ENNE – information

Our students Tia Zobunđija, Laura Prelec, Luka Dragić, and Noa Vujčić 🎓😊 successfully represented our university, the city of Bjelovar, and Croatia (along with our products) at the ENNE Intensive Programme IP2024 in Plymouth. 🌟🌍 They had the opportunity to meet nursing representatives from 18 different countries. 👩‍⚕️🌐 An exciting and productive week lies ahead for our students. 💼💡 Notably, Bjelovar University of Applied Sciences is the only higher education institution in Croatia that is a member of the ENNE organization, and our students are the sole nursing student representatives from Croatia at the IP2024 event in Plymouth. 🎓🌍

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From November 6 to 9, 2023, the Dean of Bjelovar University of Applied Sciences, Zrinka Puharić, attended the regular annual meeting of the ENNE organization at the Department of Nursing, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. During the meeting, discussions focused on the nursing study curricula across Europe, the launch of a joint elective course on intercultural competences, mutual exchange and collaboration between students and faculty, the introduction of blended IP programmes, the upcoming meeting scheduled for April 2024 at the University of Plymouth, England, and the potential admission of new candidates/higher education institutions to the ENNE organization. 🏥👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️

Check out the new ENNE video created during the intensive programme in Tartu, Estonia, in April 2023. Bjelovar University of Applied Sciences is the only higher education institution in Croatia that is a member of ENNE – THE EUROPEAN NETWORK OF NURSING IN HIGHER EDUCATION. ENNE is a European network of nursing bachelor’s programs, whose main goal is to support innovations to improve the quality of nursing education and broaden students’ horizons towards the European labor market, in line with EU/2013/55 Directive, regardless of regional differences. For more information, visit the official ENNE website at https://www.enne.international/.

Bjelovar University of Applied Sciences is the host of the ENNE Intensive Programme in Nursing 2022 (IP2022). IP2022 involves the organization and coordination of 17 teachers and 45 students from 11 higher education institutions across Europe who visited Bjelovar University today. During the day, a coordination meeting was held, followed by a lecture titled *”Compassion – In Practice”* delivered by Dr. Sarah Tobin from the UK. After the lecture, students were divided into groups where they enjoyed various activities, participated in a quiz, took charming photos around the city of Bjelovar, and more. The program was led by the president of the Student Union, Iva Stanković.

The institutions participating in IP2022 are: Fachhochschule Salzburg, Austria; Plymouth University, England; Satakunta University of Applied Sciences, Finland; Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain; HES-SO Valais Wallis, Switzerland; PXL University College, Belgium; Tartu Health Care College, Estonia; Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Germany; Linköping University, Sweden; and Zuyd University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands. The participants from Bjelovar University of Applied Sciences in IP2022 are Ksenija Eljuga, Senior Lecturer; Assist. Prof. Dr. Zrinka Puharić, Prof. of Applied Sciences; and three undergraduate Nursing students—Lea Marčeta, Bernard Viljevac, and Ivan Lalić.

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From November 8 to 11, 2021, Bjelovar University of Applied Sciences hosted a hybrid model of the ENNE Coordinators’ Meeting (https://www.enne.international/). We were visited in person by three teachers from Spain (Maria Dolores Bernabeu, Juan Maria Leyva, and Mariela Patrizia Aguayo Gonzales) and Janika Pael from Estonia, who gave engaging lectures to senior students of the undergraduate nursing program. For the guests, a visit to the city of Zagreb and Trakošćan Castle was organized. Bjelovar University of Applied Sciences is the only higher education institution in Croatia that is a member of the ENNE organization.