The doctorate is the highest university degree in France and internationally, certifying both a very high level of training and professional research experience. Over the last ten years, the doctorate has become increasingly considered by the socio-economic world. Even if it was historically seen solely as a training for research careers through research, it now opens up numerous career opportunities in the academic and business sectors. These recent developments highlight the strong challenges in terms of doctoral training and the necessary transformation of the doctorate into a real research object in its own rights.

Faced with these challenges, Adoc Talent Management founded the first Interdisciplinary Laboratory on the Doctorate, the IPL, to study the doctorate, its ecosystem, uses, and purposes. Focused on collaborative research, the IPL is surrounded by public, private and associative partners involved in these issues. It will communicate widely on its studies and results via scientific articles and public communications so that its data can be helpful to the most significant number of actors.

Finally, the IPL aims to understand the place of the doctoral degree within its ecosystem and society by anticipating its evolution in terms of training and professional preparation, thus allowing to accompany doctoral students and doctors in the valorisation of their competences and their career development.