First year at the faculty
Welcome to our faculty. We hope you are looking forward to your first semester and academic year.
To make the start of your studies as easy as possible, we have prepared an overview of the most important information you will need during your first semester. This guide will help you to better navigate basic organisational issues and make your first steps at university easier.
We hope that this information will help you to make a smooth transition into academic life. If you have any questions or are unclear, please do not hesitate to contact our Study Officer or a Study Advisor.
We look forward to your arrival, wish you every success and trust that your start to your studies will be successful and smooth!
ISIC (International Student Identity Card) is an internationally recognised card that certifies your student status. It is issued in about 130 countries around the world. Card holders can apply for various discounts and benefits at partner companies and organisations - especially when travelling. ISIC is also used for authentication when using certain services at the university.
Every full-time student receives an ISIC card. You do not need to apply for it. It is produced automatically from the details you enter on the return form we send you with your university admission notification. Part-time students are entitled to a special card.
First year students can collect their ISIC during September from 8.00 to 14.00 in room S 0.6 on the ground floor of the UCM building on Jozef Herda Square.
The card is valid for 1 year, after which it must be renewed by purchasing a prolongation stamp. Instructions on how to proceed with the prolongation.
PUBLIC TRANSPORT
Public transport in Trnava operates on chip cards. The card can be obtained at the bus station, directly opposite the taxi ranks.
- Discounted tickets - SAD
Important lines:
To Námestie Jozefa Herda, where the Rector's Office, dean's offices, study departments are located, from the railway station there are public transport lines No. 1 and No. 12 - the stop where you get off is called Špačinská cesta.
- On foot from the railway station you can go to the railway station in the town of Páčinka cesta. From the station + by car from the motorway.
Špačince, Hlavná 418 -laboratory:
As you will quickly discover, you will need other modes of transportation besides public transport. Most of the time, you have to rely on your own two feet or cheap taxis. One ride usually costs 2,50 €, some taxi companies also give an ISIC discount.
Numbers for popular taxi companies:
- Smart Taxi: 0908 939 393
- Alcatraz Taxi: 0918 44 44 84
- 033 16 444
Bolt scooters are a popular mode of transport. Their main advantage is the price. You pay fifty cents to get on and off the scooter and ten cents is added for every minute, which in most cases is less than a taxi fare. There's also the eco-friendly aspect and the advantage of electric scooters that charge at night.
In Trnava, many cycle paths have been added in recent years, making it easy to get around by bike. If you commute, you can bring your own bike and park it in the bike-parking house located between the railway and bus stations. You can also use bike-sharing: https://arboriabike.sk/
FPV provides its students with different types of spaces. These are mainly classrooms with smaller or larger capacities for lectures, seminars and laboratories:
Trnava
- The building is located in the main building of the university, in the main building of the University of Trnava. J. Herdu 2 (3rd and 6th floor) - computer rooms for the Applied Informatics programme
- Hajdóczyho 1 (ground floor - 3rd floor) - lecture rooms and computer rooms for Chemistry, Biology, Biotechnology and Ecological and Environmental Sciences, Applied Informatics
Špačince
- laboratories (teaching and research) for Biology, Biotechnology, Ecological and Environmental Sciences and Chemistry
Important places within the FPV UCM and their location:
| Aula Jozef Matúš | Bučianska St., building of the Faculty of Social Sciences |
| Dean's Office | Jozef Herda Square, 2nd floor - left of the staircase |
| Dining room | Jozef Herda Square - entrance from the outside, from the Trnava University dormitory |
| Offices of vice-deans | |
| Cinema Oko | Jozef Herda Square |
| UCM Library | ul. Hajdóczyho 1 |
| Rector's Office | Jozefa Herdu Square |
| Secretariat of the Dean | Jozefa Herdu Square, 2nd floor |
| Secretariat of the Departments | |
| Study Department | ul. Hajdóczyho 1, 2nd floor, 213 - to the right of the staircase |
UCM Student House (UCM building)
Nám.J. Herdu no. 2
917 01 Trnava
Miloš Uhra Student Home
J.Bottu 21
917 01 Trnava
Boarding house of the Secondary Vocational School of Electrical Engineering
Sibírska 1
917 01 Trnava
Accommodation of the Secondary Vocational School of Agriculture and Rural Services
Zavarská 9
917 28 Trnava
Accommodation per month: 63 - 80 Eur
Accommodation information:
https://www.ucm.sk/sk/ubytovanie-studenti/
http://fpv.ucm.sk/sk/studium/ubytovanie.html
Application for accommodation: exclusively via AIS (electronic application)
For FPV
RNDr. Vanda Adamcová, PhD.
(mail: vanda.adamcova@ucm.sk)
FOR UCM
Ing. Miroslava Lukačovičová - Applications and registration
(mail: miroslava.lukacovicova@ucm.sk)
Mgr. Diana Nováková - Accommodation
(mail: diana.novakova@ucm.sk)
Office of the Head of the School
Mgr. Janka Gajdová
Office: Nám.J. Herdu 2, room 402
Telephone: 033 5565 176, 0911 177 270
Office hours:
Office hours:
| Monday: | Non-official day |
| Tuesday: | 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. |
| Wednesday: | non-official day |
| Thursday: | 8:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. |
| Friday: | Non-official day |
Can my parents arrange accommodation for me? I'll be abroad over the summer
Yes they can. But they have to arrange for a notarized power of attorney to receive mail because we are sending the admissions decree in our own hands. The person with the power of attorney can then apply for a housing assignment. In the summer, the accommodation committee will meet and allocate or not - depending on how many applicants there are, how far you have to go to Trnava, etc. Detailed information will be included in the propositions, which we send together with the decree of admission to the FPV.
If you don't get a dormitory
If you haven't got a dormitory, you can use Google knows it all to search for accommodation, e.g. bedrooms.sk, roommates.sk, spinkaj.sk, etc.
Dining halls:
Námestie Jozefa Herdu 2 (entrance from the outside, from the Trnava University dormitory)
UCMlunch tickets can be purchased in each canteen or in the cafeteria. When buying a lunch ticket, you need to have a valid ISIC card with you.
In addition to the lunch menu, they also provide snacks in the form of paninis, toasts or baguettes and, of course, a variety of sweets and sweetened and unsweetened drinks.
Current menu:
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Canteen on the square of Jozef Herda: https://www.relax-team.sk/top-relax-ucm/
More info: https://www.ucm.sk/sk/strava
You log in to the wifi by entering:
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name: personal number; (you can find it in AIS)
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password: birth number without the slash (/); (can be changed)
Detailed information about the university wifi, including video instructions on how to connect, can be found at https://wifi.ucm.sk
All communication with the faculty or university is done via ucm-emails: you write from your ucm-email to another ucm-email. You do not write from private emails, and you do not write to private emails. Forwarding an email to another address is blocked.
Your university email is IDO@ucm.sk. Your password is your birth number without the slash. A user-friendly alias is also created for each email - priezvisko#@ucm.sk, e.g. kovac1@ucm.sk. You can find it in AIS under Personal details (left menu)
Using these two email addresses are simple:
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Dictate kovac1@ucm.skto people
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Use 2795776@ucm.skfor logins (webmail, SharePoint, when setting up a mobile app, etc.) .
Email can be accessed through the webmail interface at https://outlook.office.com or you can install the Outlook app - there is also a mobile app.
We recommend that you register a mobile authentication, which you will need for self-service password resets. If you do not want to provide your phone number to Microsoft, you will always need to request a password reset from CIKT via servis@ucm.sk and respect their business hours.
Each year department and degree program has its own email address. Whatever is sent to the year or department email address will be forwarded to each duly enrolled student in the year or department at their ucm-address.
Freshman year emails are:
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Add
First-year departmental emails are:
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Supplement
If you save this yearbook email in your contacts, you will not need to remember it. But it's pretty self-explanatory:
1APIN = freshmen APIN; BcD = bachelors full-time; 21 = the code from AIS that will follow you through to the end of your degree.
The year email changes during your studies depending on your current year and degree. For example, full-time BT students have the following year emails in sequence during their studies :
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1BT-BcD21@ucm.sk - in 1st year Bc. In the 1st year of B. Sc;
after the end of the year, their email will change to:
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2BT-BcD21@ucm.sk - in 2nd year Bc. In the 2ndyear of the B.Sc;
after the end of the year their email will change to:
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3BT-BcD21@ucm.sk - in 3rd year Bc. In the 3rd year of the B.Sc. course;
after the end of the year, their email will be changed to:
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1BT-MgD21@ucm.sk - in the 1st year of MSc. studies;
after the end of the year, their email will change to:
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2BT-MgD21@ucm.sk - in the 2nd year of MSc. studies.
Canteens:
Námestie Jozefa Herdu 2 (entrance from the outside, from the Trnava University dormitory)
UCMlunch tickets can be purchased in each canteen or in the cafeteria. When buying a lunch ticket, you need to have a valid ISIC card with you.
In addition to the lunch menu, they also provide snacks in the form of paninis, toasts or baguettes and, of course, a variety of sweets and sweetened and unsweetened drinks.
Current menu:
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Canteen on the square of Jozef Herda: https://www.relax-team.sk/top-relax-ucm/
More info: https://www.ucm.sk/sk/strava
You can quickly and easily generate a school attendance certificate via the government website PotvrdenieOnavsteveSkoly.sk. You enter your personal identification number and it will generate a PDF confirmation for you. This confirmation is fully sufficient for your parents' employer's needs.
If you need a confirmation for the Employment Office, please contact the study department, as such confirmation must contain some additional information.