INSTRUCTION FOR incoming STUDENTS
How to apply
Most of international students study at our faculty in the frame of Erasmus programme (programme for EU countries only) but you can study at our university also as a „free mover“ (you have to arrange funding of the study at your university) or „self payer". For details, please contact the coordinator for exchange mobilities at your university/faculty.
All foreign students, who would like to study are supposed to:
- fill in Online Application Form including Learning Agreement/Training Agreement
- send 1 x passport photo and medicine confirmation for work in chemical laboratory (in Czech, Slovak or English) by mail in scan version on sykorova@fch.vutbr.cz or by post
Documents are necessary to fill in latest by 31st May for winter semester and by 15st November for summer semester! We can not accept late applications.
Our faculty offers wide range of courses taught in English you can choose from. Faculty strongly recommends choosing so many courses to gain sufficient number of credits recommended by your university.
Students receive back Letter of Acceptance and confirmed Learning Agreement by e-mail (originals of these documents will be sent in the case of visa process)
Accommodation and visa process
Students are supposed to order accommodation themselves on the dormitory office webpage (BUT KaM). It is necessary to fill in document called Request for Accommodation. Communication about accommodation is led with accommodation office of dormitories and all problems are supposed to be solved exclusively with it. Faculty has no influence on this matter.
Students, who need visa (students from non EU countries), are supposed to contact Ms. Michalová: michalova@skm.vutbr.cz and fill in Contract of Accommodation a few months before their arrival.
After arrival
During welcome day you will be given:
- schedule
- login to access computers and information system
- faculty mail address
- student electronic identification card
- key from locker
- eventually laboratory coat (if you do not have your own one)
Member of International Student Club will keep in touch with students, will pick up them at the bus or railway station and show them dormitories.
Students deal all study problems with study advisers. Study advisers are representatives of faculty institutes and will be introduced to Erasmus students on welcome day after departure.
- Ing. Lukáš Buzek - Institute of Materials Chemistry (IMC)
- Ing. Zdeňka Stará, PhD. - Institute of Physical and Applied Chemistry (IPAC)
- prof. RNDr. Milada Vávrová, CSc. - Institute of Chemistry and Technology of Environmental Protection (ICTEP)
- PhDr. Miroslav Hrstka, PhD. - Institute of Food Science and Biotechnology (IFSBT)
Useful links:
- Czech - Englich dictionary
- Courses schedule
- Content (Sylabus) of courses
- E-learning - Learning Management System Moodle
- Faculty intranet - web based e-mail client
- Information technology - bacis knowledge (PPT)
- The faculty campus offers internet accesss via international wireless eduroam network
Before departure
Please, return to the internatinal affairs officer
- student electronic identification card
- key from locker
- laboratory cloak
After successful finishing
Students will be send by post two documents:
- Confirmation about the stay
- Transcript of Records – according to the rules from Brussel, Faculty of Chemistry has ECTS classification scale and is obliged to keep it
