Activities of Robert ROOS related to 2019/0151(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Establishing Horizon Europe – laying down its rules for participation and dissemination - Specific Programme implementing Horizon Europe – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation - European Institute of Innovation and Technology - Strategic Innovation Agenda of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (recast)
Amendments (30)
Amendment 105 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) The EIT, primarily through its Knowledge and Innovation Communities (‘KICs’), should aim at strengthening innovation ecosystems that tackle global challenges including unexpected crisis having impact on the innovation triangle. It should primarily have the objective of contributing to the development of the Union’s and the Member States’ innovation capacity at the highest standards. In order to achieve this objective, the EIT should facilitate and enhance networking and cooperation and create synergies between different innovation communities in Europe, while keeping excellence its prior criterion.
Amendment 108 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4 a (new)
Recital 4 a (new)
(4 a) The unstable situation linked with the spread of COVID-19 had an enormous impact on the economy and therefore it is important to identify challenging effects on universities, researchers, companies and other stakeholders in order to safeguard the knowledge triangle and rebuild the trust and confidence between all actors. In these circumstances, it is necessary that the EIT prepare a two-year crisis programme in which priorities will be shaped in response of the needs set by each KIC to overcome the COVID-19 crisis and to adapt to the post-crisis period.
Amendment 110 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) The strategic priority fields and financial needs for the EIT for a period of seven years , covering the respective Multiannual Financial Framework (‘MFF’), should be laid down in a Strategic Innovation Agenda ( ‘SIA’). The SIA should ensure alignment with the Union framework programme supporting research and innovation, while the first two years should be dedicated to the crisis programme in response to the COVID-19 crisis. The SIA should ensure alignment with the Horizon Europe , namely strategic R&I plans, and foster synergies with other relevant Union programmes of the MFF as well as with other Union initiatives, policies and instruments, in particular with those supporting education and regional development. Given the importance of the SIA for the Union innovation policy and the resulting political significance of its socio-economic impact for the Union, the SIA should be adopted by the European Parliament and the Council on the basis of a Commission proposal based on a contribution provided by the EIT.
Amendment 114 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 a (new)
Recital 5 a (new)
(5 a) The crisis resulting from the outbreak of COVID-19 has caused a massive and disruptive impact on Member States' health and economic systems, causing societal disruptions. Those impacts will require the collaboration of all Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and the EIT should contribute to the innovation efforts that are needed to provide a coherent response to the crisis. Moreover, the EIT and its KICs should reinforce its actions in order to support and increase the resilience of microenterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises, start-ups as well as students, researchers, entrepreneurs and employees.
Amendment 115 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 b (new)
Recital 5 b (new)
(5 b) Ongoing research into tackling the effects of the COVID-19 crisis should be accelerated. The EIT should boost the impact of that research and help develop products and innovative services arising from that research, ensuring that they reach as many people as possible.
Amendment 116 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 c (new)
Recital 5 c (new)
(5 c) The EIT Governing Board and the KICs shall adopt flexibility measures and actions necessary to provide the appropriate support to their ecosystem based on the knowledge triangle, creating, where necessary, ad hoc support measures for their partners and beneficiaries and even beyond their communities. They shall provide their partners, their beneficiaries and students with tools and instruments to adapt to more decentralised and remote working methods, less travel, more uncertainty and continued social distancing.
Amendment 128 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) Taking into account the specificity of KICs, it is necessary to provide for special minimum conditions to form a KIC,. Those conditions may, on an exceptional basis derogatinge from the rules for participation and dissemination of the UnionHorizon Europe framework programme supporting research and innovation. Similarly, specific rules on ownership, access rights, exploitation and dissemination may be necessary for KIC added-value activities.
Amendment 130 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) Taking into account the specificity of KICs, it is necessary to provide for special minimum conditions to form a KIC,. Those conditions may derogatinge from the rules for participation and dissemination of the Union framework programme supporting research and innovation. Similarly,Horizon Europe. Similarly, a derogation from those specific rules on ownership, access rights, exploitation and dissemination may beis necessary for KIC added- value activities.
Amendment 133 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) The Governing Board should also steer the activities of the EIT and coordinate the reporting, monitoring and evaluation of the activities of the KICs in line with the provisions of the Union framework programme supporting research and innovation Horizon Europe. The EIT Governing Board should also advise the EIT on how to reduce the administrative burden on KICs. Membership of the Governing Board should balance experience from the business and the higher education and/or research worlds as well as from the innovation sector.
Amendment 139 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) There is a need to support higher education as an integral, but often missing, component of a comprehensive innovation strategy. The framework partnership agreements or grant agreements between the EIT and KICs should provide that the degrees and diplomas awarded through the KICs should be awarded by participating higher education institutions, which should be encouraged to label them also as EIT degrees and diplomas. In addition, the EIT should strengthen and widen the scope ofEIT should however phase out separate EIT education programs with the EIT- labelled degrees and diplomas in order to increase their recognition outside the EIT Community. Through its activities and work, the EIT should help promote mobility for students, researchers and staff . All those activities should be carried out without prejudice to Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council13 . _________________ 13Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on the recognition of professional qualifications (OJ L 255, 30.9.2005, p. 22). Directive as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1430/2007 (OJ L 320, 6.12.2007, p. 3) and focus on training and education within the knowledge triangle.
Amendment 145 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) It is expected that the COVID-19 crisis will have an impact on the financial contributions from industry, the finance and service sectors will contribute significantly to the budget of the KICs. TNevertheless, the KICs should aim at maximising the share of contributions from the private sector and achieving financial sustainability . The KICs and their partner organisations should publicise the fact that their activities are undertaken in the context of the EIT and that they receive a financial contribution from the general budget of the Union.
Amendment 150 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) The EIT should produce a consolidated annual activity report, outlining the activities conducted and results of the operations in the preceding calendar year . The EIT should also produce a single programming document, outlining its planned initiatives in terms of annual and multiannual programming and allowing the EIT to respond to internal and external developments in the fields of science, technology, higher education, innovation and other relevant areas. That single programming document should address the aspects of the two-year crisis programme.
Amendment 167 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
(2 a) 'crisis programme’ means a two- year period during which the EIT shapes its prorities in response to the needs set by each KIC to overcome the COVID-19 crisis and adapts to the postcrisis period;
Amendment 187 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 12
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 12
Amendment 202 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
1. The SIA shall define the priority fields and strategy for the EIT for the seven-year period concerned, while the first two years shall be dedicated to the crisis programme, taking into account the Union framework programme supporting research and innovationHorizon Europe, namely the strategic R&I plans, and shall include an assessment of its socioeconomic impact and its capacity to generate the best innovation added-value. The SIA shall take into account the results of the monitoring and evaluation of the EIT as referred to in Article 19.
Amendment 210 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 3
Article 4 – paragraph 3
3. The SIA shall include an estimate of financial needs and sources in view of the future operation, long-term development and funding of the EIT, including the financial estimates necessary to cover the crisis programme. It shall also contain an indicative financial plan covering the period of the respective MFF .
Amendment 218 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. The Member States' Representatives Group shall be composed of one representative from each Member State and one representative from each associated country. It shall give advice to the Governing Board and the Director on strategically important issues.
Amendment 223 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
(a a) present a two-year crisis programme in cooperation with the KICs;
Amendment 233 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point e
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) strengthen the recognition outside the EIT Community of degrees and diplomas which are awarded by participating higher education institutions and which may be labelled EIT degrees and diplomas and extend them to lifelong learning programmes phasing out out separate EIT education programs with the EIT label and focus on training and education by the KICs within the knowledge triangle;
Amendment 237 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point g
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point g
(g) foster excellence in higher education, research and innovation , in particular by promoting the KICs as excellent innovation partners and by supporting them in the development of a effective financial sustainability strategy for the mobilisation of funds from other public and private sources;
Amendment 242 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point i b (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point i b (new)
(i b) ensure that KICs can operate with the necessary flexibility to adapt their operations to the increasing demands arising from the COVID-19 crisis;
Amendment 244 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point k
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point k
(k) organise meetings of a Member States’ Representatives Group, at least twice a year, independently from the meetings of the Stakeholder Forum, to ensure appropriate communication and flow of information with the EIT, and be informed of the achievements of, give advice to, and share experiences with, the EIT and the KICs. The Member States’ Representatives Group shall also ensure appropriate synergies and complementarities between EIT and KIC activities with national programmes and initiatives, including the potential national co-financing of KIC activities, also assisting, to that end, the KICs in liaising with the Programme Committee established by Article 12 of the Council Decision on establishing the specific programme implementing Horizon Europe.;
Amendment 250 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point l
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point l
(l) design and coordinate support actions undertaken by the KICs for the development of entrepreneurial and innovation capacity of higher education institutions and their integration in innovation ecosystems. in line with the knowledge triangle approach;
Amendment 280 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
(d a) elaborate a two-year strategic plan detailing initiatives envisaged to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 crisis, while paying specific attention to actions aiming to increase the resilience of microenterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises and start-ups, but also of the students, researchers and employees;
Amendment 282 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point d b (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point d b (new)
(d b) in synergy with other Union innovation strands and other Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and in order to respond to the European recovery plan, publish dedicated calls, promote initiatives using their partnerships, ecosystems and communities, develop individual and cross-KIC projects to support business restructuring, and identify microenterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises, start-ups and other stakeholders that need support and for example a better access to finance;
Amendment 283 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point d c (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point d c (new)
(d c) propose initiatives aiming to support their ecosystem based on the knowledge triangle, while at the same time being flexible enough to create measures that are fit for purpose for their partners and beneficiaries and beyond their existing communities;
Amendment 294 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) specific rules on ownership, access rights, exploitation and dissemination may apply for KIC added-value activities, where appropriate.
Amendment 320 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12
Article 12
Amendment 329 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 7
Article 17 – paragraph 7
7. The EIT shall establish a competitive and performance-based allocation mechanism for granting an appropriate share of its financial contribution to the KICs. It shall include assessing the KICs’ business plans and performance as measured by continuous monitoring , and in particular their progress in achieving financial sustainability , the KIC’s openness to new members, their dissemination strategies and their geographical spread, as well as the performance of those business plans as measured by continuous monitoring , and in particular their progress in achieving financial sustainability. Particular attention shall be paid to actions put in place to mitigate the effects of theCOVID- 19 crisis and to the development of innovative ideas.
Amendment 336 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
Article 18 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
(b a) aspects of the two-year crisis programme;