This section only concerns standard thesis defences (excluding joint supervision). In the case of joint supervision, please refer to the joint supervision agreement.
First read the tabs "Rules for the jury" and "Rules for the rapporteurs".
In computer science, the defence is authorised provided there is a high-quality international publication.
Arrangements for the defence must begin at least 10 weeks before the planned date of the defence. This is a strict minimum. It is recommended that you start 3 months before the date of the defence.
There are several stages in the process of obtaining approval from the jury and the rapporteurs.
First of all, you must obtain a defence dossier from the Doctoral Studies Department of your institution (Lyon1, Lyon2, Lyon3, Insa de Lyon, ENS, ECL) and not from the Doctoral School. You must complete this application form and send it to the Doctoral Studies department of your institution. They will check the jury (according to their rules) and ask you to obtain the doctoral school's agreement.
You must then obtain the doctoral school's pedagogical opinion. It is essential to allow at least 2 months between sending the application to the doctoral school and the examination itself. No application will be accepted after this deadline. It is therefore very important to take this constraint into account when you try to fix a date for the defence with the potential members of your jury. In addition, most institutions require the rapporteurs' reports to be available at least 3 weeks to a month before the examination. You should also be aware of summer holiday periods.
The application form for the doctoral school must be submitted via the https://dossier-ed.liris.cnrs.fr/ application.
This application must contain the following elements
- The form obtained from your registration institution, together with the jury and rapporteurs.
- A letter of support from the thesis director. In IT, this letter must also support the quality of the doctoral student's publication.
- Letter from the thesis director explaining the choice of jury and rapporteurs.
- The opinion of the laboratory director.
- A summary of the thesis.
- Provide a link so that your thesis manuscript can be consulted by the Thesis Committee. You can use a file server (e.g. https://filesender.renater.fr/) or a web page.
- A CV of the candidate including a list of publications with the full names of the authors and specifying the type: journals, conferences, workshops, etc.
Once the Thesis Committee has given a favourable opinion, the ED Director will sign the application. Once it has been signed, the secretariat will send you an email to let you know. You must then send your defence file, validated by the ED, to the Doctoral Studies department of your institution.
Further information:
- The thesis speciality is either Computer Science or Mathematics.
- If you defend your thesis before 30 September of the current year, you do not have to re-register for the following year.
- If you defend your thesis after 30 September, you must re-register for the following year.
- If you support before the Christmas holidays, you re-register without paying tuition fees.
Recognition of International Mobility
The diploma supplement for the recognition of international mobility during the thesis makes it possible to value a research stay in a higher education and/or research establishment abroad. Co-supervision, which is recognised by the double degree system, cannot be recognised in this way.
The doctoral student must apply to the doctoral school department of the institution where he or she is registered when submitting his or her thesis application. Here is the form.
Conditions :
- You must spend at least one term outside France. Split stays may be counted if several stays of at least 30 consecutive days have been spent in the country/countries (attach proof of stay).
- Part of the examination must be conducted in a language other than French.
- At least one member of the jury must belong to a higher education establishment in a country other than France (attach the composition of the jury).
- Authorisation to defend is granted on the basis of reports written by at least two researchers or teacher-researchers attached to higher education establishments in two different countries outside France (not under joint supervision).
- The language in which the thesis manuscript is written must comply with the rules laid down by the institution in which the thesis is registered and/or the doctoral school.