Academic calendar
The academic year starts on September 1st 2016 and ends on August 31st 2017. The winter semester ends before Christmas. Exams are scheduled throughout January. The summer semester begins in the middle of February and ends in the middle of May with exams continuing until the end of June.
National holidays (offices closed)
September 28 – observed in honour of St. Wenceslas
October 28 – Proclamation of the Czechoslovak Republic
November 17 – Fighting for Freedom and Democracy Day
December 24, 25 and 26 - Christmas
January 1 – New Year‘s Day
Easter Monday
May 1 – Labour Day
May 8 – Liberation Day
July 5 – observed in honour of the Slavonic Apostles Cyril and Methodius
July 6 – observed in honour of Jan Hus, the Czech religious reformer
