Comisión de Cultura y Educación
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Next CULT Committee meeting: 13 July 2022.
The next meeting of the Committee on Culture and Education will take place on Wednesday 13 July 2022, 9.00 - 12.30 and 15.00 - 18.30 in Room: Altiero Spinelli (5 G-3).
Asuntos destacados
CULT committee, in association with LIBE and ING2, discussed media freedom, protection of journalist and fight against disinformation in the context of the war in Ukraine.
Thierry Breton, European Commissioner for the Internal Market, appeared before the CULT Committee for his first structured dialogue of 2022. This appearance provided an opportunity for Members to be updated on the current implementation of the Creative Europe programme, specifically on the Media strand, and to discuss the state of play of the Media and Audiovisual Action Plan. Other topics of relevance to CULT were also part of the exchanges.
The Committee on Culture and Education (CULT) voted on its opinion on the Artificial Intelligence Act (Rapporteur: Marcel KOLAJA, Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance). The draft opinion focuses on the use of AI systems when related to education and other areas of relevance to CULT. The opinion was adopted unanimously (24/0/0) and the result of the vote have been published on this website.
On 15 June 2022 the Committee on Culture and Education held a public hearing on “The United Kingdom and Erasmus+” in association with the Committee for Petitions. The hearing assessed the impact of the UK's decision to withdraw from Erasmus+ on higher education institutions and their students.
In order to support a planned CULT own-initiative report on the topic, CULT commissioned a study on The European Schools system: State of Play, Challenges and Perspectives. The study – that was presented by its authors in the CULT meeting on 15 June 2022 – examines the progress that the European Schools System has made during the past decade and overviews its state of affairs as of 2022.
On 15 June, Mr Løkkegaard (Renew Europe Group), presented his approach and main steps on the CULT Amendments to the 2023 Budget. This presentation followed the publication of the Commission's Draft Budget for the year 2023, which formally launched the annual budgetary procedure in line with Article 314 TFEU.
On Monday 13 June (17.30-18.30) , a joint ITRE-CULT meeting took place within the framework of the joint own-initiative report on the New European Bauhaus. The two co-rapporteurs, Christian Ehler (ITRE) and Marcos Ros Sempere (CULT), presented their general approach for building compromises based on the almost 500 amendments tabled to the original draft report.