47 Amendments of Philippe LAMBERTS related to 2011/0387(COD)
Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 2
Annex – part 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 2
The reasons for putting research, education and innovation at centre stage are straightforward. In athe context of the knowledge economy and increasing global competition and facing a demographic challenge at home, Europe's future economic growth and jobs will increasingly come from innovation breakthroughs in products, services and business models as well as from its ability to nurture, attract and retain talent, while allowing European citizens not only to benefit from these innovations but also to contribute, particularly by means of new technologies, to their emergence. While there are individual success stories across Europe, EU Member States on average underperform in comparison with global innovation leaders. Moreover, the EU is facing increased competition for talent from new centres of excellence in emerging economies.
Amendment 52 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 3
Annex – part 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 3
A genuine change in our innovation systems and paradigms is therefore necessary, which requires the adoption of new principles and practices based, in particular, on open and inclusive research and on the development of tools for managing intellectual property rights which promote transparency and exchange, and the development of new financing tools to ensure that research efforts are targeted, as a priority and effectively, at issues of major public interest. Still too often, excellence in higher education, research and innovation, while clearly existing across the Union, remains fragmented. Europe needs to overcome this lack of strategic co- operation across boundaries – countries, sectors and disciplines. Moreover, Europe needs to embrace a true entrepreneurial culture, which is essential for capturing the value of research and innovation, for setting-up new ventures and actual market deployment of innovations in potential high-growth sectors. Europe needs to foster the role of higher education institutions as engines of innovation, as talented people need to be equipped with the right skills, knowledge and attitudes in order to drive innovation forward.
Amendment 53 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 3
Annex – part 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 3
A genuine change in our innovation systems and paradigms is therefore necessary. Still too often, excellence in higher education, research and innovation, while clearly existing across the EU, remains fragmented. Europe needs to overcome this lack of strategic co- operation across boundaries – countries, sectors and disciplines. Moreover, Europe needs to embrace ahas a strong, open and true entrepreneurial culture, which is essential forith large diversity of small and medium-size enterprises, which is essential to nurture and support to capturing the value of research and innovation, for setting-up new ventures and achieve actual market deployment of innovations in potential high-growth sectors. Europe needs to foster the role of higher education institutions as engines of innovation, as talented people need to be equipped with the right skills, knowledge and attitudes in order to drive innovation forward.
Amendment 55 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 4
Annex – part 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 4
The EIT has been set up precisely to this end – to contribute to sustainable economic growth and competitiveness by reinforcing the innovation capacity of the Union and its Member States. By fully integrating the knowledge triangle of higher education, research and innovation, the Institute will strongly contribute to tackling societal challenges under Horizon 2020 and bring about systemic change in the way European innovation players collaborate to promote open and inclusive models.
Amendment 64 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 1 – point 1.2 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Annex – part 1 – point 1.2 – paragraph 1 – point 1
· Overcoming fragmentation via long-term integrated partnerships and achieving critical mass through its European dimension: Building on existing cooperation initiatives, the EIT brings the selected partnerships in the KICs to a more permanent and strategic level. KICs allow world-class partners to unite in new configurations, optimize existing resources and develop open and inclusive innovation models, access new business opportunities via new value chains addressing higher risk, and larger scale challenges. Moreover, while there are a significant number of centres of excellence across EU Member States, they often do not attain the critical mass for global competition individually. The KICs' co- location centres offer strong local actors the opportunity to closely connect to other excellent partners across borders, thereby allowing them to act and be recognized globally.
Amendment 65 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 1 – point 1.2 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Annex – part 1 – point 1.2 – paragraph 1 – point 2
· Enhancing the impact of investments on education, research and innovation and testing new ways for innovation governance: The EIT acts as a catalyst, adding value to the existing research base, by accelerating the take-up and exploitation of technologies and research outcomes. Innovation activities contribute in turn to align and leverage research investments and to make education and training activities more responsive to business needs. To this end, the EIT has been equipped with a substantial degree of flexibility to test out new innovation models, allowing for true differentiation in the KICs' governance and funding models and quick adaptation to better cope with emerging opportunities. The EIT also has the potential to develop new financing models, such as innovation prizes, allowing to maximize the public returns of the financing of research, ensuring that innovation not only tackles the most urgent needs of society but also can benefit rapidly to European citizens.
Amendment 71 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 1 – point 1.2 – paragraph 1 – point 4 a (new)
Annex – part 1 – point 1.2 – paragraph 1 – point 4 a (new)
Creating sustainable solutions for the dissemination and adoption of new technologies with end-consumers, citizen and society at large: EIT takes particular care that the incentivising of new research and innovation accommodate for special needs in different entrepreneurial spaces. In order to achieve this aim the EIT shall ensure that in each sector, the management of intellectual property rights ensure that competitive conditions are maintained, especially for sectors where market entrance barriers are typically low. This applies in particular to the ICT and digital infrastructure services.
Amendment 73 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 2
Annex – part 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 2
The EIT will strongly contribute to the objectives set out in Horizon 2020, in particular by addressing societal challenges in a complementary way to other initiatives in these areas. Within Horizon 2020, the EIT will be part of the ‘tackling societal challenges’ objective but following the approach of seamless interaction across objectives, it will also contribute to ‘industrial leadership and competitive frameworks’ by stimulating results-driven research and fostering the creation of high growth innovative SMEs. Finally, it will contribute to the creation of open and inclusive innovation models among an ‘excellent science base’ by fostering mobility across boundaries – of disciplines, sectors and countries – and by embedding entrepreneurship and a risk-taking culture in innovative post-graduates degrees. The EIT will thereby significantly contribute to promoting the framework conditions that are needed to realise the innovative potential of EU research and to promote the completion of the European Research Area (ERA).
Amendment 74 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 3
Annex – part 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 3
Moreover, the EIT brings a fully fledged education dimension to the EU's research and innovation policy, including through open access to research publications. Via innovative, entrepreneurial education it plays an important bridging role between the research and innovation framework and education policies and programmes and provides the long term commitment needed to deliver sustainable changes in higher education. Notably through new, trans and interdisciplinary EIT-labelled degrees the EIT is leading a collaborative effort towards education for innovation with clear spill over effects on the broader European agenda for the modernisation of higher education institutions thereby promoting the European Higher Education Area.
Amendment 78 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 6 a (new)
Annex – part 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 6 a (new)
The establishment of ‘patent pools’ in certain areas and open research will encourage the opening-up of research and act as a catalyst for efforts by both the public and private sectors (and by SMEs in particular).
Amendment 79 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 6 b (new)
Annex – part 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 6 b (new)
The EIT should promote the development of new tools for information and transparency on intellectual property rights intended to provide both public and private research stakeholders (including SMEs) with information allowing them to engage in research and the application of inventions, the acquisition of industrial property rights and the exploitation of research on an informed basis. The measures to be taken include ensuring price transparency, developing methods for assessing the quality of intellectual property rights at European level and developing common benchmarks for transactions involving patents.
Amendment 84 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 2 – point 2.1 – paragraph 4
Annex – part 2 – point 2.1 – paragraph 4
The 'EIT investor' approach stands for a focus on identifying best strategic opportunities and selecting a portfolio of world-class partnerships – the KICs – to deliver on these. As part of this approach, the EIT awards the annual grants to the KICs based on their past performance and proposed activities in their business plan. The assessment of the business plans will be supported by external, independent experts. In this perspective, the EIT should not only set out broad directions and visions, but needs to provide KICs with an appropriate level of support and monitor their performance. At the same time, KICs are given a substantial degree of leeway to define their internal strategies and organisation as well as to deliver their activities and mobilise the talent and resources needed. It can thus promote the establishment of 'patent pools' for sharing intellectual property rights in order to accelerate research on the basis of payment of adequate compensation to the holders of its rights.
Amendment 92 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 2 – point 2.1 – point 2.1.1 – paragraph 4
Annex – part 2 – point 2.1 – point 2.1.1 – paragraph 4
KICs not only build on their partners' existing excellent research base, but are also the frontrunners for promoting and implementing the EIT's educational mission. The objective is to educate and train talented people with the skills, knowledge and mindset needed in a global knowledge economy. To this end, the EIT actively promotes, inter alia, the EIT- labelled degrees by monitoring their quality and coherent implementation across KICs. In this endeavour ta series of quality criteria will be applied by KICs for EIT- labelled degrees, to ensure the upholding of high academic standards and the reputation of European universities. They will also make extensive use of peer and expert evaluations, and establish a dialogue with national and quality assurance bodies. This will enhance the national and international recognition of the EIT labelled qualifications and raise their attractiveness globally, while providing a platform for collaboration at international level. In the future, KICs will be encouraged to expand their educational activities beyond post- graduate education to a greater variety of study modes to cater for a wider range of innovative, professional development activities, involving executive education, tailor-made training courses and summer schools. To enhance the impact of KICs' educational activities and to reach out to a wider audience, KICs may envisage the design, on an experimental basis, of modules for undergraduate courses or packages targeted to school education.
Amendment 103 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 2 – point 2.1 – point 2.1.2 – paragraph 4
Annex – part 2 – point 2.1 – point 2.1.2 – paragraph 4
The assessment of the themes proposed in the EIT draft as well as by the wider stakeholder community clearly showed a certain degree of variation regarding potential impact the establishment of a KIC would offer. As a result, a number of themes were discarded entirely; others were redefined in order to better respond to the specificities of the European and global context in this area. The assessment of the evolution of research potentials and the possible emergence of new innovation dynamics should be regularly performed for considering future KICs.
Amendment 104 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 2 – point 2.1 – point 2.1.2 – paragraph 5 – introductory part
Annex – part 2 – point 2.1 – point 2.1.2 – paragraph 5 – introductory part
The following thematic areas have been identified as those where the establishment of a new KIC has greatest potential to add value to existing activities and bring about a real boost to innovation (this is not a closed, exhaustive list):
Amendment 111 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 2 – point 2.1 – point 2.1.2 – paragraph 5 – point 5
Annex – part 2 – point 2.1 – point 2.1.2 – paragraph 5 – point 5
Amendment 114 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 2 – point 2.1 – point 2.1.2 – paragraph 5 – point 6 a (new)
Annex – part 2 – point 2.1 – point 2.1.2 – paragraph 5 – point 6 a (new)
· Biomimetism
Amendment 115 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 2 – point 2.1 – point 2.1.2 – paragraph 5 – point 6 b (new)
Annex – part 2 – point 2.1 – point 2.1.2 – paragraph 5 – point 6 b (new)
· Sustainable construction and zero- energy buildings
Amendment 121 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 2 – point 2.1 – point 2.1.2 – paragraph 8
Annex – part 2 – point 2.1 – point 2.1.2 – paragraph 8
Amendment 137 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 2 – point 2.1 – point 2.1.2 – paragraph 9
Annex – part 2 – point 2.1 – point 2.1.2 – paragraph 9
Amendment 140 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 2 – point 2.1 – point 2.1.2 – paragraph 10 – point 1
Annex – part 2 – point 2.1 – point 2.1.2 – paragraph 10 – point 1
Amendment 144 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 2 – point 2.2 – paragraph 1
Annex – part 2 – point 2.2 – paragraph 1
In the initial period, the EIT has mainly focused its efforts on establishing the KICs. While it is a clear goal for the EIT to strengthen existing centres of excellence, the EIT will need to ensure it also delivers benefits to areas of the Union which are not directly participating in KICs. It is therefore mission critical for the EIT to actively promote the dissemination of good practices, such as open research and the open publication of results, for the integration of the knowledge triangle in order to develop a common innovation and knowledge sharing culture.
Amendment 146 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 2 – point 2.2 – paragraph 2
Annex – part 2 – point 2.2 – paragraph 2
In the future, the EIT must work to make the KIC experience understandable and replicable and build it into a culture that can act as a role model in Europe and beyond. By identifying, analysing and sharing good practices, as well as new governance and funding models from the KICs, the EIT seeks to ensure that knowledge generated within the EIT and its KICs is disseminated and capitalised upon for the benefit of peoplethe general public, private entities, and institutions, including those not directly participating in the KICs.
Amendment 149 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 2 – point 2.2 – paragraph 4
Annex – part 2 – point 2.2 – paragraph 4
Main drivers of learning at EIT level may be: innovation-driven research for the creation of new businesses and new business models, management of IP portfolios and new approaches to IP sharingthe development of new methods and new tools to provide greater transparency of IP portfolios and their management, improve IP sharing and systematise the modelling of licences facilitating transactions, including the possibility for SMEs and public institutions to participate more actively in innovation, entrepreneurship and new integrated forms of multi-disciplinary education; innovative governance and financial models based ion the concept of open innovation or involving public authorities, particularly for targeting research at the priority needs of society. This will help the EIT to be a role model and to act as a 'game shifter' in the European innovation landscape and to become an internationally recognised innovation institution.
Amendment 154 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 2 – point 2.2 – paragraph 7
Annex – part 2 – point 2.2 – paragraph 7
Moreover, the EIT has a clear role to play in attracting talent from outside the EU. By creating a strong brand and forging strategic relations with key partners from around the globe, the EIT can add to the attractiveness of the partners within the KICs. In close cooperation with the KICs, the EIT should develop a strong international strategy, identifying and liaising relevant interlocutors and potential partners. In this context the EIT and its KICs should take full advantage of existing EU initiatives in the area, such as EU research, education, training and youth programmes, including the 'Erasmus for all' programme and the Marie Curie Actions. In addition, the EIT can foster knowledge sharing, mentoring and networking by encouraging the setting up of an EIT alumni network.
Amendment 156 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 2 – point 2.2 – paragraph 7
Annex – part 2 – point 2.2 – paragraph 7
Moreover, the EIT has a clear role to play in attracting talent from outside the EU. By creating a strong brand and forging strategic relations with key partners from around the globe, the EIT can add to the attractiveness of the partners within the KICs. In close cooperation with the KICs, the EIT should develop a strong international strategy, identifying and liaising relevant interlocutors and potential partners. In this context the EIT and its KICs should take full advantage of existing EU initiatives in the area, such as the ‘'Erasmus for all’' programme and the Marie Curie Actions. In addition, the EIT can foster open access, inclusive innovation, knowledge sharing, mentoring and networking by encouraging the setting up of an EIT alumni network.
Amendment 161 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 2 – point 2.2 – paragraph 9 – point 2
Annex – part 2 – point 2.2 – paragraph 9 – point 2
Set up/customise a web based tool to provide a platform for knowledge sharing and networking around the EIT, which will provide students, teachers and researchers who are not involved in existing KICs with easy access to information about ongoing work and the results of completed research.
Amendment 162 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 2 – point 2.2 – paragraph 9 – point 2 a (new)
Annex – part 2 – point 2.2 – paragraph 9 – point 2 a (new)
Develop tools to facilitate the identification of intellectual property rights involved in a field or in the context of research, as well as their acquisition, assignment or transmission as appropriate and depending on the needs of stakeholders.
Amendment 163 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 2 – point 2.2 – paragraph 9 – point 4
Annex – part 2 – point 2.2 – paragraph 9 – point 4
Make lessons learned and successes from KICs systematically accessible to the wider EU innovation community and beyond. This maywill include, in particular, the development of a repository of open course ware from the EIT's and KICs' educational and training activities which is accessible to all.
Amendment 164 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 2 – point 2.3 – paragraph 3
Annex – part 2 – point 2.3 – paragraph 3
The KICs will provide an ideal testing ground for new approaches to funding and management of innovation. The establishment of innovation prizes associated with specific licensing arrangements can accelerate research in areas of key social importance with a view to obtaining precise scientific and technical answers at short notice. Through KICs' experimentation and experience, the EIT will deliver a simplification agenda in key areas such as contractual agreements, simplified reporting, lumps sums and flat rates.
Amendment 170 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 3 – point 3.2 – paragraph 2
Annex – part 3 – point 3.2 – paragraph 2
Moving away from a merely administrator role, the EIT headquarters will optimise their operational functions to steer the KICs to maximum performance and make good results widely available. There are efficiency gains to be achieved from providing a number of centralised services and functions, rather than at individual KIC level. While all KICs work on specific themes, a number of elements are of a cross-cutting nature and it is precisely there where the EIT can provide tangible added value. Such knowledge provider functions can relate notably to the EIT headquarters becoming an information broker and resourceful interlocutor, e.g. in fostering cross-KIC exchange and, transparency, information provision and the development of mutual learning, and facilitating relations with the EU institutions and other key organisations, such as the Organisation for Economic Co- operation and Development (OECD), or. It can thus focus on specific cross-cutting issues, such as counselling on IP rights, competition law, open research, collaborative research, technology and knowledge transfer, benchmarking against international best practices, or undertaking anticipation and foresight studies to identify future directions for the EIT and the KICs. The EIT and KICs should decide together where these tasks can be most effectively dealt with. In this regard, it will be of crucial importance for the EIT and the KICs to establish viable mechanisms for systematic collaboration around cross- cutting issues.
Amendment 189 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Factsheet 1 – part 2 – paragraph 2 – point -1 (new)
Annex – Factsheet 1 – part 2 – paragraph 2 – point -1 (new)
Eco-design
Amendment 197 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Factsheet 4 – part 1 – paragraph 1
Annex – Factsheet 4 – part 1 – paragraph 1
Modern society is totally dependent upon access to raw materials. Access to affordable materials is essential for the effective functioning of the EU economy. However, the triptych of decreasing finite natural resources, an ever increasing human population, and rapidly increasing levels of consumption in the developing world are putting increasing demands on the planets' raw materials and natural resources. These factors are some of those responsible for the predicted increase in natural resource consumption during the next decades.
Amendment 198 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Factsheet 4 – part 1 – paragraph 2
Annex – Factsheet 4 – part 1 – paragraph 2
As highlighted by the Resource-Efficiency Roadmap and Horizon 2020, we should aim to ensure accessibility and, availability and sustainable use of raw materials that is needed for the European economy and for the satisfaction of our well being, whilst achieving a resource efficient economy that meets the needs of a growing population within the ecological limits of a finite planet.
Amendment 199 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Factsheet 4 – part 2 – paragraph 3
Annex – Factsheet 4 – part 2 – paragraph 3
Aligning with other EU activities, a KIC in this area should concentrate on fostering a knowledge hub and centre of expertise on academic, technical and practical education and research in sustainable surface, subsurface and deep-sea mining, urban mining, landfill mining, material management, recycling technologies, material substitution and geopolitical tradopen trade as well as global governance in raw materials. This would act as a broker and clearing house for European centres of excellence on these related topics and manage a research programme of strategic importance to EU industry. For this reason and in order to maximise the impact of the actions and avoid any duplication with EU activities, including the EIP on Raw Materials, the KIC will provide the necessary complement in the areas of human capital (i.e. training, education) for the technology innovative pilot actions (e.g. demonstration plants) for land and marine exploration, extraction and processing, resource efficient use, collection and, recycling and substitution. At the same time it could include targets around becoming a technology pioneer by creating pilot schemes and demonstrators of innovative processes and solutions, involving for example the use of economically attractive and sustainable alternative materials of strategic importance to the EU. It can consequently trigger the expansion of existing markets and creation of new ones, namely in the areas of sustainable extraction and processing, resource efficient materials management, recycling technologies, and materials substitution. It will be necessary to assess impacts and develop innovative, cost- effective adaptation and risk prevention measures for particularly sensitive habitats, such as the Arctic.
Amendment 202 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Factsheet 4 – part 3 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Annex – Factsheet 4 – part 3 – paragraph 2 a (new)
In addition synergies with the European Rare Earth Competency Network set-up for the critical raw materials called rare earths shall be sought. International co- operation in the field of raw materials, such as the EU-Japan-US R&D trilateral on critical raw materials, is also of great importance, as is the work of the International Resource Panel and should be considered in this KIC.
Amendment 203 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Factsheet 4 – part 3 – paragraph 3
Annex – Factsheet 4 – part 3 – paragraph 3
A KIC in this area would beseek complementary toities and synergies with theose activities since it wand should focus on trans- disciplinary activities within the knowledge triangle with a strong focus on innovative products and services and entrepreneurial education.
Amendment 204 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Factsheet 4 – part 4 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Annex – Factsheet 4 – part 4 – paragraph 1 – point 1
· It addresses a major economic and societal relevant challenge Europe is facing (the need to develop innovative solutions for the cost-effective, low carbon and environmentally friendly exploration, extraction, processing, use, re-use and recycling of raw materials), and contribute to the delivery of the Europe 2020 agenda and its objectives on climate and energy, employment, innovation and education.
Amendment 206 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Factsheet 5
Annex – Factsheet 5
Factsheet deleted
Amendment 207 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Factsheet 5 – part 1
Annex – Factsheet 5 – part 1
Amendment 208 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Factsheet 5 – part 1 – paragraph 1
Annex – Factsheet 5 – part 1 – paragraph 1
Amendment 209 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Factsheet 5 – part 1 – paragraph 2
Annex – Factsheet 5 – part 1 – paragraph 2
Amendment 210 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Factsheet 5 – part 2
Annex – Factsheet 5 – part 2
Part 2 deleted
Amendment 211 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Factsheet 5 – part 3
Annex – Factsheet 5 – part 3
Amendment 212 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Factsheet 5 – part 4
Annex – Factsheet 5 – part 4
Amendment 224 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Factsheet 6 a (new)
Annex – Factsheet 6 a (new)
Amendment 225 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Factsheet 6 b (new)
Annex – Factsheet 6 b (new)
Factsheet 8 (new) Sustainable construction and zero-energy buildings The European construction sector is faced with ever growing challenges. Societal developments, such as an aging and growing population, lead to demands for more comfort, better mobility and more safety and security. Moreover, the impact of the construction sector on the environment and sustainable development is significant. Buildings account for 40% of the EU's energy demand. Construction uses more raw materials than any other sector; the creation and operation of the built environment accounts for an important consumption of natural resources.