31 Amendments of Laurence FARRENG related to 2023/2002(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas Erasmus+ (‘the programme’) is an EU flagship programme supporting education, training, youth and sport in the European Union and beyond;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the programme is crucial in fostering a European sense of belonging and promote the emergence of a European identity in addition to national identities;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas demand for the programme largely exceeds the available financial resources, negatively affecting participation and, the number of projects that can be funded and the variety of beneficiaries that manage to access funding, particularly individuals and organisations from disadvantaged backgrounds;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Applauds the NAs that havcknowledges the challenges the NAs faced while drawning up national plans for inclusion and diversity, taking into account the barriers for inclusion and diversity;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. AppreciaNotes the steps being taken to increase the amount of green travel and the higher rates being paid for more environmentally friendly ways of travelling and encourages more effort to be made to achieve this goal;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Acknowledges the warm welcome of the European Universities initiative by higher education institutions and its centrality in facilitating efforts to remove obstacles to international cooperation in higher education; highlights that mobility projects, the creation of common curricula and research cooperation between universities in Europe, especially in the fields of science and innovation, are instrumental regarding the needs in strategic areas such as industrial innovation, digitalisation or clean energy solutions;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Notes that DiscoverEU, which was initiated by Parliament, has become a well- established, popular and easy-to-access informal learning activity which brings young people closer to the EU, particularly youth from disadvantaged backgrounds or from rural and remote areas, by offering the opportunity to travel for free by rail throughout Europe, and therefore increasing awareness and knowledge of the EU amongst the youth, and encouraging their future involvement in other EU programmes and projects;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Notes that DiscoverEU, which was initiated by Parliament, has become a well- established, popular and easy-to-access informal learning activity; welcomes the newly introduced Discover EU learning component and asks the Commission to provide more thorough analysis about its outcomes;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Appreciates the swift reaction and enhanced flexibility of the programme to support Ukrainian students, teachers and educator, educators, and educational institutions;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to remove any financialll barriers, including financial, linguistic and administrative barriers, in order to achieve a truly inclusive programme embracing diversity;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Points out that insufficient grants to cover the costs of mobility and delays in payments are the biggest deterrents to participants in mobility projects; asks the Commission to consider introducing upfront payments for beneficiaries with fewer opportunities and to provide beneficiaries with information on payments schedule;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Regrets that Erasmus+ still remains inaccessible to a high number of people, particularly youth from disadvantaged backgrounds, notably because of financial obstacles and other difficulties they face and that impede them from spending longer periods of time abroad;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Regrets the fact that complicated processes considerably hinder the participation of small-scale organisations in the school and youth sectors; is worried about the increasing need of full time paid staff in order to present a successful project and consultancies or profit organisations taking advantages of the situation at the expense of smaller and grassroots organisations;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Is concerned by the fact that almost a third of students in higher education mobility reported that they did not receive full credit recognition, which is far from the objectives laid down in the Erasmus Charter for Higher Education, hindering the creation of a genuine European Education Area by 2025;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Notes that the Erasmus+ sport sector has very limited funds in some areas, thus limiting its scope; calls for a better representation of sport associations in the awarded projects, as non-sport organisations such as NGOs and consultancies are often overrepresented as the beneficiaries;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Points out the need to take the impact of AI seriously, since it has already facilitated fraudulent actors, but could also ease the workload of NAs and improve data collection; calls on the Commission to take better account of frauds perpetrated, such as letterbox companies, and make more transparent the actions taken to counter those abuses:
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Calls on the Commission, the Member States, national authorities and NAs to keep Erasmus+ close to the people and ensure it remains a bottom-up ‘citizens’ programme’ offering quality education and mobility opportunities for young peole and learners of all ages;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Calls on the Commission to foster the role of Erasmus+ in increasing civic engagement and a better understanding of and support for European values, and to turn the programme into a true promoter of European democracy; is worried about funding given to organisations that do not respect said values, even if their successful projects are in line with the programme’s objectives; points to the need for stricter rules and monitoring on this issue in the next programing period;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Calls on the Commission to foster the role of Erasmus+ in increasing civic engagement and a better understanding of and support for European values, and to turn the programme into a true promoter of European democracy and sense of belonging ;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
39. Calls for centralised and decentralised actions to be better linked and to enhance the use of flexible funding instruments such as micro-grants; notes the increasing interest in operational grants and asks the Commission to reinforce its support to strategic sectors such as for the development of practices of informal and unformal education that often rely on volunteers;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41 a (new)
Paragraph 41 a (new)
41a. Emphasizes that achieving this balance is necessary for the Alliances of European Universities, as a rapid growth in their number has been fostered, rather than stabilising and deepening the alliances already established; stress the need to build a future-oriented vision, to make these alliances the spearhead of European higher education and the acquisition of knowledge and skills by young Europeans;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41 b (new)
Paragraph 41 b (new)
41b. Welcomes the pilot projects launched by the Commission to create a joint European Degree label and institutionalised EU cooperation instruments such as a legal status for European universities alliances;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41 c (new)
Paragraph 41 c (new)
41c. Welcomes the newly established Centres of Vocational Excellence; stresses the importance of fostering mobility for vocational education and training (VET) students in order to reach young people from all backgrounds; is worried about the remaining obstacles to a seamless VET mobility, such as administrative procedures and fragmented policies at national and Union level; calls on Member States to make Centres of Vocational Excellence the driving force towards the development of joint European VET qualifications, curricula and diplomas; calls on the Commission to study the feasibility of a status of VET students in mobility; calls on Member States to foster regional cooperation strategies to elaborate cross-border programmes aiming at facilitating mobility of learners and workers and improving territorial and regional cooperation;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
Paragraph 42
42. Calls for wider use of virtual and blended learning and the building of infrastructure for digitalised learning opportunities; underlines that virtual learning can be used as an inclusion tool and is a valuable complement to physical mobility, but do not provide the same quality of experience and benefits;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
Paragraph 43
43. Asks for eTwinning to be integrated fully and seamlessly into Erasmus+ and to be better promoted among teachers and school staff;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43 a (new)
Paragraph 43 a (new)
43a. Underlines the need to allocate more funding to the opportunities offered to primary schools and pupils, as the demand highly exceeds the needs in most of the programme countries;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43 b (new)
Paragraph 43 b (new)
43b. Asks the Commission and the Member States to work on providing better support for teachers carrying out Erasmus+ projects, for example by allowing them to be substituted or by compensating for the time they spend on the project, as a vast majority of them does it on a voluntary basis and in their free time; welcomes the new opportunities provided by the Teachers Academies; ask the Commission and the Member States to promote and encourage the European mobility of teachers as well as the European dimension of their education;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
Paragraph 45
45. Asks the Commission to assess options for a more integrated approach towards youth activities across EU programmes, learning from the experience of the European Year of Youth 2022;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49 a (new)
Paragraph 49 a (new)
49a. Insists on the Erasmus+ programme to be a key driver for establising the European Education Area and asks for more synergies with the European Solidarity Corps programme; urges the Commission and Member States to work on the mutual recognition of competences aquired during a period of European mobility or civic engagement, and to initiate initiatives such as the Open Method of Coordination on the subject;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50
Paragraph 50
50. Emphasises that issues with the IT infrastructure similar to those experienced in the current programme period are unacceptable, calls on the Commission to fix and stabilise the already existing IT- tools and not to change them at each new programming period, and expects the IT infrastructure of the next Erasmus+ generation to be fully operational from day one;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 52
Paragraph 52
52. Declares its determination to ensure a substantial increase in the Erasmus+ budget in the 2028-20334 programming period and commits itself to a tripling of the financial envelope, taking the requirements of the programme into account;