2024/2025

2024/2025 RECRUITMENT TO ACADEMIA COPERNICANA – Selection of PhD students

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Academia Copernicana Interdisciplinary Doctoral School has begun the recruitment for the academic year 2024/25.

Take the next step in your academic journey and apply to Academia Copernicana Interdisciplinary Doctoral School!

Do you love to question and have an appetite for knowledge? Are you looking for an exceptional education in an environment which values individuals for their intellectual curiosity and diversity and is committed to equality of opportunity? Academia Copernicana Interdisciplinary Doctoral School might be the place for you.

The candidates may submit their applications between May 23 – June 20, 2024.

To make a competitive application by our 20 June deadline, follow the steps:

1. Choose one project from this year’s list
2. Apply in Internet Registration System
3. Prepare all the required documents listed on the recruitment procedure (scroll down) and sent them to academia.copernicana@umk.pl

DOCTORAL SCHOOL RECRUITMENT SCHEDULE

RECRUITMENT PROCEDURE FOR PhD CANDIDATES

As a prerequisite for admission to the Academia Copernicana Interdisciplinary Doctoral School, candidates must submit the following documents by the deadline set in the recruitment schedule:

Please number the documents according to the list below (the name of the file must indicate its content!)

1. A signed application generated from the Internet Registration of Candidates (you must fully complete all information in the IRoC in order to generate the application).
2. Academic curriculum vitae and letter of motivation.
3. Declaration of choosing the School and one or two submitted projects (main and additional project) PDF DOC
4. Declaration concerning doctoral studies PDF
5. Declaration that the candidate is not enrolled as a doctoral student in another doctoral school or doctoral programme and that in the case of admission to the Academia Copernicana, the candidate will be a PhD student of only one doctoral school PDF
6. Copy of the candidate’s master’s diploma and the completion of graduate studies (or its equivalent), or a copy of a certified duplicate, or a declaration that such duplicate will be delivered by the date of announcing the list of accepted candidates.
7. In the case of theological sciences: a copy of the master’s diploma in theology and Bachelor of Ecclesiastical Studies, or a written statement that during the doctoral studies the student will receive a Bachelor of Ecclesiastical Studies degree.
8. If English is not the PhD candidate’s native language, a document confirming knowledge of English at at least B2 level is required.
9. One current photograph in electronic form, which the candidate enters into the Internet Registration of Candidates, complying with the requirements used for issuing ID cards.

Every achievement of the candidate must be confirmed by appropriate documents (e.g. certificates, copy of publications, etc.).

The documents must be prepared in English and sent to academia.copernicana@umk.pl in accordance with the recruitment schedule.
The interview is conducted in English.
For the list of specific terms of the recruitment procedure click here.

After being enrolled to Academia Copernicana Interdisciplinary Doctoral School, the candidate must personally deliver the original documents (including an apostille on degree), Polish bank account number (which is necessary to receive the scholarship) to the School’s administration office.

RESEARCH PROJECT APPLICATIONS

Call for proposals for doctoral projects is open for submissions from 15.04.2024 until 10.05.2024.

Please number the documents according to the list below (the name of the file must indicate its content!):

1. Research project application PDF WORD
2. Information about the supervisor candidate PDF WORD
3. Declaration regarding the funding of research project PDF WORD
4. Declaration – regarding the source of financing of the scholarship PDF WORD (for grant application  only!)
5. PhD supervisor candidate – consent and declaration PDF WORD
6. PhD supervisor candidate – consent (foreign) PDF WORD
7. Declaration regarding the lack of foreign supervisor PDF WORD
8. Declaration regarding the source of financing of the costs of the procedure for granting the degree PDF WORD

All documents must be sent to academia.copernicana@umk.pl

REGULATIONS

Order No. 36 of March 18th 2024

Resolution no. 2/2023 on the recruitment terms and procedure

• Annex no.1 – specific recruitment terms

Regulations of the doctoral school of the Nicolaus Copernicus University