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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, allow me, first of all, to thank the rapporteur for the superb quality of his work and the essential contribution he has made not only to this project but also to the eLearning action plan, which was the subject of his first report in 2001.
This proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council, seeking to establish the eLearning Programme, supplements the action taken at the Lisbon Council concerning the integration of new technologies into education and training systems in Europe. The goal is to achieve integration swiftly and effectively, but also in a critical, carefully-thought-out manner.
The Commission proposal is first and foremost a response to the Lisbon mandate, extended at Stockholm and Barcelona. It therefore carries a political message highlighting the importance of meeting the challenges of new technologies to create a knowledge-based Europe.
The new programme is designed to supplement and enhance the actions of existing programmes. It should make it possible to test new forms of cooperation and thus provide useful information for the new generation of programmes after 2006. The proposal of programmes is also the logical result of the preparatory actions that have been carried out, Mr President, over the past three years as part of the budgetary appropriations proposed by Parliament, which could not take place without a legal basis.
This programme has three main pillars. The first is digital literacy, a new range of essential skills for the knowledge-based society. Schools must provide pupils with these skills, as they do in the case of reading and writing. Apart from schools, this also affects the citizens and society as a whole. Digital literacy must therefore be a part of lifelong learning.
The second pillar is the virtual campus. The incorporation of new tools and eLearning methods concerns both traditional universities and distance-Learning universities. These new tools and methods can also make an extremely positive contribution to improving the high standards of European universities and their competitiveness at global level.
I believe the third action to be the most important, as it concerns our children. I was pleased to note Parliament’s interest in this action. It concerns twinning schools via the Internet, which was, in fact, requested by the Barcelona Council. At your request, this action now has the clear purpose of acting as a lever for training teachers in the exploitation of new teaching opportunities provided by communication technologies and European cooperation.
As always in this type of programme, we should consider the transversal actions and technical assistance. The results need to be further exploited and the transfer of experience gained so far must be encouraged. This should be achieved not only through the various eLearning instruments and programmes, but by taking account of similar instruments and programmes in the Member States as well. Information and communication will therefore receive particular attention. In this regard, I would like to say that the eLearning portal has already been created. I inaugurated the portal just over three months ago at the
event in Karlsruhe and the number of visitors is already highly satisfactory.
Mr President, I was interested to note the budgetary proposals put forward by the European Parliament, which demonstrate its support for the Commission proposal, and I would like to thank Parliament for that. Parliament is quite aware that, at this stage, the Commission can only maintain its initial proposal, which could be reviewed in light of a possible increase in the ceiling for budget heading 3 for the years 2004-2006. I would also like to tell your rapporteur that the Commission can accept 24 of the 29 amendments tabled by Parliament, which shows strong consensus between Parliament and the Commission. That is why I hope that the negotiations will be concluded as quickly as possible according to the interinstitutional procedures in force. I am pleased to note, Mr President, as I often do, moreover, the perfect agreement between our two institutions to make progress towards a Europe of citizens, and, in particular, smaller citizens, whose schools will become part of a network in the twinning operations."@en1
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