Information for newly accepted students – updated

VISA APPLICATIONS

CROSSING THE BORDERS

There are new obligations connected with crossing the borders.

List of countries according to the level of risk – countries with low-risk of Covid-19 contagion

Are you from high-risk countries? (usually non-EU countries, but there are some exceptions – Thailand, Korea or Canada are low-risk countries)
- Before entering the country, you have to fill in following electronic form (print the form or do a pdf copy, you will be asked to show it at the borders).
- Undergo a PCR test for SARS CoV-2 at your own expense (during the first 5 days), the result must be notified to the given hygienic station no later than 7 days after entering the territory of the Czech Republic.
- If you stay at the dormitory, you will be accommodated in a special area. Please, cooperate with the dormitory staff, follow their instructions and do not leave your room until your test is negative and you are allowed by the dormitory to do so.
- Email your test results to the given
  - hygienic station: covid-hc@hygpraha.cz,
  - FIS Master office,
  - and to arrivals@vse.cz if you are accommodated at the dormitory.
- During the first 10 days all foreigners must wear face-masks or respirators and limit their free movement in the territory (only journeys to university, travel required to arrange essential life needs, travel to healthcare facilities and social services facilities, travel to take care of urgent official matters).

Contact information of the Prague hygiene station:

+420 227 272 065 – from 8:00 till 18:00 every day

The places where you can undergo the test are available here (although in Czech only, you will find a map on the website).
- We recommend you to use any of the testing center where you can book an appointment in advance to don’t wait so long in the queue – book it in advance, even before your arrival to Prague ( Medical centre Agel – Italska street (near to the University Campus), Žluté lázně, Hospital in vinohrady, Hospital in Motol, Hospital VFn Na Bojišti – closed to IP Pavlova, Hospital in Prague 6)
- or to go to GHC GENETICS at Václavské náměstí (reachable by tram 9 from the dormitory) open daily from 8 AM until 6 PM, phone: (+420) 739 500 500, e-mail: covid@ghc.cz – it can happen that you will wait many hours for testing, but they speak English
- or let you test at the Prague airport – there also isn’t any booking system
- Find here the new webportal with information on all testing places on Covid-19 in Prague (the nearest place to your location, the way of registration, number of free spots..)

Protective Measure – Ministry of Health

More information

VALID MEASURES IN CZECHIA

Number of people, who can meet – 6 (inside and outside the buildings) – valid from 18 December.
Fitness centres, restaurants, museums, swimming pools are closed- valid from 18 December.
Shops are open, however, there are some restrictions (face-masks wearing, limited number of people inside the shops).
Face-mask-wearing is compulsory in all indoor places and outside for all pedestrians if people are closer than two meters apart (except of families walking together and people doing sport) – valid from 21 October.
More information

What not to forget?

Tuition fee payment has to be done till 1^st September! Fee for the first semester is 1.900 EUR. All instructions are in email, which you received.
Credentials to InSIS and online platforms (MS Teams, Office 365…) and your personal timetable will be sent to you by 10^th September.
Orientations Days are obligatory! 15+ 16 (afternoon) September – ONLINE, 16 September (morning) + 17-18 September – OFFLINE
Lectures starts on Tuesday 29^th September. Because of new Measure of Rector, courses will be taught ONLINE till the end of October. However, students are asked to arrive to Prague immediately as they receive Visa.
Is your accommodation in dorms prepared? Announce your date and time on arrival (in case of late arrival or arrival within the office hours). Arrival possible from 11^th September.
Do you have a health insurance contract? Visa students need to contract insurance according to a special legal regulation.
Book your student ID card in advance! Entering of the University will be possible mainly only with the student ID card.
Visa obligations after arrival? Book your appointment at the MOI office for the biometric in advance (only for residence permit, not Visas).
Are you from high-risk (of Covid-19 contagion) countries? Check your obligations before and after arrival to Prague! (fill in an electronic form, one RT-PCR test and others).

Information on enrollment in studies and start of the new semester

Information from September 18

Start of semester has been postponed to Tuesday September 29 (due to current situation)!
Courses will be taught full ONLINE until the end of the winter semester 2020/2021!

Instructions on ONLINE teaching – more information

The tuition fee for the first semester (1.900 EUR) has to be done before 1^st September (start of the new academic year).
Students, who will be able to arrive to Prague and can attend the courses at place, will be asked to participate on the Orientation Days and visit the courses in person.
Students, who would be not able to arrive to Prague before the start of the new semester (before 21st September) because of the pandemic situation (closed Embassies, late application for Visa, etc.), will be allowed to start the studies in distance form. Those students are obligated to visit the online Orientation Day.
The distance form learning can be organized only within the first semester due to Czech legal requirements (till December 2020). Please prepare your Visa ASAP!
The tuition fee for the winter semester is not refundable. In case you would start the studies in any form, you can’t receive the fee back (even in case your Visa application would be denied).
In case you haven’t submit us the bachelor’s diploma for purpose of recognition of your previous studies at VŠE yet, note, that this procedure has to be done at latest before 15^th October (we need to receive those documents in September at latest). Students, who don’t add us the bachelor’s diploma and a proof of recognition of those diploma at VŠE or in the Czech republic, will be according to Czech law terminated from studies.
Students will receive their credentials to InSIS and MS Teams (platform for distance and online learning) and their personal timetable on 10^th September (timetable is fixed, look for study plans here: ISM, EDA).
International office organizes introductory presentation on InSIS at the beginning of September (date will be announced later).