The doctorate

You must first:

1. Choose one (or more) Directeur(s) de thèse
2. Etablish a research project
3. Complete your application and send it to Doctoral School 265

The Doctoral School Council will select the applications.

Application for admission

1. Download and complete the application form. Have it completed by your future thesis supervisor
2. Send yourapplication file together with the documents mentioned in the notice by no later than May 31, 2023 at 12pm electronically to the address: ecole.doctorale@inalco.fr

Co-direction

A thesis may be supervised by two thesis directors (one at Inalco, the second at another French or foreign institution) if the thesis subject requires support from another discipline or specialty. A convention de codirection is then established.

Co-tutelle

The arrêté du 25 mai 2016 establishes the terms and conditions for setting up international thesis co-tutelle. This formula is aimed at French or foreign doctoral students in their 1st^re year of doctoral studies and is backed by a convention de co-tutelle. The doctoral student registers simultaneously at both establishments, (the doctoral student is exempt from registration fees at one of the two establishments). They spend alternating periods in each of the two countries, conduct their research under the supervision of two co-directors, one French, the other foreign, and are awarded, on the basis of a single thesis defended before a joint jury, the title of doctor from each of the two establishments (double diploma). 
The co-supervision procedure can only be initiated once the doctoral student has been accepted for a doctoral thesis and enrolled at Inalco.
Co-supervision with another foreign higher education institution (enrolled at two universities) reinforces the international dimension of doctoral schools, encourages doctoral students' mobility in different scientific and cultural spaces, and develops scientific cooperation between French and foreign research units.

Since 1^er June 2013, electronic thesis deposit has been mandatory. This is the legal deposit of the thesis and applies to all theses, even confidential ones.

The doctoral student
At least 3 months before the defense, the doctoral student obligatorily contacts the doctoral secretariat to deposit his or her thesis; the composition of the jury will have previously been validated by the establishment (read the document Defense Procedure carefully).

After the defense, the doctoral student will decide whether or not to publish the final version of his or her thesis. Depending on his/her choice, the electronic version of his/her thesis will be distributed on the internet, on the platforms selected by Inalco (on theses.fr, and on tel.archives-ouvertes.fr).

Preventing plagiarism

Inalco's management has decided to roll out COMPILATIO, a plagiarism detection software program for all teaching-research staff.

This tool will make it possible to quickly identify "copy-pasted" passages in each document submitted by doctoral students, and their likely sources on the web.

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