C 125/52
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
5.4.2023
Tuesday 13 September 2022
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Insists on the need to increase the funding and adequately promote the opportunities offered by programmes such as Erasmus+, Creative Europe and the European Solidarity Corps, to enhance mobility experiences which contribute to the development of useful and necessary social skills for the future personal and professional growth of the younger generations, and increase their accessibility for all; in this context, calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote vocational training and to make the programmes resilient to possible future mobility limitations, as well as to improve the systematic sharing of projects’ outcomes in order to increase their visibility, upscaling and long-term impact; calls on the Commission to increase the funding of these Union programmes in the next revision of the multiannual financial framework;
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Expresses its concern that the effects of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) on children and young people might be limited in many cases and may not produce results or structural reforms that would allow children and young people to access quality education or mitigate the negative impact of COVID-related closures of cultural venues and access to cultural creators on young performers in particular, who were denied the opportunity to commence and develop their careers at the crucial early stage; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure proper funding and fair contractual and working conditions for all young authors, performers, artists and all other cultural creators, workers and professionals working in the cultural and creative sectors, including on social media, who were adversely affected as a result of the pandemic, to step up their overall efforts to support emerging artists and cultural professionals, to promote youth and social entrepreneurship, and to stipulate this goal in a dedicated section on young artists in a European Status of the Artist; reiterates its recommendation that 10 % of national recovery and resilience plans go to education and 2 % to the cultural and creative sector; calls for an in-depth evaluation by the Commission of the projects and reforms related to education, young people and the cultural and creative sectors implemented by Member States from the RRF, and reiterates the need for more emphasis on these topics within the national reports drafted within the European Semester evaluation;
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Draws attention to the importance of mobility experiences and the exchange of good practices among teachers, educators, professors, trainers, volunteers and professionals in youth work and youth organisations, cultural creators and sports coaches in broadening their knowledge in youth outreach and strengthening the international and multilingual dimensions, particularly in view of the European Education Area to be achieved by 2025;
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Calls for a holistic understanding of health that includes overall physical, mental and social well-being and requires comprehensive prevention and healing strategies, including cultural and sporting activities, and promoting the development of creative and social skills;
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Emphasises the need to promote the design and provision of targeted, intergenerational services that combine the experience of older people with the courage of younger people in a mutually beneficial situation;
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Underlines the fundamental importance of culture for the development of the individual identity of children and young people, as well as for their education, including their understanding of society, and for their overall well-being;
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Highlights the urgent need to create an inclusive, creative, dynamic and healthy learning environment from an early age in order to reduce the risk of psychophysical disorders in adulthood; urges the Member States, in this context, to ensure the inclusion and upscaling of all forms of artistic expression, i.e. music, theatre, cinema, documentary, animation, the visual arts, dance and new experimental art forms, in school curricula and as extracurricular artistic and sports activities, thereby stimulating free expression and creativity, and allowing students to participate actively and explore their talents; underlines that art can be an ideal component for interdisciplinary projects and can promote critical thinking and therefore should not be limited to art classes;
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Urges the Member States and public authorities to develop sports infrastructure and to comprehensively increase the amount of physical education and extracurricular physical activities in schools, including activities addressed to children and young people with disabilities; underlines that sport, like art, can be a strong vehicle of inclusion for children at risk of exclusion; recalls that arts and sports in school curricula may strongly help combat global challenges for youth and education, including learning difficulties and learning disorders, as well as bullying, hate speech and the consumption of psychotropic substances;