15 Amendments of Nicolas BAY related to 2016/2147(INI)
Amendment 6 #
B. whereas, in negotiating H2020 and the current Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), Parliament asked for EUR100 billion euros rather than the EUR 77 billion agreed and the budget seems very limited if H2020 is to fully explore excellence potential;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the economic and financial crisis was a determining factor in the design of H2020, and new current challenges (such as peopulism, inequalities, migration andles’ growing rejection of the EU, the wave of migration sweeping across the European countries and Islamic terrorism) and new political and economic paradigms are likely to shape the next research programme;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the Framework Programme (FP) must be founded on European values, scientific independence, openness, diversity, high European ethical standards, social cohesion and equal access by citizens to the solutions and answers it provides;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the evaluation of FP7 and monitoring of H2020 shows that the EU FP for research is a hugrelative success15; _________________ 15 With over 130 000 proposals received, 9 000 grants signed, 50 000 participations and EUR 15.9 billion of EU funding.
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Emphasises the importance of basic research, which should not be neglected in favour of the applied sciences; points out that science should benefit everyone and that basic research is essential and paves the way for future discoveries which could have practical applications; stresses that an overly commercial approach to research would stifle creativity by preventing the launch or financing of projects, which could turn out to be invaluable;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Underlines that several Member States are not respecting their national R&D investment commitments; calls for the earmarking of Structural Funds for R&D activities, especially investments in capacity building, infrastructure and salaries, asks that the 3 % of GDP target be met, and hopes that this can be raised to 4 % in the not too distant future;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Confirms that ‘excellence’ should remain the key criterion across the three pillars, while noting that it is only one of the three evaluation criteria, alongside ‘impact’ and ‘quality and efficiency of the implementation’; calls for the reweighting of these criteria and invites the Commission to set out additional sub- criteria by adding ‘SSH integration and geographical balance’ under ‘impact’ and ‘project size’ under ‘efficiency of the implementation’;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Recognises the importance of incorporating research and entrepreneurship skills into Member States’ primary and high school education systems in order to encourage young people to develop these skills, as R&D should be viewed in structural rather than cyclical or temporal terms; calls on the Member States and the Commission to enhance employment stability for young researchers; calls on the CommissionMember States to provide new increased levels of support for young researchers, such as a new funding scheme for early- stage researchers with less than three years of experience after PhD completion;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Welcomes the Open Science pilot funding as a first step towards an Open Science Cloud; recognises the relevance of e- infrastructures and supercomputing, the need for public and private sector stakeholders and civil society to be involved and the importance of citizen science in ensuring that society plays a more active part in the definition of the problems; calls for a scientific metadata structure and procedures for the generation of such data in order to feed the European OSC and ensure data exploitation; calls on the Commission and the public and private research community to explore new models that integrate private cloud resources and public e-infrastructures and the launch of citizen agendas in science and innovation;
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Welcomes the success of H2020 and the 1:11 leverage factor; notes the oversubscription and the challenges that lie ahead, and calls for a budgetary increase of EUR 100 billion for FP9;
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
Amendment 317 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to look for a solution to the research deficiencies facing convergence regions in some Member States, in application of the principle of additionality; regrets that financial allocations from the Structural and Investment Funds can lead to a reduction in national expenditure in regions where they apply, but insists that these must be additional to national public expenditure; calls also on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that investment in R&D is not accounted for as investment in relation to deficit objectives;
Amendment 351 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32