Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-02-05-Speech-2-312"
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"Madam President, I welcome the report on the Commission communication on the concrete objectives of education and training systems. I would like to thank the rapporteur for her conscientious work. In line with the goals of the Lisbon and Stockholm European Councils, it is vitally important that we enable the generation of young Europeans to choose European research careers and European scientific disciplines.
I also agree that companies have to play a key role in training students and employees. However, before submitting the report we should pay attention to the following points. There seems to be a gap between the proposals in this report and the progress made by the Commission and its expert group so far. My understanding is that the Commission has already started its work on social inclusion and reset its goals on the Leonardo da Vinci programme by, for example, including older people and disabled people within its scope.
This is welcome. We look forward to the European Year of Disability in 2003. In addition to that, one should not neglect the efforts made by the Commission on cooperation with the candidate countries at all levels.
While not wanting to undermine the good work of the Commission, I must say that more can be done. We should also underline the importance of encouraging increased integration of European Union, Member States and regional initiatives in order to make efficient use of the relatively small budget for education and training systems.
In this respect I would suggest better cooperation between the different kinds of funding and an exchange of best practice, together with better dialogue between the supranational, national and regional decision-makers within the Community.
Finally, I would like to see more attention paid to the lack of equal opportunities for all individuals to experience better European integration throughout their professional lives. There are possibilities within the budget to facilitate exchanges of experience of vocational training systems in the different Member States. I encourage this. Europe can offer better education for everybody. Parliament's report should not forget to underline that."@en1
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