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4.7 Doctoral training The doctorate: a unique professional experience 4.8 Duration of the thesis The thesis charter sets the maximum period for thesis preparation and submission at 3 years. However, an extra year can be granted by special dispensation in exceptional circumstances upon receipt of a reasoned request from the candidate and the opinion of the thesis director. These special dispensations particularly concern those doctoral students who are in regular employment, and who must provide an attestation from their employer, or those whose work for their thesis has been interrupted because of sickness because they have taken significant scientific risks during their research work. Students who have a child during their doctorate benefit from a special dispensation period of one year. Training through research of the future managers of a society of knowledge and innovation. The doctorate is a unique professional experience which prepares its students for research-related jobs as well as for many careers as senior managers in a great many socio-economic sectors. The real bonus of research experience arises from its special quality. The completion in three years of an original research project results in the acquisition of sound scientific expertise as well as professional and personal skills which are transferable to other jobs and other economic sectors. A doctoral student thus learns to: > Face the unknown > Solve complex problems > Find, extract, and synthesise knowledge > Formulate innovative solutions by combining a variety of original strategies > Build up networks > Work in a team > Manage time and resources > Manage setbacks and recover from them At the UEB, this experience is accompanied by the provision of vocational training courses. The doctoral student, knowing about the whole range of jobs to which they have access, can develop a realistic professional project and, from among the varied range of training courses on offer to him, choose additional courses which relate to their tastes and which reinforce the coherence of their professional project. Reregistration in the 4th (and even the 5th) year of thesis preparation All candidates wishing to be registered beyond the 3rd year must provide reasons as to why they are requesting reregistration. This request is certified by the thesis director and the director, or one of his deputies, of the doctoral school. Registration The registration of a student in an academic year gives them a certain number of ‘rights’ until 31 December of the year under consideration. This enables the UEB to authorise thesis defences / oral examinations until December without the need for reregistration. A thesis defence from January onwards is considered by the APOGEE system as being a thesis defence of the current academic year; hence the need for reregistration. The limit of ‘flexibility in time management’ that the doctoral school can allow itself to make in accordance with the regulations is thus 31 December. Financial resources of the doctoral student An extension of funding for the student (funded only for the 3 years of thesis preparation work) must be sought by their host laboratory. We remind you that under no circumstances must ASSEDIC (the organisation that pays unemployment benefit) be used as a source of funding. Unemployment is incompatible with work in a laboratory. We must emphasise the need to be perfectly clear about the regulations (especially as regards accidents at work) and the commitments made (Thesis Charter). If these are not respected, the laboratories concerned may not in future be entitled to benefit from government research grants. Doctoral training courses We also remind you that to obtain authorisation for thesis defence, the doctoral student must have attended a certain number of doctoral training courses accumulated as credits or hours of courses. 24

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Cover
Contents
1. UNIVERSITÉ EUROPÉENNE DE BRETAGNE
2. DOCTORAL SCHOOLS IN BRITTANY
2.1 SHOS
2.2 ALL
2.3 SHS
2.4 MATISSE
2.5 SICMA
2.6 EDSM
2.7 VAS
2.8 SDLM
2.9 International Doctoral College
3. ADMITTANCE TO A DOCTORAL SCHOOL
3.1 General presentation
3.2 Financial support for doctoral students
3.3 Request for special dispensation for thesis registration
4. THESIS PROCEDURE
4.1 General presentation
4.2 Thesis charter
4.3 Joint doctoral supervision
4.4 Introduction to teaching in higher education
4.5 Doctoral students as research assistants in business
4.6 Social welfare
4.7 Doctoral training
4.8 Duration of the thesis
5. THESIS DEFENCE / ORAL EXAMINATION
5.1 Thesis defence authorisation & the board of examiners
5.2 Cover of the thesis
6. INTERNATIONAL OPENNESS
6.1 International Office contacts
6.2 European Doctoral Student
6.3 International ‘cotutelle’ (joint research supervision) doctorates
7. AFTER THE THESIS
8. DOCUMENTATION, REPORTS, AND STUDIES

A Guide for the doctoral student in Brittany - How to do a doctoral thesis in Brittany