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18 Amendments of Sylvie GUILLAUME related to 2021/0293(COD)

Amendment 15 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 2 a (new)
(2a) As already set out in the Commission communication entitled 'Establishing a European Declaration on Digital Rights and Principles for the Digital Decade', the Digital Decade should primarily serve people and ensure that their fundamental rights and freedoms equally apply offline and online31a. Those rights include, in particular, the right to privacy and the protection of personal data, the right to freedom of expression and information, the right to informational self- determination and anonymity on the internet, the right to confidentiality of personal communications and protection from government online surveillance, the right to education, vocational training and lifelong learning, and the right to fair, healthy and safe working conditions, including in a digital environment. To realise those rights, it is crucial to protect and promote free and pluralistic media and online access to them, as they ensure informed debate and critical thinking in the digital space. In this context, the Commission and the Member States should refrain from pursuing legislation or other measures that run counter to those digital rights, such as chat control or data retention. _________________ 31a Establishing a European Declaration on Digital Rights and Principles for the Digital Decade (COM(2022)27 final).
2022/02/15
Committee: CULT
Amendment 21 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 6 a (new)
(6a) Schools, universities and other education and training establishments should evolve away from low-digitalised status and become some of the most digitalised public spaces, so that teachers, students and learners of all ages can use digital technologies in a creative way in order to shape education and share digital skills. Realisation of the digital education and skills objectives laid down in this policy programme is inextricably linked to the objective and commitment to create a European Education Area by 2025, as well as to the guiding principles and objectives set out in the Digital Education Action Plan39a 39b. The need for high- quality digital education and the shortfalls faced by education and training establishments and many pupils and students as regards equipping them with modern digital infrastructure and terminal devices have been clearly highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic. _________________ 39a Commission communication on achieving the European Education Area by 2025, COM(2020) 625 final. 39b Commission communication entitled 'Digital Education Action Plan 2021- 2027', COM(2020) 624 final.
2022/02/15
Committee: CULT
Amendment 24 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 7
(7) Digital skills, basic and advanced, are essential to reinforce the collective resilience of the Union’s society. Digital skills should be considered a core competence for all teachers, educators and instructors. High-quality specialised digital skills training should be available to all teachers and other staff in education and training establishments as soon as possible, with a particular focus on in- service upskilling for older teachers and teachers with disabilities, enabling all teachers and pedagogical staff to use, adapt and create digital learning content and teaching methods, and to pass on basic digital skills in their daily work. Digitally empowered and capable citizens will be able to take advantage of the opportunities of the Digital Decade. Moreover, digital training and education should support a workforce in which people can acquire specialised digital skills to get quality jobs and rewarding careers in much greater numbers than today, with convergence between women and men. In addition, an essential enabler for taking advantage of the benefits of digitisation, for further technological developments and for Europe’s digital leadership is a sustainable digital infrastructure for connectivity, microelectronics and the ability to process vast data. Excellent and secure connectivity for everybody and everywhere in Europe including in rural and remote areas40 is needed. Societal needs for upload and download bandwidth are constantly growing. By 2030, networks with gigabit speeds should become available aton affordable and accessible conditions for all those who need or wish such capacity. While there are currently large disparities in prices in EU Member States for communications facilities and mobile data services, by 2030 high-speed mobile data networks should be available for all in all EU Member States, in rural and urban areas, at affordable and accessible conditions40a. Moreover, microprocessors which are already today at the start of most of the key, strategic value chains are expected to be in even higher demand in the future, in particular the most innovative ones. Climate neutral highly secure edge node guaranteeing access to data services with low latency wherever businesses are located and quantum capacity are also expected to be critical enablers. _________________ 40 Long-term Vision for the EU’s Rural Areas., COM(2021) 345 final. 40a Eurostat 2020, How communication prices vary across the EU, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/product s-eurostat-news/-/ddn-20201221-1
2022/02/15
Committee: CULT
Amendment 31 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 7 a (new)
(7a) The aim of achieving the European Education Area by 2025 must not be lost sight of as a result of the objectives set out in this policy programme; rather, they must support the goals and commitments of the area by informing its digital dimension. Digital education is already one of the six dimensions of the European Education Area. The automatic mutual recognition of learning periods abroad and higher education qualifications, as well as upper secondary education and training qualifications, is an indispensable and pioneering tool for promoting digital education and digital skills and for achieving the objectives set in this policy programme, which, as stated in the 2018 Council Recommendation40b, Member States should implement as soon as possible and by 2025 at the latest. The urgent need to invest more in digital education and education in general has been highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic and has been compounded by it even more. _________________ 40b Council Recommendation of 26 November 2018 on promoting automatic mutual recognition of higher education and upper secondary education and training qualifications and the outcomes of learning periods abroad (2018/C 444/01).
2022/02/15
Committee: CULT
Amendment 39 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 9
(9) Democratic life and public services will also crucially depend on digital technologies and therefore they should be fully accessible for everyone, as a best–in- class digital environment providing for easy-to-use, affordable, accessible, efficient and personalised services and tools with high security and privacy standards. The policy programme should create a human-centred digital environment that enables all citizens, consumers and small-business owners to become active, creative and critical players with sufficient knowledge, skills and understanding to make informed decisions about the use and opportunities of digital technologies.
2022/02/15
Committee: CULT
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 9 a (new)
(9a) The digital transformation must primarily serve people and be fashioned by the Commission and the Member States in coordination with social partners. Areas where it can make a positive contribution include formal, informal and non-formal education, in particular the promotion of digital media literacy, vocational training, equipping education and training establishments, from primary school through vocational education and training institutions to universities, with a modern and reliable digital infrastructure, including access to digital services and learning tools based on privacy by design, and free digital education and training for all in keeping with the goal of lifelong learning.
2022/02/15
Committee: CULT
Amendment 48 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 11 a (new)
(11a) Digital education targets and the availability of sufficient ICT professionals will inevitably depend on whether Member States are able to significantly increase the number of ICT study and training places and can introduce, without delay, programmes and measures to ensure that the number of women in education and training in those fields rises. Currently, more than four out of five ICT study places in the EU are occupied by men, and more than four out of five ICT specialists are men, with wide differences between Member States in both cases40b. Doubling the number of study places available each year in the EU as soon as possible and increasing the number of training places will be crucial to achieving this goal. Another objective should be to at least double the proportion of women in higher education who are enrolled on ICT programmes by 2030. Measures to close the gender pay gap in ICT careers should be stepped up in order to support women in those areas. _________________ 40b Eurostat 2018, Girls and women under-represented in ICT, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/product s-eurostat-news/-/EDN-20180425-1.
2022/02/15
Committee: CULT
Amendment 56 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 20
(20) In order to ensure that cooperation between the Commission and the Member States is efficient and effective, Member States should submit to the Commission national Digital Decade strategic roadmaps covering the period up to 2030 (‘national Digital Decade strategic roadmaps’) proposing, where possible and measurable at national level, national trajectories, plus annual and verifiable objectives from 2025 onwards, which describinge all the instruments adopted, planned or implemented with a view to contributing to the achievement at Union level of the objectives of this Decision and the digital targets, in order to avoid a failure to meet the 2030 objectives. These national Digital Decade strategic roadmaps should be a crucial tool for the coordination of the policies of the Member States and for ensuring predictability for the market. Member States should take into account relevant sectoral initiatives, both at Union and national level, and ensure consistency with them. During the annual cycle of cooperation, Member States could propose adjustments to their national Digital Decade strategic roadmaps to take into account the evolution of the digital transition at Union and national level and to respond, in particular, to the Commission recommended policies, measures and actions.
2022/02/15
Committee: CULT
Amendment 70 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
(ba) create sufficient financial, technical and human capacity in education and training establishments by 2025 in order to meet the 2030 digital skills targets; achieve gender balance in the number of female and male ICT students by 2030 in order to achieve gender balance in the number of ICT specialists as soon as possible;
2022/02/15
Committee: CULT
Amendment 103 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point a
(a) by 2025 at least 70% and by 2030 at least 80% of those aged 16-74 have at least basic digital skills;
2022/02/15
Committee: CULT
Amendment 105 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point a a (new)
(aa) by 2025 at least 80% and by 2030 at least 90% of all teachers and other teaching staff in vocational education and training have sufficient digital skills to incorporate digital technologies into their daily teaching and to pass on basic digital skills;
2022/02/15
Committee: CULT
Amendment 106 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point a b (new)
(ab) internet connectivity, including gigabit connectivity, is ensured in all schools and in particular in rural areas, especially with regard to internet access and the availability of necessary and modern digital equipment and services, including high-speed wi-fi and secure digital tools, such as digital learning platforms for collaboration and communication, digital libraries and digital applications, such as office and design or graphics applications.
2022/02/15
Committee: CULT
Amendment 110 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point b a (new)
(ba) at least 5% of all female university students in each Member State are enrolled in ICT programmes or in interdisciplinary courses with an ICT component.
2022/02/15
Committee: CULT
Amendment 111 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point 1 a (new)
1a. In order to achieve the digital education targets for a digitally skilled population and sufficiently highly skilled digital professionals, the Union institutions and the Member States shall cooperate in coordination with social partners and carry out all necessary measures and financial and infrastructure-related investments, such as: (a) doubling the number of annual study places in ICT programmes at universities and promoting vocational training in order to achieve a significant increase in vocational training place provision in this field; (b) providing the necessary capacity to achieve those targets, in particular by appropriately equipping vocational training centres, schools and universities in terms of human resources, technical facilities and in-service digital upskilling provision for teaching staff.
2022/02/15
Committee: CULT
Amendment 113 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
(a) all European households are covered by a Gigabit network, with all populated areas covered by 5G networks, and can access those networks on affordable and accessible terms;
2022/02/15
Committee: CULT
Amendment 134 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 6 – paragraph 6 a (new)
(6a) The Commission shall make the information and indicators relating to these objectives publicly available on a dedicated website, in a transparent and easily understandable manner, when they have been received from the Member States, so that, where possible, progress towards realising the objectives can be tracked by means of intuitive charts.
2022/02/15
Committee: CULT
Amendment 137 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) national projected trajectories contributing to relevant digital targets measurable at national level, as well as annual targets from 2025 onwards;
2022/02/15
Committee: CULT
Amendment 151 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 23 a (new)
Article 23a Synergies with other Union programmes and policies in the field of education and training No budget resources from existing Union programmes in the field of education and training, in particular the Erasmus+ programme, shall be used for new actions set out in this policy programme without additional budget resources being made available for that purpose.
2022/02/15
Committee: CULT