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Individual Follow-up Committee

Look at the Follow-up Committee guide

The official decree of May 25, 2016 modified, governing doctoral studies, requires the formation of an Individual Follow-up Committee (CSI) for each doctoral student, which meets to provide an opinion on the continuation of the thesis.
The report of the meeting with the CSI must be submitted to ADUM before September 1st, which is a strict deadline, to authorize enrollment in the next academic year.

IMPORTANT:
For first-year doctoral students, the ED council organizes individual auditions during the month of September, before enrollments for the second year.

The CSI is a permanent advisory body, maintained for the duration of the thesis. It is formed in consultation between the doctoral student and their thesis supervisor. The CSI is an opportunity for the doctoral student to review the progress of the thesis and for the committee to ensure compliance with the doctoral charter and the training agreement.

It must meet before enrollment in the second year and then before each subsequent enrollment until the completion of the doctoral program.

Videoconferencing is allowed. The meeting with the CSI includes an individual interview with the doctoral student in the absence of the supervisors and an interview with the supervisors in the absence of the doctoral student.

Composition of the CSI:

• the doctoral student
• the thesis supervisor ; for co-supervised theses, both co-supervisors sit on the CSI
• 2 to 4 researchers or researcher-teachers from outside the doctoral student’s institute
  • One of these members is the "referent" of the committee.
  • At least one member is a specialist in the discipline or in a field related to the thesis.
  • One member is a non-specialist from outside the research field of the thesis.
  • No more than one member belongs to a laboratory at Université Côte d’Azur (UniCA).
  • It is recommended that members from outside UniCA not be from the same institute, and that at least one hold the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) qualification, or its equivalent for international members.
  • No mandatory gender parity rule, but balanced representation is recommended.
  • CSI members must not have had any conflict of interest (publication, collaboration, funding, co-supervision of thesis, etc.) with the thesis supervision in the past 3 years.
  • CSI members may serve on the thesis jury but will not act as thesis reviewers.

The doctoral students are responsible for entering data on the progress of their thesis, which will be discussed with the CSI, in the "Doctoral Follow-up Booklet" for first, second and third-year doctoral students, and in the "Individual Follow-up Committee Report" for fourth-year and beyond doctoral students. The "referent" member is responsible for drafting the meeting report (assessments and comments).
The CSI must decide on enrollment in the following year. For all derogatory requests for enrollment in the fourth year and beyond of the thesis, the CSI must justify its recommendation.

The CSI may contact the ED director (Nadine Loudig, loudig@ipmc.cnrs.fr) to report any significant problems (scientific, circumstantial, or personal) that could affect the continuation of the thesis. The CSI may be invited by the ED Director to participate in a conciliation or mediation procedure if necessary.