Activities of Teresa RIERA MADURELL related to 2011/2043(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Seventh EU programme for research, technological development and demonstration (debate)
Amendments (14)
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Considers that in order to increase the human resources dedicated to research and innovation in Europe, it is necessary to make professional careers in this field more attractive by eliminating administrative barriers and recognising merit and training time and work at any research centre; to this end, calls on the European Institutions to establish the criteria in order for universities or centres dedicated to research to implement a system which evaluates the researches' excellence and career;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Supports, within the framework of the ‘People’ chapter, the Marie Curie Actions, which are of great value to researchers in their career; however believes that within the Marie Currie Actions there is room for simplification within the number of actions; regrets the move of the Marie Currie Actions from DG Research to DG Education and Culture since doctoral and postdoctoral training might be regarded as an educational rather than a professional activity and thus further hinder the objective to make research careers more attractive to young researchers;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Considers that the ERA-Net scheme should be strengthened as a tool to support excellence and the development of criteria for quality indicators which constitutes the basis for the coordination between programmes or joint ventures; for this reason, believes that incentives should be given to programmes and joint projects which apply selection criteria based on the merit of the researchers and the quality of its scientific results;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Believes that, based on the European added value an open and excellence-based access to Research Infrastructures needs to be enhanced during the coming stages of FP7;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Acknowledges that ‘Joint Technological Initiatives’ (JTIs) assist the competitiveness of European industry; regrets, however,, underlying that selected industrial research actions through PPPs should not lead to the outsourcing of public funding; regrets the legal and administrative obstacles (legal personality, intellectual property, financial rules) and also the high operating costs specific to start-up of JTIs; stresses the need to review their status as a special body under the revised Financial Regulation; asks to be more closely involved in political control of these instruments;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Expresses reservations regarding more systematic use of overly open calls for proposals (Believes that a wider use of a bottom- up approach), preferring to maintain a is key to ensure the long term capacity of the research base and to address future, yet unknown, grand challenges; calls for more balance between the two approaches (bottom-up and top- down), which meet specific needs;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Stresses that in order to support the balanced development of the Joint Programming, the European Institutions should be committed to accept excellence criteria for the selection of projects and to draw up proposals for the evaluation of the results tailored to the characteristics of each sector;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 c (new)
Paragraph 13 c (new)
13c. Stresses that, based on Art. 185 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and in order to avoid duplicity on research and innovation and to achieve a greater diffusion of the results, it would be necessary to strengthen the coordination tasks of the Commission inside the joint programming;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Proposes that an ambitious European research plan for technology and defence be adopted between the Union and the Member States and receive significant initial financing from FP7 andoints to the importance assigned under FP7 to security RDI not just for the purpose of improving defence capabilities, but also as a driver of scientific and technological progress; proposes that the EU, in cooperation with the Member States, lay down priority RDI objectives for the European Defence Agency oin the basis of Article 45(d) of the EU Treaty, with a view to enhancing the industrial and technologicis field with a view to bringing about greater coordination and rational bause of the defence sector while at the same time improving the efficiency of military public spendingresources allocated to FP7;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Proposes that an ambitious European research plan for technology and defence be adopted between the Union and the Member States and receive significant initial financing from FP7 and the European Defence Agency on the basis of Article 45(d) of the EU Treaty, with a view to enhancing the industrial and technological base of the defence sector while at the same time improving the efficiency of military public spending;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Welcomes the steady progress towards a more balanced participation of men and women in FP; agrees that measures to boost female participation should be reinforced throughout project lifecycles and that the Commission should reinvigorate its approach to promoting female scientists and should aim to galvanise Member States to address gender gaps; underlines that the 40% target for female participation in the Programme and Advisory Committees should be sensitively but rigorously implemented;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Is of the opinion that commercialisation should be included , if Research and Innovation are to have a clear impact on market and society, the FP needs to bring the parameters of future calls for projects under FP7 in the field ofknowledge generated into the market through actions that enable the optimum exploitation of research and innovation funding;
Amendment 272 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)
Paragraph 24 b (new)
24b. Proposes that in order to achieve better coordination of research among Member States, the Commission and the Council should draft a comparative study in order to conduct an approach of procedures for the simplification; in this regards, believes that it is necessary that each Member State identifies internal rules or laws that hinder international cooperation and financial management of projects involving partners from different states;