31 Amendments of Domènec RUIZ DEVESA related to 2019/2195(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the European Green Deal sets the target of a climate-neutral European Union by 2050, thereby putting the climate emergency at the centre of all the Union’s programmes and policies; whereas the European Green Deal will promote public awareness and citizens’ involvement in climate action by developing a comprehensive European agenda that rethinks education and training programmes;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas Sustainable Development Goal 13 calls for action to combat climate change and its impact, and whereas SDG’s 13 targets include the improvement of education, awareness-raising and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation and impact reduction;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas education, sport, volunteering and culture play a fundamental role in the green transition as regards awareness-raising, learning, communication and the sharing of knowledge and good practices, and whereas the potential they offer can be exploited throughout the next programming period to develop innovative ways of tackling environmental challenges;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the Erasmus+, European Solidarity Corps (ESC) and Creative Europe programmes all have an impact on the daily lives of millions of Europeans and underpin better cohesion and cultural understanding across Europe;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas Creative Europe has a role to playplays a key role in promoting culture and thes a pillar of sustainable development to build more resilient societies through creative solutions and audiovisual mediacontent, which can help raise people’s awareness of environmental issues and are also a unique source of creative solutions;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. whereas a substantial share of environment-related projects have been implemented over the period 2014-2020;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whereas the Just Transition Fund is being established to provide support to territories facing serious socio-economic challenges deriving from the transition towards a climate-neutral economy supporting, among other things, investments in regeneration and decontamination of sites, land restoration and repurposing projects;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas digital technologiesthe expansion of digitalisation also have an environmental footprint;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas there are currently few incentives – particularly of a financial nature – to encourage participants in the three programmes to shift to more environmentally friendly means of transport and behaviours;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. DStresses the need for a baseline assessment of programmes contribution to environmental and climate goals that informs the design of the future programme; deplores the Commission’s failure to propose environmental indicators for the new programmes; calls, therefore, for specific indicators to be incorporated into their operating rules; calls for the data gathered to be made public once a year; notes that environmental indicators should be adapted to the characteristics of the beneficiaries of the programmes – often small-sized organizations – and additional financial resources should be made available for data gathering to avoid excessive burden for beneficiaries, which often discourage and limit the participation of smaller operators in the programmes;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. TUnderlines that implementing institutions play a positive and active role in suggesting how the future programmes could best address environmental issues as well as how to steer beneficiaries to become more environmentally sensitive; takes the view that the good practices already employed by national agencies and offices and by project developers should be surveyed, coordinated and assessed; calls on the Commission to develop and circulate a list of recommendations, developed in consultation with stakeholders, once this process is complete;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Underlines the potential of virtual mobility and calls on the Commission to encourage the use of virtual formats as a complement to physical mobility, in particular for the inclusion of those who cannot travel;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission and on national agencies and offices to take account of the environmental aspects of projects and to evaluate projects accordinglyevaluate the programme according to their initial objectives, while taking into due account the environmental aspects of projects;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Urges the Commission to make it possible forencourage participants to choose the least- polluting means of transport, but at the same time not to stigmatise or exclude participants for whom air travel is the only option; calls for special attention to be paid to the outermost regions, as well as to rural and remote areas, in this regard;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Digitalisation has the potential to increase social inclusion and boost innovation if all citizens are equipped with appropriate digital tools and infrastructure; calls on the Commission to tackle the digital divide by improving the EU’s fast broadband internet infrastructure and by creating the right conditions for an effective use of ICTs;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Takes the view that the expansion of digitalisation can also have an impact on the environment in terms of pollution; recalls that all three programmes are characterised by the use of digital tools, in particular Creative Europe; urges the Commission, therefore, to coordinate the future digital agenda and the European Green Deal with the aim of combining the digital transformation and environmental policy;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Underlines that environmental learning as a key competence is crucial for awareness-raising among Europeans, in particular young generations, to encourage them to become active and conscious future citizens; in this respect, highlights the importance of the Erasmus+ programme and notably, under the Youth section, the major role played by youth and civil society organisations in sharing best practices and implementing projects raising younger generations’ awareness about sustainability;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Urges the Commission to explore areas where the sections of the Erasmus+ programme supporting education, training, youth and sport can be developed in depopulated rural areas to contribute to lowering the environmental footprint, promoting nature conservation, fostering cultural heritage curation, and benefiting social preservation;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Emphasises the potential of the European Universities and Vocational Education and Training Centres of Excellence, as they could introduce programmes of excellence for teaching and training in environmental issues for a wide range of stakeholders and learners, as well as support research projects in this area, provided sufficient funding is available;
Amendment 108 #
11. Notes that the future European Student Card can do muchimplementation of the European Student Card represents a significant step to make participation in the Erasmus+ programme more environmentally friendly by shifting from a paper-based to a quality, inclusive and accessible streamlined digital process whilst simplifying the management of the mobility cycle;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Highlights the importance of sustainable participant inclusion in the local community, with the aim of achieving active citizenship and cultural exchange, as a key element in the Erasmus+ programme;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Stresses the value of synergies between Erasmus+ and other funding programmes and instruments, including the LIFE programme, Horizon Europe and InvestEU, in fostering awareness, innovation and competence development linked to environmental and sustainability issues; calls, in that regard, on the Commission to provide guidance to national agencies and foster dialogue with stakeholders on how to encourage and put into operation such synergies;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Points to the opportunity to establish a relationship with the European Parliament Ambassador School Programme, in order to enrich both programmes to support integration of the participants in the local community and to build knowledge of European citizenship among local students;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Emphasises the enormous potential of the cultural and creative sectors owing to their central and active role in changing how citizens can act sustainably; notes that museums, cultural and community centres, performing arts, literature, visual arts, cross-arts initiatives could promote sustainability and contribute to reversing the climate trend, provided that sufficient funding is available;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Commission to launch comprehensive research and to publish a ‘good environmental practice’ guide, based on dialogue with concerned stakeholders, covering audiovisual and cultural production, dissemination and event organisation, with a particular focus on transport, energy and waste management and with the aim of making the practices concerned standard for all projects financed by the programme;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Calls on the Commission to include sustainability and respect for the environment in the set of criteria for the selection and the evaluation of the European Capitals of Culture; insists that the European Capitals of Culture also observe the charter setting out the environmental principles mentioned above;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 b (new)
Paragraph 20 b (new)
20b. Highlights that all future sustainability measures mainstreamed through Creative Europe should not negatively affect an already underfunded programme and calls on the Commission to support any possible measures through other funding instruments;
Amendment 156 #
21. Urges the Commission to investigate the scope for synergies with Horizon Europe, in particular under Pillar II with cluster Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society as well as the current knowledge and innovation community on Climate and the new knowledge and innovation community focusing on the culture and creation sector in the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT);
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Urges the Commission to investigate the creation of synergies with the Just Transition Fund to support repurposing projects aimed at the reconversion of spaces affected by closure due to the transition to a climate-neutral economy to create in them new cultural initiatives or to preserve their industrial heritage;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Reminds the Commission of the importance of promoting cultural initiatives aimed at preserving cultural heritage, tangible and intangible, so that they are developed in a sustainable manner in full respect of their environmental conditions;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Calls on the Commission to consider including in the Media strand of the Creative Europe programme the promotion of audio-visual projects aimed at fostering sustainability, energy efficiency and the protection of the environment;