The abbreviation GraWi is made up of the combination of first letters of the Austrian university sites of GRAz and WIen (Vienna) and stands for the follow-up model of BraGraLuWi having involved also the universities of BRAtislava and LUton in 1996. A joint project-design had already been carried out in 1995 (BraGraLu). The present contribution is aimed at assessing the project