9 Amendments of Martina MICHELS related to 2016/2271(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
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1. Recalls that, with some 40 % of EU workers lacking adequate digital skills, the Union faces a digital skills gap; takes note of the Commission’s recent Communications on ‘Digitising European industry’ and ‘A New Skills Agenda for Europe’ as a first step in the right direction with regard to improving digital skills;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
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1. Recalls that, with some 40 % of EU workers lacking adequate digital skills, the Union faces a digital skills gap; takes note of the Commission’s recent Communications on ‘Digitising European industry’ and ‘A New Skills Agenda for Europe’ as a first stepstarting point in the right direction with regard to improving digital skills;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
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1a. Calls on the Commission to take under consideration, in the context of the 'New Skills Agenda for Europe', that teaching digital skills have to go beyond the methodological 'know-how' or technological innovations and leading skills; expects from the Commission to support that digitisation is a complex process for the society as a whole in terms of democratic and communicative procedures, with special regards to education;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
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1b. Underlines that sustainable digitisation includes the teaching of technological skills along with the knowledge of basic democratic principles, focusing on net neutrality, data protection, modern copyright law and knowledge on a new legal framework for modern technologies (e.g. cloud computing, apps, autonomous systems);
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
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1c. Calls on the Commission, in addition to the trade unions, to include consumer protection organisations, data protection initiatives and other civil society organisations of the digital society in the comprehensive dialogue on the digitising European industry;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
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2. Calls on the Commission to place digital skills at the heart of its upcoming revision of the Key Competences Framework; encourages the Member States to further develop primary, secondary and tertiary education curricula, as well as vocational training programmes, to meet the needs of an increasingly digital labour market and a digitally mediated democracy, which can be based on open access, open source and socially, ecologically produced hardware; emphasises the need for proper teacher training;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
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3. Believes that basic digital skills – taught as part of primary and secondary education curricula – should encompass safe internet behaviour and awareness- raising about rights onlinein education and training curricula – should encompass data protection and data parsimony, safe internet network architecture behaviour and awareness- raising about intellectual property and online rights as well as the need for their reforms;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
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5. Highlights the considerable disparity across Member States in terms of digitisation and digital skills; considers that promoting best practice exchange and dialogue can bridge that gap; highlights the potential of the Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs in this respect if it needs an addition with a coalition for Digital democracy;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
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5a. Stresses that special support of 'analogue' multilingualism in Europe is equally beneficial for the digitising European industry, as well as for teaching of comprehensive digital skills; stresses therefore that a massive support of the basic research for statistical, intelligent and machine-supported translation and learning software needs more attention;