1 Amendments of Zuzana ROITHOVÁ related to 2013/0081(COD)
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) This Directive should promote the Union as an attractive location for research and innovation and advance the Union in the global competition for talent, and, in so doing, ensure an increase in the Union's overall competitiveness and growth rates while creating jobs that make a larger contribution to GDP growth. Opening the Union up to third-country nationals who may be admitted for the purposes of research is also part of the Innovation Union flagship initiative. Creating an open labour market for Union researchers and for researchers from third countries was also affirmed as a key aim of the European Research Area (ERA), a unified area, in which researchers, scientific knowldedge and technology circulate freely.