23 Amendments of Romeo FRANZ related to 2018/0206(COD)
Amendment 38 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) On 20 June 2017, the Council endorsed the Union response to the 'UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’ - a sustainable European future. The Council underlined the importance of achieving sustainable development across the three dimensions (economic, social and environmental), in a balanced and integrated way. It is vital that sustainable development is mainstreamed into all Union internal and external policy areas, and that the Union is ambitious in the policies it uses to address global challenges. The Council welcomed the Commission Communication on "Next steps for a sustainable European future" of 22 November 2016 as a first step in mainstreaming the Sustainable Development Goals and applying sustainable development as an essential guiding principle for all Union policies, including through its financing instruments. The ESF+ can make a particular contribution to implementing the Sustainable Development Goals by tackling relative poverty and eradicating extreme forms of poverty (goal 1);quality and inclusive education (goal 4),promoting gender equality (goal 5),promoting sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all (goal 8), and reducing inequality(goal 10) as well as the Paris Agreement.
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) The Union is confronted with structural challenges arising from social inequalities, economic globalisation, the management of migration flows and the increased security threatrelated inclusion challenges, clean energy transition, technological change, demographic challenges, unequal access to education and social protection, unbalanced distribution of care responsibilities, 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 inengaging in the just transition, investing in quality and inclusive education and training, lifelong learning and relevant skills, making growthlabour markets more inclusive and by improving employment, education and social policies, including in view of labour mobility and by fighting against gender gaps.
Amendment 66 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) The ESF+ should provide support to improving the quality, effectiveness and labour market relevancaccessibility and non-discriminatory nature of education and training systems in order to facilitate the acquisition of key competences notably as regards digital and language skills, including data protection and information governance and transversal skills which all individuals need for personal fulfilment and development, employment, social inclusion and active citizenship. The ESF+ should help progression and flexibility within education and training and transition to work, support lifelong learning and employability, and contribute to competitivenesscontribute to social cohesion, the reduction of horizontal and vertical segregation and societal and economic innovation by supporting scalable and sustainable initiatives in these fields. This could be achieved for example through high-quality 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, support for informal and non- formal learning, validation of learning outcomes and recognition of qualifications and prior learning.
Amendment 76 #
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 high-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, with special attention to children and young people coming from a disadvantaged background, such as children in institutional care and children experiencing homelessness or housing deprivation, thereby fostering permeability between education and training sectors, preventing early school leaving, improving health literacy, reinforcing links with non- formal and informal learning and facilitating learning mobility for all. Synergies with the Erasmus programme, to upscale innovative practices and notably to facilitate the participation of disadvantaged learners and young people in vulnerable situations in learning mobility, should be supported within this context. Policy coherence and complementarity between the Erasmus programme and the ESF+ should ensure a decent support to design and implement measures such as learning mobility for disadvantaged learners, particularly adult learners and persons with disabilities or chronic diseases.
Amendment 82 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15 a (new)
Recital 15 a (new)
(15 a) Synergies with the Asylum and Migration Fund should ensure that the ESF+ can mainstream and upscale equal access to high-quality, non-segregated and inclusive education and training, as well as social inclusion, integration into the labour market and access to healthcare for third-country nationals with special attention to the needs of women and children.
Amendment 87 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) The ESF+ should promote flexible upskilling and reskilling opportunities for all, notably through formal and non-formal education providers, with a special focus on developing digital skills and key enabling technologies, with a view to providing people with skills adjusted to digitalisation, technological change, innovation and social and economic change, facilitating the transition between education and employment, career transitions, mobility and supporting in particular low-skilled persons with disabilities or chronic diseases and/or poorly qualified adults, in line with the Skills Agenda for Europe.
Amendment 103 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) The ESF+ should contribute to the reduction of poverty by supporting national schemes aiming to alleviate food and material deprivation and promote social integratclusion of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion and the most deprived. With a view that at Union level at least 4% of the resources of the ESF+ strand under shared management supports the most deprived, Member States should allocate at least 24% of their national resources of the ESF+ strand under shared management to address the forms of extreme poverty with the greatest social exclusion impact, such as homelessness, child poverty and food deprivation. Due to the nature of the operations and the type of end recipients, it is necessary that simpler rules apply to support which addresses material deprivation of the most deprived.
Amendment 115 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22 a (new)
Recital 22 a (new)
(22 a) All Member States have ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child which constitutes the standard in the promotion and protection of the rights of the child. The promotion of children’s rights is an explicit objective of Union policies, and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union requires that the best interests of the child be a primary consideration in all Union action. The ESF+ should support actions promoting effective interventions that contribute to the realisation of children’s rights.
Amendment 125 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 27 a (new)
Recital 27 a (new)
(27 a) With a view to fully tapping into the potential of cross-sectorial cooperation and to improving synergies and coherence with other policy fields to achieve the general objectives of the ESF+, sport and physical activity should be used as a tool in ESF+ actions aimed, in particular, at fighting youth unemployment, improving social inclusion of marginalised groups, health promotion, and disease prevention;
Amendment 130 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 31
Recital 31
(31) Social experimentation is a small- scale project testing which allows gathering evidence on the feasibility of social innovations. It is the case with many cross-sector projects, like arts in social environment, which is an essential element of inclusion. It should be possible for feasible ideas to be pursued on a wider scale or in other contexts with financial support from the ESF+, as well as from other sources.
Amendment 139 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 a (new)
(1 a) (-1) ‘social inclusion’ means the improvement of the terms of participation in society, particularly for people who are disadvantaged, through enhancing opportunities, access to resources, voice and respect for rights;
Amendment 141 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 13
(13) 'most deprived persons' means natural persons, whether individuals, families, households or groups composed of such persons, including children whose need for assistance has been established according to their living situation, including homelessness, or the objective criteria set by the national competent authorities in consultation with relevant stakeholders, while avoiding conflicts of interest and which are approved by those national competent authorities and which may include elements that allow the targeting of the most deprived persons in certain geographical areas;
Amendment 147 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 18 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 18 a (new)
(18 a) ‘lifelong learning’ means in all its forms (formal, non-formal and informal learning) taking place at all stages in life, including early childhood education and care, general education, vocational education, and adult education, and resulting in an improvement in knowledge, skills and attitudes or participation in society in a personal, civic, cultural, social and/or employment related perspective, including the provision of counselling and guidance services;
Amendment 150 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
The ESF+ aims to support Member States to achieve high employment levels,deliver on the European Pillar of Social Rights and to enhance social inclusion and combat poverty and to achieve high levels of employment, job quality, education and training, equal opportunities for all, as well as fair social protection and a skilled and resilient workforce ready for the future world of work, in line with the principles set out in the European Pillar of Social Rights proclaimed by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on 17 November 2017.
Amendment 151 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
The ESF+ aims to support Member States to achieve high employment levels, fair social protection and a skilled and resilient workforce ready for the future world of work, in line with the principles set out in the European Pillar of Social Rights proclaimed by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on 17 November 2017. The ESF+ also aims to contribute to fulfilling the commitment of the Union and its Member States to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Amendment 163 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point iii
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point iii
(iii) promoting women’s labour market participationgender equality in all areas by ensuring women’s economic independence and labour market participation respecting the principle of equal pay for equal work and for work of equal value, and offering at least a living wage,, a better work/life balance including equal access to childcareafford able, inclusive and non-segregated quality early childhood education and childcare and other care services or support, a healthy and well– adapted working environment addressing health risks and disease risk factors, adaptation of workers, enterprises and entrepreneurs to change, and active and healthy ageing;
Amendment 175 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point v
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point v
(v) promotensuring equal access to and completion of, quality, affordable, non- segregated and inclusive education and training, in particular for disadvantaged groups, from early childhood education and care through general and vocational education and training, and to tertiary level, as well as adult education and learning, including facilitating learning mobility for all;
Amendment 178 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point vi
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point vi
(vi) promoting lifelong learning, notably flexible as well as informal and non-formal learning, , notably flexible and learner-centred upskilling and reskilling opportunities for all taking into account digital skills, better anticipating change and new skills requirements based on labour market needs, facilitatguiding career transitions and promoting professional mobility, fostering democratic participation in society and tackling societal challenges;
Amendment 186 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point viii
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point viii
(viii) promoting socio-economic integratclusion of third country nationals, including refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants and stateless persons through targeted actions and of marginalised communities such as the Roma;
Amendment 222 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 a (new)
Article 10 a (new)
Article 10 a Investing in children The resources referred to in point 5(a) of Article 7 shall be programmed under a dedicated priority or programme. Member States shall ensure that the amount of resources targeted at children programmed under point (iii) through (v) and/or (ix) and/or (x) of Article 4(1) are in line with the 2013 European Commission Recommendation on Investing in children.
Amendment 224 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 b (new)
Article 10 b (new)
Article 10 b Inclusion of third-country nationals and marginalised communities The resources referred to in point 3(a) of Article 7 shall be programmed under a dedicated priority or programme.
Amendment 247 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 1
Annex I – paragraph 1
All personal data are to be broken down by gender (female, male, 'non binary'). If certain results are not possiblerelevant, data for those results do not have to be collected and reported. Sensitive personal data can be surveyed anonymously.
Amendment 255 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 4 – introductory part
Annex I – point 4 – introductory part
(4) Common longer-term result indicators for participants: If common output indicator data of participants of most deprived groups was surveyed anonymously, the following data will not be surveyed: