Supervision and doctoral examination procedures
Cooperative doctoral procedures through the Research Campus are supervised by at least two people, each belonging to a different university of the Research Campus of Central Hessen. Before you apply to be accepted as a doctoral candidate, you must obtain a written Confirmation of Academic Supervision from both supervisors. Please use the form provided for this purpose.
We recommend you proceed as follows:
- Present your thesis topic in a suitable form to your academic supervisor at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen University of Applied Sciences and discuss it together.
- Find another supervisor at the Justus Liebig University or the Philipps-Universität in the faculty where your doctoral procedure is to be conducted. If necessary, ask your supervisor at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen University of Applied Sciences and/or the Management Office of the Research Campus for assistance.
- Ask both supervisors to sign a confirmation of academic supervision and/or supervision agreement. If possible, use a form provided by the university faculty where your doctoral procedure is to be conducted. If this faculty has no such form, please use the Confirmation of Academic Supervision and/or the detailed Supervision Agreement form of the Research Campus.
- Hand in your Application for Admission as a Cooperative Doctoral Candidate within the Cooperative Doctoral Programme at the Cooperative Doctoral Platform of the Research Campus to the Management Office. When the Doctoral Committee of the Cooperative Doctoral Platform of the Research Campus and the Examination Board of the relevant university faculty have assessed your application, the university faculty will notify you of their decision.
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After you have been accepted as a doctoral candidate, you may enroll as a doctoral student at the relevant university.
The form of the thesis (monograph or cumulative dissertation) and the opening and further order of the doctoral examination procedure is defined in the relevant doctoral regulations.
During the doctoral examination procedure, the supervisor belonging to the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen University of Applied Sciences is entitled to take part as a voting member in the meetings of the examination committee of the university faculty in which the doctoral procedure is being conducted.