This article is concerned with the topic of a non-university type of Higher education institutions in Austria which is represented by the Fachhochschul-Sector (Higher vocational education). The term "Fachhochschule" is widely known in the Czech Republic but almost nobody dispose of further knowledge about it, about its basics, which participants are involved and which instruments are used to his successful shaping. The aim of this article is to introduce and to illuminate its model on which principle the Fachhochschul-Sector has worked in Austria to good effect for nearly fourteen years and in the end to evalute its innovative gains and benefits for the Austrian Higher education system as a whole.