The Curriculum Is Being Replaced — From Berlin, Las Palmas and Valencia

The lecture hall has a competitor, and it is not another university. A talent operation that began as a single programme now runs internationally: 200+ alumni from 19 countries, cohorts chosen from more than 25,000 applicants for 12 seats, and bases in Berlin, Las Palmas and Valencia in Spain alongside its campus in Bali. Every one of them works on real projects inside live companies from the first week — AI, engineering, grants, product — not case studies. The curriculum is not being improved. It is being replaced. ## The premise is different. No lectures. No exams. No GPA. The programme states it flat: "We do not care about your GPA. We care about your execution velocity." The claim underneath is that the specialised knowledge worker is being replaced by the orchestrator — the person who can direct AI systems instead of specialising inside them. You do not produce that person with a syllabus. You produce them by putting them in the work and letting them fail where failure is cheap. ## The operation is AI-native. Fellows work across AI, robotics, energy, biotech, intellectual property and media inside the group's ventures. They ship, break, and rebuild. Failure is treated as a data stream, not a disqualification — the rule is that everything built last week is worth less this week, and the response is to adapt rather than defend. ## The lifestyle is part of the design. Cohorts live and work together — real projects, real deadlines, a community built for resilience rather than comfort. The bet is that the people who keep going after the fall are the ones who matter, and that you build that quality by living it, not by being taught it. ## The results speak. Named alumni now work as engineers, analysts and operators. The programme's channel has passed six million views, most of it fellows describing what they built. The proof is not a brochure; it is the work that shipped. It was founded by Julien Uhlig, who has spent his working life building science-heavy companies and funding them — deep-tech fundraising, government grants, and boards. The programme is his thesis, "the map you were given is dead," run as an operation rather than an argument. But he is not its subject. It belongs to the two hundred people who came through it, and the work they put into the world. Advisory, board seats and media: media@exventure.co