32 Amendments of Raül ROMEVA i RUEDA related to 2011/0401(COD)
Amendment 18 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
Recital 21
(21) The implementation of Horizon 2020 should respond to the evolving opportunities and needs from citizens, society, policy, science and technology, industry, policies and society. As such, t. The agendas should be set in close liaison with all relevant stakeholders from all sectors concerned, and sincluding representatives of the scientific community, male and female researchers, the public sector, civil society organisations and SMEs. Sufficient flexibility should be allowed for new developments. EBalanced external advice should be sought on a continuous basis during Horizon 2020, also making use of relevant structures such as European Technology Platforms, Joint Programming Initiatives and the European Innovation Partnerships, ensuring however, that conflicts of interests are avoided.
Amendment 26 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 24
Recital 24
(24) Research and innovation activities supported by Horizon 2020 should respect fundamental ethical principleand fundamental human rights. The opinions of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies should be taken into account as well as the opinion of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights and the European Institute for Gender Equality. Research activities should also take into account Article 13 TFEU and reduce the use of animals in research and testing, with a view ultimately to replacing animal use. All activities should be carried out ensuring a high level of human health protection in accordance with Article 168 TFEU.
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 34
Recital 34
(34) It is important to ensure sound financial management of Horizon 2020 and its implementation in the most effective and user-friendly manner possible, while also ensuring legal certainty and the accessibility of the programme to all participants. The Member States and the Commission must ensure that the gender perspective and equality between women and men are integrated into activities and all phases of preparation, programming, implementation, monitoring and evaluation with methods of the gender budgeting assessment. It is necessary to ensure compliance with Regulation (EU) No XXXX/2012 [new financial regulation] and with the requirements of simplification and better regulation.
Amendment 35 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 1
Article 12 – paragraph 1
1. For the implementation of Horizon 2020, account shall be taken of advice and inputs provided by: advisory groups of independent, high level experts from a wide variety of sectors and backgrounds (including civil society representatives), set up by the Commission; dialogue structures created under international science and technology agreements; forward looking activities; targeted public consultations; and transparent and interactive processes that ensure responsible research and innovation is supportimplemented. In particular, activities to promote the balanced representation of men and women in research teams and an adequate integration of sex and gender analysis in research content are included.
Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 12 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. The gender dimension in research and innovation is important to address as an integral part of proposals to ensure the highest level of scientific quality. Horizon 2020 shall ensure that the gender dimension is properly considered in research and innovation content at all stages of the process, from priority setting, to definition of calls and proposals, to evaluation and monitoring programs and projects, to negotiations and agreements.
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1
Article 15 – paragraph 1
Horizon 2020 shall ensure gender equality and the effective promotion of the gender equality and the gender dimension in research and innovation content as well as gender balance in all programmes, in evaluation committees, in expert and advisory groups and in any decision making body existing or created for its implementation.
Amendment 65 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 1
Article 25 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall annually monitor the implementation of Horizon 2020, its specific programme and the activities of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. This shall include information and indicators on cross-cutting topics such as gender, sustainability and climate change, including information on the amount of climate related expenditure.
Amendment 69 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 26 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) Not later than end 2017, and taking into account the ex-post evaluation of the Seventh Framework Programme to be completed by the end of 2015 and the review of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, the Commission shall carry out, with the assistance of independent experts, an interim evaluation of Horizon 2020, its specific programme, including the European Research Council, and the activities of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, on the achievements (at the level of results and progress towards impacts) of the objectives of Horizon 2020 and continued relevance of all the measures, the efficiency and use of resources, the scope for further simplification, and Union added value. That evaluation shall also take into consideration aspects relating to access to funding opportunities for participants in all regions, for SMEs and for promoting gender balance and integrating the gender dimension in research and innovation content. That evaluation shall additionally take into account the contribution of the measures to the Union priorities of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and results on the long- term impact of the predecessor measures.
Amendment 74 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 2
Article 26 – paragraph 2
2. The performance indicators for the general objectives and for the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, as set out in the introduction of Annex I to this Regulation, and for the specific objectives as established in the specific programme, including relevant baselines, shall provide the minimum basis for assessing the extent to which the objectives of Horizon 2020 have been achieved. Gender indicators shall be added as performance indicators, using for example existing tools as She Figures, Statistics and Indicators on Gender Equality in Science. She Figures has become a relevant and recognized source of indicators and should be published biannually.
Amendment 76 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 7 – point a
Annex I – paragraph 7 – point a
(a) The European Research Council (ERC) shall provide attractive and flexible funding to enable talented and creative individual researchers and their teams, irrespective of their sex, to pursue the most promising avenues at the frontier of science, on the basis of Union- wide competition.
Amendment 78 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 7 – point b
Annex I – paragraph 7 – point b
(b) Future and emerging technologies shall support collaborative research and user- driven, gender-sensitive technology and innovation in order to extend Europe's capacity for advanced and paradigm- changing innovation. It shall foster scientific collaboration across disciplines on radically new, high-risk ideas and accelerate development of the most promising emerging areas of science and technology as well as the Union wide structuring of the corresponding scientific communities.
Amendment 81 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 7 – point c
Annex I – paragraph 7 – point c
(c) Marie Curie actions shall provide excellent and innovative research training as well as attractive career and knowledge- exchange opportunities through cross- border and cross-sector mobility of researchers to best prepare them to face current and future societal challenges. Mobility programmes will ensure effective equal opportunities between men and women and include specific measures to remove obstacles to the mobility of female researchers.
Amendment 84 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 9
Annex I – paragraph 9
The activities are inherently forward- looking, building skills in the long term, focusing on the next generation of science, technology, researchers and innovations and providing support for emerging talent from across the whole of the Union and associated countries, as well as worldwide, with a view to increasing the participation of female research talents. In view of their science-driven nature and largely ‘'bottom- up’', investigator-driven funding arrangements, the European scientific community will play a strong role in determining the avenues of research followed under the programme.
Amendment 87 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 14 – point e
Annex I – paragraph 14 – point e
(e) Climate action, resource efficiency and including gender aspects of climate change, environment, resource efficiency and conservation, sustainable use of raw materials;
Amendment 88 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 14 – point f
Annex I – paragraph 14 – point f
(f) IEqual, inclusive, innovative and secure societies.
Amendment 89 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 16
Annex I – paragraph 16
Social sciences and humanities shall be an integral part of the activities to address all the challenges. In addition, the underpinning development of these disciplines shall be supported under the specific objective ‘IEqual, inclusive, innovative and secure societies’'. Likewise, a focus on gender and gender equality will be integrated in all challenges. ‘Support will also focus on providing a strong evidence base for policy making at international, Union, national and regional levels. Given the global nature of many of the challenges, strategic cooperation with third countries shall be an integral part of each challenge. In addition, cross-cutting support for international cooperation shall be provided under the specific objective ‘I'Equal, inclusive, innovative and secure societies’'.
Amendment 92 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 17
Annex I – paragraph 17
The specific objective ‘I'Equal, inclusive, innovative and secure societies’ also includes an activity to close the research and innovation divide with specific measures to unlock excellence in less developed regions of the Union.
Amendment 94 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – section 1 – point 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 6
Annex I – section 1 – point 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 6
Furthermore, these factors compound Europe's relative unattractiveness in the global competition for scientific talent. The ability of the US system to offer more resources per researcher and better career prospects explains how it continues to attract the best male and female researchers from across the world, including tens of thousands from the Union. Additionally, while 60 % of European university graduates are women, only 18 % of grade A researchers are women, as compared to a 27 % in the US. The low number of women who are able to pursue scientific careers is a dramatic waste, a loss of talent, and a hindrance for the excellence of European research. Therefore a quota system is necessary to attain gender equality.
Amendment 95 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – section 1 – point 1 – point 1.2 – paragraph 1
Annex I – section 1 – point 1 – point 1.2 – paragraph 1
The ERC was created to provide Europe's best researchers, both women and men, with the resources they need to allow them to compete better at global level, by funding individual teams on the basis of pan-European competition. It operates autonomously: an independent Scientific Council made up of scientists, engineers and scholars of the highest repute and expertise establishes the overall scientific strategy and has full authority over decisions on the type of research to be funded. These are essential features of the ERC, guaranteeing the effectiveness of its scientific programme, the quality of its operations and peer-review process and its credibility in the scientific community. The ECR will ensure gender bias is properly tackled in evaluation procedures.
Amendment 99 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – section 1 – point 3 – point 3.1 – paragraph 6
Annex I – section 1 – point 3 – point 3.1 – paragraph 6
If Europe is to match its competitors in research and innovation, it must entice more young women and men to embark on research careers and provide highly attractive opportunities and environments for research and innovation. The most talented individuals, from Europe and elsewhere, should see Europe as a pre- eminent place to work. Gender equality, high-quality and reliable employment and working conditions plus recognition are crucial aspects that must be secured in a consistent way across the whole of Europe. Mobility programs shall include specific measures targeted to remove barriers to women's mobility and ensure effective equal opportunities for men and women.
Amendment 102 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – section 1 – point 3 – point 3.3 – point d – paragraph 1
Annex I – section 1 – point 3 – point 3.3 – point d – paragraph 1
The goal is, by leveraging additional funds, to increase the numerical and structural impact of Marie Curie actions and to foster excellence at national level in researchers' training, mobility and career development. Special attention should be given to gender equality and structural change.
Amendment 104 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – section 1 – point 3 – point 3.3 – point e – paragraph 1
Annex I – section 1 – point 3 – point 3.3 – point e – paragraph 1
The goals are to monitor progress, identify gaps in the Marie Curie Actions and to increase their impact. In this context, indicators, broken down by gender, shall be developed and data related to researchers' mobility, skills and careers, as well as gender equality, analysed, seeking synergies and close coordination with the policy support actions on researchers, their employers and funders carried out under the specific objective ' Inclusive, innovative and secure societies‘. The activity shall further aim at raising awareness of the importance and attractiveness of a research career and at disseminating research and innovation results emanating from work supported by Marie Curie actions.
Amendment 105 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – section 2 – point 1 – paragraph 8
Annex I – section 2 – point 1 – paragraph 8
The approach shall include both agenda- driven activities and more open artegrate sex and gender analysis into engineering innovation. Proper consideration of gender and sex analysis may leasd to promote innovative projects and breakthrough solutions. Emphasis shanew products, processes, infrastructure, or services. It will lead to design that promotes human well -be on R&D, large-scale pilots and demonstration activiting, including gender equality, and to the identification of new markets and business opportunities by developing technologies, test bedshat meet the needs of a complex and ldiving labs,erse user groups. Being blind to prototyping and product validation in pilot lines. Activities shall be designed to boost industrial competitiveness by stimulating industry, and in particular SMEs, to make more research and innovation investmentential differences of sex and gender may result in missed business opportunities, with certain groups of people being left out or poorly accommodated; treating women and men as homogeneous groups ignores differences between women and men; over-emphasizing differences between women and men can cause engineers to overlook significant common features between women and men; designing stereotypes may result in unpopular products.
Amendment 106 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – section 2 – point 1 – point 1.1 – point 1.1.2 – paragraph 1
Annex I – section 2 – point 1 – point 1.1 – point 1.1.2 – paragraph 1
ICT underpins innovation and competitiveness across a broad range of private and public markets and sectors, and enables scientific progress in all disciplines. Over the next decade, the transformative impact of digital technologies, ICT components, infrastructures and services will be increasingly visible in all areas of life. Unlimited computing, communication and data storage resources will be available to every citizen on the globe. Vast amounts of information and data will be generated by sensors, machines and information- enhanced products, making action at a distance a commonplace, enabling global deployment of business processes and sustainable production sites and bringing a wide range of services and applications. Many critical commercial and public services and all key processes of knowledge production in science, learning, business and the public sector will be provided through ICT. ICT will provide the critical infrastructure for production and business processes, communication and transactions. ICT will also be indispensable in contributing to key societal challenges, as well as societal processes such as community formation, consumer behaviour, and public governance and gender equality, for example by means of social media.
Amendment 108 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – section 3 – point 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 7 a (new)
Annex I – section 3 – point 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 7 a (new)
Significant sex and gender differences exist in health and wellbeing which need to be properly addressed. Demographic processes have significant gender dimensions, particularly ageing, with women accounting for most of the elderly population and most of the care-givers. Other important aspects of the demographic change, such as changing lifestyles, new family structures and low birth-rates, need proper consideration of gender analysis.
Amendment 111 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – section 3 – point 4 – point 4.3 – point b – paragraph 2
Annex I – section 3 – point 4 – point 4.3 – point b – paragraph 2
The focus of activities shall be to reduce congestion, improve accessibility and match user needs by promoting integrated door-to-door transport and logistics; to enhance inter-modality and the deployment of smart planning and management solutions; and to drastically reduce the occurrence of accidents and the impact of security threats. Research should take the socio-economic and gender differences in transport patterns into account.
Amendment 113 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – section 3 – point 5 – point 5.1 – paragraph 6 a (new)
Annex I – section 3 – point 5 – point 5.1 – paragraph 6 a (new)
Climate change and its impacts are by no means gender neutral. Due to gendered roles, women's impact on the environment is not the same as men's, and their access to resources and ways to cope and adapt is severely affected by discrimination in terms of income, access to resources, political power, education and household responsibility. Women's and men's lifestyles, behaviour and consumption are often different and they leave a different environmental footprint. Climate change affects women and men throughout the world. The IPCC, the UN climate panel, has concluded that "climate change impacts will be differently distributed among different regions, generations, age classes, income groups, occupations, and genders".
Amendment 114 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – section 3 – point 5 – point 5.3 – point a – paragraph 1
Annex I – section 3 – point 5 – point 5.3 – point a – paragraph 1
The aim is to develop and assess innovative, cost-effective and sustainable adaptation and mitigation measures, targeting both CO2 and non-CO2 greenhouse gases, and underlining both technological and non-technological green solutions, through the generation of evidence for informed, early and effective action and the networking of the required competences. Activities shall focus on: improving the understanding of climate change and the provision of reliable climate projections; assessing impacts, vulnerabilities and developing innovative cost-effective adaptation and risk prevention measures; supporting mitigation policies. Research shall take issues of gender and gender equality in relation to adaption policies into account.
Amendment 117 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – section 3 – point 6 – title
Annex I – section 3 – point 6 – title
6. EQUAL, INCLUSIVE, INNOVATIVE AND SECURE SOCIETIES
Amendment 120 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – section 3 – point 6.3 – point 6.3.1 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
Annex I – section 3 – point 6.3 – point 6.3.1 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
(d a) promote gender equality across Europe.
Amendment 124 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – section 5 – point 3 – point b – paragraph 1
Annex I – section 5 – point 3 – point b – paragraph 1
The EIT's strategy and activities shall be driven by a focus on societal challenges that are of utmost relevance to the future, such as climate change, considering their gender dimension, or sustainable energy. By addressing key societal challenges in a comprehensive way, the EIT will promote inter- and multi- disciplinary approaches and help focus the research efforts of the partners in the KICs.
Amendment 126 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – section 5 – point 3 – point c – paragraph 1
Annex I – section 5 – point 3 – point c – paragraph 1
The EIT shall fully integrate education and training at all stages of careers and develop new and innovative curricula to reflect the need for new profiles engendered by complex societal and economic challenges. This is why, more than any other instrument of Horizon 2020, the EIT will hold a major responsibility in systematically targeting young female talents to bring the waste of those talents to an end in the European Research Area. In the same way it shall envisage education and training in a gender- sensitive way as the renewal of tomorrow's scientific and entrepreneurial landscape will start at the education stage and through training. Finally, it shall integrate the gender dimension in new curricula as way to ensure the efficiency and quality of training and education as well as its innovative dimension. To this end, the EIT will play a key role in encouraging recognition of new degrees and diplomas in Member States.