Activities of Marian HARKIN related to 2015/2006(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Promoting youth entrepreneurship through education and training (A8-0239/2015 - Michaela Šojdrová)
Amendments (7)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas young people benefit immensely from practical entrepreneurial experience, which contributes to their development of skills and talent as well as to new business creation and employability and, boosts innovation in the wider organisations in which they are employed and reduces youth unemployment;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas social and creative businesses contribute to innovative sustainable growth and cohesion within society and local communities, and create employment opportunities for young people, including disadvantaged young people and those furthest from the labour market;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Member States to use existing EU-level funding resources, such as Progress Microfinance, to support initiatives pursuing links with businesses and offering entrepreneurship education to low income young people, school dropouts, young people in danger of long-term unemployment and young people with disabilities;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Member States to use existing EU-level funding resources to support initiatives pursuing links with businesses and offering entrepreneurship education to low income young people, school dropouts, young people in danger of long-term unemployment and young people with disabilities; calls on the EU to make these funds easily accessible and easy to use;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Member States to offer increased access to and availability of micro-scholarships and micro-loans schemes, such as those supported under the Microfinance and Social Entrepreneurship axis of EaSI, to innovative students in secondary and tertiary education respectively in order to start their own ventures or projects;
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Member States to improve the entrepreneurial culture within tertiary education by establishing the conditions to support the creation of new companies by young people based on academic research (spin-offs), reducing the bureaucratic burden involved in establishing such companies and promoting the benefits of commercialising research as well as by strengthening the cooperation between educational institutions and companies, welcomes the initiatives which reward young people for successful business ventures (e.g. The Best Student Company of the Year), further emphasises the importance for companies to provide the possibility for young people to get their first direct in-house work experience and re-iterates the necessity to promote traineeships schemes with such objective;
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Member States to improve the entrepreneurial culture within tertiary education by establishing the conditions to support the creation of new companies based on academic research (spin-offs), reducing the bureaucratic burden involved in establishing such companies and promoting the benefits of commercialising research; recalls the importance of Erasmus+ as a vehicle to promote entrepreneurship through education and training providing young people with the opportunity to study and train abroad as well as supporting institutions and organisations to exchange and innovate good practices and form cross-sector strategic partnerships;