2 Amendments of Maria da Graça CARVALHO related to 2011/0276(COD)
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) The Commission should adopt by delegated act a Common Strategic Framework which translates the objectives of the Union into key actions for the CSF Funds, in order to provide clearer strategic direction to the programming process at the level of Member States and regions. The Common Strategic Framework should facilitate sectoral and territorial coordination of Union intervention under the CSF Funds and with other relevant Union policies and instruments. ; takes the view that Structural Funds should be deployed to their full extent to support capacity building in the regions through dedicated activities aimed at founding centres of excellences, modernising universities, purchase of scientific equipment, local technology transfer, support to start-ups and spin-offs, and local interaction between industry and academia; believes that this will allow a stairway of excellence to be developed, leading these regions to fully participate in the Horizon 2020, based on quality and excellence; downstream from Horizon 2020, the structural funds could be used to finance or co-finance the follow up to Horizon 2020 research projects and to valorise research results in such a way as to encourage easy access to knowledge or to facilitate the deployment of the resulting knowledge in terms of its direct economic or societal use;
Amendment 239 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 3 – Article 110 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point f a (new)
Part 3 – Article 110 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point f a (new)
(f a) Recommends that the Commission analyse the possibility of set ting up am all-European common fund financed by the structural funds to promote collaborative European research;