Abstract
The multicultural society has impacts on the nursing profession and multicultural aspects of education have impacts on international cooperation. Material from 10 years in a Nordic network with higher education institutions within nursing was analysed in order to develop cooperation, mobility, curriculum and research. Methods of benchmarking were used in analysing political documents, memorandum, descriptions of the departments, course programs and reports from teachers and students. The results indicated that the process from planning to realization was unclear, ambitions were higher than outcomes; experiences of mobility were mostly described in terms of personal experiences, enriching and useful, but relations to political goals or institutional strategies were invisible. Effects on academic subjects or competence were not reported, nor were they asked for. Weeklong courses with more participants were successful. However the research method implied new insights in the results; experiences became visible effects beyond an individual level exists, but they had to be named and asked for.