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The BRIDGES Employer Engagement Framework comprises a pathway of 4-level
for employer engagement, each level representing a higher degree of
engagement and deeper integration of employers in VET providers’ activities.

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Figure 1: BRIDGES Employer Engagement Path

This methodologic framework helps to see the VET-business relationship – and
the many activities supporting it – as a continuous path of levels and actions of
engagement. Activities described at the first level are important to establish a

trustfully and credible relationship, and therefore are the basis to develop more
practices in the following levels. At these higher levels, employer engagement
becomes increasingly central to VET providers’ strategy.

Next are described in detail each one of the four levels of the BRIDGES Employer
Engagement Framework. For each level, it is presented an introductory general
theoretical background with relevant information that can be used in any VET-
employer relationship. In addition, one example per each partner country is

detailed in each of the four levels, providing specific good practices/success
factors that are already taking place between VET providers and employers in
each country participating in BRIDGES project.

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