International Cooperation

The department has good relationships with Nordic countries, with several European countries and with the United States, Canada and Baltic countries. Further strengthening of international cooperation especially in the fields of teaching and research is a major target in the future. There are several programmes operating in the field of teaching and learning:

• Nordplus is a programme established between Nordic countries to facilitate student and teacher exhange. It has been implemented since 1990 with the Universities of Gothenburg, Oslo and Stockholm.
• Socrates programme has opened up the connections with eight European universities by student a as a teacher exhange. The universities are as follows:
• Universiteit Maastricht, the Netherlands www.unimaas.nl
• King's College-University of London, UK www.kcl.ac.uk
• University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UK www.unn.ac.uk
• University of Surrey, UK www.surrey.ac.uk
• Ethniko Kai Kapodistrioako Panepistimio Athinon - University of Athens, Greece www.uoa.gr

• ISEP-programme (USA) for undergraduate and doctoral students

• North Carolina Consortia University of North Carolina, 16 campuses Other collaboration in education: Universities of Stockholm, Utah, Glamorgan and Toronto.

Further information on exchange programmes from the homepages of international office http://www.uku.fi/intl/
If you are interested in student exchange, please contact the coordinator of international affairs in the department of nursing science Teija Korhonen teija.korhonen (at) uku.fi)

Research

The department has initiated research projects with the following universities:

• Wayne State University (USA) University of Utah (USA)
• Brigham Young University (USA)
• University of Tartu (Eesti)
• University of Odense (Tanska)
• University of Manitoba (Kanada)
• University of Akureyri (Islanti) University of Limburg (Hollanti)
• University of Lund (Ruotsi)
• University of Oslo (Norja)
• University of Bradford (Iso-Britannia)
• University of Northumbria (Iso-Britannia)
• University of Basel (Sveitsi)
• University of Toronto (Kanada)
• University of Barcelona
• University of Linköping

International Organizations and Networks

• The department cooperates among others with the Baltic countries, Hungary, Poland and Russia
• Representatives from the department are involved with the activities of Transcultural Nursing Society, Workgroup of European Nurse Researchers (WENR) and World Health Organization (WHO).

 Updated 7.6.06