In higher education as a whole and in the field of science and technology in particular, it is of vital importance to organize up-to-date laboratory practices for the students and to teach them how to acquire new skills and competences, which may involve problem based learning, and the use of the computer in the laboratory as a virtual measurement instrument. Therefore the existing knowledge relating to this matter among the different partner institutions, but also to accelerate the evolution in the laboratory practices at the different locations.