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Content: 1
Important contacts 2
THINGS YOU SHOULD NOT DO IN PRAGUE 4
THINGS YOU NEED TO BRING WITH YOU TO PRAGUE 4
How to work with the intraweb 5
Your account and CV 5
Calendar 5
Registration for the lectures 5
Architecture program 5
Registration system 7
How to register? 7
Registration for optional leisure time activities 8
Internships 8
Materials intraweb 8
Lectures 9
Materials for lectures 11
Internships 11
The process of selection of internships for architecture program 11
Start of internship 12
Internship rules 12
End of internship 12
Accommodation information 13
BOTIC STUDENT HOUSE 13
SLAVÍKOVA RESIDENCE 15
Public transportation 17
Important events 17
27.07. 2018 Graduation Ceremony 17
08.07. 2018 The Grand Reception 17
Shopping Centers 18
Other tips for your stay in Prague: 18
Help us to be better 19
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Important contacts
Contact our staff:
Tomas Hulle, founder @ [email protected]
Michal Fanta, team & project manager @ [email protected]
Beata Zapletalová, student main contact person M +420 724 714 264
Nan Li, student coordinator @ [email protected]
Emma Nabi, student coordinator @ [email protected]
M +420 775 549 436
Katka Andrlová, student coordinator @[email protected]
M +420 775 549 436
In case of emergency call:
Universal emergency number 112
Police 158
Medical emergency 155
Fire brigade 150
The Uber and/or Taxify applications are a good solution for you to order taxis. Both apps are available
in your phone’s online app store.
For transportation you can also contact the following taxi providers:
Taxi Praha +420 222 111 000
Profi Taxi +420 261 314 151
Nejlevnější Taxi +420 226 000 226
Modrý Anděl +420 224 234 234
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THINGS YOU SHOULD NOT DO IN PRAGUE
1. We recommend that you do not stop a taxi directly in the streets. Unfortunately, Prague is famous for charging tourists 3 – 4x more than the standard fare. Use instead one of the taxi operators recommended above.
2. You should only exchange your money in the exchange office our staff recommends or a bank. The exchange rates in many of the small shops around town and especially in the centre are extremely poor. Exchange rate for 1 EURO should be around 25-26 Czech Crowns and for 1 USD should be around 21-22 Czech Crowns.
3. Do not bring your passport with you to school every day. If you possess both you might consider carrying your ID card, or a photocopy for some peace of mind.
THINGS YOU NEED TO BRING WITH YOU TO PRAGUE
1. Make sure you bring your laptop!!! 2. Prepare your English CV in PDF. 3. Bring some semi-formal and formal clothes for our formal events as well as for your internship. 4. We recommend that you bring 1.000,- EURO in cash to pay for your accommodation (if applicable)
and other local expenses. 5. Bring your own bottle - because we are an Eco-friendly company, please bring your own water bottle
or buy it the first day.
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How to work with the intraweb
To enhance your experience of the program, you will be using our intraweb. To log in, you must go to our
home webpage www.eccedu.net. On the right upper side of the window, you will find “Login” button. Fill
in your name and password. Your password should have already been sent to you via email. If you can’t
find it or you have trouble logging in, please go to www.eccedu.net/password and a new password will
be sent to your email (if you’re still unable to log in after following this step, please contact
[email protected] or see us in our office at Law Faculty – room 404).
Your account and CV In the “Edit account” section, in the menu on the right side of the screen, do not forget to insert your CV
(PDF) and complete your profile filling in all the required information. Fill in as much relevant information
as you can: this will later be sent to the internship companies. Uploading a picture will also
help the ECCEDU staff to get to know you sooner and better.
Calendar On the notice board, you will see the lecture calendar. To learn more about the schedule and to get the
materials, click on each lecture. You are automatically registered for all ECCEDU compulsory events, such
as The Grand Reception, Saturday trips (Kutná Hora) and the final Graduation Ceremony, as well as for all
your lectures.
Registration for the lectures ECCEDU organizes three programs simultaneously – Law, Business and Architecture.
In the calendar, you will be able to see lectures for all the three programs. For a more detailed view you
can switch to day view (see picture below).
Architecture program As a student of our Architecture program, you are automatically registered to all Architecture program
lectures. Most of the them will start at Law Faculty of Charles University – map here (see Lectures). In
some cases, you then move outside and explore the city. When exploring the city with your lecturers, we
would suggest that you wear some comfortable sport shoes. Should you be interested to take a lecture
from another program, please come to see us in our office (fourth floor, classroom number 404) and we
can disscuss your options.
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All the lectures start with the name of the program. See the picture below to find out how you can
recognize which of the lectures are for your program. Lectures marked as “ALL” can be attended by
students of all programs.
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Registration system
Program Architecture Program Law Program Business Program
All
No need to register, the lecture is for all programs
No need to register, the lecture is for all programs
No need to register, the lecture is for all programs
Law lecture
Individually discussed
A day before at 12:30 – 18:00
A day before at 13:30 – 18:00
Business lecture
Individually discussed
A day before at 13:30 – 18:00
A day before at 12:30 – 18:00
Architecture lecture
Auto registered
Individually discussed
Individually discussed
Should you choose one of the Law or International business program lectures be aware that the capacity
of seats in the classrooms is limited. If you are unable to register for the selected lecture it means it is
already full. We will discuss each case individually.
How to register? When you click on a lecture on the calendar a profile of the lecture will appear. In the profile of each
lecture, you can find profile of the lecturer, materials for downloading and where to register (on the
picture in the red circle). When the time for registration comes, you can just press the button “YES, I AM
IN.” (picture below on the left).
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Registration for optional leisure time activities For all the other leisure time activities which are optional, you will need to register. How? The whole
duration of your stay we will use the ECCEDU Facebook group. Don’t worry, if you don’t know how to
enter, we will show you. There are already many pictures and other information from previous groups if
you like to see how life in Prague looks like.
Internships You can vote for the internship of your choice on the intraweb. That way you will let your classmates know
which internships are the most wanted. An easy way to do it is just to “LIKE IT.”
Materials intraweb In the materials section, you will find this manual and later, before the internship test, materials about
each internship company. Not all of them will have the materials ready. If you don’t find additional
information about the one you want, go to their website to learn more.
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Lectures Most of the lectures are held in the building Law Faculty of Charles University, address nám. Curieových
7, 116 40 Staré Město (click here to see it on map).
Main entrance to the Law faculty of Charles University
To reach your lectures via tram, you need to arrive at the tram stop in front of the building. The stop´s
name is Právnická fakulta map here. If you want to travel by subway, the nearest station is Staroměstská
map here (5 minutes walk). A member of ECCEDU team will accompany you on the first day of the lectures
to make the trip from your accommodation easier.
Lectures will take place in classroom number:
Law lectures 402 (fourth floor)
Business lectures 403 (fourth floor)
Architecture lectures 401 (fourth floor)
First lecture block Lunch brake Afternoon lecture block
9:00 – 12:00 12:00 – 14:00 14:00 – 17:00
refreshments will be served during the whole day on the fourth floor in room 405
Please be aware that the classrooms are not air-conditioned and are located by the river, therefore the
temperature could be high during the Summer. We recommend you drink a lot of water to stay hydrated.
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Please look into the weather forecast for the specific time you come to Prague. There are couple of field
trips which take place outside of the Law Faculty. You will find all the information about them on the
intraweb, however we will inform you one day ahead as well. For further details about the program please
log into your account at www.eccedu.net and refer to your calendar (see more on How wo work with the
Intraweb).
The office of ECCEDU is on the fourth-floor classroom 404.
There is a student´s canteen (in Czech language "Mensa") in the building of Law faculty. Once you enter
the building, after the second door, go to your right and follow the "Mensa" sign down the stairs to
basement.
You can pick from 7 meals (Here you can find the English menu https://kamweb.ruk.cuni.cz/webkredit/ –
choose English language in the upper right corner of the webpage – British flag). Pick the number of the
meal you want. Once you come to the restaurant go to the cashier and tell them which menu number you
want and pay for it right away. You will receive a receipt. Take the receipt to the counter, where they give
out the meals, give it to the staff and they´ll give you your food.
Lectures
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Materials for lectures We are trying to gather all the materials before and after the lectures. That way you can prepare for the
lectures and for the final internship test. Please, go to your account on www.eccedu.net before your
arrival to read more about the lectures you are about to take. There you can find profiles of the lecturers
and various materials for the lessons. If there are none, the lecturers will provide all the information during
the lecture. See more details on How to work with the intraweb.
Internships Some of you have decided to spend the last four weeks of your summer program in one of our internship
partner companies as interns. The process of internship selection the following.
The process of selection of internships for architecture program On Friday of the second week of lectures (19.7.), each student will take a written multiple-choice test with questions covering the previous lectures.
The test consists of questions from all the lectures finished to date combined - same number of questions for each lecture. Each of the questions will be marked with the name of the lecturer who delivered the relevant lecture.
At the end of the day (afternoon), the students choose their internships separately and on a first-ranked first-served basis. Whoever received the highest score will be choosing the internship company first, the second one will choose second, etc. In case of tie the motivational letter as described below will decide who choses which company.
Further to the test there are a few other aspects which will influence your internship placement.
1 MOTIVATIONAL LETTER Prior to arrival to Prague you will be asked to describe in maximum 50 words
what are your career goals and what you expect to gain and learn from your internship. Most of our
partner´s studios are typically architecture studios. A few specialize more in interior design. Please make
sure to mention in your motivation letter which one of these two specializations interest you more – check
here for our architecture partners https://www.eccedu.net/en/m-96-architecture-partners. Also include
your preferred city where you would like to spend your internship if you have any. (more information
about internships outside of Prague in the following paragraph). You can send these as an email or
attachment of email (PDF format) to the head of our architecture program Milan Svatek at
2 We have several internship partners based in cities other than Prague. They are in Liberec and Brno in
the Czech Republic, Vienna (Austria), Bratislava (Slovakia), Budapest (Hungary), Cologne (Germany) and
Glasgow (UK – please note that different visa is required for the UK) and. Should you be interested to
spend your internship in one of the above studios outside of Prague, please let us know in your
motivational letter in advance as described above.
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3 We also have one large real estate company as a partner (Cushman & Wakefield). Should anyone be
interested to apply there and learn more about the real estate business, let us know in your motivational
letter.
4 Some of our architecture partners may have specific requirements related to specific software skills
(e.g. Revit,). Our partners will let us know about these specific requirements prior to the internship
selection. We will then try to match these partners expectations with student´s abilities.
On the opening day we will partially and briefly discuss this matter as a part of the introductory morning
lecture and answer your questions in more detail.
Start of internship The internship starts on July, 29th(may vary according to the company’s preference). For the internships
in the Czech Republic, you will be accompanied to your internship company by an ECCEDU team member.
For the internships abroad, the ECCEDU will help you to secure accommodation and flight/train/bus
tickets. If needed. ECCEDU will connect you with the contact person of the internship company. You will
be able to depart from July 28th on to start on 29th of July as well.
Internship rules The internship is 4-weeks long and it is up to the host company to set your working hours. Please note,
that you might work full time (40 hours a week Monday to Friday). You are responsible for coming to work
on time and be appropriately dressed for each working day. If you are sick, you need to inform your
supervisor.
The internship companies are our partners; therefore, we do take very seriously every violation of the
rules of the internship. If there is any trouble, please contact us right away.
End of internship The companies are informed that you might need a proof of internship or reference letter. Don’t be afraid to ask for it.
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Accommodation information You will be accommodated either at Botic Student House (K Botiči 1439/5, 101 00 Praha 10) or at Slavikova Residence (Slavíkova 1198/14, 130 00 Praha 3-Žižkov) if you didn’t choose your own place of accommodation.
BOTIC STUDENT HOUSE The reception of Botic Student House is open non-stop. You can obtain maps and flyers about activities in Prague or print necessary documents. Every room has its own bathroom, electric kettle and refrigerator. There is one shared kitchen on each floor. You can borrow dishes for a small deposit, however, there is not enough to satisfy everyone. We would advise you to chip in with some of your friends or roommates and buy them, so you don’t have to rely on borrowing dishes that might not be available. If you need anything to print, or if you are looking for maps, the reception will assist you with those.
Botic House from the street view
Check-in: Deposit (applies to all students): You will be asked to pay 5000 CZK (Czech Crowns). Cash only deposit when you check-in, so please prepare to pay this amount in advance. The deposit will be returned to you on the day of your departure. Please note that if you cause any damage to the property, the cost will be subtracted from your deposit.
Accomodation fee (does not apply to Premium students): You will be asked to pay three weeks rent ahead of the check in day (the exact amount is in your contract). You can pay within the first week of your stay at the reception either in chash (in Czech Crown only) or by your credit card. You will be asked to prolong your stay after the internship selection.
We would like to stress out that you need to thoroughly read the Accommodation Rules because breaking them can result into severe fines or even termination of your stay (you have received them after filling the form online). Smoking is not allowed anywhere in the building, not even on the balcony.
In the basement, there is a lounge to hang out and socialize and the only place where alcohol is allowed.
There is also a laundry room with ironing board. You can also use a small gym with an entry fee or a room
where you can play table tennis.
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How to get to school from Botic house accommodation (link to google map here)
There is a restaurant right next to the entrance to the Student House. Please see the map below for other points of interest in the surrounding of your accommodation (click here for the map). But it does not show
all nice places, so feel free to explore or come to us to ask for tips 😉
Surroundings of Botic House (source Google maps)
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SLAVÍKOVA RESIDENCE Slavikova residence offer 8 separate apartments and you can choose between 3,4 or 5 bedrooms. Each
apartment is fully furnished with necessary appliances such cooker, fridge, dishwasher, washing machine.
Bedrooms are suitable for share or to have as private bedroom. Wifi internet is available in each
apartment.
Check-in: Deposit (applies to all students): You will be asked to pay 5000 CZK (Czech Crowns). Cash only deposit when you check-in, so please prepare to pay this amount in advance. The deposit will be returned to you on the day of your departure. Please note that if you cause any damage to the property, the cost will be subtracted from your deposit. Slavíkova residence from the street
Rent (does not apply to Premium students):
You will be asked to pay three weeks rent ahead of the check in day (the exact amount is in your contract).
The accommodation will charge you 3 weeks rent at check-in and you will be asked to prolong your stay
after the internship selection. Depending on the selected internship, you may pay the remaining four
weeks of rent after the first 3 weeks.
How to get to school (link to google map here)
There are many nice restaurants and fun places in the surroundings of your accommodation. We have
highlighted some of the points of interest around Slavikova residence on the following map. But it does
not show all nice places, so feel free to explore or come to us to ask for tips. After all you will be staying
in one of the most beautiful residential areas in Prague 😉
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Click here for the map.
Surroundings of Slavikova Residence (source Google maps)
Tap water at the Student house and in most places is drinkable. If it’s not, you’ll see the following sign.
See the picture of the electric socket; make sure you have converters, so your electrical devices can be
plugged in. Please be informed about other sockets in the Schenghen
area as you might get an internship abroad.
Sign for non-drinkable water
Plugs in Czech Republic
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Public transportation
On the day of your arrival, you will receive a monthly ticket for public transportation. The money for the
ticket will be collected by a member of the ECCEDU team during the first week of lectures (the price for
the ticket is 670 CZK). With this ticket, you can travel around Prague (and Prague onlu) by bus, tram,
underground, boat and train. Check here for more details.
While travelling by tram, metro or bus you can be asked to show your transportation
card or ticket by an inspector wearing the sign featured on the right. Please note that
you are obliged to carry your transportation ticket with at all times.
In case you encounter any difficulties, please contact a member of ECCEDU Team.
Important events
27.07. 2018 Graduation Ceremony The Ceremony is an event where you are obtaining your diploma for successful completion of ECCEDU’s
program. The dress code is formal (please, bear in mind while packing). It is held from 18:00 on Střelecký
Ostrov (Střelecký ostrov 336, 110 00 Praha 1-Staré Město, (map here)
In case you will have trouble finding the place, ECCEDU Team member will provide you with assistance.
08.07. 2018 The Grand Reception The Grand Reception is held annually as a celebration to connect people from all around the world and
from various business and public sectors. It is an opportunity to meet all the attending students, our
partners and friends, the elite from the Czech business and academic sphere, the lecturers and
representatives of the internship partners. It will be taking place on 8th of July 2019 from 18:30 in Lucerna
Rooftop (address: Pasáž Lucerna 110 00, 110 00 Nové Město, Prague). The dress code is formal (please
bear this in mind while packing). An ECCEDU coordinator will pick you up from your accommodation and
drive you by a private bus to the reception. You are free to leave whenever you wish.
The other leisure time activities will be announced on the intraweb and Facebook Group. They are not
mandatory but surely very entertaining. We are open to your suggestions on activities you would like to
do or places you would like to see. Please, let us know by contacting [email protected] with the subject
line “Fun in Prague” and your suggestions in the body of the e-mail. We will try our best to organise them
for you.
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Shopping Centers There are numerous shopping malls in Prague, easy to reach by metro/subway:
Name of the mall Metro stop Opening hours
Website
Palladium Yellow B metro line stop Náměstí Republiky
Open daily 9:00 – 21:00
https://www.palladiumpraha.cz/en/
Arkády
Red C metro line stop Pankrác
http://www.arkady-pankrac.cz/en
OC Chodov Red C metro line stop Chodov
http://centrumchodov.cz/
Nový Smíchov
Yellow B metro line stop Anděl
http://cz-en.club-onlyou.com/Novy-Smichov
Quadrio
Yellow B metro line stop Národní třída
http://www.quadrio.cz/en/
Flora
Green A metro stop Flora
http://www.atrium-flora.cz/en/
Other tips for your stay in Prague: In the restaurants, pubs and cafes it is considered a common courtesy to leave a tip for service. It’s customary to round the bill up or add 10%, but you can usually tip between 5% to 15 %. Some of the places may not be equipped to accept gratuities via credit cards. Instead, hand a cash tip. There is no need to tip taxi drivers.
We gathered below a table with common Czech phrases, their meanings and pronunciations.
Dobrý den Thobree den Good day
Ahoj ahoy Hello
Prosím Pro-seem Please
Děkuji deckui Thank you
Jak se máš? Yaq c mash How are you?
Ano/ne Ano/ne Yes/no
Nashledanou nas-khledanow Goodbye
Kolik? Co - lick How much/How many
Pomoc! pomotz Help!
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Help us to be better We are trying to improve our services each year. We would like to ask you to send us an e-mail to
[email protected], subject line “Feedback 2019” after the internship to let us know what we could do
better. Also, we are collecting pictures each year for documenting our programs from your perspective so
one day we can look back and maybe send you a reminder of your times in Prague. You are very welcome
to send us yours.
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