Dean’s Order has been made regarding the support for the PhD students of the Medical Sciences and Pharmaceutical Sciences Doctoral Schools in Pécs on behalf of the Faculty besides the scholarship introduced by the University of Pécs. The University of Pécs Medical School considers supporting the Phd students pursuing studies in the Doctoral Schools a priority objective in order to help and ensure their studies and academic work without disruption and acknowledge those students who seek to reach excellence in the research field, thereby strengthening the visibility of the University of Pécs and more specifically the Medical School in the international academic environment.
The Dean’s Order covers the Doctoral Schools and programs within the competence of the Doctoral Council and Habilitation Committee of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences of the University of Pécs and the PhD students participating in their trainings.
The support can be granted to every PhD student with active student status who
- participates in state-supported scholarship funded PhD training in the Doctoral Schools of the Medical School and does not receive Doctoral Student Scholarship in the Cooperative Doctoral Programme,
- achieves academic progress in line with their training plan and can justify it with the program leader’s certificate,
- demonstrates their professional goals, achievements and projects in detail,
- conducts scientific research activity according to their research plan proven by the program leader’s certificate,
- has less than eight active semesters since commencing their PhD studies.
The applicant must submit the following certificates in order to establish eligibility for the support and its payment:
a. At the commencement of the doctoral training:
- student status certificate about the active student status
- program leader’s certificate on the commencement of research work,
- declaration that the student does not have an employment status with more than 20 working hours per week.
b. For students who have already completed the first two active semesters:
- research, conference and publication plan certified by the program leader,
- program leader’s certificate on the academic progress and credit completion in accordance with the training plan,
- program leader’s certificate on the commencement, progress and results of the research work,
- declaration that the student does not have an employment status with more than 20 working hours per week.
c. For students who have already completed the complex examination:
- certificate on the completion of the complex examination,
- program leader’s certificate on the publication activity published in the MTMT database (Hungarian Scientific Bibliography) and progress on composing the dissertation,
- declaration that the student does not have an employment status with more than 20 working hours per week.
Amount of the support: in the training and research period of the PhD training 100.000 HUF per month, in the research and dissertation period of the PhD training 60.000 HUF per month.
The duration of the support is 10 months, namely the periods from February until June and from September until January. The payment of the support is made in the form of a monthly scholarship, afterwards.
The documents should be submitted to the Doctoral (PhD) and Habilitation Office of the Medical School, the submission deadline in the academic year 2023/2024 is April 30, 2024, since the faculty wishes to provide the support as of the spring semester of the academic year 2023/2024.
The Office checks the submitted documents and forwards the applications that meet the formal and content criteria to the Vice-Dean for Science. In case of documents that were submitted incompletely the Office can call upon the applicant to remedy the deficiencies in their documents within maximum 8 calendar days. The Vice-Dean for Science makes a proposal to the Dean regarding the students who should be granted the support within 15 days from the submission deadline of the applications. The Dean makes the decision on the eligibility for the support within 5 days from from the receipt of the proposal. The Office notifies the student and the Finance Office about the Dean’s decision. The student must inform the Office about any changes regarding their student status promptly, but within 30 days at latest.
PhD students cannot be granted the support and will be excluded from the procedure if
a) their student status is terminated or temporarily terminated for any reason after the commencement of the semester,
b) they have an employment status with more than 20 working hours per week.
c) they have 8 or more active semesters since commencing their PhD training.
In these cases the student is obliged to reimburse the amount of the support that was already paid for them in the current semester to the faculty in one instalment within 15 days. According to the National Higher Education Act the student can appeal against the decision of the higher educational institution – within 15 days from notification, in the lack of this from the point when the student becomes aware of the fact. The Secondary Educational Committee – established by the Rector – will act upon the appeal. The appeal is to be addressed to the Secondary Educational Committee and be submitted to the Doctoral (PhD) and Habilitation Office indicating the violation of law or regulation and attaching the documents neccessary for making a decision in the case.
In the spring semester of the academic year 2023/2024 the faculty makes the payments for February, March and April afterwards, in one instalment for the eligible applicant. Subsequently, the remaining payments will be made monthly.