Before the thesis
You want to do a PhD but have a lot of questions? We try to answer a few below:
• Acceptance, admission and registration
• Doctoral student, dual status
• Doctorate, research training
• Guide for doctoral students
• Internationalize your doctorate
• Doctoral partnership guide
Acceptance, admission and registration
To have access to your doctorate, two administrative formalities must be fulfilled:
- Acceptance - With the agreement of the future thesis supervisor, contact the President or Secretary of the Doctoral College that corresponds to his/her field of research, to obtain authorization to register for the doctoral studies.
- Registration - With the letter of acceptance from the Doctoral College, go to the registration desk, request registration for the doctorate AND for the doctoral training (only one tuition fee for both, with reduction for staff members).
https://www.enseignement.uliege.be/cms/c_9096515/fr/doctorat
If you received your 2nd cycle diploma at a foreign university (outside Belgium), an admission procedure may have to be initiated BEFORE these two formalities.
https://www.enseignement.uliege.be/cms/c_9100623/fr/doctorat-hue
At ULiège, doctoral students carry out their research under a dual status: that of student AND member of staff. As such, they receive an identifier "s" (i.e. student) and "u" (i.e. university), as soon as their registration is validated.
As a student, the doctoral student therefore depends on the Education and Student Administration (AEE) and also on the Human Resources Administration (ARH) as an employee - and/or its funding body if this is external to ULiège.
In accordance with the European Charter for Researchers, which considers the doctorate as research training through research and the doctoral student as a professional researcher at the start of their career, all doctoral students are researchers. As such, ULiège doctoral students report to the Research and Development Administration (ARD).
The doctorate itself is associated with a doctoral training (FODOC) of 60 ECTS minimum (90 max) that all doctoral students must validate. The follow-up of this training can be spread over the entire duration of the doctorate. Its content is determined by each College but is generally divided into three main parts:
- Thematic training: seminars, study days, doctoral student days, organized by the interuniversity thematic doctoral schools of the FNRS (EDT) which cover several research areas identified by doctoral schools (ED followed by a number corresponding to the field of research). See the FNRS website: http://www.frs-fnrs.be > Funding researchers > Doctoral schools, conferences, publications;
- Scientific production: participating in conferences or writing articles are valued;
- Transversal training: ULiège offers a large number of transversal training courses (communication, teamwork, management of the doctoral project, preparing for post-thesis, etc.) which may be suitable for all doctoral students regardless of their field of research. See the transversal training agenda here.
The activities carried out within the framework of doctoral training must be encoded regularly in the doctoral management tool to allow the Doctoral College to validate them and make it possible, at the end of the doctorate, to generate an attached doctoral training certificate. to the diploma. See the MyULiège Student portal (identifier "s")> Courses> My doctorate.
To discover the doctorate in 10 questions, click here . The ARD has put together a wonderful little illustrated guide for you to help you get involved (or not) on the path to research.
For more information on research at ULiège, also consult “Doing a doctorate” in the “Research and Innovation” tab of the ULiège website.
To combine a mobility program with a ULiège/host university co-diploma, opt for the joint guardianship. All the info here.
Author: Virgine Christophe, project manager at ARD
Thanks to Sarah Robinet, NRS candidate in the Faculty of Science for her contribution to the funding section.
