The project aims at the development and modernization of nursing education in the five Higher Education Institution in Latin America. It is focusing on health promotion, disease prevention and management of chronic diseases, the use of technology, learning methods and outcomes.In Latin- America teachers have recognized the need to modernize nursing education’s curriculum in order to respond better than earlier to the challenges of digitalization in health care. Lifestyle and chronic diseases increase, quality of care is poor as well people’s access to health care services. In El Salvador nearly half of the people have a lack of health insurances and this causes inequality between poor and wealthy people. Due to long distances to health care facilities, people in rural areas face more problems in access to services than people in urban areas and there exists the shortage of people’s self-management skills and deficits in their self-management culture, too. Online communication with health care professionals will ease people’s access to services and in addition quality digital health promotion, disease prevention and management of chronic diseases is cost-effective and increases people’s self-management capacity of their own health. At the end of the project nursing education will have an updated curriculum with new modernized courses using SmartNurse methodology, teachers and students have better digital knowledge and skills. The teachers and students in the partner countries will benefit from active networking nationally and internationally through dissemination activities and participation in online DigiNurse community. When thinking of the impact envisaged, teachers feel self-confident with their digital competence, students feel that they are digitally future-proof when entering working life, and people in El Salvador and in Mexico have a better health condition and they have quality knowledge and skills to take care of themselves.

Science has undergone, since the end of the XX century, a biotechnological development hardly imagined some years ago. Genetics, medicine and new technologies have transformed human reality as we knew it up to now, raising serious ethical doubts. Is everything technically possible also acceptable in ethical terms? And if so, where are the legal limits? In Biolaw it converge science to reach an advanced knowledge, ethics to question the limits and the complexity of realities and law to offer a fair response. However, the professional world and the academia lack the skills, the training opportunities and the necessary resources to cope with these problems. With this project, we hope to create a mass of well trained lecturers and professionals in the field of Biolaw at each partner institution in Costa Rica and Mexico. On the basis of the existing offer and demand, we will develop 4 capacity and 2 doctoral courses online, focused on research skills and on Bio-law specific topics. We will support the launch of a new joint doctoral programme in Mexico and will support its expansion with 1 more university in Mexico and 2 new in Costa Rica. The courses will be developed and taught online and in 3 different languages (English, French and Spanish). The new academic offer, together with a set of training and dissemination activities –international seminars, conferences and stays abroad- and the help of new elearning and bibliographical equipment, will come to integrate the partner’s doctoral and lifelong learning offer, contributing this way to the emergence of a critical mass of well trained lecturers and professionals and to its further development, also at international level.The project will surely impact not only in partner institutions, improving their accessibility, visibility and their capacity of attraction and influence, but also in the public and private sectors of Health, Environment a Law in the partner regions and countries.