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Problems of sustainable development are typically complex and perspectives on the nature and solution of these problems are likely to vary with national, cultural and disciplinary backgrounds. Trans-boundary competence, the ability to communicate and collaborate across the boundaries of a nation, culture and discipline, is therefore an essential competence for sustainable development. Thus, virtual collaborative learning is an excellent learning environment to develop such trans-boundary abilities, as the participants experience differences in perspective in a very direct way and have to come to a joint solution of the problem.

* [http://supprem.unige.ch/ wSUPPREM: a Virtual Campus about Sustainable Development and Environmental Management  has been developed at the CUEH] (Interfaculty Centre of the University of Geneva) during the last 5 years. At the European level, SUPPREM is part of the campus e-LERU developed by the [http://www.leru.org/ League of European Research Universities (LERU)] to set up a common virtual campus enabling each partner university to offer its students high quality virtual mobility as a complement to physical mobility.

* [http://www.pasdel.eu/ PASDEL (PrActising Sustainable Development through E-Learning)] – Leonardo Da Vinci Project (2005-2008)  brings together 10 partners from 7 European countries to build e-courses in four European languages (Czech, French, Polish and Romanian) and is supported by local authorities, national ministries and private companies.