PhD Defense

• Publication: at least one article, as 1st or co-1st author, published or accepted for publication in an international peer-reviewed journal. Patents are also taken into consideration. 
• Training: at least 40 hours of disciplinary training and at least 40 hours of cross-disciplinary training (including at least 15 hours of training on scientific ethics and integrity).
• Décryp'thèse: participation in this event at least once (only for doctoral students enrolled in D1 from 2022/2023).
• Completed skills assessment (except for doctoral students enrolled from 2023/2024 / the skills assessment is completed directly on ADUM).

For oral examinations in 2024

The doctoral school has drawn up a jury guide to help you.

Instruction for INSA Lyon:  FEDORA
Instruction for ENS Lyon : Bureau du 3ème cycle

Send the following documents to e2m2.codir@listes.univ-lyon1.fr, via a download link

• The full text of the articles (PDF) published, accepted for publication or submitted for publication (version generated on the submission site in the latter case) / the submission or acceptance emails from the journal if applicable (no screenshots of the journal's website)
• The certificates of the training courses followed during the thesis indicating the number of hours of training. If the number of hours does not appear on the certificate, also attach the training program mentioning the number of hours AND the training report generated via SIGED / ADUM
• The summary sent for Décryp'thèse with the year (only for doctoral students registered from 2022/2023 in D1)
• The form for "external" members of the jury (rapporteurs and examiners) with the declaration of interests AND the CV of the rapporteurs
• The completed skills assessment

I would be grateful if you could include the names of the rapporteurs and examiners in your message, indicating their role.

The management will validate or not your file and will confirm the number of reporters you need. Be careful, your jury is not yet validated, it will be via the registration institutions.

 

Instruction for LYON1: Pôle Doctorat-HDR

The new rules for the PhD are published in the decree of May 26, 2016. It is at the origin of the institutions' directives: check the rules of the defense jury with your registration institution: Lyon1, INSA or ENSL.
The number of jury members is between 4 and 8.
At least half of the jury members must be French or foreign personalities, external to the doctoral school and to the doctoral student's institution of registration.
The distribution of women and men must be balanced (see the institution's rules)
At least half of the jury must be made up of professors or equivalent.
Some institutions (e.g. Lyon1) require the presence of a teacher-researcher with HDR from the institution.
The thesis director participates in the jury, but does not take part in the decision.
NB: He/she is counted as a member of the jury, and is therefore taken into account in the ratios (e.g.: internal vs. external members).
The members of the jury designate a president among them; he/she must be a professor or a teacher of equivalent rank.

Rapporteurs
The jury includes at least two rapporteurs who are qualified to direct research (HDR) or who belong to one of the categories mentioned in article 11 of the decree.
At E2M2, if the doctoral student has not published an article as first author on the thesis, a third reporter is required.
This person must be of foreign nationality and attached to an institution abroad.
This foreign reporter must have a curriculum at least equivalent to that of a researcher or teacher-researcher HDR in France, that is to say having supervised one or more theses, and published with his or her PhD students.

The rapporteurs are involved in the balance of the jury.
They are, except in exceptional cases, always members of the jury.
They cannot be from the University of Lyon 1, nor members of the E2M2 doctoral school. They must not have participated directly in the thesis work nor have been co-authors with the doctoral student (but they may be aware of this work, for example having been a "referee" for an article, but without having pushed the cooperation beyond that).
As far as possible, rapporteurs should not be members of the same unit.
Some members of the doctoral student's follow-up committee may be invited to participate in the jury as reviewer(s); however, they may not be invited as rapporteurs.
Examiners may have been members of the doctoral student's follow-up committee. However, conflicts of interest must be avoided, such as choosing colleagues who are too closely related to the doctoral student or the thesis directors.
It is advisable to choose a jury of more than 4 members to anticipate any problem of withdrawal.
The selection of a jury member for non-scientific reasons should be avoided.

The natural language of the thesis is French because it is a national degree.
However, it is possible for any doctoral student to write and defend his thesis in another language than French (see conditions of the defense institution).
This must be justified, for example
- By the need for all members of the jury to understand the text and then to intervene in the debates.
- By the need to disseminate information outside of France.
- By the fact that doctoral students who have not completed their studies in French are better able to express themselves in writing in another language.
A substantial summary in French must however be added (about 5 to 10 pages).

The form of the thesis is free: classic, on articles, mixed. The decision is made in agreement with the director.
Be careful to "link" the articles, to place them in a general problematic and to integrate a discussion-synthesis (don't forget also the technical appendices, very often excluded from the articles themselves).

The thesis cannot be validly defended without making the results available to the scientific community (posters and conferences) and without judging the work by peers (publications).
Due to the specificity of certain research conducted in the ED, it is difficult to set a number of published articles prior to the defense.
If some teams can ensure a number of publications close to 2 or 3 articles per thesis, this figure is impossible to reach when the data are obtained over long periods.
At E2M2, it is required:
At least one first author article, accepted or published, in an international peer-reviewed journal. Patents are also taken into consideration.

NB: An unpublished thesis will have to be submitted to the mandatory reading of 3 referees, including at least one foreign referee (=of foreign nationality AND from a foreign institution).
This foreign reporter must have a curriculum at least equivalent to that of a researcher or teacher-researcher HDR in France, that is to say to have sufficiently published, and supervised one or several theses.

On this subject, see the Lyon1 website:
http://www.univ-lyon1.fr/focus/focus-sur-la-prevention-du-plagiat-a-l-universite-795785.kjsp?RH=M2R-0#.V5mgffmyNBc

• The presentation is public, except in exceptional cases when the subject of the thesis or the work is confidential. The natural place for the defense is that of the institution to which the student belongs: the Claude Bernard University in all its components, the INSA Lyon, the ENS Lyon.
• In practice, the place of presentation may be a site of the University of Lyon (UDL)
• It is not possible to hold the presentation in a distant location from the UDL.

Room reservation
You have to reserve an amphitheater yourself.
Be careful, you have to book well in advance, especially for the December and June presentation!

Videoconference
Exceptionally, and with the exception of the president of the jury, the members of the jury can participate in the defense by videoconference (see the provisions of each establishment).