Abstract

GERBASSI COSTA AGUIAR, Beatriz et al. Education without frontiers: An international co-operation Project between Schools of Nursing belonging to the Tordesillas Group. Index Enferm [online]. 2007, vol.16, n.57, pp.72-75. ISSN 1699-5988.

Social and cultural changes in the globalizad world are new challenges for university education and encourage the formation of co-operation nets between universities and countries. Thus the "Grupo Tordesillas" was born and nowadays meets several Spanish, Brazilian and Portuguese universities. Here we propose to describe the experience of an academic agreement that some schools of nursing have established: Escola de Enfermagem Alfredo Pinto (Federal University of State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Escuela Universitaria de Estudios Sanitarios (Public University of Navarra, Spain) and Escuela Universitaria de Enfermería (University of Valladolid, Spain). Expositions of every experience have been used as methodology, taking into account the related current guidelines of participating countries. Preliminary results point at possiblity of educational and nursing research innovations, to give rise to knowledge for international nursing actions and build a co-operation net between institutions.We conclude that differences between the Tordesillas Group countries, instead of obstacles to science development, are a great oportunity to prepare profesional nurses tunning the needs of the world running these days.

Keywords : Academic Cooperation; Tordesillas Group; Nursing.