Public Presentation at the faculty (FÖP)

The public presentation is chaired by the (Vice-) Director of the Doctoral Study Programme (DSPL) and attended by members of the doctoral advisory board and your supervisor(s). They will provide feedback to your research projects and evaluate whether the projects meet the scientific standards and if they can be realized successfully in a reasonable timeframe.

Your presentation of 15 - 20 min. will be in presence or virtual, organized by the VDS CoBeNe in collaboration with the SSC and followed by questions from the advisory board and (Vice-) DSPL. The meeting will last in total about 45 minutes.

According to the statutes, doctoral candidates have to pass the public presentation of their dissertation project within the first year. If your presentation was successful, your topic and the supervisor(s) usually get approved by the (Vice-) DSPL right after the presentation. If your topic is not approved you have the possibility to withdraw your application, adapt your research proposal and reapply for the approval of your topic.

Your Dissertation Project

Every project has to be planned from the beginning on in order to be completed successfully – also and especially in scientific work. The length of the entry phase depends on the stage of development of your dissertation project. The research proposal plays a major role when planning your research and doctoral thesis project. It is a thematically and methodologically concise description of your doctoral thesis project. Moreover the research proposal is an important planning instrument that helps you to structure your perennial dissertation project and to realize your doctoral thesis step by step. The clearer you define your research questions, approach and goals, the easier you will manage the realization.

Guidelines for the Research Proposal (Exposé)

Dimensions of your proposal depend on the current practice in your research discipline (5 - 15 pages, without bibliography). A research proposal has to include the following information:

• Description of the topic of the doctoral thesis project including a clear research question
• Outline of the state of research
• Illustration of the chosen research methods
• Relevant literature
• Choice of supervisors
• Time and work schedule, possibly financial budget and overview of resources

 Registration for the FÖP

To register for the public presentation at the faculty (FÖP), the following forms must to be emailed to vds.cobene@univie.ac.at (by the deadlines listed above):

• Registration of the topic of the doctoral thesis and the supervisors (SL/D11)  
• Regulations relating to good scientific practice (SL/W1)
• Approval of financial support of the doctoral thesis project (SL/W4), only if additional resources are required, see details in SL/D11
• Exposé as pdf-file not larger than 2 MB and labelled: surname_firstname_student registration number_expose.pdf