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Activities of Alexis GEORGOULIS related to 2019/2194(INI)

Plenary speeches (1)

Achieving an effective policy legacy for the European Year of Cultural Heritage (debate)
2021/01/18
Dossiers: 2019/2194(INI)

Shadow reports (1)

REPORT on achieving an effective policy legacy for the European Year of Cultural Heritage
2020/11/04
Committee: CULT
Dossiers: 2019/2194(INI)
Documents: PDF(195 KB) DOC(70 KB)
Authors: [{'name': 'Dace MELBĀRDE', 'mepid': 130256}]

Amendments (18)

Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses the need that more funds need to be allocated for sustainability of Culture and the EYCH, especially after the pandemic, since large sectors of the tourism industry are focused on Cultural Tourism;
2020/04/27
Committee: CULT
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Acknowledges the need to intensify the courses regarding EU History and Common Cultural Heritage;
2020/04/27
Committee: CULT
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Notices that Museums that are directly or indirectly connected to Cultural Heritage should provide free access to all citizens, both in terms of physical presence but also digitally;
2020/04/27
Committee: CULT
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Stresses the need to provide digital education tools to the citizens for free in order to strengthen the sense of EU Cultural Heritage;
2020/04/27
Committee: CULT
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1e. Acknowledges the need to support financially skilled craftspeople, restoration professionals and heritage experts, which is putting European heritage at risk;
2020/04/27
Committee: CULT
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 f (new)
1f. Stresses that these digital cultural tools should be provided to the citizens free of charge;
2020/04/27
Committee: CULT
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 g (new)
1g. Acknowledges the need to Protect jobs related with the Cultural Heritage sector despite the digitization of several services,
2020/04/27
Committee: CULT
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 h (new)
1h. Emphasises that in order to promote sustainability, it is recommended to make further efforts to encourage travel to less well-known and popular destinations, rural areas and low-season travel;
2020/04/27
Committee: CULT
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 i (new)
1i. Reiterates that the illicit trafficking of cultural artefacts is a serious crime with a global dimension that requires coordinated action not only among Member States, but also at international level;
2020/04/27
Committee: CULT
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the importance of all types of education – formal, non-formal and informal – relating to history and cultural heritage, at all ages; reiterates the significance of including art, music, film and theatre, design and architecture in school curricula; calls the Commission to fully integrate these fields in its strategy towards a European Education Area;
2020/04/27
Committee: CULT
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Highlights the role digital education can play in enabling learning about and through cultural heritage; notes the need to develop high-quality e-learning initiatives in order to make learning about cultural heritage more accessible and enhance heritage-related skills across Europe; stresses that the field of cultural heritage was not included in the Digital Education Plan;
2020/04/27
Committee: CULT
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Reiterates the need to improve socio-economic and labour conditions and gender balance and to promote mobility opportunities for different specialists employed in the cultural heritage sector; stresses that, for mobility programmes to be successful, it is necessary that the certifications, issued by Member States, regarding the skills acquired by the professionals working on the cultural heritage sector, should be valid across the European Union; calls the Commission to coordinate with Member States to facilitate the recognition of such certificates at European level; is highly concerned about the systemic exclusions that people with disabilities face as regards both the access to the cultural heritage and the respective labour market and calls the Commission to increase its efforts in fighting this problem;
2020/04/27
Committee: CULT
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Reiterates the strong correlation between cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible, tourism and sustainable development;
2020/04/27
Committee: CULT
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Underlines the need to continue and strengthen the awareness-raising efforts on the value of cultural heritage for Europe, as well as continue reaching out to citizens and stakeholders at the local level;
2020/04/27
Committee: CULT
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)
21b. Highlights the ned to find an adequate formula for a more permanent cooperation and co-ordination platform on cultural heritage policies at EU level that would effectively cooperate with the civil society and the sector representatives;
2020/04/27
Committee: CULT
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 c (new)
21c. Reiterates the need sustain and increase EU funding directly or indirectly related to cultural heritage in the future and urges the Commission to increase the values and cohesion budget line in the next MFF;
2020/04/27
Committee: CULT
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 d (new)
21d. Notes the tremendous impact that the COVID-19 had on the cultural and creative sectors; notes with appreciation initiatives by many governments and cultural associations deploying emergency measures to supports the CCSs and design compensation measures, reorganise funding and keep the cultural creation alive; urges from the Commission to offer financial aid to the Cultural and Creative Sectors and the whole cultural ecosystem, including through the Corona Response Investment Initiative and construct supportive measures that would alleviate the impact; urges all Member states to ensure access to unemployment and other social benefits for all cultural professionals, with particular attention to freelancers, self-employed and others in atypical forms of work and grant them compensation for the discontinuation of income;
2020/04/27
Committee: CULT
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 e (new)
21e. Highlights the fact that pan- European or European cultural events and festivals with periodicity and the view to reignite and raise awareness on the significance of European culture present an added value to untap the potential of cultural heritage; urges the Commission to consider financing such initiatives;
2020/04/27
Committee: CULT