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Find Your Czech: Bringing People Together Through Languages

How can you meet new people, practise a foreign language and learn about another culture? The annual Find Your Czech event, organised by the Institute for Language and Preparatory Studies at Charles University (UJOP UK), offers an opportunity to do just that. It brings together international students who wish to study or live in the Czech Republic with Czech native speakers who are learning their languages.

22 October 2026

UJOP Celebrates the European Day of Languages

As every year, the Institute for Language and Professional Preparation at Charles University took part in the celebrations of the European Day of Languages, which is marked across Europe, including Czechia, on 26 September.

In Prague, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Translation organised a Language Festival, which took place on Friday 25 September 2026 at the Zažijte Evropu centre at Národní 10 in Prague. The programme included Speak Dating, where participants could try out one of more than 20 languages on offer in five-minute mini lessons.

9 October 2026

From Studying Czech in Mariánské Lázně to the Presidency

When Patrick Herminie travelled from the Seychelles to Czechoslovakia in 1983, his journey began with studying Czech at the then training centre of the Institute for Language and Professional Preparation at Charles University (UJOP UK) in Mariánské Lázně. Learning Czech subsequently paved the way for him to study medicine at Charles University in Prague. More than forty years later, Patrick Herminie became President of the Republic of Seychelles, while his ties to Czechia and Charles University have remained strong to this day.

25 September 2026

New UJOP Students Officially Begin the Academic Year at the Carolinum

On Friday, 11 September 2026, new students of UJOP Charles University gathered for the first time in one of the university’s most important historic spaces — the Great Hall of the Carolinum. The matriculation ceremony symbolically marked the beginning of their studies and officially welcomed the students into the academic community of Charles University.

20 September 2026
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ujop@ujop.cuni.cz
+420 212 245 245

Foundation Programmes:
studujop@ujop.cuni.cz
+420 778 754 481 (text first)

CCE Exams, Exams for Faculty of Medicine, MOCK TESTS:
vtc@ujop.cuni.cz
+420 212 245 245 (DID. 3334)

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praha.trvalypobyt@ujop.cuni.cz
+420 212 245 245 (DID. 3334)

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+420 212 245 245 (DID. 3334)


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