10. Reiterates the importance of facilitating the mobility of students, researchers, officials; recalls that such mobility facilitation contributes to creating closer human links and improving the EU's image in ENP countries; calls for the removal of barriers to legitimate travellers from ENP countries through adequate visa requirements; welcomes therefore the initiative of a strengthened ENP that offers new possibilities of legitimate travel to the EU; welcomes the visa facilitation agreements with Ukraine and Moldova and the creation of a common visa application centre in Moldova, which could serve as a pilot project for the creati ...[+++]on of such centres in other partner countries; encourages the Member States to improve their consular services in the ENP countries and to create common visa application centres.

- portray science and researchers as trustworth and provide an image of science and researchers which is meaningful to all, especially to young people,

- provide an image of science and researchers which is meaningful to all, especially to young people,

foster public recognition of researchers and encourage Member States to do the same.

8. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to upgrade guidance for young people into technical courses of study with potential for jobs and integration; to this end, asks that the Union, assisted in turn by the Member States, launch an information campaign to promote technical trades of excellence among young people and their parents in order thereby to remedy their often negative social image; supports more research, research development, mobility among researchers and students through Erasmus Mundus; urges the Commission to remove barriers to mobility and to create a pilot project aimed at framing an Erasmus-type programme for ...[+++] apprentices in order to facilitate access by apprentices to "new generation" Community education and training programmes;

In order to achieve the Lisbon objectives, and make the EU the most dynamic and most competitive knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010, the Commission has put in place a series of converging measures are aimed at increasing the opportunities with regard to training, mobility and career development for researchers; raising their profile in society; getting researchers and universities more involved in the knowledge-based society and economy; consolidating the links between academia and industry; and lastly implementing measures targeted on the wider public in order to improve the image of researchers within society and attract ...[+++]more young people to scientific careers.