Abstract
The paper deals with selected cooperation forms of public higher education institutions in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. It compares the advantages and disadvantages of institutionalized and non-institutionalized cooperation [specific representations (subjectless interest-generating platforms); non-specific institutionalized forms are linked to the general regime of participations in legal entities; non-institutionalized cooperation has a simple contractual basis, its possible specificity is determined by the context of the subject of the contract with the exclusive activity of the higher education institutions].
It briefly compares the advantages and disadvantages of institutionalized and non-institutionalized cooperation. A concept of „superstructure“ academic self-government is considered possible.