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Transversal courses open to all PhD students are offered each year by the College of Doctoral Schools of the University of Strasbourg.

You can consult on the amethis site the cross-training catalog, from the menu “Formation” then “Catalogue de formations”

To register, visit the amethis site from the College doctoral.

The French as a foreign language course should automatically be part of the 1st year cross-training of PhD students who do not speak French yet.

Registration for the different courses is done only through the “student” address (in the form: firstname.lastname@etu.unistra.fr).

PhD students are required to take 54 hours of professional opening courses on the duration of the thesis. For further information, please contact dir-ed182-secretariat@unistra.fr

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Mondays 13, 20 27 January and 03 February 2025 (8:15 to 12:00) : Cross-disciplinary training “Innovation” by Robert GRESSER
The course aims at sensibilizing students how research in laboratories can match and evolve towards innovations relevant for industrial applications and be developed from ideas to start-up companies.
Details and goals of the four training sessions
Training in English – 15 hours counted/validated in cross-disciplinary training upon participation into the four sessions
Venue : Auditorium, IPCMS, 23 rue Loess, Strasbourg

Friday 31 May 2024 – 14h00 to  18h00 : a special afternoon dedicated to the perspectives after the PhD. Doctors currently working in private and public sectors will come to share their experience.
Their presentations will be followed by a coffee to allow for more informal discussions
Registration and more details on https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/32922/
Attendance at this event will be counted/validated on AMETHIS for 3 hours of cross-disciplinary training (on the basis of the attendance sheet).

Portal of Doctoral Training, all about research, teaching, and doctoral training at the University of Strasbourg.

Campus France French Agency for the promotion of higher education, reception and international mobility.

ABG (Association Bernard Gregory) aims to promote training through research in the socio-economic world and to help young professionals of all disciplines to enter the workplace. You will find information on: job search, international mobility, training.

ADDAL (Association of PhD Students and Doctors of Alsace) represents PhD students and PhDs from all disciplines. Its objectives are to facilitate the career progression of PhDs, to foster contacts between PhD students and to defend their rights.

SFP (French Society of Physics)

REDOc (network of doctoral schools of chemistry).

Intelligence Magazine for young researchers publishes information on job prospects in France and Europe. It contains tips for looking for a job and preparing applications.

Alumni Actualités – Employment, information, mutual aid

Ernest – The digital and social working environment of the University of Strasbourg

Student Accommodation

Sexisme et harcèlement sexuel à l’Université de Strasbourg

The ESPACE AVENIR Young Researchers Service is dedicated to PhD students and young doctors from the UdS.

Its mission is to help you prepare a career pursuit strategy after the PhD:

– Identify your skills
– Enhance your doctoral experience
– Clarify and / or broaden your professional perspectives
– Target your market
– Optimize your communication with companies, organizations …

Contact: Hafida LRHEZZIOUI, Responsable pôle doctorants (jeunes chercheurs/PhDs) Service Espace Avenir/Université de Strasbourg

Hafida.lrhezzioui@unistra.fr

ESPACE AVENIR Orientation – internship – employment 20a, rue René Descartes New Patio 67084 Strasbourg Cedex

https://espace-avenir.unistra.fr/lapres-doctorat

The PhD student must have presented in person at least one communication – oral or by poster – at a national or international congress or conference. The ED provides financial support, once during the thesis, up to 600 euros maximum  to teams whose doctoral students participate in a conference, a school or a workshop and present an oral communication or poster. Procedure to be followed:

The PhD student submits a financial request to the ED director by sending the request form duly filled in and signed, together with the program, the confirmation of participation with an oral communication or poster (to validate the relevance of the event and/or the budget available for the year).

Request form word / Request form pdf

The financial request is examined by the ED director: the ED secretariat inform the PhD student of the outcome of the request, and of the allocated amount.

The student ask to his institute the fees advance.

Upon receipt of the financial proofs (bills and travel expenses) the institute will get in contact with the ED secretariat and confirm the PhD mobility.

The ED will reimburse (only) to the institute.

To get more information, please contact the manager of your research unit and the secretariat of the ED.

Do not forget that this support is only possible within the limit of the credits approved each year for this purpose by the ED.

The individual thesis follow-up committee (CSI) is defined by “ Article 13 de la loi de 25 mai 2016, modifié par l’article 11 de l’arrêté du 26 Août 2022 and by the Doctorate Charter of the Universities of Strasbourg and Haute Alsace”.

According to the law, “The individual thesis follow-up committee provides support for the latter throughout the doctorate. It must meet before registration in the second year and then before each new registration until the end of the doctorate.

This interview is an opportunity for everyone (doctoral student, thesis director, management of the research unit and the Doctoral School) to take stock of the path already taken by the doctoral student, to reorient or clarify the research and to envisage the next phases. It allows a researcher or teacher-researcher from outside the research unit to be involved in the work.

From 01/01/2023 onwards, the individualised follow-up committee will be annual and mandatory.  There will be no derogation.

The individualised follow-up committees must therefore meet from March onwards, before the re-registration campaign.

NEW in 2025: CSI management module via the AMETHIS platform (FR and EN procedure): CSI report submitted to AMETHIS, validated first by the doctoral school management, then by the doctoral student, the thesis supervisor, and  research unit director.

YEAR 2025 ==> 10 July 2025 : deadline for sending the CSI report on the plateform amethis améthis : https://amethis3.unistra.fr/amethis-client/faq > Comité de Suivi Individuel (CSI) > [Correspondant·e du CSI] Comment transmettre le compte-rendu d’une réunion du comité et déposer l’avis du CSI ?)

NB: When re-registering on the AMETHIS application, doctoral students must upload their CSI. Without a CSI, re-registration will not be possible.

CSI form FR word
CSI form EN word

Implementation of the monitoring committee (FR) : click to upload

Composition of the CSI:
During the launch campaign for the composition of the ISC addressed to 1st-year doctoral students : the doctoral student and his/her thesis supervisor consult each other at the start of the thesis to decide on the composition of the committee. The doctoral student must explicitly agree to the composition. The composition is validated by the Doctoral School and will be included in the individual training agreement (CIF).

Composition of the CSI : see details in the document Implementing the ISC.

However, it is not compulsory for the ISC to have three members: a minimum of two is required. With one specialist in the discipline and one “external to the field” = to the field of research activity, not a specialist in the discipline

Documents required for the CSI and its members :

* Synthesis: written report on the activity developed in the research work for the thesis. This exercise allows the PhD student to familiarise himself/herself with and anticipate the writing of the thesis. Format: a 2-4 page summary, to set the context and highlight the important results of the thesis work.

* Training plan: provide the training report that can be downloaded from the AMETHIS application, list of further coming training courses if needed (according to the Convention Individuelle de Formation (CIF)) and/or complete with other training courses in view)

REMINDER: 2 mandatory training courses must be completed in order to enrol in 2nd year
1st :  Integrity charter in Scientific profession
2nd:  MOOC Research integrity in scientific professions (Bordeaux)

* Portfolio: see HERE

The courses offered by the ED have a twofold objective: to broaden the doctor’s scientific field of expertise and prepare him for his professional integration. In accordance with his career plan, each doctoral student will draw up his individual training plan (PIF) which he will submit for approval to the director of ED during the annual interview. During his thesis, the doctoral student will have to follow 108 hours of training divided into 54 hours of scientific training and 54 hours of transversal training.

Scientific trainings

Cross-training courses

To be admitted in the first year, the following conditions must be met:

• Hold a master’s degree conferred by a French university. The average grade of the master – calculated from the averages of the 4 semesters – must be at least 12/20.
• Have obtained the agreement of a thesis director (DT) authorized to direct research.
• Exceptionally, the ED may admit candidates who have obtained the research master with an average of 2 years (M1 or equivalent + M2) between 11 and 11.99 on prior examination of the file by the ED pedagogical committee which gives an opinion on registration.
  
• Applicants whose M2 equivalent degree is awarded by a foreign university, must apply for an exemption from the French MASTER. To save time, it is advisable to file the corresponding file as soon as possible. The request for exemption (in French / in English) is examined by the pedagogical committee of ED and must reach the secretariat of the doctoral school no later than the following dates:

•  !!  NEW calendar 2025 !! Deadlines for submitting exemption applications !!

Wednesday 26 Februar, Friday 9 May, Friday 20 June, Friday 29 August, and Friday 21 November 2025

1st doctoral registration

Enrollment : from June to 31  October

List of documents requested on the application with signature of the doctoral student, the thesis director and the director of the research unit for a 1st registration:

• The request for 1st registration on Amethis
• A research project based on a 2-3 page document the doctoral charter signed by the different parties
• A certificate of audition (form in EN), conducted by two experts (at least one of whom is external to the thesis)
• The doctoral charter (French doc. /English not available at present) signed by all parties, except ED 182
• A financing certificate indicating the source of the financing, its net or gross monthly amount for three years. The amount must be at least the level of a doctoral contract from the University (2022 € gross monthly as of 1st January 2023). Holders of a doctoral contract awarded by the ED are exempt from providing this document.
• A curriculum vitae describing in particular the university course of the candidate (all years from the final high school class with indication of results, mentions, sessions)
• The certificate of achievement or the copy of the MASTER diploma
• A copy of the master’s final transcripts (years Bac + 4 and Bac +5)
  

It is recalled that candidates who do not hold a French master’s degree or equivalent are subject to the derogatory registration application procedure.

2nd year

Period for electronic filing of files: from June to 30 September 2025

List of documents requested on the application:

• The request for a 2nd registration on Amethis
• Have followed the training via MOOC Integrity – MANDATORY training in the 1st year
• Have followed the Code of Ethics training – registration via AMETHIS – MANDATORY training
• Review of the past year based on progress (2-3 pages) including a list of scientific and professional courses taken during the year, participation in schools, publications published or in progress, etc. …
• A funding certificate
• The individual training agreement (CIF) which is sent to you in the middle of the 1st year of the thesis
• A report from the thesis monitoring committee following link: https://edpcp.u-strasbg.fr/?p=3654&lang=en
  

3rd year

For your third (and in principle last) registration, you must provide:

• The request for a 3rd registration on Amethis
• A funding certificate Progress report (3-5 pages) including a list of scientific and professional courses taken during the year, participation in schools, publications published or in progress, oral presentation of the thesis at mid-term. Particular attention will be paid to the progress of your thesis. Finally, you will be asked to outline your post-thesis project. It will be a question of specifying as far as possible if you wish to pursue a profession in research, basic or applied, or if you prefer to go in other directions. In these different cases, you will need to specify the strategy you intend to use to achieve this. For example, if you wish to enter the CNRS or the University, it is advisable to contact the corresponding laboratories and ask them for the profiles of the positions likely to be published in the next two years. It is then possible to choose a post-doc knowingly.
• A provisional work schedule
• A report from the thesis monitoring committee following link: https://edpcp.u-strasbg.fr/?p=3654&lang=en
• List of courses taken edited from Amethis A list of your publications

4th year and beyond

You must provide:

• The request for 4th registration and beyond on Amethis
• A funding certificate Detailed proof of the reason for the extension
• A 10-page progress report
• A list of your publications
• List of courses taken edited from Amethis
• A report from the thesis monitoring committee (CSI)  – only if the defenses does not take place before 31 December.  Should the defense takes place before 31 December please refer to the underneath point.
• A provisional defense schedule signed by you and your thesis supervisor

Thesis defenses between October 1st and December 31st

Doctoral students defending their thesis between 1st October and 31st December must re-register on Amethis, but will not have to pay registration fees and CVEC. The following documents must be provided:

• The jury proposal (with the date of the defense) validated by the pedagogical commission and signed by the director of the ED
• The defense certificate (= defense before 31st December) available here
• The thesis summary
• The list of publications
• The last report of the monitoring committee
• The financing certificate
• List of courses taken edited from Amethis

Pay attention to administrative delays for your thesis defense.   In particular, doctoral students in cotutelle must take into account the sometimes complex administrative procedures of their two universities before defense. Therefore, it is advisable to anticipate at least 2 additional months compared to the normal delay.

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