Multidisciplinary and cross-cultural collaboration are emerging key competences of tomorrow's professionals. The learning and teaching platform elop offers the possibility to acquire such experiences in the framework of a graduate program. At the core of the elop* program, constructed around an innovation-based trans-disciplinary design process, is the development of real projects with actual clients. Students of different disciplines from the elop alliance, an international network of universities, work together using advanced information and collaboration technologies and methods.