A Guide for the doctoral student in Brittany - How to do a doctoral thesis in Brittany - (Page 5)

2 DOCTORAL SCHOOLS IN BRITTANY Brittany has about 2,800 doctoral students who are divided up into 8 doctoral schools. The doctoral schools, which act as research team support structures, promote synergy between the disciplines and offer supplementary courses to facilitate career development. The 8 doctoral schools are structured around Brittany’s 4 universities (the Université de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO), the Université de Bretagne-Sud (UBS), the Université de Rennes 1, and the Université de Rennes 2 – Haute Bretagne). The UEB represents an enormous research potential, and thus it has responsibilities which are just as important as those which are teaching and training-related. This training and experience in research are an essential requisite for the development of a knowledge and innovation-based economy and society - a recognised objective of the European Union. It is the UEB’s ambition to contribute to this by offering within its doctoral programmes a very high level of scientific doctoral training, a diverse range of supplementary courses, and personalised supervision of doctoral students’ professional projects. To guarantee the quality of its doctorate and to fulfil the ambitions of its doctoral policy, the UEB attaches great importance to several key points: Transparency: In the recruitment of doctoral students and the awarding of research grants, and in the respect of the rights and duties of doctoral students, trainers and supervisors, the laboratory, or the host establishment - as expressed in the Doctorate Charter; Welcome: A personalised welcome makes it easier to deal on an individual basis with all doctorate-related administrative questions; The professional project: An individual continuing training plan in addition to the research project. This promotes the development, deepening, and diversification of knowledge and skills well beyond that of the scientific threshold; Increase of the awareness of supervisors and trainers: by consciousness-raising seminars on doctoral students’ professional projects; The future of doctoral students: by the monitoring of doctoral training indicators, and help in job search preparation and career development; Networking of the UEB’s doctoral students and doctors through a variety of associations. See the ministerial order of 7 August 2006 on doctoral training: >> www.legifrance.gouv.fr http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of A Guide for the doctoral student in Brittany - How to do a doctoral thesis in Brittany

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