The Faculty has an extensive international contact system established in Europe, Asia and America. Every year, the Erasmus+ exchange program gives students and teachers the opportunity to improve their skills and knowledge abroad. With about 40 partner universities, the Faculty manages mobility programs of approximately 30 students and 10-15 teachers annually. The list of Erasmus partners includes highly-ranked institutions from all over Europe. After a successful application, students can also participate in professional conferences or short training programs with foreign partners.
The Faculty has cooperated and organized 3-4 week-long professional trainings for the Tianjin Public Health Bureau, the Josai University (Japan), the International University of Health and Welfare (Otawara, Japan), the Jiao Tong University of Shanghai and the Gulf Medical University with the participation of approximately 20 students and lecturers per program from the Faculty. Besides the above, they maintain close relationships with George Washington University (USA) and the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (China) as well, and obtained a staff Erasmus scholarship that can pave the way to research and education cooperation.
Erasmus+ Programs
The Faculty have been participating in the Erasmus Life-long Learning program since the beginning of the 2000s, within the framework of which they send and receive students for 3-6 months, primarily for internships and secondly for theoretical training. The list of our Erasmus partners include
- Medizinische Universitat Graz, FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences (Austria)
- Thomas More Kempen, Odissee University and College (Belgium)
- University of Ostrava (Czech Republic)
- University College of Northern Denmark, Aalborg (Denmark)
- Saimaa University of Applied Sciences, Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Turku University of Applied Sciences, Tampere University of Applied Sciences (Finland)
- Aalen University (Germany)
- University School of Physical Education in Poznan, Wyzsza Szkola Rehabilitacji z siedziba w Warszawie, Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego we Wroclawiu (Poland)
- Instituto Politecnico de Castelo Branco, University of Coimbra, Cruz Vermelha Portugesa, Instituto Politecnico de Lisboa (Portugal)
- Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania (Romania)
- Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Universitat de Vic (Spain)
- Pamukkale University, University of Marmara, Istanbul Medipol University, Abant Izzet Baysal University (Turkey)
European relations
The Faculty’s Physiotherapy BSc Training was launched in English language in 2006, and we started an off-campus English-language Physiotherapy BSc program in Lugano in 2009; now it is operating in Italian and French.
In 2006 the Faculty joined COHEHRE International (Consortium of Institutes of Higher Education in Health and Rehabilitation in Europe), an organization with members from approximately 50 higher education institutions with healthcare profile. In the winter of the same year, we organized the annual conference of the consortium and the 2015 Congress and General Assembly of COHEHRE was organized by our Faculty in April 2015. Our world-unique Nursing Atlantis BSc program was launched in 2008. Within the framework of the program sponsored by the EU and the USA, selected Hungarian, Finnish and American students obtained a double, European-American “bachelor” degree. Every year 3-5 Hungarian students and 2-4 lecturers took part in the program.
Since 2013, we have been members of the so-called European Later Life Network, in which we work as members of a European consortium of 26 universities on EU-funded curriculum development. Between 2018 and 2020, the Faculty participated in a Erasmus+ consortium project lead by Tallinn Health Care College (other members include Turku University of Applied Sciences, Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Coimbra, Istanbul University) entitled „Care of Pressure and Venous Ulcers in Simulation Environment”.
American relations
In 2003, we organized the Nazareth Summer Program summer school for the first time for all students at the Faculty and Semmelweis University. The U.S. partner, Nazareth College of Rochester, organized a 3-4-week, intensive English language and culture program for Semmelweis University students and faculty, which was attended by more than 130 people over the past ten years.
Our world-unique Nursing Atlantis program BSc was launched in 2008. Within the framework of the program sponsored by the EU and the USA, selected Hungarian, Finnish and American students obtained a double, European-American “bachelor” degree. Every year 3-5 Hungarian students and 2-4 lecturers took part in the program.
Since 2009, we have been applying in the Fulbright program for a Hungarian scholarship for teachers from the United States. Under the call, U.S. faculty members can teach at our Faculty, typically in one semester. So far, 4 nurses and 2 physiotherapist instructors from the USA have participated in the program.
We launched a nursing science in-service training program with the University of West Georgia in 2013, which again sent 12 students and 2 faculty members for clinical in-service training this year. We also established a partnership with Rutgers University in 2013, in which our relationships are already well utilized at the university level. The Faculty realised a mutual staff mobility project with George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in the framework of Erasmus KA 107 program in the academic year 2022/23.
Asian relations
In 2007, we launched an exchange program with the Jiao Tong University of Shanghai partner university, in which approximately 20 students and lecturers participated in a two-week professional and cultural program, thus promoting the intercultural nature of our training. Between 2011 and in 2019, several groups of nursing professionals arrived at our faculty for a three-week professional training organized by the Tianjin Public Health Bureau, and we have managed similar trainings 6 times for Josai University (Japan) and a shorter, orientation program for International University of Health and Welfare (Otawara, Japan).
In 2010, Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine launched its Traditional Chinese Medicine BSc training program at our Faculty. Besides, the Faculty entertains close relationships with Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine as well, and obtained a staff Erasmus scholarship that can pave the way to research and education cooperation that have been subject of various discussions among the universities’ leaders.
Contact: etk.international@semmelweis.hu