IMPORTANT
Each doctoral student must have completed at least 100 hours of training plus the three required courses in order to defend their dissertation.
All AMU doctoral students are subject to the Doctoral Charter, which requires them to complete a minimum of 100 hours of training over the entire duration of their dissertation, divided into two blocks
- 50 hours of scientific training: to provide the tools necessary for the successful conduct of your research
- 50 hours of professional development: to prepare you for your future career, whether academic or non-academic
These training courses may be either:
- cross-disciplinary (primarily offered by the DFD)
- and/or discipline-specific (primarily offered by the ED)
The choice is up to the doctoral student.
In both cases, the course offerings are available in the ADUM catalog.
NON-CATALOG TRAINING:
Doctoral students may be required to attend and/or participate in training sessions, conferences, summer schools, etc., that are not listed on ADUM. These are considered “non-catalog” activities.
Example: PhD students on contract (i.e., with a doctoral contract) have access to the training catalog for AMU staff via the GEFORP platform.
→ To ensure that an activity can be counted toward training hours—and to determine the number of hours—you should contact the doctoral school (ED) in advance.
- A maximum of 15 hours for participation in a conference, seminar, training session, etc.
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A maximum of 21 hours for “active” participation, such as when the doctoral student has helped organize an event or a workshop, etc.
THE THREE MANDATORY TRAINING COURSES: A Practical Guide
The three training courses are taken online as “MOOCs” that you can complete at your own pace. They are bilingual (English/French):
- Mandatory: Research Ethics
- Mandatory: Scientific Integrity in Research Professions
- Mandatory: Introduction to Open Science
You can find them in the course catalog on ADUM, offered by the DFD (Doctoral Education Office).
To take the mandatory courses,
1. You must use your AMU email address (@univ-amu.fr) as your primary ADUM email address. Without it, you will not have access to the login information.
2. You must pre-register on ADUM; once your pre-registration is approved, you will gain access to the dedicated platforms.
3. After pre-registering on ADUM, you will receive all the necessary information via email
Once you have completed the mandatory training courses,
4. You must upload your certificates of completion to ADUM via the tab: ►Submit Certificate of Completion – Distance Learning
▲Any submission via the “Outside the Catalog” tab will be rejected▲
5. Hours will be validated as for all ADUM training courses in the catalog: once you have completed the anonymous training evaluation questionnaire that you will receive by email, which is also accessible in your ADUM account.
SPECIFIC INFORMATION:
- Ph.D. students in joint supervision must complete the same number of training hours, whether the training is provided at amU or at their joint-supervision university.
- Salaried Ph.D. students (not on a doctoral contract) are exempted by the Doctoral School from the 50 hours of professional training.
- Mandatory “non-catalog” activities: PhD students affiliated with a PhD program (NeuroSchool, CENTURI, MarMaRa, etc.) must complete the training courses offered by that program.
- PhD students with a Doctoral Contract with Teaching Responsibilities (CME) must complete 40 hours of teaching methodology training provided by the CIPE.
These hours are counted toward the professional development block.
To register, go to GEFORP
To have them validated, you must: request a certificate of completion from the CIPE (Sonia AMOROS - sonia.amoros@univ-amu.fr)
upload this certificate to your ADUM account in the “non-catalog” training section