL, Milan ZVER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Notes that the Bologna reforms resulted in the launching of a European Higher Education Area (EHEA), and have allowed significant achievements in the past 15 years in making higher education structures more comparable, increasing mobility, providing quality assurance systems, recognition of titles, adjusting educational systems to labour market needs, and improving overall employability and competitiveness as well as the attractiveness of higher education in Europe;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Milan ZVER, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Ernest MARAGALL, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Luigi MORGANO, Momchil NEKOV, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Monika SMOLKOVÁ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on ~~the~~ EHEA countries to implement ~~the~~ commonly agreed reforms aimed at hastening the achievement of the Bologna Process goals, and tostrengthening the credibility of the EHEA; encourages support ~~those~~for countries encountering difficulties in implementing these reforms; supports, in this regard, the creation of broad partnerships between countries and relevant stakeholders;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Jana TOOM, Milan ZVER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls on all stakeholders concerned with the implementation of the Bologna Process for strengthening quality assurance in order to achieve a European higher education area that improves its attractiveness as a reference of academic excellence worldwide;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Juan Carlos GIRAUTA VIDAL, Jana TOOM, Milan ZVER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls for a dialogue to be pursued between governments and higher education institutions (HEIs) in order to target and maximise the use of available funds and to seek new models for a more efficient use of funding;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Andrew LEWER, Krystyna ŁYBACKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls for a dialogue to be pursued between governments and higher education institutions (HEIs) in order to target and maximise the use of available funds and to seek new models for funding; stresses in this regard the importance of Horizon 2020 in driving collaborative research projects amongst European HEIs and is concerned at continued attempts to cuts its funding while other areas of the budget remain unchallenged;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Milan ZVER, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Ernest MARAGALL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Calls on the governments to improve efficiency of use of public funding in education and respect the EU headline target of 3% of the EU's GDP to be invested in R&D by 2020; stresses that ambitious funding in education and research is necessary as it is one of the key tools to ensure access to quality education for all, as well as to fight economic crisis and unemployment;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Milan ZVER, Andrew LEWER, Ernest MARAGALL, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Luigi MORGANO, Momchil NEKOV, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)

9b. Highlights the potential funding opportunities for higher education, vocational education and training provided by the EFSI; expresses its strong concerns about the planned cutting of funds for Horizon 2020 in favour of the EFSI;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Milan ZVER, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Ernest MARAGALL, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Luigi MORGANO, Momchil NEKOV, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Encourages both top-down and bottom- up approaches, involving the whole academic community and social partners, and calls for the political engagement and cooperation of EHEA ministers in developing a common strategy for the achievement of the Bologna reforms;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Milan ZVER, Andrew LEWER, Ernest MARAGALL, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Luigi MORGANO, Momchil NEKOV, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls for the further development of study programmes with clearly defined objectives, providing the knowledge and mix of skills, both general and professional, needed to prepare graduates for the requirements of the labour market and to build their capacity for LLL;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Milan ZVER, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Encourages the dialogue and collaboration between the world of work and the HEIs to jointly develop programmes and work placements; encourages the HEIs to be open to trans- disciplinary studies, creation of University Research Institutes and collaboration with divers partners;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Silvia COSTA, Krystyna ŁYBACKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls for the correct implementation of the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) and the Diploma Supplement, key tools linked to student workload and learning outcomes, in order to facilitate mobility and help students compile their academic and extracurricular achievements;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Milan ZVER, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Ernest MARAGALL, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Luigi MORGANO, Momchil NEKOV, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Stresses the importance of guaranteeing the mutual recognition and compatibility of academic degrees for strengthening the system of quality assurance at European level, in line with the revised version of sthe Standards and gGuidelines for qQuality aAssurance (ESG) in the European Higher Education Area;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Luigi MORGANO, Krystyna ŁYBACKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Invites all countries participating to the Bologna Process, and their respective quality assurance agencies, to join the European networks for quality assurance (ENQA and EQAR);

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Milan ZVER, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Stresses that the National Qualifications Frameworks (NQFs) in many Member States still need to be adjusted to the European Qualifications Framework (EQF) as well as to the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance (ESG); notes that many NQFs are still not registered in the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR);

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Milan ZVER, Ernest MARAGALL, Isabella ADINOLFI, Silvia COSTA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Luigi MORGANO, Momchil NEKOV, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Notes that the mobility of students, teachers, researchers and staff is one of the main priorities of the Bologna Process~~, and highlights in this regard the crucial role of the Erasmus+ Programme~~; in this regard highlights the need to strengthen the implementation of the Mobility strategy 2020 for EHEA and the crucial role of the Erasmus+ Programme; stresses that learning grants pertaining to Erasmus+ should be exempt from taxation and social levies;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Milan ZVER, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Notes the central role of the HEIs in promoting mobility and in cultivating graduates and researchers with knowledge and skills to succeed through employability in the global economy;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Jana TOOM, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Jean-Marie CAVADA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls on the Member States, and on the EU as a whole, to strengthen mobility by fostering foreign languages learning, removing administrative obstacles, providing adequate financial support mechanism and guaranteeing the transferability of grants and credits;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Milan ZVER, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls on the Member States, and on the EU as a whole, to strengthen mobility by removing administrative obstacles, providing adequate financial support mechanism and guaranteeing the transferability of grants and credits; notes that mobility is still less accessible for the students coming from less wealthy backgrounds;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Milan ZVER, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Ernest MARAGALL, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Luigi MORGANO, Momchil NEKOV, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Emphasises both in programmes design and delivery the shift of the educational paradigm towards a more student-centred approach that includes the personal development of students; underlines the importance of students' participation in the higher education governance;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Jana TOOM, Krystyna ŁYBACKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Underlines that study programmes should focus on long-term market demands; stresses also that employability means that students command a wide range of various competences, preparing them for the labour market and giving them the ability for lifelong learning;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Silvia COSTA, Milan ZVER, Andrew LEWER, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Ernest MARAGALL, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Luigi MORGANO, Momchil NEKOV, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Calls for more flexible learning paths that promote joint degree programmes and interdisciplinary studies, and that support innovation, creativity, vocational education and training (VET), dual education, and entrepreneurship in higher education, and calls for the potential offered by new technologies and digitalisation to be explored in order to develop new models for learning, teaching, and assessment;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Silvia COSTA, Milan ZVER, Andrew LEWER, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Ernest MARAGALL, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Luigi MORGANO, Momchil NEKOV, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Calls on HEIs, public administrations, social partners and enterprises to lead an on-going dialogue facilitating and enhancing employability; in this regard stresses the need to focus the discussion on an unused potential of higher education in stimulating growth and employment; calls on EHEA countries and HEIs to enhance cooperation regarding traineeships and apprenticeships;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Milan ZVER, Ernest MARAGALL, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Luigi MORGANO, Momchil NEKOV, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Stresses that the Member States, the Union and the HEIs are responsible for providing quality education that responds to societal challenges;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Stresses that the Member States, the Union and the HEIs are responsible for providing quality education that responds to social challenges and emphasises the need of their close cooperation in order to reach the goals set within the Bologna Process;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Milan ZVER, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22a. Notes that only a few Member States have created a comprehensive strategy to include the students from lower socio- economic background in the higher education and thus tackle the problem of the so-called social filter;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Andrew LEWER, Ernest MARAGALL, Isabella ADINOLFI, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Luigi MORGANO, Momchil NEKOV, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22a. Calls for more involvement of secondary school teachers in the Bologna Process in terms of promoting quality in teacher training and professional mobility in order to meet the new educational and training demands of a knowledge-based society, and to contribute to increased student performance;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Silvia COSTA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Ernest MARAGALL, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Luigi MORGANO, Momchil NEKOV, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Ilhan KYUCHYUK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)

22b. Emphasises the role of education, its quality and teaching mission in shaping future generations, contributing to wider social and economic cohesion as well as job creation, higher competitiveness and growth potential; calls in this regard for better recognition of the teaching profession;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Ernest MARAGALL, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Luigi MORGANO, Momchil NEKOV, Monika SMOLKOVÁ, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Milan ZVER, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)

23a. Highlights the social dimension of the Bologna Process; calls for targeting the increased participation of under-represented and disadvantaged groups;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Milan ZVER, Silvia COSTA, Ernest MARAGALL, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marlene MIZZI, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Luigi MORGANO, Momchil NEKOV, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)

23b. Stresses the role of education mobility in intercultural learning, and that the Bologna Process should take active steps in fostering students' intercultural knowledge and respect;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Jana TOOM, Milan ZVER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Calls for efforts to further develop a strategy for the external dimension of the EHEA, through cooperation with other regions of the world, in order to increase its competitiveness in a global setting;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2039(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Milan ZVER, Ernest MARAGALL, Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Luigi MORGANO, Momchil NEKOV, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)

24a. Emphasises the need to enhance data collection among EHEA countries in order to better identify and address the Bologna Process challenges;

2015/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2006(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Stresses the need for a broad approach to entrepreneurship as a set of transversal key competences for personal and professional purposes;

2015/05/27
Committee: CULT

2015/2006(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that at all levels of education, ~~even~~from elementary to university, not excluding any type of higher education institution, the teaching of practical entrepreneurship skills and the fostering of motivation and readiness should be provided; encourages greater linkage between entrepreneurship education and career counselling, as well as with the research and innovation sector, in order to support the process of developing key entrepreneurship skills and competences;

2015/05/27
Committee: CULT

2015/2006(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Recognises that a key element in the teaching of entrepreneurship is the proper preparation of teachers to ensure the authenticity of the educational process;

2015/05/27
Committee: CULT

2015/2006(INI)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission to increase the focus on improving entrepreneurship skills within the Erasmus+ programme, to strengthen cohesion between European programmes supporting projects in the area of education on entrepreneurship, and to promote education policy reforms in Member States in this regard;

2015/05/27
Committee: CULT

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11

(11) The EFSI should support strategic investments with high economic value added, promoting research, education and training, and contributing to achieving Union policy objectives.

2015/03/12
Committee: CULT

2015/0009(COD)

Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Petra KAMMEREVERT

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 29

(29) To partially finance the contribution from the Union budget, the available envelopes of the Horizon 2020 – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation 2014-2020, provided by Regulation (EU) No 1291/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council2, and the Connecting Europe Facility, provided by Regulation (EU) No 1316/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council3, should be reduced. Those programmes serve purposes that are not replicated by the EFSI. However, the reduction of both programmes to finance the guarantee fund is expected to ensure a greater investment in certain areas of their respective mandates than is possible through the existing programmes. The EFSI should be able to leverage the EU guarantee to multiply the financial effect within those areas of research, development and innovation and transport, telecommunications and energy infrastructure compared to if the resources had been spent via grants within the planned Horizon 2020 and Connecting Europe Facility programmes. It is, therefore, appropriate to redirect part of the funding presently envisaged for those programmes to the benefit of EFSI. __________________ 2 Regulation (EU) No 1291/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 establishing Horizon 2020 - the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020) and repealing Decision No 1982/2006/EC (OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 104). 3Regulation (EU) No 1316/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 establishing the Connecting Europe Facility, amending Regulation (EU) No 913/2010 and repealing Regulations (EC) No 680/2007 and (EC) No 67/2010 (OJ L 348, 20.12.2013, p. 129).deleted

2015/03/12
Committee: CULT

2014/2250(INI)

Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Mary HONEYBALL, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Silvia COSTA, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Ernest MARAGALL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Stresses the importance of informal education when it comes to tackling the issue of beliefs and traditional practices imposing limitations on girls in education, and calls on the Member States to ensure equal access to education for boys and girls regardless of their ethnic, national, cultural or religious framework, in order to achieve real gender equality in education; stresses the need for a special focus on groups suffering from multiple forms of discrimination, including migrants, refugees, people with disabilities, young carers and others;

2015/04/01
Committee: CULT

2014/2250(INI)

Julie WARD, Mary HONEYBALL, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Silvia COSTA, Ernest MARAGALL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Stresses the need to provide a rights- based and gender-sensitive learning environment for all learners both in terms of curriculum and pedagogy, where children (and girls in particular) can learn about their rights and experience democratic processes in schools as well as informal learning environments;

2015/04/01
Committee: CULT

2014/2250(INI)

Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Mary HONEYBALL, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Ernest MARAGALL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Emphasises the importance of health and sexuality education which must include teaching boys and girls about relationships based on equality, consent, respect and reciprocity, as well as teaching about women’s and girls’ rights, including reproductive and sexual health and rights, as a tool to prevent stereotypes and violence against women and girls;

2015/04/01
Committee: CULT

2014/2250(INI)

Julie WARD, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Mary HONEYBALL, Marlene MIZZI, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Silvia COSTA, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Ernest MARAGALL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to remove barriers to access to formal and informal education, as well as to lifelong learning, by improving awareness and guidance, providing financial support as well as support such as childcare and care for the elderly to enable women and men to participate in lifelong learning, adopting an intergenerational approach and fostering the role played by European Institutions;

2015/04/01
Committee: CULT

2014/2149(INI)