11 Amendments of Sabine VERHEYEN related to 2015/2006(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas youth entrepreneurship needs to be an important integral part of the political strategy to support today’s youth generation in terms of EU goals for growth and employment and to reduce youth unemployment in the EU;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas in manycertain Member States business start-ups (of all types, including social entrepreneurship or business for personal profit) are not sufficiently recognised or included as a career path, and there is little support for aspiring entrepreneurs within the educational system;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas entrepreneurship spirit and skills can be acquired, learned and developed by every individual, and each level of education corresponds to a specific window of opportunity for building certain skills and capacities for entrepreneurship, and the imparting and development of skills and capacities for entrepreneurship should be an integral part of the education programme;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O a (new)
Recital O a (new)
Oa. whereas chambers of handicrafts, industry and commerce offer targeted programmes in some Member States to support business startups;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P
Recital P
P. whereas education and training are mainly national competencies and mostsome Member States have yet to develop a cross- cutting policy or a strategic approach to entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial curricula and teaching methods; whereas not all teachers and education leaders in Europe are not sufficiently trained in entrepreneurship education, either through continuous professional development or through their initial training, which has a negativemight have an impact on the potential for entrepreneurship to becomeing sufficiently embedded in education systems1; __________________ 1 Budapest and Istanbul European Training Foundation symposium conclusions.
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital T
Recital T
T. whereas the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs programme (2009-2015) and other similar programmes enable young entrepreneurs to take part in cross-border exchanges and to learn from experienced entrepreneurs running small businesses;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital U
Recital U
U. whereas younger people are more inclined to express a preference for self- employment and as many as 45 % of young people aged 15-24 say they would prefer to be self- employed2 ; __________________ 2 Commission Eurobarometer FL354 ‘Entrepreneurship in the EU and beyond’, 9 January 2013.
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses that dual training and company-sponsored study programmes have proved to be key in imparting the core competences of companies in those Member States where such programmes operate;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Stresses that a close link between company training and mainstream education is a successful model which should be strengthened and promoted throughout Europe and beyond;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Council and the Commission, within their respective competences, to develop methodological support and tools for national education systems in the area of entrepreneurship education and training and to follow a coordinated approach calling on the Member States’ public administrations to cooperate more closely with companies in order to disseminate the key factors needed to improve entrepreneurship;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the Commission to coordinate and promote the exchange of best practices between Member States;