Additional training allows you to acquire skills. We ask each doctoral student to complete, during the thesis, the Individual Skills Notebook (CIDC) which will validate these skills.

It is also a tool that allows you to synthesize the other skills that you will have acquired during your research work.

The purpose of a “Skills Notebook” is that the doctoral student is able, at the end of his doctorate, to know how to define which skills have been acquired during the course of the thesis.

Indeed, during a doctorate, skills can be acquired by Training through Research (during the realization of the thesis project in one’s laboratory) or by Additional Training (following additional training, see above). All these skills can be enhanced after the doctorate, and must therefore be included in the notebook.

With this tool, each doctoral student will be prepared for a possible job interview outside the academic world, where he will be able to highlight his qualities/skills (going further than the description of the results obtained during the thesis and the techniques that ‘he masters). It can also be used to better understand his qualities if he wishes to remain in the lap of the academic world.

We ask each doctoral student to complete, during the thesis, the Individual Skills Notebook (CIDC) created by E-S (doc).

To be able to defend his thesis, the doctoral student must therefore submit, at the same time as his request for authorization to defend as well as the electronic submission form for the thesis, the CIDC completed and signed by his thesis director (it is not compulsory fill in all the sections!), as well as the list and proof of follow-up of additional training that allowed the acquisition of skills.