13 Amendments of Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS related to 2018/0206(COD)
Amendment 48 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) The Union is confronted with structural challenges arising from social inequalities, e.g. unequal access to education, economic globalisation, the management of migration flows and related integration challenges, the increased security threat, clean energy transition, technological change and an increasingly ageing workforce and growing skills and labour shortages in some sectors and regions, experienced especially by SMEs. Taking into account the changing realities of the world of work, the Union should be prepared for the current and future challenges by investing in quality and inclusive education and training, lifelong learning and relevant skills, making labour markets and growth more inclusive and by improving education, employment and social policies, including in view of labour mobility.
Amendment 53 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 a (new)
Recital 5 a (new)
(5 a) Furthermore, culture is a key contributor to combating marginalisation and poverty and promoting social cohesion. Cultural engagement empowers groups at risk of social exclusion, such as economically disadvantaged, ageing, disabled people, and minority groups to become an active part of society. Cultural participation is beneficial to society as a whole as it fosters intercultural dialogue and facilitates integration of displaced people.
Amendment 69 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) The ESF+ should provide support to improving the quality, effectiveness and labour market relevance of education and training systems in order to facilitate the acquisition of key competences notably as regards cultural awareness and expression and digital skills which all individuals need for personal fulfilment and development, employment, social inclusion and active citizenship. The ESF+ should help progression within education and training and transition to work, support lifelong learning and employability, and contribute to competitiveness and societal and economic innovation by supporting scalable and sustainable initiatives in these fields. This could be achieved for example through work-based learning and apprenticeships, lifelong guidance, skills anticipation in cooperation with industry, up-to-date training materials, forecasting and graduate tracking, training of educators, validation of learning outcomes and recognition of qualifications. The ESF+ should encourage and promote access to the teaching profession by minorities, aiming at a better integration of marginalised communities such as the Roma, minorities and migrants.
Amendment 77 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) Support through the ESF+ should be used to promote equal access for all, in particular for disadvantaged groups, to quality, non-segregated and inclusive education and training, from early childhood education and care through general and vocational education and training and to tertiary level, as well as adult education and learning, and to cultural activities, thereby fostering permeability between education and training sectors, preventing early school leaving, improving health literacy, reinforcing links with non-formal and informal learning, namely in the field of arts, and facilitating learning mobility for all. Special attention should be given to early childhood education as the early years are the most formative in human life and they greatly influence people's education, employment and integration prospects. Synergies with the Erasmus programme, notably to facilitate the participation of disadvantaged learners in learning mobility, with special attention to learners with disabilities, should be supported within this context.
Amendment 92 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17 a (new)
Recital 17 a (new)
(17 a) Synergies with the Creative Europe programme should ensure that the ESF+ can mainstream and scale up innovative projects that aim at equipping people with the skills and competences needed for the jobs of the future as well as for the active participation in society, at connecting all layers of society and at fostering social inclusion.
Amendment 95 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18
Recital 18
(18) The ESF+ should support Member States’ efforts at all levels, including at regional and local level, to tackle poverty with a view to breaking the cycle of disadvantage across generations and promote social inclusion by ensuring equal opportunities for all, tackling discrimination and addressing health inequalities. This implies mobilising a range of policies targeting the most disadvantaged people regardless of their age, including children, marginalised communities such as the Roma, minorities, migrants and the working poor. The ESF+ should promote the active inclusion and citizenship of people far from the labour market with a view to ensuring their socio- economic integration, namely via educational and cultural projects. The potential of sport as a tool for social inclusion should be fully recognised and further exploited. The ESF+ should be also used to enhance timely and equal access to affordable, sustainable and high quality services such as healthcare and long-term care, in particular family and community- based care services. The ESF+ should contribute to the modernisation of social protection systems with a view in particular to promoting their accessibility, and fair conditions for self-employed workers.
Amendment 100 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18 a (new)
Recital 18 a (new)
(18 a) With a view to fully tapping into the potential of cross-sectoral cooperation, to improving synergies and coherence with other policy fields and to achieving the general objectives of the ESF+, sport and physical activity as well as culture should be used as tools in ESF+ actions aimed, in particular, at improving social inclusion and active citizenship.
Amendment 101 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18 b (new)
Recital 18 b (new)
(18 b) To strengthen the European dimension of the programme, the ESF+ should also support transnational actions and activities, with due simplification of rules and procedures, in order to foster peer learning and the exchange of good practices.
Amendment 134 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 33
Recital 33
(33) Lack of access to finance for microenterprises, notably in the cultural and creative sectors, social economy and social enterprises is one of the main obstacles to business creation, especially among people furthest from the labour market. The ESF+ Regulation lays down provisions in order to create a market eco- system to increase the supply of and access to finance for social enterprises as well as to meet demand from those who need it most, and in particular the unemployed, women and vulnerable people who wish to start up or develop a microenterprise. This objective will also be addressed through financial instruments and budgetary guarantee under the social investment and skills policy window of the InvestEU Fund.
Amendment 167 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point iv
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point iv
(iv) improving the quality, effectiveness, inclusiveness, and labour market relevance of education and training systems, to support acquisition of key competences including digital skills and cultural awareness and expression, while recognising the relevance of non-formal and informal learning and the value of cooperation with social partners and civil society;
Amendment 220 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Member States shall envisage actions intended to help small beneficiaries to fully comply with the regulatory requirements in the ESF+, including monitoring and reporting, aiming at diversifying the type of recipients of the Fund and increasing the participation of non-traditional beneficiaries in co-funded projects especially at local and regional levels.
Amendment 230 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1
Article 15 – paragraph 1
1. Programmes benefitting from the general support of the ESF+ strand under shared management shall use common output and result indicators, as set out in Annex 1 to this Regulation to monitor progress in implementation, with flexibility to adapt those indicators to national, regional and local needs where appropriate. The programmes may also use programme- specific indicators.
Amendment 232 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 1
Article 21 – paragraph 1
1. Priorities addressing material deprivation shall use common output and result indicators, as set out in Annex II to this Regulation to monitor progress in implementation. These programmes may also use programme-specific indicators. Projects may as well establish additional quantitative and qualitative indicators that measure soft outcomes and the progress made by participants towards the common results and indicators.