17 Amendments of Dominique BILDE related to 2015/2006(INI)
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas entrepreneurship and in particular small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), since they account for 70% of jobs created and 99% of enterprises in the EU, are the backbone of the EU economy and represent the most important source of new employment;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas in many Member States business start-ups (of all types, including social entrepreneurship or business for personal profit) are not recognised or included as a career path, and there is little support for aspiring entrepreneurs within the educational system, and business start- up aid schemes are still far too complex for many future entrepreneurs;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas training to develop an entrepreneurial mindset enhances a young person’s employability;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas education as a whole is of primordial importance with regard to each individual’s personal development, and therefore has to be both sufficiently broad in order to lay foundations for lifelong development and deepening of knowledge and skills, and sufficiently practical, thus allowing individuals to have real careers and a valuable professional and private life, and whereas the learning of basic skills from primary school should nevertheless be improved in order to enable each young person to have a solid foundation for the continuation of his or her studies;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas entrepreneurship spirit and skills can be acquired, learned and developed by every individual, and each level of education corresponds to a specific window of opportunity for building certain skills and capacities for entrepreneurship, and measures should be taken in particular to encourage apprenticeships/alternance schemes;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas underrepresented and disadvantaged groupsthe weakest need special attention and to be given help in order to start, run or grow a business or enterprise;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q
Recital Q
Q. whereas national education systems have been evolving at different paces in reaction to changes on the labour market and education systems should be adapted to the realities of the society of today and tomorrow;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital R
Recital R
R. whereas the Erasmus+ programme, which runs from 2014 to 2020, aims to modernise education, training and youth work across Europe and is open to education, training, youth and sport organisations across all sectors of lifelong learning and will provide opportunities for over 4 million Europeans to study, train, gain work experience and volunteer abroad; whereas this programme should be supported and improved so as to genuinely promote exchanges between Erasmus students and local students;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital W
Recital W
W. whereas considerablean important contributions are is made by civil society organisations (non-governmental groups such as trade unions, employers’ associations, among them the Junior Achievement – Young Enterprise Europe initiative, to initiate young people into economic life and other social groups), among them the Junior Achievement – Young Enterprise Europe initiativ world of business by making them undertake tasks specific to the enterprise;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Is convinced that the next step needed is to specifypropose in detail how the key competence framework can be developed and applied appropriately at each level of education, by setting standards for the entrepreneurship skills and competences which should be the outcome of each specific educational and apprenticeship programme;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to increase the focus on improving entrepreneurship skills within the Erasmus+ programme and to promote education policy reforms in Member States in this regardsupport those Member States that wish to carry out reforms of their education policy;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission to create a European Entrepreneurship Education Network to gather together and make available good practice to be shared by schools, organisations, businesses, authorities, associations and other stakeholders at European, national and local levels;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission to provide more effective coordination and leadership in the area of entrepreneurship education in the context of the EU’s global strategies and the Juncker Commission’s plan;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 – point iii
Paragraph 11 – point iii
(iii) promotion of links between schools and enterprises in order to provide students with practical experience and models and know-how that can be used in practice,
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 – point iv
Paragraph 11 – point iv
(iv) development of skills in the areas of entrepreneurial processes, financial literacymanagement, ICT literacy and skills, problem solving and an innovative mindset;
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to submit an evaluation report to Parliament by the end ofhalf way through its term on the progress achieved in promoting youth entrepreneurship through education and training;