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Academic Calendar
Key academic dates, teaching periods, exam terms, holidays, and official calendar documents for the academic year.
Overview
The official calendar for planning the academic year.
The calendar can be updated each year from Directus so students and staff always see the official academic schedule.
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Visual calendar
Annual calendar 2025/2026
The visual calendar shows months, lecture weeks, holidays, exam terms, and institutional activities.
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Events
Key academic dates.
Academic Year 2025/2026 - Orientation Week
06-11 October 2025
Lecture weeks - Semester I
13 October 2025 - 11 January 2026
Flag Day
28 November 2025
International Conference
04 December 2025
Christmas
25 December 2025
Winter break
29 December 2025 - 03 January 2026
Orthodox Christmas
07 January 2026
Final Assessment Week - 13th Week
12-17 January 2026
Reading Week
19-27 January 2026
Resit exams - Semester I
28 January - 08 February 2026
Mid-semester break
09-15 February 2026
First day of Semester II
16 February 2026
Independence Day
17 February 2026
Lecture weeks - Semester II
16 February - 17 May 2026
Eid al-Fitr
20 March 2026
Catholic Easter
05 April 2026 - holiday; 06 April 2026 - day off
Constitutional Day
09 April 2026
April exam term - Spring break
20-26 April 2026
Labor Day
01 May 2026
Europe Day
09 May 2026 - holiday; 11 May 2026 - day off
Final Assessment Week - 13th Week
18-24 May 2026
Reading Week and exam registration
25 May - 02 June 2026
International Staff Week, 2nd Youth Conference and Innovation Fair, Career Fair
11-15 May 2026
Resit exams - Semester II
03-13 June 2026
Eid al-Adha
27 May 2026
Graduation Day
25 June 2026
Additional September exam term
31 August - 06 September 2026
Clarifications
Important rules for interpreting the calendar.
- Holidays are days off, so lectures are not held and campus is closed.
- The lectures of one semester last 13 weeks.
- In the 13th week of the semester, final assessments will be held.
- Reading week is when students prepare for exams, so lectures are not held.
- Lectures are not held during the April exam term.
- Exam term announcements are made at least one week before the beginning of the exam week.
- During the regular January-February and June terms, regular students do not pay to take regular exams.
- For non-regular April and September terms, students pay 3 EUR per exam when submitted within the Administration deadline. After the deadline, the fee is 10 EUR per exam.