Florence Network

The Florence Network
Named after	Florence Nightingale
President	Susan Schärli-Lim, Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Winterthur
Vice-President	Jana Nemcova, Comenius University, Bratislava
Website	https://sites.google.com/site/theflorencenetworkeu/home

The Florence Network is a cross-nation European co-operation of nursing and midwifery departments from 18 different countries. It includes a total of 38 institutions across Europe. It focuses on international cooperation over educational and scientific issues, with the aim to develop and increase the quality of higher education in nursing, midwifery and health care. In this way the organization works to improve the image of the profession and to raise the profile of nursing and midwifery within Europe.^[1]

Primary goals

The Florence Network's stated goals are principally concerned with European nursing and midwifery. They include organising student and lecturer exchange between network members, improving curriculum quality and facilitating research collaboration.

It is hoped that the network will help with identified issues in nursing, such as an aging workforce, nursing shortages in higher-income EU countries, workplace dissatisfaction in lower-income countries, and a need for more culturally sensitive healthcare.^[2]

Member Countries

Institutions join the network by invitation only,^[3] but do not pay membership fees.^[2] As of 2019, forty higher education institutions (HEIs) from the following European nations are members of the network:

Annual meeting

Every year one of the partners - institutions of higher education (Universities of applied Sciences) is the host institution for the annual meeting.

1995 Start of Florence Network - Groningen - Netherlands
1996 Copenhagen, Oslo,
1997 Stockholm, Aalst, Belgium
1998 Bremen, Germany
1999 Rovaniemi, Finland
2000 Prague, Czech Republic
2001 Lahti, Finland
2002 Edinburgh, Scotland
2003 Porsgrunn, Norway
2004 Udine, Italy
2005 Leuven, Belgium
2006 Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland
2007 Halmstad University, Varberg, Sweden
2008 Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
2009 The Hague University, The Hague, Netherlands
2010 Ege University, Izmir, Turkey
2011 ESEL, Lisbon, Portugal
2012 Malmö University, Sweden
2013 Hanzehogeschool, Groningen / NHL, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
2014 TurgutOzal University, Ankara, Turkey
2015 Metropolitan University College, Copenhagen /University College Zealand, Roskilde, Denmark
2016 University of Verona & Trento Campus, Italy
2017 Bern UAS, Zurich UAS & St. Gallen UAS, Bern & Winterthur, Switzerland
2018 Odisee, Belgium
2019 Coventry, England

References

^ Florence Network Official Guidelines and Regulations. 2015.
^ ^a ^b Mantzoukas, Stefanos; Schärli-Lim, Susan; Kelly, Hélène (January 2021). "The impact of The Florence Network in advancing nursing and midwifery in Europe". Nurse Education in Practice. 50: 102919. doi:10.1016/j.nepr.2020.102919. ISSN 1471-5953. PMID 33227617. S2CID 227156909 – via Elsevier Science Direct.
^ Power, Alison (2018-01-02). "Beyond Brexit: Cross-border collaborations in pre-registration midwifery education". British Journal of Midwifery. 26 (1): 57–59. doi:10.12968/bjom.2018.26.1.57. ISSN 0969-4900.

External links

The Florence Network

[1] Florence Network Official Guidelines and Regulations. 2015.

[:0-2] Mantzoukas, Stefanos; Schärli-Lim, Susan; Kelly, Hélène (January 2021). "The impact of The Florence Network in advancing nursing and midwifery in Europe". Nurse Education in Practice. 50: 102919. doi:10.1016/j.nepr.2020.102919. ISSN 1471-5953. PMID 33227617. S2CID 227156909 – via Elsevier Science Direct.

[3] Power, Alison (2018-01-02). "Beyond Brexit: Cross-border collaborations in pre-registration midwifery education". British Journal of Midwifery. 26 (1): 57–59. doi:10.12968/bjom.2018.26.1.57. ISSN 0969-4900.

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