Each student has to pass obligatory technical practices. It is realised at the railways stations and at the workplaces which ensure the railway transport. Each student has to pass a technical practice at different workplaces for 13 weeks. For every week, a minimum of four hours of the technical practice is obligatory.
In case that the student is interested in the technical practice for a longer time, he has an opportunity to do it individually. The Department of Railway Transport has signed bilateral agreements with the railway infrastructure manager in Slovakia (ŽSR) and with the passenger and freight railway operators (ZSSK and ZSSK Cargo), where the students are able to pass their technical practices.