14 Amendments of Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO related to 2015/2327(INI)
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Regrets that growing inequality within and between Member States, and the high youth unemployment rate in the EU, particularly in southern European countries, are making access to the programme difficult as they create barriers to mobility for applicants from regions with a lower income that have been more heavily hit by the economic crisis and the cuts;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Considers that having more widely available and accessible programmes with fewer bureaucratic obstacles may help promote equal access by beneficiaries in the various Member States;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, including EU agencies such as Cedefop, to improve the quality, accessibility and equality of access to VET mobility programmes so that they deliver added value for all participants as regards qualification, recognition and content, and to ensure that quality standards are introduced for apprenticeship programmes;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 f (new)
Paragraph 1 f (new)
1f. Notes that owing to be being difficult to obtain information on the programmes, Erasmus+ is viewed by younger members of the population as a higher education programme, and in the end this discourages students; calls on the Commission and the Member States to renew efforts to simplify the programme’s contents and terms and conditions and make them more accessible; maintains that information on this programme has to be provided in all the official and co- official languages of the European Union in order to encourage greater involvement;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Reminds the Commission that people with disabilities have special needs and therefore need access to greater information and a reasonable grant so they are able to enter the Erasmus+ programme and the mobility programmes; calls on the Commission to continue its work on introducing further measures to remove barriers and prevent discrimination in regard to access to the programmes;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Notes that in the implementation of the VET system and VET mobility, there are repeated instances in different countries of VET programme participants being used for tasks and competences expected of an employee but not suitable for a student in a traineeship, of the line drawn between working hours and study being breached, or of irregularities in regard to the payment terms laid down in the programme; calls on the Commission and the Member States, as well as the social partners, to improve monitoring of these programmes and report situations where conditions concerning the beneficiary’s tasks are infringed;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Points out that traineeship systems, VET and VET mobility are systems expected to result in beneficiaries’ personal and professional development and ought to be considered as an apprenticeship system, and that in no instance should the competences attributed to beneficiaries be replaced by those proper to an employee;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 e (new)
Paragraph 2 e (new)
2e. Advocates that a green paper on vocational education, traineeships and mobility, as well as the recognition of skills and competences in Europe, be drawn up in cooperation with the main social partners and youth organisations; said green paper ought to establish ethical criteria for competences in VET and traineeship systems;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 g (new)
Paragraph 2 g (new)
2g. Notes that the funds set aside for Erasmus+ and VET are not proportional to the number of needs of potential applicants for the mobility programmes on offer; asks that the Commission and the Member States raise the funding for budget lines for mobility programmes and VET mobility;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 h (new)
Paragraph 2 h (new)
2h. Considers it unacceptable that students have to take out bank loans in order to take part in Erasmus+ mobility programmes; considers that indebtedness during a training period has a negative effect on entry onto the job market; asks that systems be established for accessible, inclusive and widely available grants so that no student is excluded on account of not having sufficient income to cope with a mobility programme;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to tackle the significant number of examples of fraudulent use of the traineeship system by reviewing, assessment and monitoring the goals of the European Education and Training 2020 Strategy; maintains that said goals need to be reviewed in order to step up protection for students on traineeships; points out that continuous development programmes should be given a central role in mobility programmes as a way of updating professional skills and competences;
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses the need to recognise the skills and competences acquired through non-formal and informal apprenticeships, these being useful qualifications when acquiring skills for a trade; calls on the Commission and the Member States to validate and recognise the various kinds of non-formal and informal apprenticeships; considers that ‘Youthpass’ should be made a worthwhile addition to the curriculum vitae so that it may be taken into account as training and counted as work for the purposes of unemployment allowances;
Amendment 109 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls on the Member States to improve implementation of the European Qualifications Framework (2008/C111/01) and remove existing obstacles; calls on the Commission, Parliament and the Council to strengthen this tool so that the current recommendation may become an instrument with a stronger legal basis;
Amendment 117 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Points to the need for the Commission to provide up-to-date statistics and conduct follow-up studies on Erasmus+ and the VET mobility programmes, in order to be able to measure their impact and how they may potentially be improved, as well as to know in which countries there are the highest number of applications, the gender gap is greatest or there are more disabled applicants; calls on national agencies in Member States to work closely on the exchange of information and statistics; maintains that the results of the studies and statistics need to be included and taken into consideration in the next Erasmus+ review;