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Students from more than 50 countries celebrated the beginning of the academic year in Carolinum

Hundreds of students from all over the world filled the Great Hall of Charles University's historic headquarters on Friday, September 13, to begin the 2024/2025 academic year together at the matriculation ceremony. The academic year at the Institute for Language and Preparatory Studies of Charles University (ÚJOP UK) began on Monday 9 September. Five hundred students from more than fifty countries are starting to study Czech and specialized subjects in the preparatory courses this autumn.

17 September 2024

The new academic year has begun! We are happy to welcome the students of ÚJOP, who are starting their classes

The hot summer is passing quickly and therefore the time is coming when young people from all over the world come to the Czech Republic to study at the Institute of Language and Preparatory Studies of Charles University. They are looking forward to a year full of languages (Czech or English), specialized subjects, but also new experiences and friendships. They will enter the classrooms of ÚJOP UK centres on Monday 9 September for their first classes.

5 September 2024

Nearly 50 Ukrainian scholarship holders successfully completed a year of preparation for further studies

On Friday, 12 July, the preparatory courses organized by ÚJOP UK in Prague and Poděbrady as part of a scholarship programme for Ukrainian students finished. Forty-five promising young people were thus given the chance, despite their difficult situation, to educate themselves in the Czech language and specialized subjects so that they could successfully continue their studies at universities in the Czech Republic.

15 July 2024

Czech language students from Voršilská study centre also attended the certificate award ceremony

On Thursday, June 6, one hundred students gathered in the chapel of the historic Arnošt z Pardubic dormitory to receive certificates for their successful completion of the Czech language courses. The ceremony took place in a pleasant atmosphere and with clearly articulated speeches so that the speakers could be understood by all the awardees. The ceremony was bravely moderated without a microphone, which added authenticity to her speech, by the head of the study centre in Prague Mgr. Petra Landergott Kalvínská.

27 June 2024
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