The purpose of this form is to plan and describe your research activities and courses which should comply with requirements so that it will help to write the PhD thesis and defend within 4 years.

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS:

• Credits:
  
  Stream 1: General Doctoral courses (18 ECTS credits)
  Stream 2: Advanced Major-Field courses (12 ECTS credits)
  Stream 3: Pedagogical Experience (3 ECTS credits)
  Stream 4: Thesis Research & Development (201 ECTS credits)
  Stream 5: Thesis Defense (6 ECTS credits)
  
  Also see Curriculum for your PhD Program.
  
  
• Publications:
  
  The requirement may vary within different PhD programs and is available for each program on the web-site.
  
  
• Conference presentations:
  
  Two conference presentations with Skoltech affiliation at the International reputable conferences.
  
  

APPROVAL PROCESS

You should discuss all details of the Individual Plan with your Supervisor. Once the plan is completed, you could submit it as:

• a draft – you will receive an email with a summary of responses and a link where you may change your responses; or as
• a final version – in this case the final version of the Individual Plan will be automatically sent for approval to your Supervisor, then to your PhD program Chairman and, finally, to the Associate Provost, Dean of Education.

See "Status of this Submission" question in the end of the form.

DEADLINES

You need to submit the final version of Individual Plan no later than January 16, 2022.

PhD student submission	16 January, 2022
Supervisor approval	30 January, 2022
PhD Program Chairman approval	13 February, 2022
Associate Provost, Dean of Education's approval

 

REPORTING

You will report your progress based on the approved Individual Plan at Annual Progress Review (in the end of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd year). You will need to update your Individual Plan only if the Doctoral Program Committee recommends you as the result of Annual Progress Review.

 

In exceptional cases, you can change the PhD program or/and the Supervisor. You should contact Educational office via online Skoltech Help Center.

The form is split in the following sections:

• General Information
• Individual Plan
• Indicators

The Individual Doctoral Committee is responsible for a particular PhD student mentorship including regular monitoring of the PhD student's progress. The Committee should consist of 3 members (including the Supervisor and Co-supervisor), which could be Faculty at Skoltech or external Faculty member working closely with a PhD student.

Also note that the Committee members are assigned by the Supervisor. All Committee members should confirm their involvement.

Standard credit load is 60 credits per year. The following table should be a summary of your credits distribution. You need to fill out the table below clarifying credits.