6 Amendments of Monica SEMEDO related to 2023/2018(INI)
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Reminds the Commission, the Member States, national agencies (NAs) and volunteering organisations to implement and develop the European Solidarity Corps programme in line with the measures and activities identified for it, while helping to simplify procedures, ensuring the intelligibility and accessibility of application portals, and enhancing visibility;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission, the Member States, NAs and engaged organisations to help raise awareness about the programme and its individual strands, to further build its brand and to reach out to more young people, particularly those with fewer opportunities; calls on NAs to strengthen their support to applicants, particularly the most disadvantaged young people, by providing them with accurate and detailed information and assistance on the application process and opportunities offered by the programme;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that solidarity projects attract less interest and are less visible, resulting in uneven budget distribution; calls on the Commission, NAs and volunteering organisations to promote short-term activities and calls for more flexibility in the budget allocation between the project strands;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Welcomes the programme’s inclusive nature and the implementation guidelines for its inclusion and diversity strategy; encourages to strengthen the focus of the programme on the opportunities it can provide to the most disadvantaged young people and to enhance support for organisations working with these target groups, for example by setting up an information campaign specifically addressed to this audience; calls on the Commission to consider adopting a more flexible and inclusive approach to individual volunteering, enabling participants to mix and match countries, areas of activity and experiences in order to make the programme more inclusive;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Urges the Commission to ensure that the digital tools and systems currently used to manage and implement the programme are working properly and to their full potential and invites it to tackle, without delay, the persistent serious issues with the European Solidarity Corps IT tools, which are a significant obstacle not only to the participation of smaller organisations and of young people with fewer opportunities, but also to the participation of all kinds of beneficiaries; calls on the Commission to simplify the process for the IT tools and make it accessible to all groups, more user friendly, and to test IT tools on a sufficiently large scale before they are rolled out further; notes that Erasmus+ and other EU-funded programmes have encountered similar issues with IT tools;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Urges the Commission to improve the quality and quantity of online linguistic support for participants, by making the information available in all EU languages, to integrate better sorting and filtering tools into the placement administration and support system, to simplify and shorten the application process for the new quality label, to set more frequent re-accreditation deadlines and to reduce the time and administrative burden involved in re- accreditation;