10 Amendments of Silvia COSTA related to 2009/2221(INI)
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas young people often face discrimination on the grounds of their age when entering the labour market; whereas young women are more likely to face unemployment and poverty, or to be engaged in casual or undeclared employment, than young men,
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Invites Member States to create efficient incentives and suitable forms of technical assistance for public and private employers to hire young people, to invest in job creation for young people and to support entrepreneurship and professional self-employment, including in a cooperative form, among youth;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to promote and support – taking into account the beneficial national partnerships run between schools, universities, enterprises and the social partners – pilot projects in the new strategic development sectors which provide suitable scientific, technological and employment-oriented training for young people, and especially women, in order to promote innovation and competitiveness within enterprises, using study grants, higher education-level apprenticeships and non-atypical employment contracts for that purpose;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to expand financial capacity for the European Social Fund, to earmark a minimum of 10 % of this fund for projects targeting young people, and specifically young women, and to ease access to the fund; urges the Member States to improve their targeting of youth;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States to intensify efforts to reduce early school leaving in order to achieve the Lisbon goal of no more than 10 % of early school leavers by 2012; invites the Member States to make use of a wide range of measures to fight early school leaving, e.g. lowering the number of students in each class, introducing mentors at all schools, establishing an immediate follow up of early school leavers; points to Finland, which has succeeded in reducing the number of early school leavers and to other effective models for the integration of education and vocational training, so that the need for mandatory schooling is fulfilled while, at the same time, a qualification is acquired; invites the Commission to coordinate a project on best practices;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Invites the Member States to strengthen their systems for educational guidance at the primary to secondary school stage, in order to help young people and their families select education and training channels that effectively correspond to actual aptitudes, abilities and aspirations, thereby reducing the risk of drop-out and failure;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Urges the Commission to revise the flexicurity strategy in order to place transition security at the top of the agenda while creating mobility and easier access for young people; underlines that flexibility without social security is not a sustainable way of combating the problems young people face on the labour market, which for young women chiefly relate to their being unable to exercise the right to motherhood and to combine family life and work;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 – point c
Paragraph 12 – point c
c. effective active labour-market and workfare policies that focus on skills and inclusion,
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Member States to provide for initiatives apt to ensure that young immigrants can learn the language of their host country, that the qualifications they have acquired in their home country are recognised and that they have access to key skills, thereby enabling their social integration and participation in the labour market;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls for new binding youth benchmarks; invites the Commission to evaluate existing youth benchmarks and the Youth Guarantee every year in order to deliver results and progress based on statistical information that is better disaggregated and broken down, especially by gender and age group;