Recruitment for persons whose doctoral scholarship will be financed in whole or in part by external funds:

a) persons whose doctoral scholarship, if admitted to the Bio-Med-Chem Doctoral School, will be financed in whole or in part by grants for the implementation of scientific projects (announced by, inter alia, NAWA, NCN, NCBiR) obtained by the UL,

b) persons whose doctoral scholarship, if admitted to the Bio-Med-Chem Doctoral School, will be financed in whole or in part from funds provided by external institutions (e.g. institutes of the Polish Academy of Sciences) from their own funds or from grants obtained by these units,

c) persons who have applied to the Industrial PhD programme (Doktorat wdrożeniowy) and will obtain funding within its framework,

d) foreign nationals undergoing training on the basis of the provisions of Article 323(1)(1 5) of the PSWiN Act and having external resources granted under the provisions of Article 323(2) of the PSWiN Act (payable through the NAWA). 

Registration in the present recruitment path will only be complete with a proof of participation in a programme/project from the above list.

   

 People with disabilities

The University provides conditions for persons with disabilities to participate fully in the recruitment process, including by providing a sign language interpreter or being accompanied by an assistant during the interview, but the candidate should report such a need during the IRK registration process.

 

 Recruitment rules for the 2024/2025 academic year

 

Rules of admission to the UL Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences have been updated for 2024/2025. You can find the text with all attachments under the following link:
https://www.uni.lodz.pl/en/sdnsip/admission

 

The recruitment procedure is initiated on the day on which the following two conditions are fulfilled jointly:

·        receipt by the Doctoral School of a signed Application for admission to the Doctoral School in written form, printed on a form generated from the IRK system,

·        and payment of the recruitment fee of PLN 200 (citizens of Ukraine who crossed the polish border after February 24, 2022. they do not pay the recruitment fee) and assignment to the chosen Doctoral School. Online registration does not constitute an activity initiating the recruitment procedure.

·        If you register in IRK and do not submit a paper application for admission to a Doctoral School and/or do not have the above payment assigned to your school, no procedural action will be taken. It is mandatory for a candidate to register for admission to the Doctoral School in IRK system.

 

 Specifically, the candidate’s responsibilities include: 

 

a) selecting a doctoral school and identifying the discipline(s) in which the doctoral dissertation will be prepared. If the doctoral dissertation is to be prepared in more than one discipline, the candidate shall indicate the lead discipline,

b) filling in the registration form,

c) entering the grade point average obtained in the course of the Bachelor’s and Master’s studies or the Uniform Master's Studies or equivalent; the data shall be entered on the basis of the diploma supplement (academic transcript) referred to in Section 8(2)(1) or the certificate (grade average confirmation) referred to in Section 8(2)(3) of the Recruitment Rules. In the case of candidates who have completed their studies outside the Republic of Poland, the above results shall be converted by the doctoral school into the system applicable in the Republic of Poland proportionally, according to a percentage of the maximum possible number of points. The data entered by the candidate shall be verified on the basis of the documents provided,

d) uploading to the system the current photograph taken in a format meeting the requirements specified for ID cards in case of citizens of the Republic of Poland or for passports in case of foreign nationals,

e) making legible scans in PDF format of all the paper documentation (and the photograph that has been uploaded to the IRK system) that the candidate submits as part of the recruitment procedure, and then uploading them to IRK within the timeframe provided in the recruitment schedule for online registration. Each scanned file should include the candidate's full name and an indication of a document which has been scanned, as follows: Surname_Name_name of the scanned document,

f) attributing one’s academic record to the discipline(s) to which the candidate's research and publication activities pertain, by submitting a statement to this effect in the IRK,

g) submitting by the candidate being a foreign national a statement concerning his/her wish to use a place in the UL Student Dormitory after admission to SDNSiP. UL does not guarantee the granting of a place in the UL Student Dormitory,

h) after registration in IRK: checking IRK account on a daily basis to receive and read messages

 

 

Required documents

The documents that the candidate is obliged to submit are listed in  § 8 of Recruitment Rules to the Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences of the University of Lodz for the academic year 2024/2025.

Documents required from Candidates for doctoral school:

Candidates to the University of Lodz Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences must:

a) register in the IRK system;

b) submit an application form for admission to the doctoral school printed from the IRK system and signed (a template is set out in Annex 1 to the Recruitment Rules) and a set of documents listed below:

1) a copy of the diploma of completion of the Bachelor’s and Master’s studies or the Uniform Master's Studies or equivalent, together with a copy of the diploma supplement (subject to Section 8(2)(3) original or a copy certified by an UL employee to be a true copy of the original,

2) If a candidate has completed his/her studies abroad, the diploma must be legalised or apostilled, and confer the right to apply for the award of a doctoral degree in the country whose higher education system includes the institution which has awarded it. In the case of a diploma issued in a language other than Polish or English, a translation into one of these languages must also be submitted (if, for justified reasons these documents are not available now, the candidate may apply to provide them till the beginning of the academic year – please see the note at the bottom of the page). The candidate shall submit a statement with a commitment to provide a sworn translation of the aforementioned diploma into Polish within the time limit specified in the statement (Annex 2 to the Recruitment Rules).

3) Candidates referred to in Section 2(2) of the Recruitment Rules shall submit a certificate of the grade point average obtained in the course of the Bachelor’s and Master’s studies or the Uniform Master's Studies or equivalent, as well as a commitment to provide a certificate of having passed the diploma examination and having been awarded the Master's degree within the time limit consistent with the recruitment schedule (a template of the commitment form is set out in Annex 3 to the Recruitment Rules); the aforementioned persons shall provide a copy of the diploma confirming the obtaining of the degree referred to in Section 2(1) of the Recruitment Rules, before commencing education at SDNSiP,

4) an outline of the proposed doctoral dissertation with a statement confirming that the candidate has never previously prepared or defended a doctoral dissertation in the proposed topic (the obligation to submit the aforementioned statement does not apply to cases of transfer from another doctoral school and to persons who will be studying under a cotutelle agreement and are already studying at a foreign university at the time of recruitment). The outline of the dissertation, which should show the structure of the planned work and research, including descriptions of the different parts of the projected research work with a bibliography (max. 10 items). The outline, including the bibliography, must not exceed 5 pages in A4 format; margins 2.5, font Times New Roman 12 or equivalent, spacing 1.5,

5) a statement of an UL employee on his/her readiness to act as a supervisor (if the candidate has such a consent) according to the template (to be dowloaded here) available in the IRK system or an application for the appointment of a selected person, who is qualified to act as a supervisor, as a supervisor of one’s doctoral dissertation (Annex 4 to the Recruitment Rules). The doctoral school shall make available on its website a list of potential supervisors with an indication of their area of research interest, at the latest one month before the start of the recruitment procedure. The list shall be drawn up by the Director of SDNSiP in consultation with the persons he/she intends to include in the list. A written consent of a person concerned shall be a condition for inclusion in the above list,

6) a questionnaire for evaluation of the candidate's documentation (Annex 5 to the Recruitment Rules), which is the candidate's declaration of achievements to be evaluated,

7) a document confirming the candidate's knowledge of English of at least B2 level (in the case of a certificate or diploma a copy an original for inspection, in the case of certificates an original) in accordance with the List of Documents Confirming the Knowledge of English Language (Annex 6 to the Recruitment Rules) or a statement of English language proficiency at a level that enables to follow the programme of study at the doctoral school (Annex 7 to the Recruitment Rules),

8) confirmation of previous research activities (during the recruitment procedure, an account shall be taken of the candidate's documented research and organisational activity corresponding to the disciplines in which the SDNSiP is conducted, from the last 5 years preceding the recruitment until the end of the online registration):

a) publications only works published or accepted for publication with editorial approval; the candidate must provide a bibliographic notice allowing full identification of the work and the page of the publication containing an abstract,

b) participation in scientific conferences printout of abstract from conference materials, full conference details and confirmation of the award.

c) scientific and research projects participation in the project confirmed by a contract for specific work or an employment contract or by a declaration of the project manager (copy original for inspection),

d) attestation of other achievements including, in particular: a copy of the diploma of completion of the second study programme, certificates confirming training, mobility, activity in a science club (confirmation of the type of activity and its duration),

9) a candidate with a certificate of disability / degree of disability issued based on the provisions of the Act on Vocational and Social Rehabilitation and Employment of Persons with Disabilities (consolidated text Journal of Laws of 2023, item 100 as amended) shall submit a copy of the certificate with other recruitment documents if he/she intends to exercise additional rights under the law,

international candidates (foreign nationals) shall also provide:

(a) a document confirming the legality of their residence in the territory of the Republic of Poland in the form of a copy of a current visa or residence card immediately after obtaining one of the aforementioned documents, at the latest by the end of the first semester of study at the doctoral school,

(b) for candidates who do not have their domicile or habitual residence or registered office in the Republic of Poland, another Member State of the European Union, the Swiss Confederation or a Member State of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) being a party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area a written designation of an address for service in the territory of the Republic of Poland or appointment of a representative ad litem (for the purposes of service of letters and administrative decisions). If the above obligation is not fulfilled, decisions and letters shall be left in the candidate's file with effect of having been served.

 

 

Interview:

 

The interview will take place  from 10/7/2024 to 15/7/2024

Detailed information on the interview will be provided to candidates registered in the IRK system via a system message.

   

Announcement of recruitment results

of candidates whose doctoral scholarship will be financed from external funds:

till 19 September 2024

  

Delivery of diploma examination certificate*:

*applies to candidates who have been admitted to the recruitment procedure despite the fact that they do not hold a Master's degree (on the basis of the provisions of Section 2(2) of the Recruitment Rules) and who have made a commitment to provide a certificate of having passed the diploma examination and having been awarded the Master's degree within the time limit specified in the recruitment schedule OR candidates entering the recruitment procedure for externally-funded persons in connection with the application for the Industrial PhD programme.

22/7/2024

 

Time limit and method of delivery of paper documents:

 

Documents must be delivered within:

from 26/6/2024  - until 1/7/2024

- the date of delivery of documents is the date of their receipt by the doctoral school.

 

Documents should be delivered in person to the doctoral school office or sent by post to the following address:

 

University of Lodz Doctoral Schools Centre

Ms. Elżbieta Dorobiała
Secretary of Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences

Matejki 21/23, room 113

90-137 Lodz

 email: office.sdnsip@uni.lodz.pl

 

For candidates residing outside Poland during admission procedure:

 If original (paper) documents cannot be submitted by the above-mentioned deadline for reasons beyond the candidate's control, they may be submitted after arrival in Poland (before taking the oath and starting classes at the beginning of the academic year) – please send a request via e-mail (office.sdnsip@uni.lodz.pl) to the Director of SDNSiP for the possibility to submit the documentation in paper form after the deadline resulting from the recruitment schedule, with a simultaneous commitment to deliver the original documents before the date of signing the oath act.