4 Amendments of Marie-Thérèse SANCHEZ-SCHMID related to 2011/0177(APP)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas learning mobility in the field of education, training and youth is essential for creating and safeguarding jobs and reducing poverty and has direct impact on both Europe’s short-term economic recovery and its longer-term growth and productivity, and the exchanges facilitated by this means help to develop citizens’ active participation in European integration and cohesion;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Recommendation viii a (new)
Recommendation viii a (new)
(viiia) Notes that the Commission proposal does not cover all the target beneficiaries and actions included under the current programmes: for example, there would no longer be a separate budget heading for adult mobility; also notes, with regard to higher education, that the Commission’s plan to exclude Erasmus Mundus doctoral students from the scope of the Erasmus For All programme and transfer the funding to support their mobility to the Horizon 2020 programme needs to be very closely monitored, as this plan could help weaken the link between research and higher education (the necessity for which is continually restated by the Bologna Process) and jeopardise the establishment strategies facilitated over the last three years by the existing Erasmus Mundus programme, and could also fail to take the educational aspect of Erasmus Mundus doctorates into account, and restrict them to applied research;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Recommendation x
Recommendation x
(x) Points out the alarming level of youth unemployment and notes with concern that youth policy is not sufficiently visible in the Commission proposal; stresses the need to create a separate chapter with its own budget heading;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Recommendation xvii
Recommendation xvii
(xvii) Recalls that the investment from the European Social Fund and European Regional Development Fund should represented more than EUR 72 billion for education and training and EUR 60 billion for research and innovation during 2007- 2013; therefore stresses the importance of maximising synergies and multiplier effects between different parts of the budget, in particular between structural policies, on the one hand, and education, training, youth and culture policies, on the other; calls for care to be taken to ensure that learning mobility for adults (including workers and adult learners) is eligible for funding under the Structural Funds and that such funding is easier to access;