Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-11-14-Speech-3-016"
| Predicate | Value (sorted: default) |
|---|---|
| rdf:type | |
| dcterms:Date | |
| dcterms:Is Part Of | |
| dcterms:Language | |
| lpv:document identification number |
"en.20011114.2.3-016"2
|
| lpv:hasSubsequent | |
| lpv:speaker | |
| lpv:spokenAs | |
| lpv:translated text |
"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank Mr Caudron for his report. The Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport welcomes it for a number of reasons. It particularly welcomes the fact that the report deals with a number of matters which concern our committee. These include the technology and methods used to convert products and works into a digital format, the protection and development of our historic and cultural heritage. We are also pleased that it deals with drug taking, as our committee is also responsible for youth and sports. Other areas of concern contained in the report include the history of Europe, distance learning and mobility for researchers. I regret that digital cinema, the cinema of tomorrow, has disappeared from this list. It might have required specific research. I hope that specific programmes will be able to make good this omission.
I would also like to say that I am delighted the life sciences have been recognised as a scientific subject and are not regarded simply as an instrument for other sciences. The life sciences constitute a distinct discipline and the fact that the Sixth Framework Programme has recognised this is a great step forward. Perhaps the first title of the seventh thematic area: ‘Cultural and social research’ was the most appropriate. I am sorry it has been changed to ‘Citizens, democracy, social and political institutions’. I think the first title was better. If we had used the title ‘Cultural and social research’, it might have been easier to include research on women, and not just research carried out by women, as in the paragraph ‘Science and society’. Mr Caudron, I regret the fact that research ‘on women’ and the thinking included in your intermediary reports were not retained in its final version.
I would like to finish on this point. I have been involved in drawing up reports which have gradually transformed the notion of centres of excellence. The latter became the stairway of excellence. We, the members of the Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport, were very concerned that research should not be confined to an elite. Rather, when it comes to building the European Research Area, research should be shared amongst younger researchers, a range of relevant institutions, and universities. I note that there have been adjustments here too. I am glad that the paragraph ‘Science and society’ has doubled. The matter of research ‘by women’ is at the heart of this paragraph. The Committee on Women’s Rights and Equal Opportunities has an interest in this subject, but so does the Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport"@en1
|
Named graphs describing this resource:
The resource appears as object in 2 triples