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The World Declaration on Higher Education for the Twenty-First Century sees the internationalization of higher education as a technology capable of providing unique opportunities to reduce regional inequalities. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) displays this phenomenon as a chance to promote social justice and equity, based on solidarity, mutual respect, promotion of humanistic values and intercultural dialogue.
Because it is an irreversible phenomenon of global influence, internationalization has generated a significant impact in the manner of designing health care, as well as in the field of nursing education and investigation. Therefore, it is important for nursing to be prepared to provide culturally adequate care, and to consider the peculiarities of individuals, families and communities in a context in which the languages, cultures, values and needs may be different. The requirement for using common languages, respecting differences and valuing social skills as critical care techniques demand professionals with comprehensive and context-based perceptions, i.e., professionals able to go beyond the limits of their geographical space
The enrollment in a program of international academic mobility reveals advantages of several orders: those associated with scientific production, especially in relation to the advancement of knowledge in regard to research methods and theoretical frameworks, professional training, the exchange of ideas and the contact with theoretical and methodological perspectives that are fields of expertise in others centers of excellence, and even symbolic cultural gains. At the institutional level, it helps to strengthen relationships with institutions recognized by their academic merit, which promote the development and consolidation of scientific, technological and innovation knowledge in the field of interest(2).When it comes to the Brazilian nursing, an additional boost to the search for internationalization should be credited to the evaluation process of graduate programs and, more recently, to the undergraduate programs, which began to give significant weight to this movement of academic mobility. (2)(3)(4)(5)(6) .
In nursing, internationalization has provided a useful stream of knowledge and practices between countries, encouraging the sharing of ideas and practices in order to