Academic years and holidays
| Orientation week for the winter semester: | September 14 - 16, 2011 |
| Beginning of the winter semester: | September 19, 2011 |
| End of the winter semester: | December 16, 2011 |
| Christmas break: | December 17, 2011 - January 1, 2012 |
| Examination period of the winter semester: | January 2 - February 10, 2012 |
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| Orientation week for the summer semester: | February 8 -10, 2012 |
| Beginning of the summer semester: | February 13, 2012 |
| Study week in the summer semester: | April 2 - 6, 2012 |
| End of the summer semester: | May 11, 2012 |
| Examination period of the summer semester: | May 14 - June 30, 2012 |
MAIN HOLIDAYS IN CZECH REPUBLIC
(all offices and stores are closed)
- January 1: New Year´s Day
- Easter: holiday is on Monday
- May 1: Labour Day
- May 8: Liberation Day
- July 5: Observed in honour of Slavonic apostles Cyril and Methodus
- July 6: Observed in honour of Jan Hus, the Czech religious reformer burned to death (1415)
- September 28: Czech Statehood Day, observed in honour of St. Wenceslas, Czech prince from 10th centrury
- October 28: Proclamation of the Czechoslovak Republic
- November 17: Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Day, observed in honour of the ?Velvet Revolution? in 1989
- December 24-26: Christmas
last update: 25.8.2011
