European Parliament 2014-2019 Committee on Employment and Social Affairs 2015/2006(INI) 22.6.2015 COMPROMISE AMDMTS A - K Jana Žitňanská (PE557.041v01-00) Promoting youth entrepreneurship through education and training (2015/2006(INI)) AM\1064656.doc PE560.684v01-00 United in diversity
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A EPP, S&D, ECR, ALDE, EFDD Compromise amendment replacing s 29 (Enrique Calvet Chambon), 30 (Louis Michel), 31 (Tom Vandenkendelaere), 32 (Laura Agea, Tiziana Beghin), 34 (Sofia Ribeiro), 37 (Emilian Pavel, Damian Drăghici, Elena Gentile, Georgi Pirinski, Brando Benifei, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė), 38 (Javi López, Sergio Gutiérrez Prieto), 39 (Elisabeth Morin-Chartier), 40 (Marian Harkin), 41 (Anne Sander), 42 (Karima Delli), 43 (Ivan Jakovčić), 44 (Aldo Patriciello), 45 (Martina Dlabajová, Yana Toom, Marian Harkin, Ivo Vajgl), 49 (Brando Benifei, Emilian Pavel), 50 (Brando Benifei, Emilian Pavel) 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; 1. Calls on the Member States, as well as regional and local authorities, to use all existing EU-level funding resources, such as the European Social Fund, the European Youth Employment Initiative, the EaSI Programme, the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs and the COSME programmes, to encourage and support initiatives pursuing more effective and better targeted links between businesses and the education sector, foster an entrepreneurial culture among young people, regardless of socio-economic background or gender, so as to encourage them to develop creativity, initiative and sense of responsibility and reverse the perception that entrepreneurship is a residual career option; calls on the Commission to look into how such fundings are actually used and to make them easily accessible and easy to use; highlights the need of investments in education and infrastructure to address the digital divide in the Union; B EPP, S&D, ECR, ALDE Compromise amendment replacing s 38 (Javi López, Sergio Gutiérrez Prieto), 46 (Elisabeth Morin-Chartier), 49 (Brando Benifei, Emilian Pavel) AM\1064656.doc 3/10 PE560.684v01-00
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 education and training programmes focused on entrepreneurships and promoting individual skills, in particular digital skills and digital leadership skills as essential tools for entrepreneurs in today's economy and business; stresses 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; C EPP, S&D, ECR, ALDE, EFDD Compromise amendment replacing s 52 (Enrique Calvet Chambon), 53 (Anne Sander), 54 (Emilian Pavel, Brando Benifei, Georgi Pirinski, Elena Gentile, Sergio Gutiérrez Prieto, Javi López, Damian Drăghici, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė), 55 (Javi López, Sergio Gutiérrez Prieto), 57 (Karima Delli) 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; 2. Calls on the Member States to be proactive in improving the regulatory frameworks and streamlining the administrative procedures for businesses, in particular SMEs and social businesses, and to promote 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 PE560.684v01-00 4/10 AM\1064656.doc
sustainable environment and to ensure social resilience at times of crisis; D EPP, S&D, ECR, ALDE Compromise amendment replacing s 60 (Danuta Jazłowiecka), 63 (Emilian Pavel, Damian Drăghici, Georgi Pirinski, Brando Benifei, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Javi López, Sergio Gutiérrez Prieto), 79 (Karima Delli) Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Stresses the need to address financial difficulties that affect young entrepreneurs and facilitate their access to credit and special grants, as well as reduce existing administrative burdens, put in place a regulatory environment and fiscal incentives that encourage the development of youth entrepreneurial initiatives and boost job creation, in order to facilitate the start-up and stabilisation of their business projects; E EPP, S&D, ECR, ALDE, Greens, EFDD Compromise amendment replacing s 65 (Karima Delli), 67 (Laura Agea, Tiziana Beghin), 68 (Enrique Calvet Chambon), 69 (Tom Vandenkendelaere), 70 (Javi López, Sergio Gutiérrez Prieto), 71 (Emilian Pavel, Elena Gentile, Georgi Pirinski, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė), 72 (Marian Harkin), 74 (Miapetra Kumpula-Natri), 75 (Ivan Jakovčić), 99 (Karima Delli) Paragraph 3 3. Calls on the Member States to offer micro-scholarships and micro-loans schemes to innovative students in 3.Calls on the Member States, as well as regional and local authorities, to offer increased access to and availability of AM\1064656.doc 5/10 PE560.684v01-00
secondary and tertiary education respectively in order to start their own ventures or projects; scholarships and micro-loans schemes, as well as support, information, mentoring and multidisciplinary assistance and peerto-peer evaluation platforms to innovative students in order to start their own ventures or projects, such as those supported under the Microfinance and Social Entrepreneurship axis of EaSI; calls on Member States to facilitate access and return of loans, to promote the use of crowdfunding, developing partnerships between the local economy, businesses and universities and 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; urges Member States to encourage the establishment within the universities of business incubators dedicated to sustainable development and futureoriented branches; F EPP, S&D, ECR, ALDE, EFDD Compromise amendment replacing s 83 (Emilian Pavel, Miapetra Kumpula- Natri, Elena Gentile, Georgi Pirinski, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė), 84 (Karima Delli), 85 (Martina Dlabajová, Marian Harkin, Ivo Vajgl), 86 (Anne Sander), 87 (Marian Harkin), 88 (Laura Agea, Marian Harkin), 89 (Tom Vandenkendelaere), 95 (Elisabeth Morin-Chartier) 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; 4. Stresses the need to improve the entrepreneurial culture within tertiary education by supporting and facilitating the creation of new companies by young people based on academic research (spinoffs), reducing the bureaucratic burden involved in establishing such companies, creating a clear and supportive regulatory framework for student-entrepreneurs; PE560.684v01-00 6/10 AM\1064656.doc
considers that, 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 prove useful for setting up independent businesses; welcomes the initiatives which reward young people for successful business ventures (e.g. The Best Student Company of the Year) and further emphasises the importance for companies to provide the possibility for young people to get their first direct inhouse work experience and reiterates the necessity to promote company visits and traineeships schemes with such objective, so as to give young people an overview of the business world; G EPP, S&D, ECR, ALDE Compromise amendment replacing s 62 (Sofia Ribeiro), 78 (Danuta Jazłowiecka), 80 (Sofia Ribeiro), 96 (Danuta Jazłowiecka), 97 (Tom Vandenkendelaere), 100 (Emilian Pavel, Georgi Pirinski, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė), 111 (Glenis Willmott, Siôn Simon), 116 (Emilian Pavel, Damian Drăghici, Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, Georgi Pirinski, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė) Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls on the Member States to introduce in their educational systems including vocational training programs, a larger focus on the development of transversal entrepreneurship competencies, skills and knowledge, notably by providing for ICT skills and foreign languages to be taught in the first yars of schooling and by promoting in secondary and tertiary edication learning that provides and develops competencies needed to become entrepreneur such as creativity, communication skills, business AM\1064656.doc 7/10 PE560.684v01-00
management, book keeping and accounting, and that is effectively delivered through hands-on and real life experiences; while stressing the important role that teachers play in fostering an entrepreneurial mindset among young people and providing them with right skills and qualifications, calls on Member States to pay special attention to the provision of appropriate and specialised trainings to teachers, and ensure their ongoing professional development, as well as to expand the opportunities for the inflow of experienced entrepreneurs as teachers in education; H EPP, S&D, ECR, ALDE, Greens Compromise amendment replacing s 87 (Marian Harkin), 98 (Sofia Ribeiro), 101 (Enrique Calvet Chambon), 102 (Martina Dlabajová, Yana Toom, Ivo Vajgl), 103 (Danuta Jazłowiecka), 109 (Emilian Pavel, Damian Drăghici, Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, Elena Gentile, Georgi Pirinski, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė) 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. 5. Calls on the Commission to closely 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 to encourage and support institutions and organisations to exchange good practices, to share ideas, knowledge, experience as well as to form cross-sector strategic partnerships; encourages the Commission and the Members States to develop benchmarks, models and common instruments and projects to promote youth entrepreneurship; welcomes the ERASMUS + and Erasmus for Young PE560.684v01-00 8/10 AM\1064656.doc
Entrepreneurs programmes which provide young people with the opportunity to study and train abroad and to acquire entrepreneurial experiences in other Member States; asks the Commission to ensure that companies comply with the applicable rules of these programmes safeguarding the rights of participants and that such programmes are publicised within vocational, secondary and higher education institutions; I EPP, S&D, ECR, ALDE, Greens Compromise amendment replacing s 1 (Enrique Calvet Chambon), 9 (Karima Delli), 10 (Karima Delli), 23 (Emilian Pavel, Damian Drăghici, Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, Elena Gentile, Georgi Pirinski, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė), 25 (Javi Lopez, Sergio Gutierrez Prietpo) Recital A (new) -A. whereas the EU youth employment statistics are alarming, with some Member States having a youth unemployment rate of more than 50%; whereas education plays a key role in fostering the social and occupational inclusion of young people and whereas entrepreneurship should be regarded as a cross-cutting competence and an additional option for creating new businesses and, above all, more jobs opportunities thereby contributing to reduce youth unemployment and boost the employability of young people; J EPP, S&D, ECR, ALDE Compromise amendment replacing s 2 (Emilian Pavel, Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, AM\1064656.doc 9/10 PE560.684v01-00
Elena Gentile, Siôn Simon, Georgi Pirinski, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė), 3 (Louis Michel), 4 (Martina Dlabajová, Marian Harkin, Ivo Vajgl), 5 (Ádám Kósa), 6 (Jana Žitňanská) 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; A. whereas young people benefit from entrepreneurial training and education and practical entrepreneurial experience, which contribute to their development of skills and talent, enabling them to develop confidence, as well as to new business creation, employability and innovation; whereas entrepreneurship is a hugely unused option for many young people with disabilities; K EPP, S&D, ECR, ALDE, Greens Compromise amendment replacing s 14 (Louis Michel), 15 (Enrique Calvet Chambon), 16 (Martina Dlabajová, Yana Toom, Marian Harkin, Ivo Vajgl), 17 (Karima Delli), 18 (Emilian Pavel, Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, Georgi Pirinski, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė), 19 (Aldo Patriciello) Recital B B. whereas social businesses contribute to 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; B. whereas social and inclusive businesses actively participate to innovative sustainable growth, promote greater cohesion within society and local communities, and can create employment opportunities for young people, including socially vulnerable young people and those furthest from the labour market; PE560.684v01-00 10/10 AM\1064656.doc