Individual Monitoring Committee (CSI)

The CSI must be held before registration in the second year and before each new registration. The CSI transmits a report to the doctoral school with the necessary recommandation after each interview. It also has a role in preventing violence and discrimination.

No re-registration will be possible without the written report of this committee. This implies that the committee should meet at least once a year from the first year onwards. Ideally, the same committee composition should be maintained throughout the period of registration.

As far as possible, the composition of the doctoral student’s CSI remains constant throughout the PhD. The composition of the ISC is as follows:

1st year doctoral student CSI:

The CSIs of the first years last 30 minutes and are conducted in the presence of two members of the PhD student’s department board (BCMPP, DGNRV, IM, IMMUNO). One of the members should monitor the PhD student during the following CSIs (ED tutor).

The list of the members of each department board is available on the ED website. There are institute representatives in each department.

WARNING!!! The ED members participating in the CSI must be from outside the institute where the doctoral student is based.

Conduct of the CSI :

In three stages as described in the decree: (1) Presentation of the progress of the doctoral project in the presence of the doctoral student and his/her supervisor. (2) Interview with the supervisor. (3) Interview with the doctoral student.

CSI for PhD students in their 2nd or 3rd year (if derogation for the 4th year of the thesis):

Lasting 45 minutes, this CSI takes place in the presence of two members of the doctoral student’s department board (BCMPP, DGNRV, IM, IMMUNO) and a member from outside the institute who is a specialist in the discipline chosen by the supervisor/ PhD student duo. During this exchange, the scientific presentation of the PhD student will be more complete and include a presentation of the challenges and possible difficulties encountered.

The individual interview with the supervisor and the doctoral student should be attended by all the members present.

For BioSPC, management (not decision making) is delegated to the research institutes where the PhD students are doing their PhD. One or more referents are identified for each site. Students should contact them to get to know their tutors and to set a date for the ISC.

The site director(s) is (are) responsible for checking that the monitoring committee plays its role and that there is at least one CSI in the second and third year of the thesis.

A form ( form  1st year, form  2/3 year) had to be completed at the end of the meeting and to be returned to the administrative manager.

• BCMPP:  ed562.biospc-BCMPP@u-paris.fr
• Immuno: ed562.biospc-IMMUNO@u-paris.fr
• IM: ed562.biospc-IM@u-paris.fr
• DGNRV: ed562.biospc-DGNRV@u-paris.fr

If problems are reported or if the committee is not in favour of re-registration, then the directors of the department concerned will examine the file and the final decision will be taken by the two directors of the BioSPC doctoral school after discussion at the Board of Directors.

The list of site referents is in the table below:

We put at your disposal the CSI documents:

–Forumlaire CSI

–Examples of presentations

The reports will be filed on the dedicated filing link only (no sending by email).