Doctoral training
This section describes doctoral training and monitoring activities for doctoral students other than those provided by thesis supervisors or research supervision teams.
During the three years of your thesis at EDMH, you must validate
- 12 points of disciplinary training (i.e., 60 hours): participation in conferences, schools, M2 courses on the research topic, etc.
- 12 points of cross-disciplinary training (i.e., 60 hours): any type of training not directly related to the research project (professional development, business forums, teaching assistantships, doctoral seminars, etc.), including the four mandatory training courses listed below.
Mandatory training
The national decree on doctoral studies requires all doctoral students in France to take training courses on the following four topics:
- Research ethics and scientific integrity
- Open science issues (data management, intellectual property rights, scientific publication ethics, etc.)
- Sustainable development
- Gender-based and sexual violence (since January 2024)
These training courses are available in the ADUM catalog. If this is not the case, it is possible to take them externally (for example, on a MOOC). In this case, the training must be registered in the “off-catalog training” module, attaching attendance certificate.
Calculation of doctoral program credits
How to register your courses in ADUM
♦ Training courses on catalog
From your ADUM account, you have access to the catalog of doctoral courses, mainly cross-disciplinary, offered by your institution (UP Saclay, IP Paris, or PSL) and by EDMH. This catalog is constantly evolving. You can also ask edmh@fondation-hadamard.fr to add training courses that may be of interest to other doctoral students (e.g., seminars) to the catalog.
♦ "Off-catalog" training courses
If you wish to participate in a training course that is not listed in the catalog, you can register it in your personal account as an “off-catalog training course” by attaching proof of participation (attendance certificate). The assessment in terms of number of days/hours/points will be validated by the EDMH management committee. The above scale will help you count your points.
♦ Each training course listed in the catalog or outside the catalog must specify:
- The number of training hours/points
- The training category
- The type of skills involved in the training, from among the six “skill blocks” offered. These skills, which are added to as they are acquired, will be grouped together in each doctoral student's “skills portfolio.” This portfolio will reflect the skills acquired during the thesis (optional but recommended)
- Training objectives (optional but recommended)
Examples of disciplinary and cross-disciplinary training
Examples of disciplinary training
- Specialized M2 courses
- Summer schools
- Courses at doctoral schools, IHES, Collège de France
- Mini courses by guest professors
- SMF CIRM weeks
- Participation in specialized trimesters and semesters
- SMAI Days
- X-UPS Mathematics Days
- Statistics Days
- ….
Examples of cross-disciplinary training
- Cross-disciplinary training offered by Paris-Saclay University, the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, or Paris Sciences et Lettres University.
- Language courses
- History of science courses
- Participation in interdisciplinary conferences
- AMIES “Math and Business Study Week” (SEME)
- Participation in the “Math Employment Forum” and the PhD Talent Fair
- Participation in the “Journées Franciliennes des Doctorants en Sciences Mathématiques” (Ile-de-France Mathematical Sciences Doctoral Student Days)
- Training in the popularization and dissemination of scientific culture through practice (seminars, MathsenJeans, ParisMaths, Olympiads, etc.)
- Teaching (tutoring, temporary teaching positions)
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