After admission - Stages of the PhD

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The PhD... A whole programme, in a few words!

Throughout your PhD, you will be supported and monitored by a team that will help you to complete your project, both administratively and scientifically.
You will also have certain obligations and steps to follow.

Find out all about this in these pages, but also in detail in the "PhD Vademecum".

After registration with the Enrolment Service - The first steps (activating the UCLouvain account, requesting the access card, the virtual office, obtaining a registration certificate, etc.).
Intranet access, after identification!

PhD mandatory steps
"Hats" of the PhD student
Doctoral regulations
Throughout the PhD - Steps not to forget!
Annual meetings / Mid-term evaluation
Constitution of the thesis jury
Roles of the Doctoral commission
Doctoral training programme - How does it work?
Doctoral training - What is it? Where to find the offer?
Thesis defenses - First method : in two steps
Thesis defenses - Second method : in the same time frame
Thesis defenses - The process of defenses

As you can read in "The roles of the Doctoral commission" above, don't forget that the Commission is here to help you throughout your doctoral studies!

We wish you all the best of success!