Abstract
The Bridging the Atlantic (BTA) program is an international alliance in community health among American and Azorean nursing students and faculty. Both the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (UMassD) and the University of the Azores (UAc) have established a robust and lengthy collaborative relationship. The UMassD College of Nursing & Health Sciences and UAc School of Health have worked collaboratively in creating and sustaining the BTA program since its inception in 2013, with the first nursing student exchange in 2015 and expansion in 2017