Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně

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Academic Calendar

The academic year comprises two semesters:

• Winter semester (September – January)
• Summer semester (February – August)

Academic Calendar for Academic Year 2023/2024 – Rector´s Decree – RR/4/2023

The academic year 2023/2024 starts on 1 September 2023 and ends on 31 August 2024.
Classes in the winter semester start on 15 September 2023, classes in the summer semester start on 2 February 2024.

Each semester usually consists of 14 teaching weeks and 5 examination weeks (see the Study and Examination Regulations of TBU in Zlin, Part Two, Article 2).

Public Holidays

1 JANUARY

Restoration of the Czech Independence Day; New Year’s Day

EASTER FRIDAY, MONDAY

Easter Holiday

1 MAY

Labour Day

8 MAY

Liberation Day, celebrating the end of European part of World War II

5 JULY Constantin and Methodius Day, celebrating the arrival of the first Christian missionaries to the Czech lands in 863
6 JULY Jan Hus Day, commemoration of the religious reformer’s death at the stake in 1415
28 SEPTEMBER St. Wenceslas Day, in remembrance of the patron of the Czech State
28 OCTOBER Czechoslovak Statehood Day, establishment of the democratic Czechoslovakia in 1918
17 NOVEMBER

Freedom and Democracy Day, commemorating the anti Nazi student demonstration of 1939 and the anti- Communist demonstration of 1989 that started the Velvet Revolution

24 DECEMBER Christmas Eve
25, 26 DECEMBER Christmas Holidays

Faculties and departments

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