The Nursing School of Coimbra is organising, from 21st to 24th April, the Week of the National and International Relations, on account of the importance assigned by the School to the training in international context and to the interchange of cultural experiences.
Similarly to the Erasmus Fair, organised in 2007 in reference to the commemoration of the 20 years of the Erasmus Programme, the National and International Relations Office of the Nursing School of Coimbra again acknowledges the mobility in the context of Higher Education.
Within the scope of the initiative, intended to disseminate the interchange programmes Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci and Vasco da Gama (mobility on the national level), the afternoon of 22nd April is reserved for a seminar of experience sharing - from 14:00 to 17:00, in the auditorium of Campus A.
Students and teachers will share their experiences concerning what they did, learned and taught.
In this seminar four projects will be presented: the European Module (by the teacher Ananda Fernandes), the Intensive Project (by the teacher Cidalina Abreu), the Creation of a European Referential System of Nursing Care Skills (by the teacher António Amaral) and the Virtual Hospital (by the teacher Helena Brísio).
Mobility increases among students (80%) and teachers (150%)
In 2008, 36 students of the Nursing School of Coimbra attended, or are still attending, training sessions in congenerous institutions of seven European countries, within the scope of the Lifelong Learning Programme - an Erasmus sub-programme - , which represents an increase of 80% in mobility programmes in relation to the previous academic year, when 20 students attended study courses abroad.
The 3rd and 4th year students attended clinical teaching during 12 weeks in Higher Education and University institutions which the School has bilateral agreements with, of these countries: Bulgaria, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, Greece and Norway.
Besides the outgoing students, the Nursing School of Coimbra also hosts students from partner institutions of several countries.
In the current academic year the number of hosted students has more than doubled in relation to the previous year, rising from 10 (in 2006/ 2007) to 22.
As to the outgoing teachers the growth prevision is even bigger: from 16 to about 40 (an increase of 150%).
