Teaching activity and holidays of the academic year
Institutions are autonomous and fix all periods of
teaching activity and holidays.
Typically, 1st semester goes from the second or
third week of September to the second or third
week of December; 2nd semester starts in the
second week of February and ends in the end of
May.
The 2nd semester has a two to four days
interruption for Carnival (end of February) and a
one week interruption for Easter (mid-April)