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7 Amendments of Lorenzo FONTANA related to 2016/2147(INI)

Amendment 6 #
B. whereas, in negotiating H2020 and the current Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), Parliament asked for EUR100 billion euros rather than the EUR 77 billion agreed and the budget seems very limited if H2020 is to fully explore excellence potential;
2017/04/04
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Emphasises the importance of basic research, which should not be neglected in favour of the applied sciences; points out that science should benefit everyone and that basic research is essential and paves the way for future discoveries which could have practical applications; stresses that an overly commercial approach to research would stifle creativity by preventing the launch or financing of projects, which could turn out to be invaluable;
2017/04/04
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Underlines that several Member States are not respecting their national R&D investment commitments; calls for the earmarking of Structural Funds for R&D activities, especially investments in capacity building, infrastructure and salaries, asks that the 3 % of GDP target be met, and hopes that this can be raised to 4 % in the not too distant future;
2017/04/04
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
25. Welcomes the Open Science pilot funding as a first step towards an Open Science Cloud; recognises the relevance of e- infrastructures and supercomputing, the need for public and private sector stakeholders and civil society to be involved and the importance of citizen science in ensuring that society plays a more active part in the definition of the problems; calls for a scientific metadata structure and procedures for the generation of such data in order to feed the European OSC and ensure data exploitation; calls on the Commission and the public and private research community to explore new models that integrate private cloud resources and public e-infrastructures and the launch of citizen agendas in science and innovation;
2017/04/04
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
26. Welcomes the success of H2020 and the 1:11 leverage factor; notes the oversubscription and the challenges that lie ahead, and calls for a budgetary increase of EUR 100 billion for FP9;
2017/04/04
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
27. Calls on the Commission to separate military research from civilian research in the next MFF, since these must be two different programmes with two different budgets that do not affect the budgetary ambitions of FP9;deleted
2017/04/04
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 351 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
32. Regrets the mixed set of results achieved by the gender equality focus in H2020, as the only target reached is the share of women in the advisory groups, while the share of women in the project evaluation panels and among project coordinators, and the gender dimension in research and innovation content, remain below target levels; encourages Member States to create a gender-positive legal and political environment and to provide incentives for change, and calls on the Commission to continue to promote gender equality and mainstreaming in FP9 and to consider the possibility of gender as a sub-criterion in the evaluation phase;deleted
2017/04/04
Committee: ITRE