Direction de la recherche, de la valorisation et des études doctorales (DiRVED)
Registering for a thesis
Updated on: 10/06/2026Doctoral students must be affiliated with a research laboratory and registered with an institution. He/she is considered by the university and his/her host laboratory as a young researcher.
Registration as a doctoral student is decided by the head of the establishment on the recommendation of the director of the doctoral school, following the opinion of the thesis director and the director of the research unit concerned, after studying the application file completed by the candidate.
For more information on the doctoral program, follow the link on this page to the SYGAL application.
To complete your nomination file, we invite you to familiarize yourself with the procedure to follow, and then with all the documents presented below.
To register for the first year of a thesis :
For registration in the second or third year of a thesis :
For registration or re-registration from the fourth year of thesis :
Defending your thesis
“Doctoral training is organized within doctoral schools. It consists of training through research, in research and innovation, which can be completed through initial or continuing education. It constitutes professional research experience, sanctioned, after thesis defense, by the award of the doctoral degree.”
Regulations – Order of May 25, 2016 on doctoral training
To organize your thesis defense, we invite you to read the procedure to follow on the SYGAL application by following the link indicated on this page and the documents presented below:
List of specialties
Normandie University
Order of May 25, 2016 on doctoral training
HDR itinerary
The “habilitation à diriger des recherches” recognizes the candidate’s high scientific level, the originality of his or her approach in a particular field of science, his or her ability to master a research strategy in a sufficiently broad scientific or technological field, and his or her capacity to supervise young researchers.
Regulations – Order of November 23, 1988 modified
Theses.fr
Theses defended at the University of Le Havre Normandie are systematically distributed in digital form (on the internet or only on the intranet, depending on the author’s wishes).
All theses available online are accessible on HAL in the THESES-NU collection. You can also consult the national Theses.fr portal.