A report of a training experience of a Sandwich Doctorate offered by the Students’ Improvement Coordenation of Higher Education made at Faculté des Sciences Infirmières/Université de Montreal, from August to December, 2004. The training focused the deepening of conceptual and practical concepts related to the women’s health and their sexual and reproductive rights. This article aims to present the activities made to raise the interest of doctorate students in the post-graduation Brazilian programs in this kind of exchange. The attendance in courses, research groups and scientific events meetings, technical visits and experience exchange with researchers and members of social organizations, and conferences are emphasized. The impor tance of cooperation between researchers and institutions in Brazil as well as in other countries was verified with this experience and it consolidated the commitment with a professional and social emancipation project by means of research and by this kind of cooperation.
International Educational Exchange; Higher education institutions; Research groups; Women’s Health