Joint Thesis Supervision (Cotutelle)
Joint PhD theses (Cotutelle) allow doctoral students enrolled at Sapienza or foreign universities, to complete their doctoral dissertation by alternating periods at their home and host university abroad.
In this case, thesis work is supervised by two thesis directors: one at Sapienza, and one at the partner university. The thesis will be discussed at only one university and following its successful evaluation the two universities will present the student with a double PhD Degree.
As indicated in the ministerial FAQs available on the MUR website, a PhD student who benefits from simultaneous enrolment cannot also participate in a cotutelle programme. It is understood that the PhD student has the option to close the other programme in which they are enrolled and subsequently participate in a cotutelle programme.
Activating Thesis Co-Supervision (Cotutelle)
Thesis Co-Supervision is activated via agreements existing between university rectors, following their approval by university governance that also attests the availability of financial resources for the agreement.
Thesis Co-supervision may be activated no later than the eighteenth month from the starting date of the PhD programme.
Each year, by October 31, the PhD Commission will evaluate student activity, including that of joint degree students at partner universities, to admit them to the next programme year. The PhD Commission may authorise that a thesis be written in English or in another European language.
Italian thesis supervisors may belong to universities other than Sapienza.
To view the procedure, please click here
Co-tutela CIVIS
CIVIS, a European Civic University, in order to promote and encourage collaboration and doctoral mobility, issue the template for cotutelle agreements.
This document facilitates the activation of cotutelle at CIVIS universities:
- Aix-Marseille Université;
- Ethniko kai Kapodistriako Panepistimio Athinon;
- Universitatea din București;
- Universidad Autónoma de Madrid;
- Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen;
- Université libre de Bruxelles;
- Stockholms universitet;
- University of Glasgow.
Further initiatives for PhD students of CIVIS universities are available at the following link:
Academic Programmes and Right to Education Area
PhD Unit - Programmes and Careers
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