Submission/Update of thesis proposals by Supervisors until 14 December 2022, 17:00 (Lisbon time)
The thesis proposals should be submitted/updated by the supervisors on the following site: https://idpasc.lip.pt/pt_cern_grants/phd_programme/my_thesis_proposals
The proposals submitted in the previous calls are available on the site and can be updated or deleted by their respective supervisors. Supervisors need to be registered as researcher and login to access this page. If you have never registered as researcher in the IDPASC website, you need first to register using the following link: https://idpasc.lip.pt/register.
After login, supervisors should proceed as indicated below: To update a proposal: Select "PhD Programme" -> "Thesis Proposals", click on the bottom "Manage my thesis proposals". You will have access to all the proposals. “Edit” the proposal if you want to update. You can also “Delete”.
After submission, to make the proposal visible to the students, it has to be "Active". If not, the proposal will not be visible to students. To create a new proposal: Click on the bottom "Add Thesis Proposal";
- Insert the title, the scientific domain, the institution that will award the academic degree, the PhD Program, the host institution, and names of co-supervisors if applicable.
- Insert the work plan, which should be relevant for the Portuguese participation at CERN and/or to the related of technological transfer to society, a summary of the thesis and a description of the objectives to be achieved.
- Insert a clear justification of why the proposed topic is relevant for the Portuguese participation at CERN and/or to the related of technological transfer to society.
Each thesis theme can have a maximum of three supervisors, with one being the main supervisor and the other(s) (optional) the co-supervisors. Any fully active researcher holding a PhD may be a supervisor or co-supervisor. Researchers who don’t hold a PhD can also be supervisors, provided that at least one of the supervisors associated to the application has a PhD.
Supervisors should ensure that the copy of their CV linked to their profile is updated. Previous CVs can be edited.
As stated in the call announcement, R&D centres should have a protocol previously established with LIP under the Portugal - CERN PhD Grants Program. It is also mandatory that one of the supervisors has a formal link to a Portuguese University granting the academic degree, and in case of mixed grants, one of the co-supervisors must have a link to the foreign host institution.
The institutions that don’t have such a protocol should send an email to idpasc.pt-cern@lip.pt to express their interest in joining the doctoral grants program.
A template of the protocol can be found at https://idpasc.lip.pt/files/pt_cern_grants/minute_agreement_PT-CERN-PhD-Grant.docx
