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The 2nd PhD thesis defence session for those PhD students who had to revise their thesis according to the indications of external referees is scheduled for June and July 2020. At art. 15, the Rules and Regulations on the PhD Programmes of the University of Cagliari indicate that, once the period for the above-mentioned revision has expired, the PhD thesis is admitted to public defence, with a new written evaluation provided by the same referees in the light of corrections or integrations made where needed. This session has been postponed by one month with regard to what is indicated in our Rules and Regulations, in order to concentrate in a single session the final examinations of these PhD students and of those receiving a PON RI scholarship.

Each Academic Board will autonomously decide the deadlines for PhD students to send their thesis to the referees, as well as the deadline to receive such evaluation. As a general rule, evaluations should be received early in May if the defence is scheduled in June 2020, or by the end of May if the defence is scheduled in July 2020.

EXAMINATION SESSION: JUNE - JULY 2020

Admission to defence
To be admitted to the final examination, your PhD thesis will be evaluated by at least two referees appointed by the Academic Board. They will express their analytical evaluation on your PhD thesis within 30 days from the date it will have been sent, using the specific form attached (Evaluation form).
PhD students will send to their referees:
- PhD thesis
- summary in Italian or English
- report on their activity as PhD students and possible publications, dully filled in and signed. This report will have to be sent also to the Coordinator of the PhD programme (PhD student's report).

PhD degree application and thesis upload
PhD students can submit the application to obtain their PhD degree and archive their thesis only online, by entering their personal page on UniCa website at: https://unica.esse3.cineca.it/Home.do
Please, follow the guidelines below:
ADMISSION TO FINAL EXAM AND THESIS UPLOAD GUIDELINES FOR ONLINE APPLICATION
(Please, refer to the attached document at the bottom of this page)

Deadlines
Thesis defence in JUNE: the submission process will work from May 8th 2020 until the 15th day before the scheduled date for the thesis defence. If the date for the thesis defence hasn’t been scheduled yet, the 15 days will be calculated starting from June 1st 2020 – beginning of the examination session.
Thesis defence in JULY: the submission process will probably work from June 5th 2020 until the 15th day before the thesis defence scheduled date. If the date for the thesis defence hasn’t been scheduled yet, the 15 days will be calculated starting from July 1st 2020 – beginning of the examination session.
Please, note that the online application process for the admission to the final exam will be open only after the Academic Board will have communicated the thesis defence date to the Office in charge (Settore dottorati e master).

Requirements for PhD students with a POR-FSE scholarship
PhD students with a scholarship funded by POR Sardegna -FSE 2014-2020 have to include a clear reference to the funding source of their scholarship, in all documents (research projects/papers, publications, etc.), including the PhD thesis, developed during the PhD programme. Further information is available in the attachment below "Indicazioni dottorandi assegnatari di borsa di studio POR FSE".

Indications for PhD students holding a PON-RI scholarship
PhD students holding a scholarship funded by the National Operational Programme Research and Innovation 2014-2020, so as to comply with the requirements of publicity detailed at paragraph no. 2.2 of Annex XII of Regulation (EU) no. 1303/2013 on "Information and communication measures for the public", have to complete the last page of their PhD thesis with the official logos of the programme and the related sentence, according to the attached format available below "Indicazioni per i dottorandi titolari di borsa PON-RI".

Within 15 days before the date of the thesis defence, applicants MUST:
1. Submit the application to obtain their PhD degree
2. Upload their thesis
3. Pay the stamp duty (EUR 16.00)

PhD Thesis
The PhD thesis must be uploaded in a single PDF file, including a cover, not exceeding 50 MB. PhD theses in multiple files can’t be uploaded. The file must be named “tesi di dottorato_ ... (PhD student’s name and surname)”. The thesis cover must follow the official template (Please, refer to the attached document at the bottom of this page).

Scientific Disciplinary Sector
PhD theses must indicate the acronym of their scientific disciplinary sector, according to the note issued by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) (ref. no. 1581 of July 26th 2005). Only the alphanumeric code is required (for example: MAT/01, ING-IND/19, M-FIL/06).
The submission process allows to indicate only the main one. Other possible scientific disciplinary sectors can be indicated in the note section.
A complete list of scientific disciplinary sectors is available at the link below:
http://attiministeriali.miur.it/UserFiles/115.htm

Thesis embargo request
A thesis embargo request can be submitted only under specific conditions.
Please, read the sections “Tesi di dottorato e diritto d’autore” and “Embargo della tesi di dottorato” (Please, refer to the attached document at the bottom of this page).
The thesis embargo request form must be undersigned by the supervisor, and named “richiesta di embargo della tesi_(PhD student’s name and surname)”. (Please, refer to the attached document at the bottom of this page).

PhD defence deadlines and modalities will be defined at a later stage.