2015/2006(INI) | [ParlTrack]

Draft opinion
Recital A

A. whereas ~~young people benefit immensely from practical entrepreneurial experience, which contributes to new business creation and~~some Member States have a youth unemployment rate of more than 50%; whereas entrepreneurship should be regarded as a cross-cutting competence and an additional option for creating new businesses and, above all, more jobs, in particular for young people, and whereas it is essential to increase opportunities for practical training in businesses, in particular by offering more incentives for partnerships between businesses and universities, as this contributes to employability and boosts innovation in the wider organisations in which they are employed;

Amendment 10 #

Emilian PAVEL, Georgi PIRINSKI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ

Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas education plays a key role in fostering the social and occupational inclusion of young people;

Amendment 100 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls on the Member States to transform their educational systems (e.g.: teaching methods and curricula), including vocational training programs, so as to put a larger focus on the development of transversal entrepreneurship competencies, skills and knowledge, that are effectively delivered through hands-on and real-life experiences; suggests that entrepreneurship is taught across various subjects or as a separate subject;

Amendment 101 #

Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Jana TOOM, Ivo VAJGL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Commission to monitor closely the concrete measures implemented by Member States to support entrepreneurship among young people and to devote special attention to the promotion and publication of information about results and best practice; welcomes the creation of the 'Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs' programme leading to greater harmonization between Member States; asks the Commission to ensure that companies are complying with rules applicable to this programme and not simply using it as a source of cheap labour;

Amendment 102 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Commission to monitor concrete measures implemented by Member States to support entrepreneurship among young people and to devote special attention to the promotion and publication of information about results and best practice; welcomes Erasmus for Entrepreneurs which enables young people to acquire entrepreneurial experiences in other Member States.

Amendment 103 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

Amendment 104 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls on the Member States to simplify procedures for non-fraudulent exits and create a supportive exit environment to send a clear message to young people that a failure will not result in a setback with lifelong consequences;

Amendment 105 #

Siôn SIMON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls on Member States to promote entrepreneurship as a positive career option within career advice in secondary and tertiary education, to tackle the negative stigma surrounding entrepreneurship as a career option, which is prevalent in some EU Member States;

Amendment 106 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Urges the Commission to monitor closely the specific measures being implemented by Member States to ensure that young people choosing a business career enjoy the same entitlements in respect of welfare under ILO Recommendation 2021b and in respect of health and safety at work; __________________ 1b [1] International Labour Organization (ILO), 2012 Recommendation on social protection floors http://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f?p=10 00:12100:0::NO::P12100_INSTRUMEN T_ID , P12100_LANG_ CODE: 3065524, fr: NO

Amendment 107 #

Jana ŽITŇANSKÁ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls on Member States to increase awareness of self-employment and business creation for young people with disabilities with actions such as; promoting career paths of persons with disabilities already integrated in the labour market and giving public recognition to entrepreneurs with disabilities.

Amendment 108 #

Emilian PAVEL, Damian DRĂGHICI, Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI, Elena GENTILE, Georgi PIRINSKI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls on Member States to promote sponsorships for young entrepreneurs enabling them to benefit from the experience and support of their more seasoned colleagues;

Amendment 109 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to foster the sharing of ideas, knowledge, experience and best practices and to develop benchmarks, models, common instruments and projects to promote youth entrepreneurship;

Amendment 11 #

Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)

Ac. whereas entrepreneurship is one of a number of ways of helping young people to find a job and earn a stable income;

Amendment 110 #

Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls on the Member States to encourage young people to entrepreneurship by enabling project- based studies in education across disciplines and in co-operation with companies;

Amendment 111 #

Siôn SIMON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Calls on Member States to promote learning in secondary and tertiary education which provides and develops the knowledge and skills needed for young people to become entrepreneurs such as creativity, communication skills, book-keeping and accounting and business management among others;

Amendment 112 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Urges the Commission to ensure that no measures taken the Member States impede the free movement of workers, so as to ensure that young people who have chosen business careers are able to conduct their activities wherever they wish in the European Union;

Amendment 113 #

Emilian PAVEL, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Georgi PIRINSKI, Elena GENTILE, Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI, Damian DRĂGHICI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Stresses the crucial role of a number of young business people's associations in developing entrepreneurship among young people, providing them with the opportunity to develop innovative projects and obtain business experience and giving them the tools and the confidence necessary to set out as entrepreneurs;

Amendment 114 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Calls for a closer collaboration with the private sector and social partners to encourage a risk-taking, entrepreneurial and innovative culture (e.g. through structural commitments like facilities for innovation and exchange of ideas);

Amendment 115 #

Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Notes that promoting co-operation between secondary and tertiary education would allow increased dialogue between the youth and encourage innovation;

Amendment 116 #

Emilian PAVEL, Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI, Georgi PIRINSKI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Damian DRĂGHICI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5c. Calls on the Member States to provide appropriate training and ensure an ongoing professional development of teachers and stakeholders involved in entrepreneurship education;

Amendment 117 #

Emilian PAVEL, Damian DRĂGHICI, Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI, Javi LÓPEZ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Elena GENTILE, Georgi PIRINSKI, Siôn SIMON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)

5d. Calls on the Commission to examine factors which discourage women from taking up an entrepreneurial career path and to ensure that educational systems as well as related measures and activities actively strive for gender equality.

Amendment 12 #

Draft opinion
Recital A d (new)

Ad. whereas the aim of the Europe 2020 strategy is to create an economy based on high employment levels and economic, social and territorial cohesion; whereas a robust social economy is of key importance in this connection;

Amendment 13 #

Draft opinion
Recital A e (new)

Ae. whereas cooperative businesses provide high-quality, inclusive and crisis- resilient jobs that cannot be relocated; whereas, as a result of their cooperative business model, cooperative businesses increased their turnover and continued to grow during the crisis, with fewer bankruptcies and redundancies than other types of companies;

Amendment 14 #

Draft opinion
Recital B

B. whereas social businesses contribute to innovative sustainable growth ~~and~~promote social cohesion within society and ~~local communities, and create employment~~create job opportunities for young people, including ~~disadvantaged~~socially vulnerable young people and those furthest from the labour market;

Amendment 15 #

Draft opinion
Recital B

B. whereas social businesses contribute to ~~innovative sustainable growth and~~greater social cohesion with ~~society and~~ local communities, and create employment opportunities for ~~young people, including~~the most disadvantaged ~~young people~~groups and those furthest from the labour market, focusing on young people in particular;

Amendment 16 #

Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL

Draft opinion
Recital B

B. whereas social and creative businesses contribute to innovative sustainable growth and cohesion within society and local communities, and create employment opportunities for young people, including disadvantaged young people and those furthest from the labour market;

Amendment 17 #

Emilian PAVEL, Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI, Georgi PIRINSKI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ

Draft opinion
Recital B

B. whereas social and inclusive businesses contribute to innovative sustainable ~~growth~~development and cohesion with society and local communities, and create employment opportunities for young people, including disadvantaged young people and those furthest from the labour market;

Amendment 18 #

Draft opinion
Recital B

B. whereas social businesses might contribute to innovative sustainable growth and cohesion with society and local communities, and could create employment opportunities for young people, including disadvantaged young people and those furthest from the labour market;

Amendment 19 #

Emilian PAVEL, Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI, Elena GENTILE, Siôn SIMON, Georgi PIRINSKI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ

Draft opinion
Recital B

B. whereas social businesses ~~contribu~~actively participate toin innovative sustainable growth and cohesion with society and local communities, and create employment opportunities for young people, including disadvantaged young people and those furthest from the labour market;

Amendment 2 #

Draft opinion
Recital A

A. whereas young people can benefit ~~immensely from practical entrepreneurial experience~~from entrepreneurial training and education, which could contributes to new business creation ~~and~~, employability a~~nd boost~~s well as innovation ~~in the wider organisations in which they are employed~~s;

Amendment 20 #

Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas experienced entrepreneurs teaching in education create a positive image of entrepreneurship and facilitate the step towards entrepreneurship;

Amendment 21 #

Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas young entrepreneurs face numerous challenges and difficulties such as lack of experience, right skills, access to finance and infrastructure;

Amendment 22 #

Emilian PAVEL, Damian DRĂGHICI, Georgi PIRINSKI, Brando BENIFEI, Siôn SIMON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ

Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas the inability to use information and communication technologies constitutes a latter-day form of illiteracy;

Amendment 23 #

Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas youth entrepreneurship can contribute to reducing youth unemployment and through education and training it can boost the employability of young people, their leadership and ‘intrapreneurial’ skills;

Amendment 24 #

Patrick LE HYARIC

Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas entrepreneurship cannot be regarded as the only way of finding employment for the 25% of young Europeans currently out of work; whereas it is only one of the possible options and must go hand-in-hand with better training, concerted efforts to find jobs for young people and a new investment policy;

Amendment 25 #

Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas 13 % of young people aged 15–24 and 30 % of those aged 25–29 were neither in employment nor in education or training in the EU in 2013, with large divergences between countries (e.g. Luxembourg with 5% in both cases, and Italy with 22%); and taking into account the EU average rate of early leavers from education and training of 11.9% in 2013, almost 2 points above the EU2020 Strategy goal;

Amendment 26 #

Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)

Bb. whereas the possibility of uncomplicated and non-fraudulent exits allows investors and entrepreneurs to restart businesses more successfully, employ more workers and have lower rates of failure;

Amendment 27 #

Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)

Bb. whereas if they are proficient in foreign languages, young people will be better qualified to engage in business on a transnational scale;

Amendment 28 #

Patrick LE HYARIC

Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)

Bb. whereas youth entrepreneurship can bring new opportunities, but only on the basis of arrangements that protect the entrepreneurs, in particular against semi- freelance work, and guarantee them access to social security benefits and to preferential, viable borrowing rates;

Amendment 29 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Member States to use existing EU-level funding resources more effectively to support initiatives pursuing ~~links with businesses and offering entrepreneurship education to~~more effective and better targeted links between businesses and the education sector and foster an entrepreneurial spirit among young people, in particular those with low- income ~~young people~~s, school dropouts, young people in danger of long-term unemployment and young people with disabilities; calls on the Commission to look into how such funding is actually used; points out that a young, experienced and appropriately skilled workforce is of essential importance to EU competitiveness and will help to speed up the economic recovery process and create jobs in all the Member States;

Amendment 3 #

Draft opinion
Recital A

A. whereas young people benefit ~~immensely~~ from practical entrepreneurial experience, which contributes to new business creation and employability and boosts innovation in the wider organisations in which they are ~~employed~~active;

Amendment 30 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Member States to use existing EU-level funding resources to encourage and support initiatives pursuing links with businesses and offering entrepreneurship education to ~~low-income~~all young people, ~~school dropouts, young people in danger of long-term unemployment and young people with disabilities~~regardless of their level of education or their social or financial situation;

Amendment 31 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Member States to use existing EU-level funding resources to support initiatives pursuing links with businesses and offering entrepreneurship education, to ~~low income young people, school dropouts, young people in danger of long-term unemployment and young people with disabilities~~reverse the perception that it is a residual career option;

Amendment 32 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Member States to use existing EU-level funding resources to support initiatives pursuing links with businesses ~~and offering entrepreneurship education to low-income young people~~so as to encourage young people to develop creativity, initiative and a sense of responsibility, ensuring that they have the necessary knowledge and abilities to start up and manage new businesses; calls on the Member States also to offer entrepreneurship education and business culture to young people, especially those in the low-income bracket, school dropouts, young people in danger of long-term unemployment and young people with disabilities;

Amendment 33 #

Lorenzo FONTANA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Member States to use existing EU-level funding resources to support initiatives pursuing links with businesses and offering ~~entrepreneurship education to low-income young people,~~business training to young people, in particular school dropouts, young people in danger of long- term unemployment and young people with disabilities;

Amendment 34 #

Angel DZHAMBAZKI, Jana ŽITŇANSKÁ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Member States to use existing EU-level funding resources to support initiatives pursuing links with businesses and offering entrepreneurship education to young people, including low- income young people, school dropouts, young people in danger of long-term unemployment and young people with disabilities;

Amendment 35 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Member States to use existing EU-level funding resources to support initiatives pursuing links with businesses and offering entrepreneurship education to low income young people, school dropouts, young people in danger of long-term unemployment, young people coming from underdeveloped regions and young people with disabilities;

Amendment 36 #

Emilian PAVEL, Damian DRĂGHICI, Elena GENTILE, Georgi PIRINSKI, Brando BENIFEI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Member States to use existing EU-level funding resources to support initiatives pursuing links with businesses and offering entrepreneurship education to low-income young people, school dropouts, young people in danger of long-term unemployment, to women seeking to re-enter the working environment following maternity and young people with disabilities;

Amendment 37 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Member States to use existing EU-level funding resources (e.g.: the European Social Fund) to support initiatives pursuing links with businesses and offering entrepreneurship education to ~~low income~~ young people, regardless of socio- economic background or gender, with a particular focus on early school ~~dropout~~leavers, young people in danger of long-term unemployment and young people with disabilities;

Amendment 38 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Member States to use existing EU-level funding resources to support initiatives pursuing links with businesses ~~and offering entrepreneurship education~~, especially SMEs but also with Trade Unions, and offering education and training programmes focused on entrepreneurship and raising individual skills, to low income young people, school dropouts, young people with low-skills in danger of long-term unemployment and young people with disabilities;

Amendment 39 #

Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Member States to use existing EU-level funding resources, in particular the European Social Fund, to support initiatives pursuing links with businesses and offering entrepreneurship education to low-income young people, school dropouts, young people in danger of long-term unemployment and young people with disabilities;

Amendment 4 #

Draft opinion
Recital A

A. whereas young people benefit immensely from practical entrepreneurial experience, which contributes to their development of skills and talent as well as to new business creation and employability ~~and~~, boosts innovation in the wider organisations in which they are employed and reduces youth unemployment;

Amendment 40 #

Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Member States to use existing EU-level funding resources, such as Progress Microfinance, to support initiatives pursuing links with businesses and offering entrepreneurship education to low income young people, school dropouts, young people in danger of long-term unemployment and young people with disabilities;

Amendment 41 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Member States to use existing EU-level funding resources, such as the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs scheme, to support initiatives pursuing links with businesses, ands well as those that offer~~ing~~ entrepreneurship education to low- income young people, school dropouts, young people in danger of long-term unemployment and young people with disabilities;

Amendment 42 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Member States to use ~~existing~~all EU-level funding resources to support initiatives pursuing links with businesses and offering entrepreneurship education to low-income young people, school dropouts, young people in danger of long- term unemployment and young people with disabilities; points out that the pre- financing budget for the European Youth Initiative has been increased by 30% in 2015 so as to allow Member States to speed up the establishment of projects to help young people find a job;

Amendment 43 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Member States, as well as regional and local authorities, to use existing EU-level funding resources to support initiatives pursuing links with businesses and offering entrepreneurship education to low-income young people, school dropouts, young people in danger of long-term unemployment and young people with disabilities;

Amendment 44 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Member States to use existing EU-level funding resources to support and encourage initiatives pursuing links with businesses and offering entrepreneurship education to low-income young people, school dropouts, young people in danger of long-term unemployment and young people with disabilities;

Amendment 45 #

Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Member States to use existing EU-level funding resources to support initiatives pursuing links with businesses and offering entrepreneurship education to low income young people, school dropouts, young people in danger of long-term unemployment and young people with disabilities; calls on the EU to make these funds easily accessible and easy to use;

Amendment 46 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Calls on the Member States to do all they can to raise awareness among young people of the opportunities for setting up businesses, by providing appropriate training;

Amendment 47 #

Brando BENIFEI, Emilian PAVEL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to apply a business- friendly approach when drafting legislation and constantly remove barriers to entrepreneurship in order to help young people to transform their creative ideas into successful business plans;

Amendment 48 #

Jana ŽITŇANSKÁ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Calls on Member States to fight barriers for young entrepreneurs with disabilities through the provision of training for service providers whose responsibilities include supporting disabled individuals and by appropriating the premises, where support is provided, accessible for those with mobility challenges;

Amendment 49 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Highlights the importance of promoting digital skills and digital leadership skills among young people in education and training as essential tools for entrepreneurs in today’s economy and business; highlights the need of decisive investments in education and infrastructures to address the digital divide in the EU, and to foster digital literacy at all levels;

Amendment 5 #

Brando BENIFEI, Emilian PAVEL

Draft opinion
Recital A

A. whereas young people benefit immensely from practical entrepreneurial experience, ~~which contributes to new business creation and employability~~enabling them to build and manage confidence, which contributes to new business creation, the long-term capacity of businesses to survive and employability in high-quality jobs, and boosts innovation in the wider organisations in which they are employed;

Amendment 50 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to exploit the full potential of European programmes, such as Erasmus+, Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs, as well as the EU’s structural and investment funds, in particular the European Social Fund and COSME, for fostering entrepreneurial skills among young people;

Amendment 51 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Member States to be proactive in simplifying the regulatory frameworks ~~of social~~for businesses~~, promote them and monitor the quality of the employment practices of such businesses~~ and removing barriers to entrepreneurship;

Amendment 52 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Member States to be proactive in simplifying the regulatory frameworks of businesses, in particular SMEs and social businesses, and to promote ~~them~~ and monitor the quality of the employment practices of such businesses; calls on the Commission to determine the extent to which such simplification and tax- and credit-related and other incentives result in more jobs and more wealth creation in the EU economy;

Amendment 53 #

Emilian PAVEL, Brando BENIFEI, Georgi PIRINSKI, Elena GENTILE, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Javi LÓPEZ, Damian DRĂGHICI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Member States to be proactive in simplifying the regulatory frameworks ~~of social businesses, promote them~~and streamlining the administrative procedures for all businesses, in particular SMEs, and to promote social businesses and monitor the quality of the employment practices of such businesses;

Amendment 54 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the ~~Member States to be proactive in simplifying~~Commission and the Member States to improve the regulatory frameworks of social businesses, to promote ~~them~~ and monitor the quality of the employment practices of such businesses and to safeguard workers’ rights in this context;

Amendment 55 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Member States to be proactive in simplifying the regulatory frameworks of social businesses, and promot~~e them~~ing social economy in order to improve the social impact of entrepreneurship and to monitor the quality of the employment practices ~~of such businesses~~; and promoting business and SMEs in general in the best practice of the corporate social responsibility;

Amendment 56 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Member States to be proactive in simplifying the regulatory frameworks of social businesses, promote them and monitor the quality of the employment practices of such businesses and promote socially responsible practices in traditional businesses in a bid to increase youth employment;

Amendment 57 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Member States to be proactive in simplifying the regulatory frameworks of social and inclusive businesses, promote them and monitor the quality of the employment practices of such businesses; points out that social and inclusive businesses create sustainable jobs, contribute to the development of communities and help to promote a sustainable environment and to ensure social resilience at times of crisis;

Amendment 58 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Member States to be proactive in simplifying the regulatory frameworks of social businesses, promote them, particularly supporting the development of networking opportunities, and monitor the quality of the employment practices of such businesses;

Amendment 59 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls for public employment services to be more proactive in providing assistance and advice to businesses, and to young entrepreneurs in particular;

Amendment 6 #

Jana ŽITŇANSKÁ

Draft opinion
Recital A

A. whereas young people benefit immensely from practical entrepreneurial experience, which contributes to new business creation and employability and boosts innovation in the wider organisations in which they are employed, whereas entrepreneurship is a hugely unused option for many young people with disabilities;

Amendment 60 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Stresses the need to address financial difficulties that affect young entrepreneurs and facilitate their access to special grants and microcredits as well as reduce existing administrative and regulatory burdens, especially in the very beginning of their entrepreneurial activities;

Amendment 61 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls on the Member States to promote cooperative entrepreneurship, which is based on democratic decision- making procedures and helps young people to become responsible employers, employees and consumers; points out that cooperatives and other social and inclusive enterprises are an integral part of the European social model and the single market and therefore deserve full recognition and support, as provided for in the constitutions of some Member States and various fundamental EU provisions;

Amendment 62 #

Emilian PAVEL, Georgi PIRINSKI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Brando BENIFEI, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Javi LÓPEZ, Damian DRĂGHICI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls on the Member States to provide for information and communication technologies and foreign languages to be taught during the first years of schooling;

Amendment 63 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls on the Member States to put in place a regulatory environment and fiscal incentives that encourage the development of youth entrepreneurial initiatives and boost job creation, as well as to improve welfare and insurance systems so as to guarantee minimum protection for young entrepreneurs;

Amendment 64 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Calls on the Member States to support green and sustainable business projects;

Amendment 65 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Member States to offer ~~micro-scholarships and micro-loans schemes~~support and assistance to innovative students in secondary and tertiary education respectively in order to start their own ventures or projects;

Amendment 66 #

Lorenzo FONTANA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Member States to offer ~~micro-~~scholarships ~~and~~or incentives such as micro- loans schemes to innovative students in secondary and tertiary education respectively in order to start their own ventures or projects;

Amendment 67 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Member States to offer ~~micro-~~scholarships and micro-loans schemes to innovative students in secondary and tertiary education respectively in order to start their own ventures or projects;

Amendment 68 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Member States to offer ~~micro-~~scholarships ~~and micro-loans schemes~~ to innovative students in secondary and tertiary education respectively in order to start their own ventures or projects; to promote the use of crowdfunding, developing partnerships between the local economy, businesses and universities; to enhance the role of businesses in integrating young people within the labour market, consolidating the ESP (entrepreneurial skills pass) at the various stages of school and university and especially in partnership with SMEs;

Amendment 69 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Member States to ~~offer~~encourage existing and create new micro- scholarship~~s and~~ programs, micro-loans schemes to, multidisciplinary assistance and peer-to-peer evaluation platforms to enhance innovative students in secondary and tertiary education respectively in order to start their own ventures or projects;

Amendment 7 #

Draft opinion
Recital A

A. whereas young people benefit immensely from practical entrepreneurial experience, ~~which~~thereby contributesing to new business creation and employability and boosts innovation in the wider organisations in which they are employed;

Amendment 70 #

Emilian PAVEL, Elena GENTILE, Georgi PIRINSKI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Member States to promote the offer of micro-scholarships and micro- loans schemes to ~~innovative~~ students in secondary and tertiary education respectively in order to start their own ventures or projects with European facilities like Progress Microfinance and EaSI; and to facilitate access and return of loans, reducing prices and charges regarding the private placement and preventing these credits end up being a future slab for young people in their professional development and especially in the transition to working adult life;

Amendment 71 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Member States to offer micro-scholarships and micro-loans schemes to ~~innovative~~ students in ~~secondary and tertiary education respectively in order to start their own ventures or project~~order to start their own ventures or projects, and to put measures in place to protect young people against indebtedness;

Amendment 72 #

Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Member States to offer increased access to and availability of micro-scholarships and micro-loans schemes, such as those supported under the Microfinance and Social Entrepreneurship axis of EaSI, to innovative students in secondary and tertiary education respectively in order to start their own ventures or projects;

Amendment 73 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Member States to offer micro-scholarships and micro-loans ~~schemes~~ to innovative students in secondary and tertiary education respectively in order to s~~et up~~tart their own ~~ventur~~businesses or projects;

Amendment 74 #

Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Member States to offer micro-scholarships and micro-loans schemes, as well as information and mentoring to innovative students in secondary and tertiary education respectively in order to start their own ventures or projects;

Amendment 75 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Member States, as well as regional and local authorities, to offer micro-scholarships and micro-loans schemes to innovative students in secondary and tertiary education respectively in order to start their own ventures or projects;

Amendment 76 #

Patrick LE HYARIC

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Member States to offer micro-scholarships and micro-loans schemes to innovative students in secondary and tertiary education respectively in order to start their own ventures or projects, without putting a strain on funding for grants and assistance subject to social criteria;

Amendment 77 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Member States to offer micro-scholarships and micro-loans schemes to innovative students in secondary and tertiary education respectively in order to start their own ventures or projects, and to create community programmes focusing on the various innovative skills, thus forging together the various persons and bodies of knowledge;

Amendment 78 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls on Member States to develop policy measures in order to increase the entrepreneurial knowledge among young people via specialised trainings from an early age, development of soft skills such as teamwork, autonomy and self- initiative as well as to promote the idea of becoming an entrepreneur;

Amendment 79 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls on the Member States to facilitate access to credit for young entrepreneurs and to provide them with zero-interest loan guarantees to facilitate the start-up and stabilisation of their business projects;

Amendment 8 #

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the effects and impact of entrepreneurship programmes in education show that students who went through these programmes obtain a job more rapidly after finishing their studies;

Amendment 80 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Urges the Member States to keep up a flow of investment in continuing education for primary and secondary school teachers to enable them to update their knowledge and skills and in that way further the development of their pupils, as is essential if pupils are to acquire entrepreneurial skills;

Amendment 81 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Stresses the importance of practical experience for the success of start- ups set up by young entrepreneurs, therefore calls on Member States to develop initiatives that provide young entrepreneurs with skills, advice, coaching and mentoring activities led by experienced entrepreneurs and business experts;

Amendment 82 #

Emilian PAVEL, Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI, Elena GENTILE, Georgi PIRINSKI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Member States to improve the entrepreneurial culture within tertiary education, bearing in mind that not all young people currently possess a business profile, by establishing the conditions to support the creation of new companies based on academic research (spin-offs)~~, reducing the bureaucratic burden involved~~ and giving young people the necessary tools to forge deeper links with the busin es~~tablish~~s world, bringing such ~~companies and promoting the benefits of commercialising research~~ools and universities more closely into line with business needs;

Amendment 83 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

Amendment 84 #

Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

Amendment 85 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Member States to improve the entrepreneurial culture within tertiary education by establishing the conditions to support the creation of new companies by young people based on academic research (spin-offs), reducing the bureaucratic burden involved in establishing such companies and promoting the benefits of commercialising research as well as by strengthening the cooperation between educational institutions and companies, welcomes the initiatives which reward young people for successful business ventures (e.g. The Best Student Company of the Year), further emphasises the importance for companies to provide the possibility for young people to get their first direct in-house work experience and re-iterates the necessity to promote traineeships schemes with such objective;

Amendment 86 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. CUrges Member States to develop the spirtit of entrepreneurship among young people from an early age by providing opportunities for company internships and visits, so as to to give them an overview of the business world; calls on the Member States also to improve the entrepreneurial culture within tertiary education by establishing the conditions to support the creation of new companies based on academic research (spin-offs), reducing the bureaucratic burden involved in establishing such companies and promoting the benefits of commercialising research;

Amendment 87 #

Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Member States to improve the entrepreneurial culture within tertiary education by establishing the conditions to support the creation of new companies based on academic research (spin-offs), reducing the bureaucratic burden involved in establishing such companies and promoting the benefits of commercialising research; recalls the importance of Erasmus+ as a vehicle to promote entrepreneurship through education and training providing young people with the opportunity to study and train abroad as well as supporting institutions and organisations to exchange and innovate good practices and form cross-sector strategic partnerships;

Amendment 88 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Member States to improve the entrepreneurial culture within tertiary education by establishing the conditions to support the creation of new companies based on academic research (spin-offs), reducing the bureaucratic burden involved in establishing such companies and promoting the benefits of commercialising research; in this context, schools and universities should provide the time, space and recognition for initiatives by young people so as to give them the necessary confidence to undertake new projects that may in time prove useful for setting up independent businesses;

Amendment 89 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Member States to improve the entrepreneurial culture within tertiary education by establishing the conditions to support the creation of new companies based on academic research (spin-offs), creating a clear legal tax framework for student-entrepreneurs, reducing the bureaucratic burden involved in establishing such companies and promoting the benefits of commercialising research;

Amendment 9 #

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the EU youth employment statistics are alarming and whereas 14 million 15 to 29 year-olds were not in education, employment or training in 20121 a; __________________ 1a http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publicati ons/report/2012/labour-market-social- policies/neets-young-people-not-in- employment-education-or-training- characteristics-costs-and-policy

Amendment 90 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

Amendment 91 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

Amendment 92 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

Amendment 93 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

Amendment 94 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Member States to endeavour to improve the entrepreneurial culture within tertiary education by establishing the conditions to support the creation of new companies based on academic research (spin-offs), reducing the bureaucratic burden involved in establishing such companies and promoting the benefits of commercialising research;

Amendment 95 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls on the Member States to do everything possible to facilitate business initiatives by young people so as not to discourage their projects; emphasizes the responsibility of Member States to simplify the administrative formalities imposed on companies, possibly hindering creativity;

Amendment 96 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Stresses the important role that teachers play in fostering an entrepreneurial mindset among young people and providing them with right skills and qualifications, therefore calls on Member States to pay special attention to development and provision of specialised and experience- based trainings to teachers;

Amendment 97 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls on the Member States to expand the opportunities for the inflow of experienced entrepreneurs as teachers in education;

Amendment 98 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls on the Member States to ensure that European programmes to boost youth entrepreneurship, along the lines of, say, the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs programme, are publicised within secondary, vocational, and higher education institutions;

Amendment 99 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Urges the Member States to encourage the establishment in universities of business incubators dedicated to the sectors of the future and environmental protection and to provide access for all students;

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Amendment 1 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 a (new)

- having regard to the Council Directive 2000/43/EC of 29 June 2000 implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin,

Amendment 10 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas youth entrepreneurship needs to be an important integral part of the political strategy to support today’s youth generation in terms of EU goals for growth and employment and to reduce youth unemployment in the EU;

Amendment 100 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Emphasises the necessity of the broad definition of the key competence ‘a sense of initiative and entrepreneurship’, which involves creativity, innovation and risk- taking, as well as the ability to plan and manage projects in order to achieve objectives, and even the idea that the individual is aware of the context of his/her work and is able to seize opportunities that arise; has faith in the creative industry sectors and enterprises relating to culture, which can highlight business opportunities especially for young people;

Amendment 101 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Stresses the need for a broad approach to entrepreneurship as a set of transversal key competences for personal and professional purposes;

Amendment 102 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Stresses the importance of organisational monitoring and auditing skills; encourages in particular the development of social and environmental audit, as an innovative monitoring tool;

Amendment 103 #

Milan ZVER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Is convinced that organisations and individuals, who promote the concept of ‘competences’ rather than the concept of ‘skills’ in the field of youth entrepreneurship, while maybe being well intentioned, harm the efforts of EU institutions and Member States to increase the rates of youth self- employment. Such proposals try to water down the efforts to provide the young generation with the appropriate skills and the real possibility to start their own businesses and to help themselves and the society in general;

Amendment 104 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Recalls that the creative industries are amongst the most entrepreneurial sectors, developing transferable skills such as creative thinking, problem-solving, teamwork, and resourcefulness;

Amendment 105 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Is convinced that the next step needed is to ~~specify~~propose in detail how the key competence framework can be developed and applied appropriately at each level of education~~, by setting standards for the entrepreneurship skills and competences which should be the outcome of each specific educational and apprenticeship programme~~;

Amendment 106 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Is convinced that the next step needed is to specify in detail how the key competences framework can be ~~developed and appli~~further implemented appropriately at each level of education~~, by setting standards~~ for the entrepreneurship ~~skills and competences which should be the~~competence, by including entrepreneurship knowledge, skills and attitudes as a learning outcome of each specific educational and apprenticeship programme;

Amendment 107 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

~~4. Stresses that at all levels of education, even elementary, the teaching of practical entrepreneurship skills and the fostering of motivation and readiness should be provided;~~deleted

Amendment 108 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that at all levels of education, ~~even~~from elementary to university, not excluding any type of higher education institution, the teaching of practical entrepreneurship skills and the fostering of motivation and readiness should be provided; encourages greater linkage between entrepreneurship education and career counselling, as well as with the research and innovation sector, in order to support the process of developing key entrepreneurship skills and competences;

Amendment 109 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that ~~at all levels of education, even elementary, the teaching of~~the practical entrepreneurship skills and the fostering of motivation and readiness should ~~be provided~~constitute one component of teaching provided at different levels of education;

Amendment 11 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas in the current European economic and legal framework heavy disincentives still exist to a successful, inclusive and sustainable development of youth entrepreneurship, among which the Stability and Growth Pact, and notably the fiscal compact, that is worsening the economic crisis, at least for some Member States;

Amendment 110 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that ~~at all levels of education, even elementary, the teaching of~~formal, non-formal and informal learning opportunities on human rights, environment protection, civic education and related practical entrepreneurship skills ~~and the~~should be provided, fostering ofpersonal motivation and readiness ~~should be provided~~;

Amendment 111 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Believes that education has a real part to play in developing a culture of innovation in the workforce; Stresses that at all levels of education, even elementary, the teaching of practical entrepreneurship skills and the fostering of motivation and readiness should be provided;

Amendment 112 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that at all levels of education, even elementary, the teaching of ~~practical~~ entrepreneurship ~~skill~~competences and the fostering of motivation ~~and~~, readiness ~~should be provided~~and sense of initiative should be provided and should be accompanied by mentoring, tutoring and guidance for disadvantaged learners;

Amendment 113 #

Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Jana TOOM, Juan Carlos GIRAUTA VIDAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that at all levels of education, even elementary, the teaching of practical entrepreneurship skills and the fostering of motivation and readiness should be provided; highlights the role of informal and independent learning, including volunteering, in endowing young people with entrepreneurial spirit and skills;

Amendment 114 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that at all levels and types of education~~, even elementary, the~~ teaching of practical entrepreneurship skills and ~~the~~ fostering of motivation and readiness should be provided in all Member States; Modules in basic finance, economics and business environment should be integrated in the curricula of all schools, in order to underpin and facilitate students´ understanding of the entrepreneurial process and to develop an entrepreneurial mindset;

Amendment 115 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

Amendment 116 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that at all levels of education, even elementary, the teaching of practical entrepreneurship skills and the fostering of motivation and readiness ~~should~~must be provided;

Amendment 117 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Believes there is a need, therefore, to facilitate and encourage participation by entrepreneurs in the educational process;

Amendment 118 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls on the Commission to emphasise the importance and role of different forms of social entrepreneurship, which are often a good way for young Europeans to gain initial experience in business;

Amendment 119 #

Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Jana TOOM, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Juan Carlos GIRAUTA VIDAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Recognises that a key element in the teaching of entrepreneurship is the proper preparation of teachers to ensure the authenticity of the educational process;

Amendment 12 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas entrepreneurship should be understood in its broader sense as the ability to turn ideas into actions;

Amendment 120 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Emphasises the need to develop innovative pedagogies that are more participative and learner-centred in order to encourage the acquisition of a set of transversal competences needed for the development of entrepreneurial mind-sets;

Amendment 121 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Recommends that entrepreneurship as part of higher education and in alumni projects is to be encouraged including social entrepreneurship models;

Amendment 122 #

Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Jana TOOM, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Juan Carlos GIRAUTA VIDAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Points out that promoting entrepreneurship through education can only succeed in a meaningful way if economic and social aspects appear in a balanced way in educational strategies and efforts are made to prevent ill- considered economising in terms of content;

Amendment 123 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Emphasises that setting an entrepreneurial mindset will be substantially beneficial for disadvantaged people by helping them overcome different barriers that lead to their social exclusion;

Amendment 124 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Recognises that social entrepreneurship can boost employment and contribute to social inclusion and the fight against poverty;

Amendment 125 #

Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Jana TOOM, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Juan Carlos GIRAUTA VIDAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Stresses that dual training and company-sponsored study programmes have proved to be key in imparting the core competences of companies in those Member States where such programmes operate;

Amendment 126 #

Marlene MIZZI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Encourages full engagement and partnership among all stakeholders and in particular local entrepreneurial organisations, businesses and educational institutions in order to share best practices and experiences and to improve young people’s entrepreneurial skills and education among Member States;

Amendment 127 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Emphasises the importance to equip all young people with ICT competences, transversal and entrepreneurial skills in order to facilitate their school-to-work transition: to better compete for jobs, become self-employed, learn to better understand their prospective employers´ behaviour and needs, and contribute to innovative and competitive capability of employer organisation;

Amendment 128 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Stresses that a close link between company training and mainstream education is a successful model which should be strengthened and promoted throughout Europe and beyond;

Amendment 129 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Stresses that progress in the digital economy creates new entrepreneurial opportunities on the one hand and the digital transformation creates new forms of developing, imparting and promoting entrepreneurship on the other;

Amendment 13 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas ~~in February 2015,~~from 2008 until February 2015 European youth unemployment increased enormously with 4.85 million young people ~~were~~ unemployed in the EU- 28, which is unacceptably high~~, and although youth unemployment is diminishing – it has decreased by 494 000 compared with February 2014 – this is taking place at too slow a pace~~;

Amendment 130 #

Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Jana TOOM, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Juan Carlos GIRAUTA VIDAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Stresses that entrepreneurship competence should be developed and improved through lifetime, including via work experience and non-formal and informal learning and its validation should be enhanced and supported as it contributes to career development;

Amendment 131 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4c. Underlines the need to encourage the acquisition of digital skills that enable young people to fully exploit the potential of digital world;

Amendment 132 #

Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Jana TOOM, Juan Carlos GIRAUTA VIDAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4c. Is therefore convinced that the successful deployment of entrepreneurial ability is more and more dependent on accompanying media and digital competence and that this interrelationship should receive a greater focus in education and training;

Amendment 133 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 d (new)

4d. Highlights that business community has a key role to play in entrepreneurship education and training providing an experienced-based learning that complement youth´s theoretical education;

Amendment 134 #

Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Andrea BOCSKOR, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Norbert ERDŐS, Milan ZVER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 d (new)

4d. Draws attention to the urgent need for high-quality further training for teachers, since entrepreneurship can only be taught in a clear way by people with sufficient entrepreneurial ability;

Amendment 135 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2

Role of the EU institutions – ~~methodology, communication~~coordination, methodology and financial tools

Amendment 136 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Council and the Commission, within their respective competences and in full compliance with the principle of subsidiarity, to develop methodological support and tools for national education systems in the area of entrepreneurship education and training;

Amendment 137 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Council and the Commission, within their respective competences, to develop methodological support and tools ~~for~~to be available to national education systems in the area of entrepreneurship education and training;

Amendment 138 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Council and the Commission, within their respective competences, to develop methodological support and tools for national education systems in the area of entrepreneurship education and training and to follow a coordinated approach calling on the Member States’ public administrations to cooperate more closely with companies in order to disseminate the key factors needed to improve entrepreneurship;

Amendment 139 #

Tonino PICULA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Council and the Commission, within their respective competences, to develop methodological support and tools for national education systems in the area of entrepreneurship education and training; calls on the Commission to increase the amount of support for young entrepreneurs under the European Structural & Investment Funds;

Amendment 14 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas in February 2015, 4.85 million young people were unemployed in the EU- 28, which is unacceptably high, and ~~although~~decrease of youth unemployment is ~~diminishing – it has decreased by 494 000 compared with February 2014 – this is~~ taking place at too slow a pace;

Amendment 140 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

Amendment 141 #

Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Jana TOOM, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Juan Carlos GIRAUTA VIDAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls on the Council and Commission to apply a gender perspective in respect of methodology, communication and financial tools in order to encourage greater engagement in entrepreneurship by girls, young women and LGBTI youth, and to monitor progress in this respect;

Amendment 142 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls on the Commission to set and boost entrepreneurial traineeship and exchange programs, to give young people opportunities to gain hands-on experience and facilitate the exchange of knowledge and experience;

Amendment 143 #

Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Jana TOOM, Juan Carlos GIRAUTA VIDAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Calls on the Commission to elaborate a comprehensive strategy for developing transversal skills as critical thinking, problem solving, initiative, collaboration, cooperation self-direction, planning, leadership and team-building, at all levels and types of education and training, taking into account that they are beneficial for broad range of occupations and sectors;

Amendment 144 #

Andrew LEWER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission to increase the focus on improving entrepreneurship skills within the Erasmus+ programme ~~and to promote education policy reforms in Member States in this regard~~;

Amendment 145 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission to increase the ~~focus on improving~~improvement of entrepreneurship skills within the Erasmus+ programme and to promote education policy reforms in Member States in this regard, at the same time ensuring that Erasmus + does not focus solely on labour market policy objectives and that low-threshold access to entrepreneurial activities is maintained, particularly in the area of non-formal and informal education;

Amendment 146 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission to increase the focus on improving entrepreneurship skills related to human rights and environment protection and corporate social responsibility within the Erasmus+ programme and to promote ~~education~~ policy reforms in Member States in this regard;

Amendment 147 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission to increase the focus on improving entrepreneurship skills within the Erasmus+ programme, to strengthen cohesion between European programmes supporting projects in the area of education on entrepreneurship, and to promote education policy reforms in Member States in this regard;

Amendment 148 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission to increase the focus on improving the development and assessment of transversal competences, in particular ‘a sense of initiative and entrepreneurship ~~skills~~’, within the Erasmus+ programme and to promote education policy reforms in Member States in this regard;

Amendment 149 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission to i~~ncrease the focus~~mplement the existing target on improving entrepreneurship skills within the Erasmus+ programme ~~and to promote education policy reforms in Member States in this regard~~, while underlining that the Erasmus+ programme should not be unilaterally oriented towards considerations of employability;

Amendment 15 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas in February 2015, 4.85 million young people were unemployed in the EU- 28, which is unacceptably high, and although youth unemployment is diminishing – it has decreased by 494 000 compared with February 2014 – this is taking place at too slow a pace; criticises the inadequacy of the Youth Employment Initiative to deal with the scale of the youth unemployment crisis in the EU;

Amendment 150 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission to increase the focus on improving entrepreneurship skills within the Erasmus+ programme and to ~~promote education policy reforms in Member States in this regard~~support those Member States that wish to carry out reforms of their education policy;

Amendment 151 #

Tonino PICULA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission to allocate more funds to the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs programme so that more young people can participate in it, to increase the focus on improving entrepreneurship skills within the Erasmus+ programme and to promote education policy reforms in Member States in this regard;

Amendment 152 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission to increase the focus on improving entrepreneurship skills within the Erasmus+ programme ~~and~~, to promote education policy reforms in Member States in this regard and to create a coherent policy framework for Member States and the EU;

Amendment 153 #

Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Jana TOOM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls on the Commission to stress more clearly, when implementing the ERASMUS + programme, that the development of transversal skills such as entrepreneurship and digital competence are important priorities and to pay greater attention to the existing funding opportunities for entrepreneurship among young people;

Amendment 154 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Calls on the Commission to support monitoring of ICT skills ~~(ICILS – International Computer and Information Literacy Study) and monitoring of problem-solving skills and financial literacy (within the PISA Programme for International Student Assessment)~~, problem-solving skills and financial literacy; calls on the Commission to carry out longitudinal research in this area;

Amendment 155 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

~~8. Calls on the Commission to use the European Fund for Strategic Investment to support entrepreneurship education at national and local level;~~deleted

Amendment 156 #

Andrew LEWER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

~~8. Calls on the Commission to use the European Fund for Strategic Investment to support entrepreneurship education at national and local level;~~deleted

Amendment 157 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. CExpresses concern at the impact the EFSI will have on research and innovation projects considering the fact that 500 million is to be taken from Horizon 2020 over the next 5 years; calls on the Commission to ~~use~~ensure that the European Fund for Strategic Investment is used to support entrepreneurship education at national and local level;

Amendment 158 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the Commission to use the European Fund for Strategic Investment, and in particular the European Social Fund, to support entrepreneurship education at national and local level;

Amendment 159 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the Commission to ~~use the European Fund for Strategic Investment to support~~support partnerships between educational institutions and companies via the use of the European Fund for Strategic Investment to encourage work-based learning in companies and foster entrepreneurship ~~education at~~competences on national and local level;

Amendment 16 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas in some Member States, in addition to the economic crisis, laws reforming the national labour market produced the multiplication of precarious jobs for young people, even impeding for an increasing number of them the access to first necessity goods and services;

Amendment 160 #

Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Jana TOOM, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Juan Carlos GIRAUTA VIDAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

~~European Fund for Strategic Investment to support entrepreneurship education at national and local level;~~

Amendment 161 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the Commission to use the European Fund for Strategic Investment to support entrepreneurship education atnd young entrepreneurs through national and local ~~level~~programmes;

Amendment 162 #

Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Jana TOOM, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Juan Carlos GIRAUTA VIDAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Commission to ~~create~~support a European Entrepreneurship Education Network ~~to gather together and make available good practice to be shared by schools,~~which is supported by European organiszations~~, businesses, authorities and other stakeholders at European, national and local level~~ and other stakeholders, including national education authorities, to gather and exchange best practices;

Amendment 163 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Commission to ~~create a European Entrepreneurship~~foster existing European Education Network to gather together and make available good practices, to be shared by schools, organisations, businesses, authorities and other stakeholders at European, national and local levels;

Amendment 164 #

Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Andrea BOCSKOR, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Norbert ERDŐS, Milan ZVER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Commission to ~~create~~support a European Eentrepreneurship Eeducation Nnetwork to gather together and make available good practice to be shared by schools, organisations, businesses, authorities and other stakeholders at European, national and local levels, such as the European Entrepreneurship Education NETwork (EE-HUB) established in May 2015;

Amendment 165 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Commission to create a European Entrepreneurship Education Network to gather together and make available good practice to be shared by ~~schools,~~educational institutions, educational organisations, businesses, authorities, social partners and other stakeholders at European, national and local levels;

Amendment 166 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Commission to create a European Entrepreneurship Education Network to gather together and make available good practice to be shared by schools, organisations, businesses, authorities, associations and other stakeholders at European, national and local levels;

Amendment 167 #

Silvia COSTA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Commission to create a European Entrepreneurship Education Network to gather together and make available good practice to be shared by schools, vocational training institutions, organisations, businesses, authorities and other stakeholders at European, national and local levels;

Amendment 168 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Commission to create a European Entrepreneurship Education Network to gather together and make available good practice to be shared by schools, organisations, businesses, authorities and other stakeholders at European, national and local levels provided the funds are sourced from existing budgets and by reallocating departmental priorities, not simply adding to them;

Amendment 169 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Calls on the Commission to coordinate and promote the exchange of best practices between Member States;

Amendment 17 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas, as a result of such high youth unemployment, young people are experiencing increased levels of poverty and social exclusion, especially those from disadvantaged and vulnerable groups;

Amendment 170 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

Amendment 171 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Calls on the Commission to provide more effective coordination ~~and leadership~~ in the area of entrepreneurship education in the context of the EU’s global strategies and the Juncker Commission’s plan;

Amendment 172 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Calls on the Commission to provide more effective coordination and leadership in the area of entrepreneurship education in the context of the EU’s global strategies ~~and the Juncke~~, primarily focusing on the development of cooperatives model defined by ILO as ‘an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their Ccomm~~iss~~on economic, social and cultural needs and aspiration’s ~~plan~~through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise’;

Amendment 173 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Calls on the Commission to ~~provide more effective coordination and leadership~~ensure a coherent ecosystem approach in the area of entrepreneurship education in the context of its broader EU lifelong learning strategy, the EU’s global strategies and the Juncker Commission’s plan;

Amendment 174 #

Nicola CAPUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Calls on the Commission to promote the development of relational soft skills in project management, given that emotional intelligence can help people to take an original approach to problems by fostering creativity and intellectual flexibility and boosting leadership skills and the ability to integrate into a team;

Amendment 175 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 – introductory part

11. Proposes that the Commission ~~include~~maintains entrepreneurship education and training as ~~an explicit~~one of the objectives of a future Erasmus+ programme in the next financial period (post-2020) containing the following elements:

Amendment 176 #

Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Andrea BOCSKOR, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Norbert ERDŐS, Milan ZVER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 – introductory part

11. Proposes that the Commission include entrepreneurship education and training as an explicit objective of a future Erasmus+ programme in the next financial period (post-2020) in all its actions, including mobility, while containing the following elements:

Amendment 177 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 – introductory part

11. Proposes that the Commission includes entrepreneurship education and training, comprising social entrepreneurship, as an explicit objective of a future Erasmus+ programme in the next financial period (post-2020) containing the following elements:

Amendment 178 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 – point -i (new)

(-i) carefully assess the impact of existing measures promoting entrepreneurship through education and training and potentially adapt them, while attributing special attention to the effects on underrepresented and disadvantaged groups,

Amendment 179 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 – point i

(i) promotion of curriculum objectives for non-formal and in~~on-~~formal education targeting all students – both theoretical modules and practical modules, such as student entrepreneurial projects,

Amendment 18 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas in 2012 the International Labour Organisation estimated that the implementation of an effective Youth Guarantee in Europe would require new spending of €21 billion; regrets that the Commission has only committed to €6 billion for the Youth Employment Initiative; recognises and welcomes the fact however that commitments have been made to speed up the delivery of Youth Employment Initiative funds to Member States but calls for even stronger commitments from the European Commission to tackle this serious problem and a properly funded and properly implemented Youth Guarantee;

Amendment 180 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 – point i

(i) promotion of ~~curriculum ob~~project~~ive~~s for formal and non-formal education targeting all students – both theoretical modules and practical modules, such as student entrepreneurial projects,

Amendment 181 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 – point i

(i) promotion of curriculum objectives for formal and non-formal education targeting all students – both theoretical modules and practical modules, such as student entrepreneurial projects including social enterprise projects working with local communities,

Amendment 182 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 – point i

(i) promotion of ~~curriculum objectiv~~better defined learning contents and outcomes for formal and non-formal education targeting all students – both theoretical modules and practical modules, such as student entrepreneurial projects,

Amendment 183 #

Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Andrea BOCSKOR, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Norbert ERDŐS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 – point ii

(ii) support for the qualifications of teachers, coaches and education leaders and their continuing professional development in the entrepreneur~~ship~~ial cooperative education area,

Amendment 184 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 – point ii

(ii) support for the qualifications of teachers and educators and their continuing professional development in the entrepreneurship education area,

Amendment 185 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 – point ii

(ii) support for the initial qualifications of teachers, educators and youth workers and their continuing professional development and empowerment in the entrepreneurship education area,;

Amendment 186 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 – point iii

(iii) promotion of links between schools and enterprises in order to devise suitable courses and to provide students with the requisite practical experience and models,

Amendment 187 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 – point iii

(iii) promotion of links between schools and enterprises in order to provide students with practical experience and models and know-how that can be used in practice,

Amendment 188 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 – point iii

(iii) promotion of ~~links between schools and enterprises~~partnerships between educational institutions, enterprises, non- profit organizations, regional and local authorities and non-formal education providers, in order to provide students with practical experience and models,

Amendment 189 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 – point iv

(iv) development of skills in the areas of entrepreneurial ~~processes, financial~~cooperative processes related to human rights and environment protection, corporate social responsibility, fair trade literacy, ICT literacy and skills, problem solving and an innovative mindset;

Amendment 19 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital Β a (new)

Ba. whereas there are high rates of youth unemployment and fiscal consolidation in those Member States mainly affected by the crisis should not be carried out to the detriment of jobs involving young people;

Amendment 190 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 – point iv

(iv) development of skills in the areas of entrepreneurial processes, financial literacy, ICT literacy and skills, creative thinking, problem solving and an innovative mindset;

Amendment 191 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 – point iv

(iv) development of skills in the areas of entrepreneurial processes, ~~financial literacy~~management, ICT literacy and skills, problem solving and an innovative mindset;

Amendment 192 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 – point iv

(iv) development of skills in the areas of entrepreneurial processes, financial literacy, ICT literacy and skills, problem solving and an innovative mindset, self- confidence, confidence in one’s ideas, adaptability, risk-assessment, creative utility, and specific business skills and knowledge as well;

Amendment 193 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 – point iv

(iv) development of skills in the areas of entrepreneurial processes, financial literacy, ICT literacy and skills, problem solving and an innovative mindset, creativity, team-building, project- management and risk-taking;

Amendment 194 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 – point iv a (new)

(iva) removal of all the physical and digital obstacles which people with a disability still have to contend with, as their full integration into the job market could be of key importance to the promotion of a sustainable and cohesive business culture;

Amendment 195 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 – point iv a (new)

(iva) highlights non-formal and informal learning as a privileged environment to acquire entrepreneurship competences;

Amendment 196 #

Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Jana TOOM, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Juan Carlos GIRAUTA VIDAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Calls on the Commission to investigate and address the factors that discourage women from taking up the option of entrepreneurship, whilst specifically promoting access to funding and support services for young female entrepreneurs;

Amendment 197 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Calls on the Commission to encourage better cooperation and exchange of good practices among Member States that have already integrated entrepreneurship education into their curricula and have achieved better progress in promoting youth entrepreneurship and those Member States that are still in the beginning of this process;

Amendment 198 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Calls on the Commission to compile, by the end of 2017, a ‘best practice’ for disseminating entrepreneurial ability and promoting youth entrepreneurship in the Member States, submit a report on this to Parliament and take the results of this work into account when evaluating its own funding procedures;

Amendment 199 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Calls on the Member States to promote entrepreneurship education as a way to foster transversal competences for a better management of learners’ personal and professional life; those competences shall be mainstreamed in curricula from a very early age, and should not be business-oriented;

Amendment 2 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)

- having regard to the Council recommendation of 22 April 2013 on establishing a Youth Guarantee (2013/C 120/01),

Amendment 20 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)

Ba. whereas the gap between education and training and the job market is one of the causes of youth unemployment and of the large number of unfilled vacancies in the EU and should be addressed also by empowering young people with key competences, including sense of initiative and entrepreneurship, needed to participate confidently in today’s knowledge-based economy and society;

Amendment 200 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Member States to promote the development of entrepreneurship- friendly environments which will facilitate young people’s start-ups and enable quick recovery from initial failures which thereby helps to develop a constructive culture of failure and reattempt;

Amendment 201 #

Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

Amendment 202 #

Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Jana TOOM, Juan Carlos GIRAUTA VIDAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Member States to promote the development of entrepreneurship- friendly environments which will facilitate young people’s start-ups and enable quick recovery from initial failures; emphasises the importance of the concept of ‘positive failures’ in this context;

Amendment 203 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Member States to promote the development of entrepreneurship- friendly environments which will facilitate young people’s start-ups and enable quick recovery from initial failures; underlines the importance to promote better understanding towards business failure and calls for its acceptation as an opportunity for learning and improving;

Amendment 204 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Member States to promote the development of entrepreneurship- friendly environments and training which will facilitate young people’s start-ups and enable quick recovery in the event of dropping out of school or from initial failures;

Amendment 205 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Member States to endeavour to promote the development of entrepreneurship- friendly environments which will facilitate young people’s start- ups and enable quick recovery from initial failures;

Amendment 206 #

Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Juan Carlos GIRAUTA VIDAL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Member States, as well as regional and local authorities, to promote the development of entrepreneurship- friendly environments which will facilitate young people’s start-ups and enable quick recovery from initial failures;

Amendment 207 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Member States to promote the development of training for launching and managing start-ups, including expert mentorship, incubators and accelerators and all entrepreneurship- friendly environments which will facilitate young people’s start-ups and enable quick recovery from initial failures;

Amendment 208 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Member States to promote the development of entrepreneurship- friendly environments which will facilitate young people’s start-ups and enable quick recovery from initial failures and which will pay special attention to reach out to disadvantaged young people as well;

Amendment 209 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Urges Member States to ensure that our young entrepreneurs have the access to finance that they require and that they are supported at every stage;

Amendment 21 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the European Union, via the Europe 2020 strategy and its flagship initiatives on ‘New skills and jobs’, ‘Digital Agenda for Europe’, ‘Innovation Union’ and ‘Youth on the move’ and targeted support for women entrepreneurs and disadvantaged and disabled people, promotes entrepreneurship by fostering entrepreneurial mindsets and related knowledge, skills and competences that can boost competitiveness and growth which will be smart, sustainable and inclusive;

Amendment 210 #

Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Jana TOOM, Juan Carlos GIRAUTA VIDAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Calls on the Member States to foster sharing of best practice, encourage both domestic and cross-border partnerships, support fledgling enterprises and the work of relevant small and medium enterprises networks and development agencies, particularly for social enterprises;

Amendment 211 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Calls on Member States to adopt innovative methods to train teachers and mentors in entrepreneurship, for instance by involving them in real work on enterprise projects, in order to be more effective while teaching students, taking into account that the quality of the teachers and mentors is essential for the success of the initiative;

Amendment 212 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Member States to make use of the EU Structural Funds, in particular the European Social Fund, in order to promote entrepreneurship education and training at national, regional and local level;

Amendment 213 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Member States, as well as regional and local authorities, to make use of the EU Structural Funds in order to promote entrepreneurship education and training at national, regional and local level;

Amendment 214 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Member States to ~~make use~~use the resources of the EU Structural Funds to the full in order to promote entrepreneurship education and training and the development of digital skills at national, regional and local level;

Amendment 215 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Encourages Member States to provide specific training to teachers to enable them to foster and encourage entrepreneurial skills and to consider including entrepreneurship as part of the education curriculum;

Amendment 216 #

Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Jana TOOM, Juan Carlos GIRAUTA VIDAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Calls on Member States to further develop their systems for recognition and validation of competences acquired in non-formal and informal learning so that their commitment for 2018 is respected, in order to give individuals an opportunity for reorientation and second chance, as well as boost self-recognition and further learning;

Amendment 217 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Calls on Member States to encourage the involvement of private partners in entrepreneurship education, through funding or providing training, as an aspect of their corporate social responsibility;

Amendment 218 #

Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Andrea BOCSKOR, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Norbert ERDŐS, Milan ZVER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Calls on Member States to eliminate bureaucracy regarding the implementation of business plans by young people and to consider tax relief measures and measures to encourage them to set up their own business ideas; stresses the need for safety valves for start-ups that fail;

Amendment 219 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Urges the Commission to follow up on the collaborative action with the OECD on Entrepreneurship360 and Guiding Frameworks for Entrepreneurial Education at the level of schools, vocational and educational training (VET) programmes and universitiesand further develop its work on Entrepreneurship360 (Schools and VET) and on HEInnovate (higher education);

Amendment 22 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the European Union, via the Europe 2020 strategy and its flagship initiatives on ‘New skills and jobs’, ‘Digital Agenda for Europe’, ‘Innovation Union’ and ‘Youth on the move’, promotes the sense of initiative and entrepreneurship by fostering entrepreneurial mindsets and related knowledge, skills and competences that can boost competitiveness and growth which will be smart, sustainable and inclusive;

Amendment 220 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Urges the Commission to follow up on the collaborative action with the OECD on Entrepreneurship360 and Guiding Frameworks for Entrepreneurial Education at the level of ~~schools,~~educational institutions, in particular vocational and educational training (VET) ~~programme~~institutions and universities;

Amendment 221 #

Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Andrea BOCSKOR, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Norbert ERDŐS, Milan ZVER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Calls on the Commission to include measures related to entrepreneurship education into the European Semester evaluation indicators starting in 2016;

Amendment 222 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Calls on the Commission to submit an evaluation report to Parliament by the end of its term on the progress achieved in promoting youth entrepreneurship through education and training and how much it managed to reach out to members of vulnerable social groups;

Amendment 223 #

Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Jana TOOM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Calls on the Commission to submit an evaluation report to Parliament by ~~the end of~~half way through its term on the progress achieved in promoting youth entrepreneurship through education and training;

Amendment 224 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Calls on the Commission to ensure coordination and cooperation at European level in the systematic evaluation of the entrepreneurship programs and activities in order to allow the comparability of results, for instance compare the different patterns of youth entrepreneurship across Member States and the characteristics of youth entrepreneurs in terms of sociodemographic variables as age, gender and education;

Amendment 225 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Calls on the Commission to promote cooperation on policies across the EU and invite Member States to engage in exchanges of good practices;

Amendment 23 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas entrepreneurship iscan be an important driver of ~~economic growth and~~sustainable economic development, aimed at improving social conditions and high quality jobs creation as it can creates new companies and jobs~~, opens up new markets, improves productivity and creates~~ based on the highest respect of human rights, environment and CSR standards, enhancing economic and social wealth;

Amendment 24 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas entrepreneurship is an important driver of economic growth and job creation as it creates new companies and jobs, opens up new markets, improves productivity ~~and~~, creates wealth and should therefore be equally accessible for all;

Amendment 25 #

Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Jana TOOM, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Juan Carlos GIRAUTA VIDAL

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas entrepreneurship is an important driver of economic growth and job creation as it creates new companies and jobs, opens up new markets, strengthens competitiveness, improves productivity and creates wealth;

Amendment 26 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas entrepreneurship is an important driver of economic growth and job creation as it creates new companies and jobs, opens up new markets, improves productivity and innovation, strengthens European competitiveness and creates wealth;

Amendment 27 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas entrepreneurship is ~~an important~~the critical driver of economic growth and job creation as it creates new companies and jobs, opens up new markets, improves productivity and creates wealth;

Amendment 28 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas entrepreneurship is an important driver of social cohesion and sustainability;

Amendment 29 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas social entrepreneurship is a growing field that can boost the economy whilst simultaneously alleviating deprivation, social exclusion and other societal problems;

Amendment 3 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 b (new)

- having regard to the Council recommendation of 20 December 2012 on the validation of non-formal and informal learning (2012/C 398/01),

Amendment 30 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas ~~entrepreneurship~~businesses and in particular small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of the EU economy and represent the most important source of new employment;

Amendment 31 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas entrepreneurship and in particular small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), since they account for 70% of jobs created and 99% of enterprises in the EU, are the backbone of the EU economy and represent the most important source of new employment;

Amendment 32 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas entrepreneurship and in particular small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of the EU economy and represent the most important source of new employment; whereas women’s entrepreneurial potential is an underexploited source of economic growth and jobs;

Amendment 33 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas entrepreneurship and in particular small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of the EU economy and represent the most important and primary source of new employment;

Amendment 34 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas cultures that value and reward entrepreneur~~ial behaviour, such as~~ship competences, such as creativity, innovation, initiative, calculated risk-taking, and independent thinking, promote a propensity to develop new solutions to ~~social challenge~~economic, social and environmental challenges; it is therefore of paramount importance that these personal competencies are embedded in the educational system and are part of daily life at all levels;

Amendment 35 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital Е

Е. whereas cultures that value and reward entrepreneurial behaviour, such as calculated risk-taking ~~and~~, independent thinking and the identification of opportunities, as well as leadership qualities, promote a propensity to develop new solutions to social challenges;

Amendment 36 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas cultures that value and reward entrepreneurial behaviours, such as calculated risk-taking and independent thinking, promote a propensity to develop new solutions to social challenges by integrating knowledge components within education that bring together theory and practice diminishing barriers between the business experience and education;

Amendment 37 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas cultures that value and reward entrepreneurial behaviour, such as calculated risk-taking and independent thinking, can promote a propensity to develop new solutions to certain social challenges;

Amendment 38 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas in many Member States business start-ups (of all types, including social entrepreneurship or business for personal profit) are not recognised or included as a career path, and there is little support for aspiring entrepreneurs within the educational system, and business start- up aid schemes are still far too complex for many future entrepreneurs;

Amendment 39 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas in ~~many~~certain Member States business start-ups (of all types, including social entrepreneurship or business for personal profit) are not sufficiently recognised or included as a career path, and there is little support for aspiring entrepreneurs within the educational system;

Amendment 4 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 a (new)

- having regards to the Commission Social Europe guide of March 2013 on ‘Social Economy and Social Enterprises’ (ISBN: 978-92-79-26866-3),

Amendment 40 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas in many Member States business start-ups (of all types, including social entrepreneurship or business for personal profit and start-ups) are not recognised or included as a career path, and there is little support for aspiring entrepreneurs within the educational system;

Amendment 41 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas ~~recent studies show that entrepreneurship can be learned and that~~ entrepreneurship education, if correctly designed, can have a positive social and economic impact on the way employment ~~rates~~, start-up ~~rates and survival rates of enterprises~~and survival of enterprises rates are achieved notably focusing, while teaching and coaching on the creation and management of enterprises, on the importance of human rights and human dignity, environment protection and corporate social responsibility highest standards implementation;

Amendment 42 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas recent studies show that entrepreneurship competences can be learned and that entrepreneurship education, if correctly designed, ~~can have a positive impact on employment rates~~implemented and accessible for all, can have a positive impact on people’s life, on their employability, start-up rates and survival rates of enterprises;

Amendment 43 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas recent studies show that entrepreneurship can be learned and that entrepreneurship education, if correctly designed, can have a very positive impact on employment rates, start-up rates and survival rates of enterprises;

Amendment 44 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas recent studies s~~how~~uggest that entrepreneurship can be learned and that entrepreneurship education, if correctly designed, can have a positive impact on employment rates, start-up rates and survival rates of enterprises;

Amendment 45 #

Marlene MIZZI

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas recent studies show that entrepreneurship ~~can be learned~~spirit and skills can be taught and that entrepreneurship education, if correctly designed, can have a positive impact on employment rates, start-up rates and survival rates of enterprises;

Amendment 46 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas in order to lead to r~~obus~~elevant conclusions, the ~~measurement~~evaluation of the impact of entrepreneurship education must be carried out with a ~~cri~~n objective and impartical approach, as well as being based on sound evidence and relying on renowned statistical tools and techniques;

Amendment 47 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)

Ia. whereas entrepreneurship education should incorporate a social dimension including teaching about fair trade, social enterprises and alternative business models such as co-operatives in order to achieve a social, inclusive and sustainable economy;

Amendment 48 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas an entrepreneurial mindset fully aware of the human rights, human dignity, social, cultural and environmental issues related to the creation and management of an enterprise enhances a young person’s ~~employa~~sense of responsibility;

Amendment 49 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas an entrepreneurial mindset enhances a young person’s employability and helps preventing the increase of poverty and social exclusion through generations;

Amendment 5 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 14 a (new)

- having regard to its resolution of 28 April 2015 on follow-up on the implementation of the Bologna Process,

Amendment 50 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas an entrepreneurial mindset is an asset which enhances a young person’s employability;

Amendment 51 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas training to develop an entrepreneurial mindset enhances a young person’s employability;

Amendment 52 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas an entrepreneurial mindset enhances a young person’s employability and engenders in them qualities essential for overcoming challenges in both their professional and their private lives;

Amendment 53 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital Ι

Ι. whereas an entrepreneurial mindset enhances a young person’s employability and can be more effectively encouraged through easier access to microfinance mechanisms;

Amendment 54 #

Svetoslav Hristov MALINOV

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas education as a whole is of primordial importance with regard to each individual’s personal development, and therefore has to be both sufficiently broad in order to lay foundations for lifelong development and deepening of knowledge and skills, and sufficiently practical, thus allowing individuals to have real careers and a valuable professional and private life, and whereas the learning of basic skills from primary school should nevertheless be improved in order to enable each young person to have a solid foundation for the continuation of his or her studies;

Amendment 55 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

KК. whereas education as a whole is of primordial importance with regard to each individual’s personal development, and therefore has to be both sufficiently broad in order to lay foundations for lifelong development and deepening of knowledge and skills, and sufficiently practical, thus allowing individuals to have real careers and a valuable professional and private life; whereas there is a direct correlation between the successful combination of these two aspects of education and a reduction in the risk of youth unemployment;

Amendment 56 #

Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Jana TOOM, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Juan Carlos GIRAUTA VIDAL

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas education as a whole is of primordial importance with regard to each individual’s personal development, and therefore has to be both sufficiently broad in order to lay foundations for lifelong development and deepening of knowledge and for the acquisition of transversal skills, and sufficiently practical, thus allowing individuals to have real careers and a valuable professional and private life;

Amendment 57 #

Silvia COSTA

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas education and vocational training as a whole isare of primordial importance with regard to each individual’s personal development, and therefore hasve to be both sufficiently broad in order to lay foundations for lifelong development and deepening of knowledge and skills, and sufficiently practical, thus allowing individuals to have real careers and a valuable professional and private life;

Amendment 58 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas education a~~s a whole is~~nd training are of primordial importance with regard to each individual’s personal development, and therefore has to be both sufficiently broad in order to lay foundations for lifelong development and deepening of knowledge and skills, and sufficiently practical, thus allowing individuals to have real careers and a valuable professional and private life;

Amendment 59 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

L. whereas entrepreneurship spirit and skills can be acquired, learned and developed by every individual, and each type and level of education corresponds to a specific window of opportunity for building certain skills and capacities for entrepreneurship as part of the general acquirement of key competences;

Amendment 6 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 20 a (new)

- having regard to the United Nations Resolution of 18 December 2013 on Cooperatives in social development, in the context of the UN International Year of Co-operatives 2012,

Amendment 60 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

L. whereas entrepreneurship spirit and skills can be acquired, learned and developed ~~by every individual, and each level of education corresponds to a specific window of opportunity for building certain skills and capacities for entrepreneurship~~, and the imparting and development of skills and capacities for entrepreneurship should be an integral part of the education programme;

Amendment 61 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

L. whereas entrepreneurship spirit and skills can be acquired, learned and developed by every individual, and each level of education corresponds to a specific window of opportunity for building certain skills and capacities for entrepreneurship, and measures should be taken in particular to encourage apprenticeships/alternance schemes;

Amendment 62 #

Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Andrea BOCSKOR, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Norbert ERDŐS, Milan ZVER

Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)

La. whereas entrepreneurship skills are linked to other sets of skills such as ICT skills, problem-solving skills and financial literacy which should be promoted;

Amendment 63 #

Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Jana TOOM, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Juan Carlos GIRAUTA VIDAL

Motion for a resolution
Recital M

M. whereas both formal and informal education is of paramount importance in terms of motivation and possibilities for young people to start their own entrepreneurial projects;

Amendment 64 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital M

M. whereas education isand training are of paramount importance in terms of motivation and possibilities for young people to start their own entrepreneurial projects;

Amendment 65 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)

Ma. whereas education, as a public good, has to be fully inclusive and integrated by placing special emphasis on providing equal access to students having diverse socio-economic backgrounds;

Amendment 66 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital N

N. whereas underrepresented and disadvantaged groups need special attention and support throughout their education, also by engaging parents and communities in the educational process, and to be given help in order to start, run or grow a business or enterprise;

Amendment 67 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital N

N. whereas ~~underrepresented and disadvantaged groups~~the weakest need special attention and to be given help in order to start, run or grow a business or enterprise;

Amendment 68 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital O

O. whereas not enough people follow through on their ideas to set up a business, there are, disproportionately, even fewer women than men entrepreneurs and, whilst women entrepreneurs are on average higher educated than men entrepreneurs, they are also more often active in less innovative, less fast-growing sectors, with smaller companies than those of men entrepreneurs, and ways to overcome the factors which particularly discourage women from taking up, or benefiting more from, the option of entrepreneurship must be examined12 12 a ; __________________ 12 a Commission Report on Progress on equality between women and men in 2013 (SWD(2014)0142). Commission Publication on Statistical Data on Women Entrepreneurs in Europe, September 2014

Amendment 69 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital O

O. whereas not enough people follow through on their ideas to set up a business, there are, disproportionately, even fewer women than men entrepreneurs (even more so in case of women coming from vulnerable social groups and facing double discrimination), and ways to overcome the factors which particularly discourage women from taking up the option of entrepreneurship must be examined12 ; __________________ 12 Commission Report on Progress on equality between women and men in 2013 (SWD(2014)0142).

Amendment 7 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas youth entrepreneurship ~~needs to be an integral~~could be part of the overall political strategy to support today’s you~~th generation in terms of EU go~~ng people if sweeping change on the current European economic and legals f~~or growth and employment~~ramework takes place;

Amendment 70 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital O

O. whereas not enough people follow through on their ideas to set up a business, there are, disproportionately, even fewer ~~women~~female than malen entrepreneurs, and ways to overcome the factors which particularly discourage women from taking up the option of entrepreneurship must be ~~examin~~actively promoted12 ; __________________ 12 Commission Report on Progress on equality between women and men in 2013 (SWD(2014)0142).

Amendment 71 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital O a (new)

Oa. whereas chambers of handicrafts, industry and commerce offer targeted programmes in some Member States to support business startups;

Amendment 72 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital P

P. whereas education and training are mainly national competencies and most Member States have yet to develop a cross- cutting policy or a strategic approach to entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial curricula and teaching methods; whereas teachers and education leaders in Europe are not sufficiently trained in entrepreneurship education, either through continuous professional development or through their initial training, which has a negative impact on the potential for entrepreneurship to become embedded in education systems13 with special attention to teaching methods and curricula design which are rarely embedded throughout all age groups; __________________ 13 Budapest and Istanbul European Training Foundation symposium conclusions.

Amendment 73 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital P

P. whereas education and training are mainly national competencies and mshould remain so. The EU’s main contribution to fostering entrepreneurship should be in encouraging and facilitating the exchange of best practice and not trying to broaden its scope to encroach upon the freedom of its Member State’s educational policies through EU regulation. Most Member States have yet to develop a cross- cutting policy or a strategic approach to entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial curricula and teaching methods; whereas teachers and education leaders in Europe are not sufficiently trained in entrepreneurship education, either through continuous professional development or through their initial training, which has a negative impact on the potential for entrepreneurship to become embedded in education systems13 ; __________________ 13 Budapest and Istanbul European Training Foundation symposium conclusions.

Amendment 74 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital P

P. whereas education and training are mainly national competencies and ~~most~~some Member States have yet to develop a cross- cutting policy or a strategic approach to entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial curricula and teaching methods; whereas not all teachers and education leaders in Europe are ~~not~~ sufficiently trained in entrepreneurship education, either through continuous professional development or through their initial training, which ~~has a negative~~might have an impact on the potential for entrepreneurship to becomeing sufficiently embedded in education systems1; __________________ 1 Budapest and Istanbul European Training Foundation symposium conclusions.

Amendment 75 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital P a (new)

Pa. whereas teachers and education leaders in Europe are not sufficiently trained in entrepreneurship education, either through continuous professional development or through their initial training, which has a negative impact on the potential for entrepreneurship to become embedded in education systems13 a; __________________ 13 a Budapest and Istanbul European Training Foundation symposium conclusions

Amendment 76 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital P b (new)

Pb. whereas teachers should be able to liaise with entrepreneurs and define learning objectives in partnership with them and be provided with the right support and resources in order to implement learner-centred strategies and to adapt their teaching methods to the needs of their vulnerable students;

Amendment 77 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital P c (new)

Pc. whereas non-formal and informal learning activities complement and enrich formal learning by offering various and empowering learning experiences and should therefore be recognised as privileged sources to acquire and to develop entrepreneurship competences;

Amendment 78 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital P d (new)

Pd. whereas non-formal and informal learning activities are particularly relevant to young people with fewer opportunities by providing them an additional source of learning and a possible route into formal education and training;

Amendment 79 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital Q

Q. whereas national education systems have been evolving at different paces in reaction to changes on the labour market and education systems should be adapted to the realities of the society of today and tomorrow;

Amendment 8 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas youth entrepreneurship ~~needs to be an integral part of~~is fundamental to the political strategy to support today’s youth generation in terms of EU goals for growth and employment;

Amendment 80 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital R

R. whereas the Erasmus+ programme, which runs from 2014 to 2020, aims to modernise education, training and youth work across Europe and is open to education, training, youth and sport organisations across all sectors of lifelong learning and will provide opportunities for over 4 million Europeans to study, train, gain work experience and volunteer abroad should be also used to improve entrepreneurship education, as entrepreneurship is being one of the expected results of mobility actions and project;

Amendment 81 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital R

R. whereas the Erasmus+ programme, which runs from 2014 to 2020, aims to modernise education, training and youth work across Europe and is open to education, training, youth and sport organisations across all sectors of lifelong learning and will provide opportunities for over 4 million Europeans to study, train, gain work experience and volunteer abroad; whereas this programme should be supported and improved so as to genuinely promote exchanges between Erasmus students and local students;

Amendment 82 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital S

~~S. whereas entrepreneurship already plays a role in the Erasmus+ programme, being one of the expected results of mobility actions;~~deleted

Amendment 83 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital T

T. whereas the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs programme (2009-2015), with one third of participants being young women, and other similar programmes enable young entrepreneurs to take part in cross-border exchanges and to learn from experienced entrepreneurs running small businesses as well as creating opportunities to address gender inequalities in entrepreneurship;

Amendment 84 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital T

T. whereas it is important to promote and encourage mobility of young entrepreneurs through programmes, such as the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs programme (2009-2015) ~~and other similar programmes~~, that enable young entrepreneurs to take part in cross- border exchanges and to learn from experienced entrepreneurs running small businesses;

Amendment 85 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital T

T. whereas the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs programme (2009-2015) and other similar programmes enable young entrepreneurs to take part in cross-border exchanges and to learn from experienced entrepreneurs ~~running small businesses~~;

Amendment 86 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital U

U. whereas younger people are ~~more~~ inclined to express a preference for self- employment and as many as 45 % of young people aged 15-24 say they would prefer to be self- employed2 ; __________________ 2 Commission Eurobarometer FL354 ‘Entrepreneurship in the EU and beyond’, 9 January 2013.

Amendment 87 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital V

V. whereas ~~considerable contributions are made by the~~ business community at local, national and European level could make more considerable contributions in the form of skills-based volunteering, partnerships with ~~school~~educational institutions and collaboration with policymakers;

Amendment 88 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital W

W. whereas ~~considerable~~an important contribution~~s are~~ is made by civil society organisations ~~(non-governmental groups such as trade unions, employers’ associations~~, among them the Junior Achievement – Young Enterprise Europe initiative, to initiate young people into economic life and othe~~r social groups), among them the Junior Achievement – Young Enterprise Europe initiativ~~ world of business by making them undertake tasks specific to the enterprise;

Amendment 89 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital W

W. whereas considerable contributions are made by civil society organisations ~~(non- governmental groups such as trade unions, employers’ associ~~, social partner organizations and other social groups), among them the Junior Achievement – Young Enterprise Europe initiative;

Amendment 9 #

Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Andrea BOCSKOR, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Norbert ERDŐS, Milan ZVER

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas youth entrepreneurship needs to be an integral part of the political strategy to support today’s youth generation in terms of EU goals for growth ~~and~~, employment, education and social inclusion;

Amendment 90 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital W

W. whereas considerable contributions are made by civil society organisations (non- governmental groups such as trade unions, employers’ associations and other social groups), among them the Junior Achievement – Young Enterprise Europe initiative, which provide informal and life- long entrepreneurship education and training that yet need to be more recognised, although they may not lead to a certified formal diploma, as well as by enterprises providing training for themselves;

Amendment 91 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital W a (new)

Wa. whereas informal learning can play a key role in developing and sustaining entrepreneurial skills especially amongst marginalised groups;

Amendment 92 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital W b (new)

Wb. whereas entrepreneurship, including social entrepreneurship, should be integrated in the training of teachers and career advisers;

Amendment 93 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1

Emphasis on entrepreneurial ~~skill~~competences

Amendment 94 #

Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Juan Carlos GIRAUTA VIDAL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Acknowledges the role of lifelong learning as a key measure in European Member States’s response to globalisation and the shift to knowledge-based economies, and specifically the importance of ‘a sense of initiative and entrepreneurship’, which is among the eight ‘Key Competences for Lifelong Learning ‒ A European Reference Framework’ which it suggests are needed by all individuals for personal fulfilment and development, active citizenship, social inclusion and employment;

Amendment 95 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Acknowledges the role of lifelong learning and international mobility as a key measure in Europe’s response to globalisation and the shift to knowledge- based economies, and specifically the importance of ‘a sense of initiative and entrepreneurship’, which is among the eight ‘Key Competences for Lifelong Learning ‒ A European Reference Framework’ which are needed by all individuals for personal fulfilment and development, active European citizenship and participation, social inclusion and employment;

Amendment 96 #

Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Juan Carlos GIRAUTA VIDAL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Calls on Members States to promote entrepreneurial skills for young people through legislative actions towards quality traineeships, focusing on quality learning and adequate working conditions as tools to foster employability, as put forward by the Council Recommendation on a Quality Framework for Traineeships;

Amendment 97 #

Silvia COSTA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Emphasises the necessity of the broad definition of the key competence ‘a sense of initiative and entrepreneurship’, which involves fostering an entrepreneurial mindset characterised by proactiveness, creativity, innovation and risk- taking, as well as the ability to plan and manage projects in order to achieve objectives, and even the idea that the individual is aware of the context of his/her work and is able to seize opportunities that arise;

Amendment 98 #