Module 1: the doctorate and its specificities as training and as an innovative project

• Reminder on the doctorate in the LMD system, which differentiates it from other levels

• Know the means of financing your doctorate (doctoral contract, CIFRE, regional financing, etc.) and the contractual conditions and associated actors

• Know the framework of the doctoral contract the conditions of the doctoral research practice (rights, duties, missions)

• The specificities of the doctoral project (temporality, open question at the frontier of knowledge, need to produce an innovative result, etc.) and the main stages

• Useful resources and sites to find out more

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Module 2: what to do after a doctorate?

• Skills acquired through research practice

• Professions occupied by doctors in higher education and research, in private R&D, in the public sector excluding ESR, in the private sector excluding R&D

• Statistics on career pursuits after a doctorate in France and abroad (recruiting sectors, salaries, etc.)

• Open positions with or without a doctorate Positions held immediately after the doctorate Career development over time

• Testimonial option from a doctor working in the private sector

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Module 3: Your professional project

• Anticipate the doctorate as a step to be put into perspective according to your longer-term career objective

• Why do - or not do - a doctorate in relation to one's own career wishes? What added value for your professional career?

• The right questions to ask yourself before possibly starting a doctorate

• Analyze your motivation and skills to start and complete a doctorate

• How to choose the right subject and laboratory