At the end of the JDP the doctoral candidates should present and defend a Ph.D. Thesis, which must be approved by his/her supervisor and co-supervisor.
The dissertation of the Thesis must be also approved by the Academic Committee (AC) of the JDP. For this purpose the candidate should submit a report to this committee with the main achievements of the work done, and a list of the publications produced. Together with this doctoral candidate’s report, both the supervisor and the co-supervisor will also send a confidential report describing the work carried out by the candidate in their respective Institutions, the level achieved and all other considerations they wish to communicate to the AC. If the AC gives its approval, then the Thesis will pass to its approval by the legal bodies of the two Institutions A and B in which the Research work has been carried out. If the Thesis is not approved by the AC or by the legal bodies of the Institutions involved, the supervisors and the doctoral candidate will be informed of the deficiencies detected and of the period of time (never greater than three months) they have to solve them.
A necessary minimum condition for a Ph.D. Thesis to be accepted is to have led to at least two publications in peer-reviewed Journals, and to have a positive evaluation from at least one external referee. If this is a requirement of the Doctoral Schools of the Institutions A and B, the Consortium will accept the reports produced by the referees assigned by these Doctoral Schools.
The defence will take place in Institution A, but at least one of the members of the Jury should be a professor of University B, designated by this University. The Thesis should entitle the candidate to a European Title, so the presentation and the defence should therefore be undertaken in two European languages, the language of the host Institution and a second European language choosen by the candidate in agreement with his/her supervisor.
