Milvolarsum

Do you got room for discussion?

There should be more room for experimentation, like a special protective status / pilot phase for innovative universities

I think if you really want to go that directions, some regulations need to be put in place first. It is really easy to fail for innovative projects, isn´t it? Even if they are really good. So there should be some kind of decision process for what ideas should be supported. But I also agree with you, nearing the end of my masters, I experienced myself how the current system just doesn´t support large scale world class skill acquisition, and only a few very motivated students usually get the skill which is needed for innovation. Many of them may aqcuire it later in life, but still. I think your university make a really good attempt at fixing this, and I really like the system behind it.

Universities in young, innovative disciplines need to be able to appoint professors without always requiring them to have a PhD

How do you imagine those professors being chosen?

Private universities must be included in state funding programs like the German Hochschulpakt

This would require for there to be more money given to education as a whole. Otherwise money just becomes thinner for those that really depend on it and the never ending battle for funding will likely get even fiercer. However, if the number of students going to private universities also rises, I can imagine ther to be some change required on how the money could be divided.

I think a big factor that is totally under represented in formal education and is often only given by extra courses, are soft skills like how to connect with humans, morals, how to cope with stress and other things. Do you plan on teaching those things in your university next to the normal programm? And if so how?

I would say that depends on how big the chances are that someone out a private university lands a high paying job than someone coming from a normal university. This is of course also is depended on the education someone really receives in either type of university, so it may have an effect or it may actually have no effect at all.