Regulations for Doctoral Studies

I. GENERAL PROVISIONS

II. DOCTORAL STUDIES

II.1. Learners in doctoral studies

II.1.1. Doctoral student

II.1.2. External student

II.1.3. Visiting doctoral student

II.2. Supervision

II.3. Filling a vacant student place

II.4. Organisation of study

II.4.1. General principles

II.4.2. Period of study, suspension of doctoral studies and changes to the period of study of doctoral students matriculated to doctoral programmes opened from the 2022/2023 academic year

II.4.3. Workload, academic leave and extending the period of study of doctoral students matriculated to doctoral curricula opened before the 2022/2023 academic year

II.4.4. Individual plan

II.5. Progress review

II.5.1. Progress review schedule

II.5.2. Progress review committee

II.5.3. Documents required for progress review

II.5.4. Progress review meeting

II.5.5. Decisions of the progress review committee

II.5.5.1. Decisions of the progress review committee regarding learners in doctoral studies in doctoral programmes opened from the 2022/2023 academic year

II.5.5.2. Decisions of the progress review committee regarding learners in doctoral studies in doctoral curricula opened before the 2022/2023 academic year

II.5.6. Repeat progress review and appealing a progress review decision

II.6. Exmatriculation

III. APPLYING FOR DOCTORAL DEGREE 

III.1. Completion of the doctoral programme

III.2. Council awarding doctoral degrees

III.3. Requirements for doctoral candidate

III.4. Requirements for doctoral thesis

III.4.1. General requirements for doctoral thesis

III.4.2. Doctoral thesis as an integrated collection of research publications

III.4.3. Doctoral thesis as a monograph

III.4.4. Requirement for research publications and the introductory chapter

III.4.5. Requirements for patents, patent applications and applied solutions

III.4.6. Structure of the doctoral thesis

III.5. Allowing a doctoral thesis to be defended

III.5.1. Documents submitted by the doctoral candidate

III.5.2. Council’s decisions

III.5.3. Opponent and peer reviewer

III.5.4. Information about the defence and making the doctoral thesis publicly available

III.6. Publication of the doctoral thesis

III.7. Defence of the doctoral thesis

III.7.1. Defence meeting

III.7.2. Council’s decision

III.7.3. Repeat defence of the doctoral thesis

III.8. Applying for doctoral degree and defence of the doctoral thesis under a joint supervision agreement

III.8.1. Conclusion of a joint supervision agreement

III.8.2. Conditions of a joint supervision agreement

III.8.3. Joint council awarding doctoral degrees

III.8.4. Joint council’s decisions

III.9. Contesting and overruling the decisions of the council awarding doctoral degrees

III.10. Preservation of the doctoral thesis

IV. IMPLEMENTING PROVISIONS