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NETNEP 2026
10th International Nurse Education Conference
1-4 November 2026 | Edinburgh, UK
Resilient futures: Transforming nursing and midwifery education for a changing world
The NETNEP conference series facilitates the global exchange of knowledge and expertise in nursing, midwifery, and healthcare education. As we celebrate our tenth conference, NETNEP 2026 continues by exploring how educational innovations enhance student learning experiences, support the professional development of qualified practitioners, and improve health outcomes and safety for individuals and communities worldwide.
This milestone conference will bring together educators, researchers, and practitioners to examine the evolving landscape of healthcare education and its direct impact on quality care delivery and community health across diverse global contexts.
Conference Structure and Interprofessional Engagement
NETNEP 2026 features three intensive days of programming aligned with our core themes.
Keynote presentations will address thematic areas, while oral presentations, 'Rapid 5' sessions, and poster displays provide platforms for sharing innovations and research across all themes.
We actively encourage submissions from nursing, midwifery, medicine, allied health, and health informatics disciplines. This interprofessional approach reflects the collaborative nature of modern healthcare delivery and education, ensuring that digital transformation, climate adaptation, workforce development, and educational innovation are addressed from multiple professional perspectives. The conference format promotes networking and collaboration opportunities that extend beyond the event, fostering ongoing international partnerships that advance healthcare education globally.
View themes and submit abstracts here
Conference deadlines
Abstract submission: 15 May 2026
Author notification: 17 July 2026
Early-booking and author registration: 14 August 2026
Scope of the Conference
Aims and Scope
The NETNEP conference series facilitates the global exchange of knowledge and expertise in nursing, midwifery, and healthcare workforce education. Two distinguished journals, Nurse Education Today and Nurse Education in Practice, support this mission by providing platforms for disseminating innovative research and best practices worldwide.
Healthcare education worldwide faces interconnected challenges requiring collaborative solutions. The workforce development across both higher education and practice settings demands innovative approaches to knowledge transfer and succession planning. Simultaneously, rapid technological advancement and climate-related health impacts require fundamental shifts in how we prepare and support healthcare professionals.
NETNEP 2026 brings together international leaders, emerging scholars, students, and experienced practitioners to share evidence-based strategies that address these complex realities. Our focus extends beyond traditional educational boundaries to encompass the full spectrum of professional development, from initial preparation through advanced practice and leadership roles.
As one of the world's leading healthcare education conferences, NETNEP continues to attract delegates from across the globe, creating unique opportunities for cross-cultural learning and international partnership development. This global perspective is essential as we address challenges that transcend national boundaries, from climate change impacts to digital transformation requirements.
Discover and participate
Topics include:
Transforming the practice learning environment
Sustaining our educational and practice communities
New technologies, artificial intelligence, simulation, and social media in teaching and practice
Learning, teaching and assessment
Nursing and midwifery education responses to global and planetary health challenges
Sustainable curriculum innovation and development
Lifelong learning supporting professional development and leadership in nursing and midwifery
Translation of knowledge into practice
Sponsors & Exhibitors
Choose from a variety of sponsorship and commercial options to raise your profile and position your company as a thought leader in the community.
Supporting publications
Nurse Education Today is the leading international journal providing a forum for the publication of high quality original research, review and debate in the discussion of nursing, midwifery and interprofessional health care education, publishing papers which contribute to the advancement of educational theory and pedagogy that support the evidence-based practice for educationalists worldwide. The journal stimulates and values critical scholarly debate on issues that have strategic relevance for leaders of health care education.
Nurse Education in Practice enables lecturers and practitioners to both share and disseminate evidence that demonstrates the actual practice of education as it is experienced in the realities of their respective work environments, that is both in the University/faculty and clinical settings. It is supportive of new authors and is at the forefront in publishing individual and collaborative papers that demonstrate the link between education and practice.
