The growing gap between an ever-increasing number of people in need of care on one side and an acute shortage of nursing staff on the other side is also evident in the EUREGIO Maas-Rhein. This applies across all qualification levels, from assistant professions to academic degrees. However, despite the close neighborly relations between Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany, there has so far been no detailed discussion of their similarities and differences in nursing practice and education. Christof Stock and Oksana Kerbs take a look beyond the (border) fence. They describe and compare the working and training conditions of nursing assistant and nursing professional roles in Dutch and Belgian Limburg, the Walloon province of Liège, the German-speaking Community, and the Aachen region.