Transcript Open-day for new Doctoral Candidates & their supervisors

Doctoral studies
at
Pierre and Marie Curie University
Paris
Institut de
formation
doctorale
Doctoral Training
Institute
Director: Jean-Dominique Polack
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Doctorate at UPMC
 3,400 Doctoral Candidates (DC) registered at UPMC
1/3 international DC
 19 Doctoral Schools (DS)
 16 DS with UPMC carrying the principal accreditation
 3 DS with co-accreditation
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distributed into the 4 research poles of UPMC: 2.
3.
4.
Modeling & engineering
Energy, Matter & Universe
Living Earth & Environment
Life & Health Sciences
 750 Diplomas of Doctorate awarded / year (12 % sci. theses in France)
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> 200 co-tutelles
toward Sorbonne University …
 3 universities, and more:
 Panthéon-Assas Law, Economics and Management
 Paris-Sorbonne
 UPMC
Literature and Humanities
Science and Medicine
 Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle
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 65000 students, 7000 doctoral candidates
 5000 teachers and researchers
 33 DS, 1230 doctors per year
The Doctoral Training Institute
 Missions
 Implement the doctoral policy of the university
 Coordinate and mutualize the Doctoral Schools’ means
and actions
 More specifically:
 Train doctoral researchers and supervisors on the professional
issues of the Doctorate: transferable skills, job market, project
management
 Produce indicators on the Doctorate (funding, time completion,
supervision rates, etc.) and the doctors’ careers development
 Inform Master students on the Doctorate
 European and international development
Management &
administration
Training &
Careers
Department
Département
Formation &
Carrières
(DFC)
Doctoral Schools
Information & Registration Office
Bureau d’accueil des doctorants
Doctoral
complementary
activities
Centre de
Coordination
des Missions
Doctorales
(CCMD)
Doctoral Schools
- Modeling & engineering
- Information Technology, Telecommunications & Electronics
- Mathematical Sciences
- Process Engineering & Advanced Technologies
- Mechanics, Acoustics, Electronics & Robotics
- Energy, Matter & Universe
- Physical and Analytical Chemistry
- Physics, from Particles to Condensed Matter
- Materials Physics and Chemistry
- Molecular Chemistry
- Physics
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Elementary Components & Cosmos
Doctoral Schools
- Living Earth & Environment
- Environmental Sciences
- Diversity of Living Organisms
- Geosciences &Natural Resources
- Life & Health Sciences
- Brain, Cognition, Behavior
- Interdisciplinary Approach to Living Organisms
- Public Health: Epidemiology & Biomedical Information Sci.
- Physiology & Physiopathology
- Life Science Complexity
Roles of Doctoral Schools
 Beginning of the Doctorate
 Call for Doctoral Research Projects from labs
 Doctoral Researchers Recruitment
 Integration of new Doctoral Researchers
 During the Doctorate
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Life of DS (website, meetings, workshops…)
Follow-up of Doctoral Research Projects (follow-up committees)
Follow-up of the Individual Training Plan of each Doctoral Researcher
Problems and conflicts management
Authorization to extend beyond 3 years
 At the end of the Doctorate
 Preparation of the thesis defense
 PhD’s careers tracking
Charter of doctorate
 states the doctoral policy of the university:
• financing, length of thesis
• 3 years’ contract with salary
• possibility for teaching missions, etc.
• prolongation beyond 3 years only with financing
• supervision
• regular meetings with thesis supervisor
• maximum of 2 new PhD candidates per supervisor per year
• regular follow up by the doctoral school
• doctoral project implementation
• doctoral project is full-time job
• PhD candidate accepts laboratory bylaws
• laboratory provides necessary ressources
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Charter of doctorate
• continuing education and individual training plan (ITP)
• ITP is defined at the start of doctoral project
• regular up-dates with supervisor and doctoral schools
• engagement to follow courses when registered
• thesis defence
• requires authorisation from Thesis Approval Commission (TAP – within faculty)
• 2 external reviewers appointed by doctoral school
• defence committee of 3 to 8 members (peer review)
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selecting candidates
 call for projects, with/without selection
 selection : executive or advisory board, pedagogical team
 classification in higher priority and lower priority topics
 candidates proposed by research teams
 preselecting on application folder (board)
 interviews: unique or multiple juries
 boards, pedagogical team, representatives from research
teams
 main list, and rank-ordered supplementary list
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Thank you for your attention
Institut de
formation
doctorale
Graduation Ceremony
Chatelet 2012