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EDUCATION AND TRAINING RULES - 40th PHD Cycle
DIMSAI Doctoral Credits Regulation.
The 40th Cycle DIMSAI PHD Course Program adopts the Doctoral Credits (CD) system.
The CD is a measure of the PhD student's load associated with the research activities, the education/training activities, and the teaching activities in order to gain the PhD Diploma.
The aim of the CD system is to provide a structured and monitorable educational path characterized by suitable flexibility to be adapted to the different cultural needs of the specific research domains of DIMSAI PhD students.
Key rules of the DIMSAI PhD Educational Program.
1) The PhD students' activities are quantified in Doctoral Credits. 1 CD corresponds to 25 hours equivalent of activity.
2) Students are required to gain 60 CDs in each year of the DIMSAI PhD course (3 years = 180 CDs).
3) The DIMSAI Program defines the type of admitted activities and the requirements in terms of CDs. The number and share of Research, Education and Teaching CDs is set according to Table A.
4) The minimum and maximum amount of CDs to gain for each type of Education and Teaching activity is set according to Table B and Table C.
5) The DIMSAI Program also defines the equivalence in terms of CDs for each type of admitted Education and Teaching activity, according to Table D (see also the notes).
6) The PhD student defines his/her educational path in agreement with his/her Tutor, by selecting activities of the types in Table B, offered the DIMSAI Course, offered by UniBo for all PhD Courses, or offered by external institutions (see Course Plan section). The activities must be consistent with the research topics of the DIMSAI doctoral course.
7) The DIMSAI Academic Board can indicate some educational activities as compulsory; these compulsory activities can be extended to all DIMSAI PhD students or only to a part of them (e.g., to a specific Cycle or to a specific curriculum or sub-curriculum). Compulsory seminars are included in the calculation of the credits to be acquired within the three-year doctorate term.
8) The PhD students are required to complete a study, training and research stay abroad of at least 3 months (a stay divided into separate periods, usually lasting no less than a month, is acceptable); the obligation can be extraordinarily waived for reasons of force majeure, such as illness, maternity/paternity and, for the case of Industrial Doctorates, lack of authorization by the employer due to unexpected changes of the working conditions in force at the time of the competition. The student study includes also periods in the Company or in Universities or Research Centers (both Italian and foreign) in addition to the 3 months of stay abroad.
9) PhD students are required to publish, within their three-year doctoral course, at least 2 significant (indexed) articles, preferably in international journals and/or conference proceedings. The continuous updating of the iris database (https://cris.unibo.it/) with the results of the research produced by the student is also required.
10) The students are required to set-up and update their web page on the UniBo website and to annually fill out the OPID questionnaires of the opinions of the doctoral students. Filling out of the Almalaurea questionnaire when uploading the final thesis is also mandatory for the admission to the final exam.
11) The DIMSAI Academic Board verifies the students' educational path and the requirements they meet.
Verification of the educational path
a. At the end of the first year of the Doctorate, the PhD student must submit to the DIMSAI Academic Board a report of the research activities performed and a program for his three-year educational path, agreed and countersigned by his tutor, which must contain: i) the educational and training activities and the research stays abroad already carried out (according to Tables A,B,C,D), together with the documents certifying the participation in such activities and the corresponding credits; ii) a plan of the educational and training activities to carry out in the following two years; the procedures for submitting these documents are detailed in point e;
b. At the end of the second year of the doctorate, the PhD student must submit to the DIMSAI Academic Board an updated report of the research activities performed and of the program for his three-year educational path, agreed and countersigned by his tutor, which must contain: i) the educational and training activities and the research stays abroad carried out during the second year of the doctorate (according to Tables A,B,C,D), together with the documents certifying the participation in such activities and the corresponding credits; ii) a plan of the educational and training activities to carry out in the third year of the doctorate; the procedures for submitting these documents are detailed in point e;
c. At the end of the third year of the doctorate, the PhD student must submit to the DIMSAI Academic Board a report of the research activities performed and of his three-year educational path, countersigned by his tutor. The report on the scientific activities must summarize the activities performed during the first two years and highlight the activities of the third year; the report on the educational path must contain: i) the educational and training activities and the research stays abroad carried out during the third year of the doctorate (according to Tables A,B,C,D), together with the documents certifying the participation in such activities and the corresponding credits; the procedures for submitting these documents are detailed in the point e;
d. The documents certifying the participation in the educational and training activities can be: i) certificates of attendance in the case of conferences, workshops, summer schools, seminars; ii) signatures of attendance in the case of bachelor/master/doctoral courses without final examination; iii) declaration of having successfully sustained the final examination in the case of bachelor/master/doctoral courses with final examination, signed by the professor responsible for the specific course;
e. To facilitate the submission of the documents indicated in points a, b and c, each PhD student will be provided with a OneDrive personal folder; institutional credentials have to be used to access these folders, located in the shared section of your institutional OneDrive space, and upload procedures will be indicated by the PhD board. The report produced at the end of each year must be uploaded at the web platform: Dottorandi (unibo.it).
NOTES to Table D:
- NOTE 1: for activities with ECTS/CFU/CD already defined by the organizer according to the general criteria, the declared CD are considered.
- NOTE 2: fractions of CD are considered, with proportionality criteria using actual hours of the activity, with rounding (e.g., 31h of course without exam = 1.2 CD).
- NOTE 3: Activities of tutorship of course, of thesis and teaching can be maximum 9 CDs (25% of the total CDs for education).
- NOTE 4: Dissemination activities are computed using the business trip time, including the travel days (e.g., conference in the USA of 3 days + 2 days of travel =5 days).