Sentence examples for a bridge programme from inspiring English sources

He insisted that Greece would pursue concessions that the country's eurozone partners had already rejected last week in talks with Mr Varoufakis: a debt restructuring in the shape of two exotic new bonds, and a bridge programme to keep the country afloat until June.

A bridging programme also made it possible for enrolled nurses to complete a 2-year diploma at a nursing college and qualify as a registered general nurse.

Community midwives are a new cadre and AMA initiatives include: a "bridging programme" to higher education, negotiated with the Ministry of Education, to resolve the career block for CME midwives unable to complete secondary school and thus excluded from the civil service; midwife-run community birthing centres; CME professionalisation with defined career progression.

But about the same time, the company launched the Bridge programme, a scheme offering financial help and training to the workers who were about to leave.

Ari says the Bridge programme gave BetterDoctor "a few tens of thousands of dollars" but believes the gesture was about far more than money.

In late 2012 the team moved to Estonia having been selected for GameFounders, the first European accelerator program for gaming startups and in 2013 they were selected by the Mind The Bridge programme in Silicon Valley, closing a deal with mobile publishing giant PocketGems for the their first title 'Sheep Up!'.

The president's bridge programme was rigorously evaluated at a variety of levels in government.

Nokia is not prepared to reveal how much the Bridge programme has cost but says it is "in the tens of millions of euros".

"The company would never have started without the Bridge programme," says Kimmo. "We couldn't believe that you could get so much support.

Nokia's presence in Finland has helped build a thriving startup culture, thanks to the pool of local tech skills and experience but also as Nokia has had to reduce its own headcount it has actively encouraged entrepreneurship through its Bridge Programme by supporting former employees leaving to found their own startups.

"The company decided - all the way from the board to the senior management - that we wanted to do career responsibility as well as we can, beyond what the legal minimum is," says Matti Vanska, the head of the Bridge programme.