Activities of Romeo FRANZ related to 2021/2009(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Inclusion measures within Erasmus+ 2014-2020 (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the implementation of inclusion measures within Erasmus+ 2014-2020
Amendments (20)
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the Erasmus+ 2014-2020 Regulation puts emphasis on promoting social inclusion and on the participation of people belonging to marginalised groups, with special needs or with fewer opportunities, as defined in the ‘Erasmus+ Inclusion and Diversity Strategy’, encompassing persons with disabilities, health problems, educational difficulties, cultural differences, and facing economical, geographical and social obstacles;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
F a. Whereas financial barriers remain the biggest obstacle to the participation of learners belonging to marginalised groups, with special needs or with fewer opportunities, as indicated by the Social Inclusion and Engagement in Mobility research report and other relevant literature;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)
Recital F b (new)
F b. Whereas learners belonging to marginalised groups, with special needs or with fewer opportunities, experience institutional, environmental and attitudinal barriers that require targeted solutions and a needs-based approach to support their participation in learning mobility opportunities;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes with satisfaction the overall stakeholders’ perception on the positive evolution of inclusion measures during the Erasmus+ 2014-2020 programming period;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights that Erasmus+ should support stakeholders’ and programme participants’ internationalisation plans that address structural discrimination and remove the physical, psychological, social, socio-economic, linguistic and other types of barriers to learning mobility and European projects that offer clear and detailed information and qualitative support for participants from under- represented groups and those with specific needs;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the crucial need for adapted funding and grants, such as pre- financingtop-up grants and lump sums, as financial barriers continue to be one of the biggest obstacles faced by people with fewer opportunities in Erasmus+; highlights the need to simplify the administrative burden in order to access the funds;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Asks the Commission to reform the individual grant system to ensure that all participants in learning mobility receive their grants before their mobilities start;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Asks the Commission to ensure that grants for individual mobilities are properly adjusted to the cost of living of the hosting city, ensuring that they cover all the living costs of the mobile learner;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3 c. Recalls that accompanying persons must also have access to those adapted funds and grants in order to participate in the mobility program and stresses that organisations should have the possibility to decide on the number of accompanying persons;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3 d. Calls on the Member States to increase the national and regional co- financing of learning mobility opportunities under Erasmus+, helping to remove barriers to participation among students belonging to marginalised groups, with special needs or with fewer opportunities and calls to increase the available scholarships;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Acknowledges the role of civil society organisations, self-led organisations, teachers, youth workers and staff as the driving forces behind participating institutions in raising awareness of the programme, in informing and supporting future learners, and identifying people with fewer opportunities, and notes that without them, most participants; notes that without them, most participants belonging to marginalised groups, with special needs or with fewer opportunities would not be able to take part; calls on the Commission, the Member States and national agencies to value and acknowledge their often voluntaryunpaid work, to support them by facilitating their own mobility and to provide them with adequate funding, while accompanying participants and accompanying ongoing support, while accompanying participants belonging to marginalised groups, with special needs or with fewer opportunities and offering them specific training adapted to their needs;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the need for the Commission, the Member States and national agencies to provide better support for grassroots organisations in all areas, particularly those that are community led and those in the outermost regions and rural areas, and to ensure that resources and projects are distributed fairly in each Member State; Asks the Member States to consider the deployment of mobility programme engagement officers to ensure that national agencies engage with civil society, local and grassroot organisations, who have well established experience in reaching out to people belonging to marginalised groups, with special needs or with fewer opportunities;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses the importance of providing better financial and material support to staff, so that they can engage with participants and their families, in order to give them more confidence in national agencies and key stakeholder organisations, so that they can engage with participants and beneficiaries, improving access, success and impact of the project, while ensuring that mobility and projects run smoothly;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Stresses the importance of providing appropriate training and support to educators on how to effectively navigate the challenges and opportunities presented by mobility and projects and to foster the exchange of good practices in the field; and stresses the need to collect their feedback after the period of mobility in order to improve the participation of future beneficiaries;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Asks all national agencies to organise targeted information campaigns, both online and offline, and to appoint dedicated inclusion and diversity officers in order to reach out to learners with special needs and/or fewer opportunities; and asks national agencies to thoroughly consider a diverse outreach scheme, both in terms of information material and spatial locations;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Recognises the important role of Support, Advanced Learning and Training Opportunities (SALTO) Inclusion & Diversity for the implementation of inclusion measures for the Erasmus+ Youth strand, and notes that the extension of inclusion strategies to the Education & Training strand in the current programming period will have to be followed closely, as the target groups are different; stresses the need for national agencies to work more closely with employment agencies and other adult education stakeholders to facilitate the integration of adult learners into the Erasmus+ 2021-2027 programme;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Regrets the lack of reliable data, both quantitative and qualitative, on the participation of organisations and people with fewer opportunities in the Erasmus+ programme; underlines the need torequests the Commission and National Agency gather and, monitor a critical mass of reliable datand disclose reliable data related to the participation of learners in the programme in order to create a management and steering tool for inclusion measures, using methods which respect privacy and do not add undue administrative burdens for organisations and participants; reaffirms the need for more capacity building of staff on indicators and monitoring systems for inclusion;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Stresses the importance to fund more EU-wide research and studies in the new programming period in the field of inclusion regarding the practices and impact of inclusive measures by national agencies and stakeholders in engaging organisations and people belonging to marginalised groups, with special needs or with fewer opportunities;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Asks for the specific needs of people from racial and ethnic minorities to be taken into account in order to facilitate their increased participation in the programme by addressing the institutional racism and structural discrimination that acts as a barrier to participation including by explicitly acknowledging such discrimination rather than referring to cultural differences and ensuring that such participants have adequate support and recourse to justice in case of experiencing discrimination; stresses the need to improve monitoring and evaluation data collection practices to ensure that specific feedback is collected following the period of mobility in order to improve the participation of future beneficiaries;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Asks the Member States, to adopt targeted policieshe Council and the Commission to establish new learning mobility targets and inclusive mobility strategies at national levels, prioritising access to mobility for learners with fewer opportunities and special needs in order to increase participation in Erasmus+ and to foster exchanges of good practices in this field;