Activities of Michael THEURER related to 2010/2245(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on Innovation Union: Transforming Europe for a post-crisis world
Amendments (3)
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the need to detect sleeping innovators; points to the important role of intermediate organisations in detecting sleeping innovators, providing incentives, giving advice and supporting innovation; takes the view that these organisations should be strengthened and that a programme aimed at improving training, qualifications and expertise should be developed for them, and in the future the importance of models of dual professional education should rise;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the proposal to launch European Innovation Partnerships as a tool to bring together stakeholders across policies, sectors and borders to speed up innovations in order to tackle major societal challenges; notes that the partnerships and the regional policy instruments addressing these challenges should be better aligned and that partnerships should capitalise on the experience gained with existing national and regional initiatives with similar features; calls for an improvement of the access for SME's for support for research and innovation;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that the full innovation potential of EU regions must be mobilised in order to meet the Europe 2020 objective of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, and points out that future regional policy must treat this challenge as a major priority. This prioritization applies to all the objectives of regional policy, especially for the purpose of the "Regional competitiveness and employment" and the European transnational cooperation. It should be ensured, that the competitiveness of Europe is guaranteed by world standards.