2021/2009(INI) Implementation of inclusion measures within Erasmus+ 2014-2020
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Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Lead | CULT | FARRENG Laurence ( Renew) | ZOVKO Željana ( EPP), SMERIGLIO Massimiliano ( S&D), FRANZ Romeo ( Verts/ALE), DA RE Gianantonio ( ID), SLABAKOV Andrey ( ECR), KIZILYÜREK Niyazi ( GUE/NGL) |
Committee Opinion | EMPL | ||
Committee Opinion | PETI | CAÑAS Jordi ( Renew) | Tatjana ŽDANOKA ( Verts/ALE), Massimiliano SMERIGLIO ( S&D), Alexis GEORGOULIS ( GUE/NGL), Stefania ZAMBELLI ( ID), Andrey SLABAKOV ( ECR) |
Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
RoP 54
Legal Basis:
RoP 54Events
2022/01/28
EP - Committee opinion
Documents
2021/03/04
EP - FARRENG Laurence (Renew) appointed as rapporteur in CULT
2021/02/26
EP - CAÑAS Jordi (Renew) appointed as rapporteur in PETI
2021/02/11
EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament
Documents
- Committee opinion: PE697.559
- Committee opinion: PE697.559
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- Andrea BOCSKOR
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- Romeo FRANZ
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- Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ
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- Josianne CUTAJAR
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- Massimiliano SMERIGLIO
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- Juozas OLEKAS
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- Sandra PEREIRA
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- Jordi CAÑAS
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- Niyazi KIZILYÜREK
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- Sara CERDAS
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- Agnès EVREN
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- Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ
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- Nicola BEER
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- Andrey SLABAKOV
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- Elżbieta KRUK
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Amendments | Dossier |
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2021/2009(INI)
2021/11/18
PETI
45 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Underlines the need to ensure that inclusion
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Draws attention to the under- resourcing and understaffing of Erasmus+ national agencies and national authorities and the insufficient efforts to reduce administrative barriers to mobility and ensure that diversity and inclusion are at the core of the programme; believes that national agencies should appoint an inclusion and diversity officer to reach out to learners with special needs and/or fewer opportunities and provide them with advice regarding possible difficulties they may experience during their Erasmus+ programme, such as delayed reimbursements2
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Points out that some petitions submitted to the European Parliament raise the issue of the administrative obstacles Erasmus+ students face on their arrival in host countries4 a; supports initiatives at European level aimed at facilitating student mobility, such as the Erasmus + mobile application, ‘paperless Erasmus’ or the European Student Card, which make managing administrative steps more flexible and enable each student to benefit from the same services; _________________ 4 a See reference in petition 1106/2018
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Believes that Erasmus+ should encourage stakeholders to share their expertise at an institutional level, learn from each other, build administrative capacity and
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Believes that Erasmus+ should encourage stakeholders to share their expertise at an institutional level, learn from each other, build administrative capacity
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Believes that Erasmus+ should encourage stakeholders to share their expertise at an institutional level, learn from and connect with each other, build administrative capacity and foster inclusion and diversity; welcomes, in this sense, specific efforts to support cooperation between different
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Believes that Erasmus+ should encourage stakeholders to share their expertise at an institutional level, learn from each other, build administrative capacity and foster inclusion and diversity; welcomes, in this sense, specific efforts to support cooperation between different stakeholders and to develop and implement inclusive policies that seek to integrate children and young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds into education; considers, however, that these efforts should be expanded in the field of higher education;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Regrets that the Covid19 pandemic has had several negative effects1 on education as well as on the implementation of Erasmus+ programme, hindering inclusion; highlights the often serious economic difficulties that several households face because of the Covid19 crisis, that do not permit the participation to the Erasmus+ programme. 1 https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repos itory/handle/JRC121071https://erasmus- plus.ec.europa.eu/coronavirus-impact
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4 b. Believes that poverty or economic difficulties is an important obstacle for learners’ mobility; calls for the elaboration of a system that, based on the socioeconomic background of the participants, could offer greater financial support and/or other supporting measures to those who need it; additional financial support should be considered also for participants with special needs, including their caregivers when necessary;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Believes that the risk of stigmatisation in the participants’ country
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Believes that the risk of stigmatisation in the participants’ country of residence may discourage them from self-identifying as disadvantaged, which may hamper their mobility, the collection of reliable data by authorities and the monitoring of their participation in Erasmus+4 ; calls for EU-wide recognition of disability status and encourages host institutions to guarantee the same reasonable accommodations as home institutions; considers that the specific needs of people with disabilities must be taken into account in order to facilitate their participation in the programme, by providing them with suitable accommodation and with specialised attention before their departure as well as during their mobility period; _________________ 4 Bunescu, L., Davies, H., Gaebel, M.,
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Underlines the need to ensure that inclusion, equal opportunities and diversity are at the core of the implementation of Erasmus+, one of the EU’s most successful programmes;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Believes that the risk of stigmatisation in the participants’ country of residence may discourage them from self-identifying as disadvantaged, which may hamper their mobility, the collection of reliable data by authorities and the monitoring of their participation in Erasmus+
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Calls on the Commission and Members States to take specific measures against stigmatisation of underrepresented groups and ensure that relevant campaigns and other communication tools support this goal and do not put the targeted audience into an uncomfortable or embarrassing position;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5 b. Highlights that offering equal opportunities should not be presented as philanthropy but as an obligation of any EU programme, according to EU fundamental values;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Reminds Member States of the Bologna Process principles and the principles and guidelines to strengthen the social dimension of higher education in the
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls on the Commission to develop an integrated and coherent approach to inclusion within the different EU programmes for youth and education, including European Solidarity Corps and ESF+; welcomes the Commission’s proposal for the 2022 as European Year of Youth and considers this proposal as an opportunity to develop such integrated approach; calls on the Commission to look closely at the possibility of combining the Erasmus+ and Interrail programmes5 , and thus foster more equality and inclusion; _________________ 5 As called for in Petition 0681/2021.
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls on the Commission to look closely at the possibility of combining the Erasmus+ and Interrail programmes
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls on the Commission to look closely at the possibility of combining the Erasmus+ and Interrail programmes5 , and thus
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1 (new) Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8.
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Calls on the Member States to launch and support Erasmus+ projects to attract participants with disabilities, and learners from vulnerable and disadvantaged groups to their countries
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Underlines the need to ensure that inclusion and diversity are at the core of the implementation of Erasmus+, one of the EU’s most successful programmes;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Calls on the Member States to launch and support Erasmus+ projects to attract participants with disabilities and learners from vulnerable and disadvantaged groups to their countries; considers that the European Disability Charter could be a useful tool for ensuring greater accessibility and inclusion in the Erasmus+ programme;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Calls on the Member States to launch and support Erasmus+ projects to attract participants with disabilities and learners from vulnerable and disadvantaged groups
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to increase their efforts to support through Erasmus+ the access of women to and their advancement in the academic areas of mathematics, informatics, natural sciences and technology;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that all information regarding Erasmus+ is accessible to persons with vision, hearing or any other accessibility problems;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 b (new) 8 b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure the visibility of all potential participants on the visual materials, in the context of promoting diversity and tackling stigmatisation; videos and photos on Erasmus+ websites, posters, leaflets, etc. should also include persons of all genders and cultural backgrounds, as well as persons with disabilities in order to promote inclusion and diversity;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to address the lack of familiarity with the Erasmus+ programme, information barriers, obstacles to the application process, accommodation problems faced by learners, support services abroad and the challenges relating to the portability of grants faced by persons with disabilities and other participants from vulnerable and disadvantaged
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to address the lack of familiarity with the Erasmus+ programme,
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to address the lack of familiarity with the Erasmus+ programme, information barriers, obstacles to the application process, support services abroad and the challenges relating to the portability of grants faced by persons with disabilities and other participants from vulnerable and disadvantaged groups, including ethnic
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to address the lack of familiarity with the Erasmus+ programme, information barriers, bureaucracy and other obstacles to the application process, support services
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to properly address the lack of familiarity with the Erasmus+ programme, information barriers, obstacles to the application process, adequate support services abroad and the challenges relating to the portability of grants faced by persons with disabilities and other participants from vulnerable and disadvantaged groups, including ethnic groups;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Reminds that definition of vulnerable, disadvantaged or underrepresented groups (and then the potential beneficiaries whose participation in Erasmus+ should be augmented )vary widely between Member States and even may depend on the political and social situation in MS in a given moment; calls the Commission and MS to agree a basic set of definitions, which may include groups such as women, LGBTQI people, migrants and refugees, people from low income households, ethnic or linguistic minorities, and persons with disabilities.
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. welcomes the establishment of the ‘Erasmus Days’, which make it possible to communicate better with a broader public, to connect people who are leaving for the same destination, to share experiences informally and thus to enhance the benefits of mobility; believes that, in order to make the programme more inclusive, it is necessary to provide appropriate and accessible information material, and to use the means of communication available, such as social networks or local level events, in partnership with local structures and specialised organisations;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 a (new) 9 a. Calls on the Commission to take specific measures to ensure that Erasmus+ promotes the european priorities and especially the green and the digital transition; however the monitoring of the individual carbon footprint of the participants should take into account the distance needed to be covered, especially in the case of remote areas and MS on the geographical borders of EU ;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 b (new) 9b. Calls on the Commission to continue its work on making the Erasmus+ programme inclusive, on its geographical deployment and on targeted financial support;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 10. Welcomes, in this regard, the
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 10. Welcomes, in this regard, the
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 – subparagraph 1 (new) 12. Underlines that, despite the fact that Erasmus+ 2014-2020 has been evaluated as more coherent, effective and more aligned with emerging needs, there is still a strong need to make the Programme more inclusive, able to reach out to more vulnerable and disadvantaged people and to facilitate the participation of smaller- size organizations;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Highlights that Erasmus+ should support stakeholders’ and programme participants’ internationalisation plans that remove physical, psychological, social, socioeconomic, linguistic and other types of barriers to learning mobility and that offer qualitative support, including reinforced mentor
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Highlights that Erasmus+ should support stakeholders’ and programme participants’ internationalisation plans that remove physical, psychological, social, socioeconomic, linguistic and other types of barriers to learning mobility and that offer qualitative support, including mentoring, for participants from underrepresented groups and/or with specific needs before, during and after a period abroad; stresses that the role of former Erasmus+ participants in promoting the programme among their peers should be developed; believes that support for the activities of alumni networks could prove a useful means of reaching a wider public;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Highlights that Erasmus+ should support stakeholders’ and programme participants’ internationalisation plans that remove physical, psychological, social, socioeconomic, linguistic and other types of barriers to learning mobility and that offer accessible for all, clear and detailed information and qualitative support, including mentoring, for participants from underrepresented groups and/or with specific needs before, during and after a period abroad;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Draws attention to the under- resourcing and understaffing of Erasmus+ national agencies and
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Draws attention to the under- resourcing and understaffing of Erasmus+ national agencies and national authorities and the insufficient efforts to reduce administrative barriers to mobility and ensure that diversity and inclusion are at the core of the programme; believes that national agencies should organise targeted information campaigns, and, in order to do so, they ought to appoint an inclusion and diversity officer to reach out to learners from vulnerable backgrounds, including learners with special needs and/or fewer opportunities and all underrepresented groups, insuring gender equality[KTK1] and provide them with advice regarding possible difficulties they may experience during their Erasmus+ programme, such as delayed reimbursements
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