The Project Oriented Learning Environment POLE is a study platform to be used by students of European universities with the goal to network ones own subject with other professions and to work together across culture and language borders.
POLE offers the opportunity to deepen the knowledge of ones own subject and develop solutions for complex and interdisciplinary problems together in a team with other partners. By working in POLE one gets a better understanding of the mutual dependencies and increases the social competence of the participants. POLE uses modern communication and information technologies (ICT) as tools for efficient collaboration.
   
Working in a team is the natural way to deal with the networking of the various disciplines and the extent of the partial problems. The industry also plans the solution of complex problems by using teams with the goal of obtaining better results. Better in this sense means standing on firmer ground and being better interconnected. It is obvious that by using this working model along with the expertise in ones own subject, that a great emphasis is put on the ability of communication.