Activities of Sari ESSAYAH related to 2010/2245(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Innovation Union: transforming Europe for a post-crisis world (debate)
Amendments (10)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers it necessary to increase understanding of challenges facing society and that innovation should be used to solve society’s problems, stresses the importance of the pilot partnership in the field of active and healthy ageing, considers that similar innovation partnerships should also be developed to prevent and remedy other crucial health and social problems, such as various harmful dependencies, poverty and social exclusion, and recommends taking advantage of the various Member States’ capacity to initiate partnerships more swiftly than others;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Considers exemplary the objective assigned to the pilot partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing of extending healthy lifetimes by two years by 2020 and considers that, for all innovation partnerships, clear objectives should be set which without the innovative measure would lack vision and motivation and it would become more difficult to set measurable interim and partial objectives;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the importance of information and communications technology (ICT) in all innovative activity, recommends promoting the widespread use of ICT, promoting R&D in this field, favouring open-source codes, developing a user- driven innovation policy and thus facilitating greater participation by citizens and SMEs in the development of applications and new services;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recommends involving all citizens in innovation and empowering them to innovate, supports the Commission’s proposal for a European social innovation pilot project and its proposal that social innovation should become a central priority of European Social Fund (ESF) programmes; considers that innovation policy should be viewed broadly, not merely as technical innovation but – more than hitherto – as social and services innovation helping to achieve better organisation of cooperation among people and assisting direct production of services, but also assisting industrial production, which is in search of better organisation of work and competitive advantages to be attained with the aid of new services;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the importance of raising the level of training, particularly lifelong learning, and developing all training activities better to enhanceat all training levels better than at present to enhance creativity, innovativeness and entrepreneurship;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that an effective European research area should be created as a matter of urgency, in which obstacles to the mobility of researchers should be elimincooperation is based primarily on voluntary cooperation between Member States, obstacles to the mobility of researchers should be eliminated and advanced European research infrastructure should be created;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Supports the objective of increasing the number of researchers in the EU by one million by 2020 and observes that such an enormous investment would have significant multiplier effects on employment, but at the same time considers that the objective is very ambitious and would require objectives to be set for each individual country and purposeful efforts, while the public sector does not necessarily have sufficient budget funds, so that although there is a strong need to increase the number of posts for researchers at higher education establishments and public research institutes, the greater proportion of the new researchers will be employed in the private sector and that attention should be devoted less to the number of researchers than to their innovativeness, the quality of their education, the European division of labour in the field of research, resources for research and the quality of research;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recommends that innovation should also be promoted by means of joint cross- border public-sector projects, by coordinating EU, Member States’ and regional public funding better than hitherto and reducing the associated bureaucracyeliminating legislative obstacles to using public procurement to promote innovation, by moving in the direction of setting a minimum target for the proportion of public procurement designed to promote innovation and by coordinating EU, Member States’ and regional public funding better than hitherto and reducing the associated bureaucracy, thus facilitating participation particularly by SMEs, by increasing the use of public data, improving access to research findings and making it easier to exploit them, and by means of measures to promote venture capital investment in businesses with growth potential.
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Observes that the research projects to be funded should aim to achieve substantial results and that the productivity of innovation work should be measured by means of suitable monitoring indicators;