In this paper, the activity related to the development of an educational project called OTRE is reported. The project involves a number of students from different Universities, working on activities to be conducted on a distributed architecture developed with the specific aim of enforcing team cooperation. This e-learning project is participated by IBM Rational and IBM Academic Initiative Italy, together with the Italian Eclipse community and several Italian universities, including University of Napoli Federico II, University of Milano Bicocca, University of Bologna, University of Bergamo, University of Genova, University of Salerno, in this first experimentation