The last transnational project meeting was held in Zagreb from 29 to 30 June 2023. The meeting was used as an opportunity to expand knowledge and project findings on innovative teaching methods in legal education. A total of 23 participants was present during the two days. The meeting started off with two presentations of distinguished guests - Przemyslaw Kubiak from the University of Lodz and Polish Law Clinics Foundation and Paul McKeown from Northumbria University and the European Network for Clinical Legal Education. Both speakers addressed the importance of teaching law students practical legal skills, focusing specifically on the value and importance of clinical legal education. Two presentations were followed by the demonstration of the results of the IO3 - Method Toolbox. All subgroups (case studies, simulations, clinical legal education, moot courts) are in the final stage and are ready to be published on the MELE website soon. The Friday morning session was used to address the issues of project management, focusing on final reporting and further project activities.

The multiplier event was organized as an afternoon session following the TPM on 29 June 2023. In order to present the results of the MELE project, but also to explore further the topic of practical legal education, a multiplier event was organized as a roundtable "Theory and practice: The importance of cooperation in education of future lawyers". Aside from the project partners, a total of 32 participants (1 international and 31 domestic participants) took part in the event (representatives of the Supreme Court, High Commercial Court, Commercial Court in Zagreb, Municipal Court in Zagreb, attorneys, in-house counsels, NGOs and academia). The MPE took off with Prof. Dr. Giegerich's and Dr. Mareike Fröhlich's explanation of the main goals and outputs of the project, followed by the overview of practical courses in University of Zagreb Faculty of Law (presented by Prof. Opačić) and a moderated discussion. During the roundtable, the participants pointed out that:

• there are many opportunities to engage in practical legal education these days (more than ever)
• there is still some space to expand the cooperation, e.g. by jointly engaging in different simulations or by organizing structured internships
• while students do have better soft skills, they lack confidence and sometimes initiative, so they should be encouraged to freely express their own opinion
• practical legal education should start in the first year, not later in the studies
• the understanding of the business sector and financial background should not be underestimated in the curriculum
• in order to acquire soft skills, the focus should not be only on law, but on the wider social and economic background, desirably exposing students to the knowledge of other disciplines (sociology, social psychology etc.)
• teachers should also be trained in pedagogy and andragogy
• perhaps a smaller number of (motivated) students is needed to facilitate the process of acquiring practical legal skills
• law faculties should not only be oriented towards practice, but also towards the community and the users of the legal system

On 10 and 11 May 2023 a seminar for PhD students was held at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade as a dissemination activity within the MELE project. It was held in a hybrid form and organized by the Institute for Legal and Social Sciences and Centre for Sociological and Legal Research of the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade. 20 PhD candidates from 7 different countries participated in this two-day event. The Colloquium comprised workshops intended for PhD students with the aim to introduce them to some helpful administrative and technical tools achieved by the MELE project to enhance their productivity and work pace. 

Marija Vlajković and Valerija Dabetić from the University of Belgrade Team presented the functioning of the MELE project through intellectual outputs that were finalized in the previous three years within the project duration with the main aim to modernize teaching methods in legal education. They explained the importance of Survey on teaching transversal competences in legal studies for mapping where exactly the progress in modernizing legal education is needed. Marija and Valerija announced that the online course for academic skills in European and international context, that was part of the intellectual output 2, is envisaged to be part of the University of Belgrade Moodle Platform so our students could also benefit directly from the online courses. Finally, Marija and Valerija briefly presented their research paper titled “Building Transversal Skills and Competences in Legal Education”, that is to be a part of the intellectual output 4 - a publication of articles “Law and beyond” which explains the links of cross-cutting topics for legal teaching and research and opens up new research fields for legal scholars. 

The presentation was concluded with the message that projects such as MELE, with the aim to expand legal knowledge and open legal education to modern inter-disciplinary approach and engage both lecturers and students, to create a more productive learning environment, are a necessity in the legal academic studies of the 21st century.