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.