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Enrolment
What do I bring to enrolment?
Have you met all the admission requirements? Congratulations! It is only through enrolment that you become a regular student of the FIT. You will need the following for the enrolment:
(optional) one photograph 3.5x4.5 cm legibly signed and provided with your personal identification number on the reverse side (if this is easier for you than supplying the photograph electronically on the website. A decent selfie on a light monochromatic background is sufficient);
officially authenticated copy of the school-leaving certificate - you cannot be enrolled without providing proof of secondary education nostrification clause
In the enrolment, you will sign to confirm an affidavit, you should study its contents in advance
Enrolment on 21st June
The date of enrolment is indicated in the electronic application or in the news on the faculty's homepage. The place and time of the enrollment will be announced to the candidate also in the invitation to the enrollment. If you cannot come to the enrollment in person, you can be enrolled by an authorized representative. Additional dates of enrollment will be 10th of July and 18th of September.
Additional dates
If you cannot attend the enrollment yourself, you can enroll via legal representative with the power of attorney. Additional enrollements will take place on the 10th of July and the 18th of September.
After enrolment
BUT Information System
As soon as your enrolment has been processed, your initial password for BUT's school-wide information system will become accessible in your electronic application. Using this password and your personal identification number (foreign nationals will use the birth code which is available in the Completed data tab), you can activate your account for the BUT information system on the initialisation page of the IS BUT by setting the BUTpassword. You will learn your personal number and BUTlogin upon activation. You will then use the BUTlogin (or personal number - the two are interchangeable) for the school-wide agendas.
IS FIT
The Faculty has its own information system accessible using the faculty account. A summary on when to use which account is provided in the document on accounts; the homepage of the information system contains a link to the Faculty login and password.
Request for Accomodation
Students are supposed to book an accommodation on-line by completing the Request for accommodation. It is extremely important to apply for accommodation well in advance. Furhtermore, students with visa obligation have to attach a confirmation on accommodation to their visa application - the confirmation will be sent to student via email and to the particular Embassy via data box after delivery of all the visa application materials. For detailed information about the application (including deadlines), please refer to the ACS pages.
Student Identity Card
Another important step is to order the student identity card. At this page you can upload your photograph and select whether you wish to obtain the BUT student identity card or the ISIC card at a reduced price. You must provide the photograph and you must order the card. If you order the card in time (ideally by the end of July), you will receive it at the beginning of September. Otherwise, you will have no card during the first week of the semester (your colleagues will have to open the door for you and you will not receive lunch in the canteen). The student identity card serves as proof of studies under the law (Section 57 (1)(a) of the Act on Higher Education Institutions).
Before the beginning of teaching
Courses
You will be automatically entrolled into all compulsory courses. Before the semester starts, you can look over the courses in the summer semester and, if you want, register elective courses. Registration of the elective courses starts in the middle of September and ends at the end of the first week of the semester.
Recognition of the examination in English language
As a rule, teaching in the winter semester begins the last but one week in September (it is Monday 23rd September in 2019); the exact date is determined by the Academic Calendar. You can visit the Faculty and collect the BUT student identity card or ISIC approximately from the first week in September (the exact date and instructions will be made available in the Study News).
Let's start!
Start@FIT
The traditional Start@FIT event starts on the 19th September 2019, that introduces new students to the faculty and to one another. Students are going to get basic information about their study and learn how to use available information systems. They will also learn how to search for information that might be needed during your studies. For the participants it is recommended to accommodate in the dormitories since 18th September 2019. The option should be available online,if not, it can be arranged by phone or in person with with Halls of Residence contact persons. Just mention that you are attending Start@FIT.
Introduction to academia, Beer with Academics
You are invited to the FIT courtyard (before the D building, if it rains, in the lecture room D105), whre you will meet academics and employees of FIT. After a brief introduction to academic environment and FIT, you can enjoy the rest of the evening, chat and meet with academics chat with everyone. Refreshments are included.
Matriculation
Matriculation, which takes place on the last Friday before beginning of teaching in the relevant semester, is an academic ceremony on the occasion of admitting students for their studies. Attendance in matriculation is de facto compulsory. For detailed information and division into groups, please refer to the Study News.
Guided Tours of the Faculty
After every block of matriculations, the Students Union is going to host the guided tours of the faculty and the students club "U kachničky" (U Kachničky - At the Duckling) will also be opened.
Training Lessons
The event will begin with two training lessons (Friday, 5:30 PM). These tutorials serve to introduce you to schedules, registrations of courses and activities, that will start on Friday evening. Check back later to find out the times of lessons in English. The trainings will include basic information about study, operating regulations of the computer centre and introduction of the Student union of FIT, how to use information systems of FIT and the entire BUT and how to make your first schedule.
The training on the Operating Regulations of the FIT Computer Centre is compulsory. Before the first laboratory (at it's beginning at the latest), you must pass a test (probably in the information system) to prove that you've familiarized yourself with the Operating Regulations. If a student is unable attend the training, he/she can later watch a recording. However, the recording will only be available in the following week (updates can be expected against previous years).
After the training, every student who has not yet done so can collect the BUT student identity card or ISIC in one of the rooms where the training takes place.
Entertainment activities, Tour de Pub
The entertainment programme organised by the Student Union will follow om Saturday (for example, the Tour the Pub event).
Barbecue and Getting to Know Brno
On Sunday, you can play "Brnění" (the game about getting to know Brno) from 11 AM until 3 PM and you can grill with Student union of FIT and FEEC students.
For the students of each year SU FIT will create 2 groups on the Facebook - for students who started their bachelor's study in 2019/2020, they are VUT FIT BIT 2019-2022 (or study related problems) and VUT FIT BIT 2019-2022 teambuilding (for the student's life, etc.). The Student Union has also prepared channel on Discord.
Note for students who are not new at BUT
Students who have studied at BUT before need not (and in fact cannot) set their BUTpassword. The password they used most recently remains valid. Also the Faculty account is only reactivated. If a student has the student identity card (from any faculty), he/she need not order a new card. The identity card is activated at the time of enrolment for the access system; for the identity card to be used as proof of study, it is necessary to have the validation stamp glued at the Student's Affairs Department. The ISIC validation stamp should be ordered at the BUT portal, whereas the BUT validation stamp can be collected in person. The BUT stamp can also be used to validate ISIC, thus reducing it to a BUT card.