Doctoral plan
Once you have been provisionally accepted as a doctoral candidate, you will draw up a doctoral plan within the first year of your doctorate. The doctoral plan serves as an orientation for research and studies of your doctorate.
Your doctoral plan should provide information on at least the following points:
- Research objectives
- Teaching tasks
- Any other duties, such as monitoring of equipment or performing organisational tasks for the research group
You must submit the doctoral plan to the Aptitude Committee ten days before the Aptitude Colloquium. Please clarify with the members of the Aptitude Committee whether they wish to receive the doctoral plan as a hard copy or as a PDF file.
You may but do not have to use the template provided below:
The doctoral plan is not a legally binding agreement but is rather a declaration of intent made by you as a doctoral candidate and by your doctoral thesis supervisor, and should be conceived as a living instrument. Changes are possible, and in many cases will be necessary. Major changes should be documented in your annual status conversations.