Internacionalização Do Ensino De Enfermagem: O Doutoramento Em Regime De Cotutela Internacional

Abstract

Globalization, i.e., the process of increasing the integration of economies and societies around the world, through trade and financial transactions, capital and investment movements, migration and movement of people and the dissemination of knowledge, make imperative the internationalization of education. 1 The development of a knowledge economy has made intellectual capital a valuable asset, and nursing, as a knowledge discipline, has been following this process with the mobility of experts, the training of students, and research projects sharing. It is interesting to note that both in Brazil and Portugal, it dates back to the 1920s and 1930s the international collaboration at nurses' level with the support of the US Rockefeller Foundation. The collaboration is aimed at technical and scientific advice for qualified nurses training, intervening in the hospital and in the community, through the creation of innovative Nursing Schools, and the international mobility of nurses, for postgraduate training.