Project partners of this EU Erasmus+ project were Universities in Latvia, Italy, Lithuania, Czech Republic and Bulgaria.

The project aimed to establish and strengthen an international partnership in the field of mediation as part of University teaching and to develop an online study platform with the involvement of academia, practitioners and students. This innovative online platform should enable an extensive digitalization of the teaching process in two ways:

• Provision of a database and materials for online learning. Videos will be used to present mediation sessions with a special focus on the mediator's methods and tools.
• Conducting mock mediation sessions and competitions among students in an intercultural environment.

Cooperation partners at the University of Graz were the Institute of the Foundations of Law with the Department of Jurisprudence, Sociology of Law, Negotiation and Mediation (Assoz. Prof. Dr. Sascha Ferz, Koordination), the Center for Social Competence (Dr. in Karin Sonnleitner) and the Academy of New Media and Knowledge Transfer (Dr. Martin Kopp). Under the organizational responsibility of DI Robert Link, their contribution, besides joining the work on the web-platform and the development of a best practice manual is mainly focused on the coordination of the video production. What is planned, are four videos with a length on 20-30 minutes each, which describe the methodology of a mediation process (e.g. family mediation). They address teachers and trainers but can also be used for self-study purposes for students and professional mediators. The videos will be published on the YouTube channel of Turiba University (Riga, Latvia) and on the webpages of the partner institutions.