• The mutualisation of pedagogical and academic e-content requires a commonly-agreed system of dialog and exchanges between the data bases of the partners. This system would be made of Web services via XML formatting of the data, with a central inquiry engine. The resulting mutualised e-content would then be a European "mega" meta database.
• The setting up of the meta database would take into account the language diversity of the partner universities.
• Free and paying accesses would be granted to the meta data base, depending on the nature of the accessed resources.
• A support centre would enable the good coordination, promotion and diffusion of the e-content. It would guarantee the respect and the efficient management of intellectual property rights. This centre would be in charge of the development and of the maintenance of the meta database. It would also maintain and develop the European dedicated Web portal. It would be an essential instrument of promotion of the business exploitation of the e-content, of management of the business partnerships with private companies selling services around the database created, and of distribution of the benefits among the universities involved.
• The central support centre would have local support teams in each university to collect the digital resources, and to motivate and help teachers who want to provide e-content.
• A real common editorial policy would be developed to promote the e-content collected. This could be achieved by creating a "LERU" publishing house, with an editorial committee gathering members from all LERU universities.
• The mutualisation system would favour the collaboration of the partner-universities toward the development of cutting edge teaching and learning resources. A variety of universities and colleges could then use these resources as primary materials and as component elements in their programmes. These resources would be, for example, 3-D animations, virtual reality simulations, high quality educational games, work on projects such as mobile computing, use of voice recognition software, on-line assessment or the use of avatars.
• The mutualisation system would allow individuals and organisations to access an extensive list of academic and scientific resources related to a specific subject, for instance: the lectures in different languages given in prestigious European universities; the e-learning offers available related to this subject; the academic and scientific actuality in Europe related to the subject (announcement of conferences, debates, and so on) ; the audio-visual resources and programs related to the subject.

The Consortium also acknowledges and takes into account the importance of the natural reluctance of the academic community towards this kind of project:
the cultural and psychological barriers of academics toward the sharing of knowledge and the transparency of pedagogical and academic practices;
the lack of "business" experience and culture of universities, while the business dimension of the project is essential for its perpetuation;
the reluctance to share or distribute scientific and educational content without a strong IPR protection.