The CPD programme contains a curriculum and a set of practical resources to offer to VET providers and professionals to provide guidance in developing a culture of excellence in employer engagement and implementing a 2-level pathway. Six modules have been developed, offering a blended format, putting forward a set of practical resources to support VET professionals in their daily practices and effective VET-business cooperation.
The CPD duration is estimated to be 60 hours (10 per module), including face-to-face and self-direct learning, and assessment hours.
1.1 Innovating educational pathways: involving employers in developing and/or adapting new educational pathways, curricula and/or occupational profiles for VET, ensuring the link between theory and practice in workplace-based education.
1.2 Strengthening Inclusive VET: supporting employers to provide more efficient workplace-based learning pathways for all, with special focus on those who are at risk of exclusion, creating an open, inclusive learning environment, considering the Salzburg Education Declaration “Towards more inclusive learning environments in Europe”.
1.3 Boosting digitalisation: supporting employers to identify their digital literacy needs through the EU DigComp framework, so they can deliver work-based learning in Industry 4.0/5.0.
2.1 Labour market trends: advising employers on the current dynamics of labour demand, and the need to strengthen and improve the attractiveness of VET curricula.
2.2 Networking and lobbying: building VET, employers and stakeholders’ partnerships that transform local, regional, or national workforce systems, considering the cost of training and promoting the growth of targeted sectors.
2.3 Enhancing mobility and internationalisation: advice for employers on the strategic planning of international work-based learning cooperation. Besides VET professionals, these modules also support employers providing more efficient workplace-based learning pathways for all, with a special focus on those who are vulnerable to marginalisation and exclusion, creating a welcome, open, and inclusive learning environment.