IDRInstitute is partner of the Erasmus+ project “Training Intercultural Nursing Educators and Students – TraINErS”, is coordinated by Artesis Plantijn Hogeschool Antwerpen (AP).

In order to respond to the growing intercultural communication needs, TraINErS –Training Intercultural Nursing Educators and Students – develops a theoretically sound (blended) training program consisting of internationally tested, validated as well as accredited online/mobile materials and longitudinal online support to train educators involved in the development of nursing students’ intercultural competences and skills. TraINErS will enhance encounters with diverse patient populations as well as prepare nurses to be(come) mobile professionals integrating in new sociocultural contexts. TraINErS will define a profile with intercultural competences and skills for educators as well as students to foster intercultural communication in healthcare and develop a tool to evaluate intercultural communication growth

TraINErS will develop innovative learning opportunities in intercultural nursing communication by supporting nursing educators as well as students in acquiring and further developing the required skills and competences to become interculturally proficient professionals.