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21 Amendments of Tom VANDENKENDELAERE related to 2017/2259(INI)

Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas education, and intercultural dialogue in particular, have a key role to play in preventing the radicalisation of young people and increasing their resilience;
2018/03/07
Committee: CULT
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
E. whereas young people should be actively involved in the planning, development, implementation, monitoring and assessment of all youth policies impacting young people;
2018/03/07
Committee: CULT
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
F. whereas the 2010-18 EU Youth Strategy (EYS) emphasises the need for a structured dialogue between young people and decision makers;
2018/03/07
Committee: CULT
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
G. whereas young people should be helped and empowered to address the serious problems they are currently facing and to tackle the challenges they will face in the future through more relevant, effective and better coordinated youth policies, improved and accessible education and the targeted use of economic, employment and social policies at local, regional, national and EU levels;
2018/03/07
Committee: CULT
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
H. whereas there is a need to mainstream EU action in the field of youth through the inclusion of a youth dimension in current and future planolicies and funding programmes;
2018/03/07
Committee: CULT
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas there is a need for a coordination of the implementation of the future EYS across different policy sectors and institutions;
2018/03/07
Committee: CULT
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1
Youth challenges and lessons from the current EU youth-related policymaking process
2018/03/07
Committee: CULT
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Acknowledges the positive achievements of the EYS though the development of cross-sector work and the implementation of structured dialogue in order to ensure the participation of young people; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take into account the results of the VI Cycle of the Structured Dialogue that focuses on the future EU Youth Strategy when developing the new strategy;
2018/03/07
Committee: CULT
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Urges the Commission to establish a cross-sectoral working group for coordination of future EYS implementation with participation of EU institutions, including the European Parliament, Member States and civil society, in particular trade unions and youth organisations;
2018/03/07
Committee: CULT
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls on the Commission to set-up effective inter-service coordination tools and to assign the responsibility for youth mainstreaming as a cluster to a vice- president in the European Commission;
2018/03/07
Committee: CULT
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Believes that the EU should express solidarity with young people and continue to empower them to participate in society, primarily by mainstreaming volunteering, supporting youth work and developing new tools; The increased social participation of young people can, apart from being an important achievement in its own right, act as a stepping stone towards increased political participation;
2018/03/07
Committee: CULT
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Strongly urges the Commission and the Member States to encourage young people, including the most disadvantaged, to pursue a participatory approach to life,adopt a participatory approach to policy-making and to create opportunities for young people, in particular those with fewer opportunities, to influence decisions impacting their lives by using online and offline democracyparticipation tools and by involving the relevant stakeholders, such as social partners, civil society and youth organisations, in the development, implementation and assessment of youth policies;
2018/03/07
Committee: CULT
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Expresses the need to continue the structured dialogue between young people and decision-makers under the next European cooperation framework in the field of youth; believes that the structured dialogue process should be systematically reaching out to more and diverse groups of young people, and sufficient financial support for national and European working groups should be provided to ensure it; calls on the Member States to encourage participation of national, regional and local decision-makers in the structured dialogue with young people;
2018/03/07
Committee: CULT
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to encourage regional and local authorities to ensure that young people are able to fully participate and be involved in decision-making, since engagement starts usually at the level that is closest to them and is therefore also a crucial step towards increased European citizenship;
2018/03/07
Committee: CULT
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Welcomes the fact that YEI measures have provided support for more than 1.6 million young people26 ; emphasises the need to improve the quality of offers under the Youth Guarantee; emphasises the need to improve the outreach to young people in NEET situations facing multiple barriers, and therefore furthest removed from the labour market, and the quality of offers under the Youth Guarantee, by defining clear quality criteria and standards including access to social protection, minimum income and employment rights; _________________ 26 http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDo c.do?pubRef=- //EP//NONSGML+REPORT+A8-2017- 0406+0+DOC+PDF+V0//EN
2018/03/07
Committee: CULT
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Recalls that measures that foster the integration of NEETsyoung people not in employment, education or training into the labour market, including paid internships, traineeships or apprenticeships, must be financially supported by the YEI, but should not be used as a way to substitute employment;
2018/03/07
Committee: CULT
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Strongly believes that quality formal and non-formal education and quality training is a fundamental right; considers, therefore, that access to quality formal and non-formal education should be guaranteed for all Europeans, regardless of socioeconomic status, ethnicity or gender; underlines the important role played by education in providing young people with the knowledge and skills to become committed citizens and take part in the European project;
2018/03/07
Committee: CULT
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Emphasises that youth organisations play a crucial role for young peoples’ participation and inclusion in society; Therefore calls on the Member States to support youth organisations and recognise their role as providers of competences development and social inclusion, and support the establishment of youth councils on all levels, working together with young people;
2018/03/07
Committee: CULT
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 c (new)
23c. Stresses the importance of non- formal and informal learning, and quality youth work development as it is essential for the development of a society based on social justice and equal opportunities, and contribute to development of citizenship skills and individual fulfilment;
2018/03/07
Committee: CULT
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 d (new)
23d. Calls on the Member States to continue efforts to implement a national recognition and validation system for competences acquired through non- formal education activities, recalling the Council recommendation of 20 December 2012 on the validation of non-formal and informal learning;
2018/03/07
Committee: CULT
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
30. Stresses that the YEI budget is not sufficient to ensure that the programme reaches its targets; calls, therefore, for a significant increase in the YEI allocation under the next MFFthe YEI allocation to be at least doubled in the next MFF, to support a better, large-scale, and fmor thee efficient implementation of the Youth Guarantee; urges Member States to make provisions for youth employment schemes in their national budgets;
2018/03/07
Committee: CULT