The Florence Network is a cross-nation European co-operation of Nursing and Midwifery Departments from 18 different countries and includes a total of 38 Institutions across Europe. The Florence Network has been established with the intention of focusing on Nursing and Midwifery educational, scientific and pedagogical issues. The objective of the Florence Network is to develop and increase the quality of higher education in Nursing, Midwifery and health care by means of international co-operation in the field of education, scientific research and development. In this way the organisation targets on improving the image of the profession and to raise the profile of Nursing and Midwifery within Europe.
The main goals of the Florence Network are:• To raise the profile of European Nursing and Midwifery
• To stimulate and organise the exchange of students between Florence Network members
• To stimulate and organise the exchange of lecturers between Florence Network members
• To contribute to the quality development of curricula in European Nursing & Midwifery Education
• To identify common nursing and midwifery research interests and develop research collaboration
• To develop and organise common projects, and intensive Nursing and Midwifery programmes and/ or activities within ERASMUS+ and other programmes
President: Helene Kelly, University College of Zealand, Zealand, DenmarkVice President: Susan Scharli, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, SwitzerlandBelgiumOdisee University College, Aalst, St. Niklaas, BrusselsUniversity College Leuven - Limburg, Leuven, GentThomas More, TurnhoutCzech RepublicMasaryk University, BrnoOstrava University, OstravaDenmarkMetropolitan University College, CopenhagenUniversity College Lillebaelt, OdenseUniversity College Zealand, Roskilde, Slagelse, Næstved, Nykøbing FEnglandCoventry University, CoventryFinlandLahti University of Applied Sciences, LahtiLapland University of Applied Sciences, RovaniemiSavonia University of Applied Sciences, IisalmiGermanyEvangelische Fachhochschule, BerlinFrankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt am MainOstfalia Hochschule, WolfsbergGreeceEpirus Institute of Technology (T.E.I. of Epirus), IoanninaItalyUniversity of Udine, Udine and PordenoneUniversity of Verona, VeronaNetherlandsThe Hague Hogeschool, The HagueHanze Hogeschool, GroningenNHL Hogeschool, LeeuwardenNorwayOslo and Akershus University College, OsloUniversity College of Southeast Norway: Drammen, Porsgrunn, Vestfold.PortugalEscola Superior de Enfermagem (ESEL) de Lisboa, LisbonEscola Superior de Saúde de Aveiro – AveiroEscola Superior de Saúde de Tras os Montes e Alto Douro – Vila RealScotlandEdinburgh Napier University, EdinburghGlasgow Caledonian University, GlasgowSlovakiaComenius University, Martin, BratislavaSloveniaUniversity of Primorska, IzolaSpainUniversity of Girona, GironaSwedenHalmstad University, HalmstadMalmö University, MalmöThe Swedish Red Cross University College, StockholmSwitzerlandBern University of Applied Sciences, BernZurich University of Applied Sciences, WinterthurSt. Gallen University of Applied Sciences, St. GallenTurkeyEge University, IzmirEvery year one of the partners - institutions of higher educations (Universities of applied Sciences) is the host institution for the Annual Meeting.
1995 Start of Florence Network - Groningen - Netherlands1996 Copenhagen, Oslo,1997 Stockholm, Aalst, Belgium1998 Bremen, Germany1999 Rovaniemi, Finland2000 Prague, Czech Republic2001 Lahti, Finland2002 Edinburgh, Scotland2003 Porsgrunn, Norway2004 Udine, Italy2005 Leuven, Belgium2006 Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland2007 Halmstad University, Varberg, Sweden2008 Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic2009 The Hague University, The Hague, Netherlands2010 Ege University, Izmir, Turkey2011 ESEL, Lisbon, Portugal2012 Malmö University, Sweden2013 Hanzehogeschool, Groningen / NHL, Leeuwarden, Netherlands2014 TurgutOzal University, Ankara, Turkey2015 Metropolitan University College, Copenhagen /University College Zealand, Roskilde, Denmark2016 University of Verona & Trento Campus, Italy2017 Bern UAS, Zurich UAS & St. Gallen UAS, Bern & Winterthur, Switzerland2018 Odisee, Belgium 