12 Amendments of Christian ENGSTRÖM related to 2011/0387(COD)
Amendment 21 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 2
Annex – part 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 2
The reasons for putting research, education and innovation at centre stage are straightforward. In a context of increasing global competition and facing a demographic challenge at home, Europe's future economic growth and jobs will increasingly come from innovation breakthroughs in products, services and business models as well as from its ability to nurture, attract and retain talent, and the ability for citizens to use, adopt and apply these innovations. While there are individual success stories across Europe, EU Member States on average underperform in comparison with global innovation leaders. Moreover, the EU is facing increased competition for talent from new centres of excellence in emerging economies.
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 3
Annex – part 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 3
A genuine change in our innovation systems and paradigms is therefore necessary. Still too often, excellence in higher education, research and innovation, while clearly existing across the EU, remains fragmented. Europe needs to overcome this lack of strategic co- operation across boundaries – countries, sectors and disciplines. Moreover, Europe needs to embrace ahas a strong, open and true entrepreneurial culture, which is essential forith a considerable diversity of small and medium-sized enterprises, which is essential to nurture and help to capturinge the value of research and innovation, forto setting- up new ventures and to achieve actual market deployment of innovations in potential high-growth sectors. Europe needs to foster the role of higher education institutions as engines of innovation, as talented people need to be equipped with the right skills, knowledge and attitudes in order to drive innovation forward.
Amendment 23 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 4
Annex – part 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 4
The EIT has been set up precisely to this end – to contribute to sustainable economic growth and competitiveness by reinforcing the innovation capacity of the Union and its Member States. By fully integrating the knowledge triangle of higher education, research and innovation, the Institute will strongly contribute to tackling societal challenges under Horizon 2020 and bring about systemic change in the way European innovation players collaborate in open and inclusive innovation models.
Amendment 25 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 1 – point 1.2 – paragraph 1 – indent 1
Annex – part 1 – point 1.2 – paragraph 1 – indent 1
Overcoming fragmentation via long-term integrated partnerships and achieving critical mass through its European dimension: Building on existing cooperation initiatives, the EIT brings the selected partnerships in the KICs to a more permanent and strategic level. KICs allow world-class partners to unite in new configurations, develop open and inclusive innovation models, optimize existing resources, access new business opportunities via new value chains addressing higher risk, and larger scale challenges. Moreover, while there are a significant number of centres of excellence across EU Member States, they often do not attain the critical mass for global competition individually. The KICs' co- location centres offer strong local actors the opportunity to closely connect to other excellent partners across borders, thereby allowing them to act and be recognized globally.
Amendment 26 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 1 – point 1.2 – paragraph 1 – indent 4a (new)
Annex – part 1 – point 1.2 – paragraph 1 – indent 4a (new)
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 2
Annex – part 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 2
The EIT will strongly contribute to the objectives set out in Horizon 2020, in particular by addressing societal challenges in a complementary way to other initiatives in these areas. Within Horizon 2020, the EIT will be part of the ‘tackling societal challenges’ objective but following the approach of seamless interaction across objectives, it will also contribute to ‘industrial leadership and competitive frameworks’ by stimulating results-driven research and fostering the creation of open and inclusive innovation models among high growth innovative SMEs. Finally, it will contribute to the creation of an ‘excellent science base’ by fostering mobility across boundaries – of disciplines, sectors and countries – and by embedding entrepreneurship and a risk-taking culture in innovative post-graduates degrees. The EIT will thereby significantly contribute to promoting the framework conditions that are needed to realise the innovative potential of EU research and to promote the completion of the European Research Area (ERA).
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 3
Annex – part 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 3
Moreover, the EIT brings a fully fledged education dimension, through open access and knowledge dissemination, to the EU's research and innovation policy. Via innovative, entrepreneurial education it plays an important bridging role between the research and innovation framework and education policies and programmes and provides the long term commitment needed to deliver sustainable changes in higher education. Notably through new, trans and interdisciplinary EIT-labelled degrees the EIT is leading a collaborative effort towards education for innovation with clear spill over effects on the broader European agenda for the modernisation of higher education institutions thereby promoting the European Higher Education Area.
Amendment 30 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 8 – indent 1
Annex – part 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 8 – indent 1
· EIT ICT Labs liaises and works closely with the future Internet Public Private Partnership, the Artemis Joint Technology Initiative and EUREKA initiatives such as ITEA (Information Technology for European Advancement), and the Trust in Digital Life partnership. By applying KIC ‘c‘Business Catalysts’ such as the Innovation Radar, the Patent BoosterAccess to Finance and the Technology Transfer along the lifecycle of EU funded research projects, EIT ICT Labs boosts their market impact. By offering access to its co-location centres it can enhance the mobility of people and ideas across Europe.
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 2 – point 2.2 – paragraph 2
Annex – part 2 – point 2.2 – paragraph 2
In the future, the EIT must work to make the KIC experience understandable and replicable and build it into a culture that can act as a role model in Europe and beyond. By identifying, analysing and sharing good practices, as well as new governance and funding models from the KICs, the EIT seeks to ensure that knowledge generated within the EIT and its KICs is disseminated and capitalised upon for the benefit of people andthe general public, private entities and the institutions, including those not directly participating in the KICs.
Amendment 35 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 2 – point 2.2 – paragraph 4
Annex – part 2 – point 2.2 – paragraph 4
Main drivers of learning at EIT level may be: innovation-driven research for the creation of new businesses and new business models, management of IP portfolios and new approaches to IP sharingnew approaches to IP sharing and management of IP portfolios providing for maximum protection of competitive conditions, entrepreneurship and new integrated forms of multi- disciplinary education; innovative governance and financial models based in the concept of open innovation or involving public authorities. This will help the EIT to be a role model and to act as a ‘game shifter’ in the European innovation landscape and to become an internationally recognised innovation institution.
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 2 – point 2.2 – paragraph 7
Annex – part 2 – point 2.2 – paragraph 7
Moreover, the EIT has a clear role to play in attracting talent from outside the EU. By creating a strong brand and forging strategic relations with key partners from around the globe, the EIT can add to the attractiveness of the partners within the KICs. In close cooperation with the KICs, the EIT should develop a strong international strategy, identifying and liaising relevant interlocutors and potential partners. In this context the EIT and its KICs should take full advantage of existing EU initiatives in the area, such as the ‘Erasmus for all’ programme and the Marie Curie Actions. In addition, the EIT can foster open access, inclusive innovation, knowledge sharing, mentoring and networking by encouraging the setting up of an EIT alumni network.
Amendment 39 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 3 – point 3.2 – paragraph 2
Annex – part 3 – point 3.2 – paragraph 2
Moving away from a merely administrator role, the EIT headquarters will optimise their operational functions to steer the KICs to maximum performance and make good results widely available. There are efficiency gains to be achieved from providing a number of centralised services and functions, rather than at individual KIC level. While all KICs work on specific themes, a number of elements are of a cross-cutting nature and it is precisely there where the EIT can provide tangible added value. Such knowledge provider functions can relate notably to the EIT headquarters becoming an information broker and resourceful interlocutor, e.g. in fostering cross-KIC exchange and mutual learning, facilitating relations with the EU institutions and other key organisations, such as the Organisation for Economic Co- operation and Development (OECD), or on specific cross-cutting issues, such as counselling on IP, technologycompetition and intellectual property law, open access and knowledge transfer, benchmarking against international best practices, or undertaking anticipation and foresight studies to identify future directions for the EIT and the KICs. The EIT and KICs should decide together where these tasks can be most effectively dealt with. In this regard, it will be of crucial importance for the EIT and the KICs to establish viable mechanisms for systematic collaboration around cross- cutting issues.