Order of the Dean of the FE TUL No. 1/2025

Organization of State Doctoral Examinations and Dissertation Thesis
Defences for Academic Year 2024/2025

(1) State Doctoral Examinations and Dissertation Thesis Defences are held before the members of the examination boards for the study programmes Economics and Management, Business Administration and Management and Systems Engineering and Informatics on 22nd May 2025 and 23rd May 2025. Students of doctoral study programmes who apply to take the State Doctoral Examination or to defend their Dissertation submit their applications by 20th March 2025 to the Dean's Office of the Faculty of Economics of TUL to Mrs Tereza Marková (tereza.markova@tul.cz).

(2) Along with an application for the State Doctoral Examination, the student shall submit:

a) the Proposition of the Dissertation Thesis in electronic form and five printed copies processed according to the Dean’s Directive No. 4/2022, including a structured professional Curriculum Vitæ (no personal data, i.e. without date and place of birth, private address, private telephone number, private e-mail and photograph of the student);
b) a statement of the Supervisor recommending or not recommending the State Doctoral Examination and the proposal of the reviewer of the Proposition of the Dissertation Thesis, who tentatively agrees to oppose the Thesis. The reviewer is proposed by the Supervisor and approved by the Branch Board;
c) Record of the Course of Colloquium held at the department – see article 8 par. (6);
d) a printed and signed Course of Studies form (the form for printing the Course of Studies can be found in IS STAG under My Study → Course of Study).

For the actual State Doctoral Examination, the applicant prepares a presentation in pdf containing an overview of the research carried out in the area of the Dissertation topic, the objectives of the Dissertation, an overview of findings and achieved results, as well as an outline of the continuation of the Dissertation Thesis.

(3) Along with an application for the Dissertation Defence, the student shall submit:

a) the Dissertation in electronic form and three printed copies of the Dissertation in the final version processed according to both the Rector's Directive No. 5/2018 and the Dean’s Directive 4/2022;
b) an electronic version of the Abstract of the Dissertation (to be published on the website of the faculty) and ten printed copies of the Abstract of the Dissertation processed according to the Dean’s Directive 4/2022;
c) Record of the Course of Preliminary Defence and its proceedings at the relevant training department (see Article 10);
d) a structured professional Curriculum Vitæ (no personal data, i.e. without date and place of birth, private address, private telephone number, private e-mail and photograph of the student), including a foreign professional internship overview;
e) a list of publications indicating the student's contributions and references (citations) to publications, which shows that the minimum criteria according to the Dean’s Directive No. 8/2014 have been met;
f) statement of the Supervisor recommending or not recommending the doctoral student for the Dissertation Defence and the Supervisor’s proposal of potential reviewers of the Dissertation (details are regulated by Article 25 of the Study and Examination Regulations of the TUL);
g) a printed and signed Course of Studies form (the form for printing the Course of Studies can be found in IS STAG under My Study → Course of Study).

(4) The Supervisor's report containing an evaluation of the doctoral student’s cooperation with the Supervisor, the Supervisor’s opinion on the professional level of the Dissertation, the doctoral student’s publication activity and an assessment of the result of the plagiarism check in IS STAG is submitted to the application for the Dissertation Defence usually within one month of the submission of the application.

(5) The next date of the State Doctoral Examinations and Dissertation Defences is planned for November 2025. The exact date will be set by the Order of the Dean.

(6) Person in charge is the Vice-Dean for Science and Research.