Doctoral schools and colleges

Doctoral schools

The missions of doctoral schools

Doctoral schools are internal university bodies authorized to award doctorates. They provide doctoral students with scientific training through research, complemented by multidisciplinary teaching. They also promote the professional integration of doctoral students.
Each research unit is attached to one or more doctoral schools.

Eight doctoral schools at the University of Le Havre Normandie :

Training courses offered by doctoral schools :

Doctoral schools offer their doctoral students, either directly or through colleges, a range of disciplinary or multi-disciplinary scientific and cross-disciplinary training courses, such as those preparing them for professional integration.

The College of Doctoral Schools

The Collège des Ecoles Doctorales, part of Normandie Université, brings together the doctoral schools in Normandy.

Eight doctoral schools are attached to this college:

Set up in January 2009 at the initiative of the five higher education establishments in Normandy, the inter-regional college of doctoral schools, now a fully-fledged component of the ComUE Normandie Université under the name Collège des Ecoles Doctorales, regularly brings together the directors of doctoral schools, the vice-presidents of research and scientific directors of the establishments, the heads of the research departments of the establishments and elected student members of the doctoral schools concerned. Among other things, it has led to the adoption of a theses charter common to all ComUE establishments.

Its main objectives are to :