20 Amendments of Chrysoula PALIADELI related to 2009/2099(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas it is important for the national states to support public universities financially (for example through public-private partnerships), while at the same time guaranteeing their autonomy and quality assurance,
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas university-business cooperation is supported by many EU programmes, but such action is not always coordinated among institutionuniversities,
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Endorses the view that cooperation between business and higher education institutions, as a means to support research and safeguard the job creation, should remain a priority for the near future;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for improvements in the performance of European universities through the implementation of the principle of the ‘research-education-innovation’ knowledge triangle, bearing in mind the need for better business-university links;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses that since life long learning is a continuous contact not only with education and training but also with culture, it is of crucial importance for the EU to encourage, for the national states to support and for the public universities to preserve and promote the inclusion of the humanities in their educational curricula;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Stresses that long life learning is an active and continuous possibility, but not a compulsory procedure and thus it should be conceived as an open and continual chance for the social and vocational improvement;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Points out the need to match lifelong learning opportunities as closely as possible to the needs of individuals, and vulnerable social groups and emphasises that the constantly changing nature of those needs makes continuing education an inevitable necessity; recalls that there is no longer any such thing as a ‘job for life’ and that retraining is essential; reiterates that a learning culture needs to be encouraged from childhood;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Bearing in mind the demographic transformation of Europe (into an ageing society), calls on universities to widen access to learning, to diversify and to broaden the student population, in particular by adapting study programmes to adults returning to study and ensuring that such programmes are designed to attract adult learners;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Suggests the further use of new educational methods, focused on experimental learning, distance learning, e-learning, and blended forms of learning;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Emphasises that a stronger learning culture must be established, promoted and reinforced, and that continuing training at all stages of life is critical to Europe’s businesseseconomy;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Emphasises that mobility between countries and between universities and business is a key to achieving closer cooperation between the two worlds;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Asks the Commission to propose a legal frameworkprogrammes designed to support and facilitate mobility between universities and business and to emphasise the need to recognise and certify this form of informal learning;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Stresses the need to place adequate importance on language learning, bearing in mind that the acquisition of new languages is vital in order to promote and encourage mobility and exchanges of students, researchers, and teachers and business employees;
Amendment 77 #
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Encourages the business world to participate actively in the design of educationalinformative material on entrepreneurship to be madhat might be available at allthe secondary and higher levels of education;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Recalls that young graduates will enhance their career opportunities if higher education institutions foster innovation and an entrepreneurial mindset among students, encouraging them, for instance, to establish their own spin-off firms;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Welcomes the Commission’s initiative of establishing an inventory of existing best practices, according to certain criteria, and calls on it to make this inventory available to all interested parties;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Calls on the Commission to treat this resolution in accordance with the national legislations for higher education;