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Doctoral training
7 June 2011 which gave 17 doctoral students an opportunity to
present their work, those organized by units (on 27 September
in the case of MACS and on 27 October in the case of IM),
that organized by partner associations such as the AFITL, e.g.
the 16 th workshop for doctoral students engaged in transport
research held in Lyon on 28 June 2011. In future years such
workshops will be available to all second year doctoral students
whatever their discipline.
An increasing
role for external
funding
At the same time, funding from external sources (CIFRE,
MEDDTL, ANR contracts, FUI, ADEME, EU, etc.) is increasing.
Sixty percent of new theses are externally funded. This trend,
which is in no way exclusive to IFSTTAR, requires a higher
degree of coordination with the Directorate for Partnerships and
Resources which oversees the contracts which may receive
thesis funding. Coordination with MEDDTL also needs to be
consolidated as does that with the principal industrial firms who
ask us for scientific support for CIFRE theses (in the form of
framework agreement, for example). This initial coordination
guarantees the Institute will provide effective scientific supervision
of the doctoral research.
A bright future
Our monitoring of the 2010 cohort of PhDs (71 in all) graduating
from the Institute confirms the impression that those
benefiting from doctoral training at IFSTTAR find themselves
in a very good position.
At the beginning of 2012, i.e. slightly over a year after defending
their thesis, 90% of our PhDs had found a job. 46% of
these were permanent, 20% in the private sector and 26% in
the public sector (university, EPST, engineering schools, EPIC,
RST). The temporary jobs were mainly as Temporary Teaching
and Research Assistants and post-docs in France and abroad.
8.5% of those awarded PhDs in 2010 are still looking for work
and we have no information about the remaining 1.5%.
Last, 2011 also saw the setting up of a new association of
IFSTTAR doctoral students, RaDI. It is part of the Institute’s
Committee for Social, Sporting and Cultural Activities and its
role is to support doctoral students throughout their time at
IFSTTAR by representing and assisting them when they have
formalities to perform and organizing friendly gatherings for
them. The RaDi supplements the Joint Advisory Committee
which was also set up in 2011.
A DEFINITION THAT DEPENDS ON FIVE CRITERIA
The topic must be related to the areas described in IFSTTAR’s
goals contract.
One or more members of an IFSTTAR research structure must
be responsible for at least 50% of the student’s supervision.
The student must be registered in a French doctoral school and
spend more than 50% of their time at an IFSTTAR research site.
The selection procedure must include an ad-hoc interviewing
committee.
The thesis must be funded for 3 years.
THESES DEFENDED WITH EACH THESIS
TAKING AN AVERAGE OF 3.5 YEARS AND
7 «ACCREDITATIONS TO SUPERVISE
RESEARCH» ALSO DEFENDED
NEW DOCTORAL STUDENTS INCLUDING
42 IFSTTAR DOCTORAL CONTRACTS
(8 WITH JOINT FUNDING), 12 WITH AN
IFSTTAR RESEARCH CONTRACT,
6 IFSTTAR CIFRE THESES, 2 THESES THAT
ARE JOINTLY SUPERVISED AND 42 WITH
EXTERNAL FUNDING
DOCTORAL STUDENTS WORKING ON THEIR
THESES AT A RESEARCH UNIT THAT IS
EITHER ENTIRELY OR JOINTLY MANAGED BY
IFSTTAR, INCLUDING 70 WHO HAVE
BEEN WORKING ON THEIR THESIS FOR MORE
THAN THREE YEARS AND WHOSE INITIAL
FUNDING HAS RUN OUT. THE DEFENCE OF
28 OF THESE THESES HAS BEEN SCHEDULED
FOR THE BEGINNING OF 2012.
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