The short-list of 60 candidates will be invited (by e-mail from the Management Team) to participate to an audition. Auditions will be organized remotely.
Each applicant will be evaluated by the Selection Committee, composed of all the six experts of their respective panel, plus a member of the Quality and Ethics Board, and the supervision team.
Audition will include a 15 minutes oral presentation followed by a 15 minutes discussion with the jury. The presentation will include the candidate’s background, motivation and preliminary career plan, the PhD topic with the intended approach, and the arguments showing how she/he would fit the position.
At the end of the audition, the jury will have to reach a consensus to award a mark according to these criteria:
Evaluation criteria in Stage 2 – Auditions | Scores |
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1: Academic Excellence & Topic understanding: (a) Qualifications, experience, and research presentation, (b) Originality | max = 35 |
2: Motivation and professional project (oral): (a) Past and planed diversity of research agenda, (b) Past and planed international experience, (c) Past and planed non-academic experience | max = 40 |
3: Communication abilities and maturity of the applicant: (a) Quality and clarity of the presentation, (b) Fluency in English, (c) Quality of answers given to reviewers’ question | max = 25 |
Rejection under 75/100 threshold. In case of equality, criteria 1 will prevail on criteria 2, then criteria 3. In case of equality, the score in the 1st stage will prevail. | Total = 100 |
Final consensus meeting
This meeting will be chaired by the Project coordinator supported by the Chair of the Experts-Evaluators. During this meeting, the 5 panels will meet to rank and provide with the final short-list of the 15 highest ranked applicants and a reserve list of the 15 following best ranked applicants.
The top 15 successful candidates will be contacted by the Management Team and required to communicate their acceptance by email.
Failure to do so will result in the position being offered to the candidates best ranked on the reserve list. The final and formal validation by the Government Board will take place after acceptance of all candidates from the main list and after examination of all redress cases if any.
Candidates will then receive an official invitation letter that will allow them to ask for a Visa.
For further information, the applicant may refer to the Guide for Applicants (available here).