Training

Regulations

In compliance with the decree of 25 May 2016,

• All PhD students must take courses that promote interdisciplinary learning and the acquisition of a broad scientific culture, including knowledge of the international research framework:

• training in research ethics and scientific integrity,
• training in pedagogy if the doctoral student's professional project,
• training to support professional integration

• The thesis supervisor and the doctoral student must sign an individual training agreement (CIF) that specifies, among other things, the doctoral student's professional project and his/her individual training programme in relation to this project.

• The doctoral student regularly updates their portfolio, which lists all their activities during their training, including teaching, dissemination of scientific culture and technology transfer. The portfolio highlights the skills they have developed during their doctoral studies.

In compliance with the decree of 22 February 2019,

•  The award of a doctorate certifies the ability to produce new, high-level scientific knowledge and the mastery of skills common to all doctorates, acquired through research.

Building your individual training plan

UPPA requires doctoral students to complete 150 hours of training during their thesis. The hours and associated RNCP skills will be recorded in their ADUM account.

Students can take specific doctoral school courses, interdisciplinary courses offered by the Centre des Etudes Doctorales (CED) or other UPPA departments (SCD, SCUIO-BAIP, SUP-ARTICE, DRH...), as well as non-UPPA courses open in the ADUM, and can also declare "off-catalogue" all external courses (MOOCs, cotutelle universities, colloquia...). Other elements of the doctoral career can also be recognised, such as publications, participation in international conferences, international mobility, teaching, elective mandates, etc..

Before starting their second year, doctoral students must submit their individual training agreement (CIF) to ADUM. The agreement must have been validated by their thesis supervisor(s).

Prior to defending their thesis, doctoral students should edit their portfolio in their ADUM account. This involves summarising all training courses and other activities they have completed, and indicating the total number of hours allocated.

To fulfill the requirements for doctoral training, the Centre des Etudes Doctorales and UPPA provide compulsory training courses (most of which can be chosen from several modules), as well as language, scientific and professional training courses.