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How to submit your documents:
Remember!
As a necessary condition for applying for admission to doctoral school, you must contact your potential supervisor in advance in order to obtain his/her agreement to undertake the supervisorship. The statement also requires the signature of the Head of the Disciplinary Council and the Head of the Institute/Department where the doctoral dissertation will be carried out. You can download the attachment here.
List of scientific supervisors
Before you apply check out the Portfolio of research groups
Where to begin to complete your documents?
Create an account on the Recruitment Portal using your private email account.
Log in to the Recruitment Portal and complete the Candidate Portal.
Prepare legible scans (.pdf) or photos (.png, .jpg) of the required documents.
The quality of the files (their readability) and compliance with the requirements will be verified - you will receive information that the documents have been accepted or rejected and for what reason - you must then upload the corrected/revised documents.
Remember to submit a complete set of documents, the list of required documents will help you:
1) Appendix No. 1 - Statement of the supervisor
2) a diploma of second-cycle studies graduation
3) a diploma supplement
4) Appendix No. 5 - Personal questionnaire
5) Appendix No. 6 - Applicant's statement that he/she does not hold a doctoral degree
6) the proposed subject matter and the scope of research agreed with the scientific supervisor, together with a justification of the issue taken up, prepared in English (in the case of implementation doctoral candidates, the document may be prepared in Polish);
7) one color photograph of the Applicant (in passport format), allowing the identification of the Applicant,
8) a curriculum vitae containing, among others, a list of the Applicant's scientific and/or artistic achievements and other accomplishments (in English) related to the scientific discipline for the period of 5 calendar years preceding the submission of the application referred to in § 1 item 12; in the case of implementation doctoral candidates, the document may be prepared in Polish
9) Appendix No. 9 - a list of previous scientific and/or artistic achievements
10) confirmation of payment of the enrollment fee;
11) in the case of foreigners, it is required to submit a color photocopy of the passport
12) copies of documents confirming knowledge of foreign languages (optional)
13) application for remote interview (optional)
NOTICE: An Applicant with a second-degree diploma, or a diploma of a unified master's degree or equivalent, from a foreign university is additionally required to provide the following documents:
1) a legalized, including by a Polish consular office operating in the country of issuance of the document (or with an apostille clause) diploma of completion of second-cycle studies or a diploma from a unified master's degree program or equivalent and a legalized, including by a Polish consular office operating in the country of issuance of the document (or with an apostille clause) document confirming the course of second-cycle studies a diploma from a unified master's degree program or equivalent (supplement or Transcript of Records referred to in 1 (5);
2) certified translation (into Polish or English) of the documents listed in section 1 if the originals of these documents have been issued in a language other than Polish or English (the submission of a certified translation of documents does not replace the obligation to submit the original documents in the language in which they were issued by the university)
3) a statement from the University confirming that the Applicant's second-cycle diploma or unified master’s degree entitles the Applicant to apply for the award of a doctoral degree in the country where the diploma was issued;
4) other documents required by IDS TUL in order to confirm the correctness of the documents submitted.
NOTICE: An applicant with a second-cycle diploma issued abroad is obliged to send on their own the documents for verification required by NAWA in order to receive an opinion as to whether they can undertake training at a doctoral school in Poland.
In the admission procedure to IDS TUL, the applicant shall submit the opinion received from NAWA together with the documents for verification. Along with NAWA's opinion, the Applicant submits to IDS TUL a statement that NAWA's opinion applies to the documents submitted to IDS TUL in the admission procedure. Documents submitted in the admission procedure to the IDS TUL without NAWA's verification and confirmation by NAWA that they entitle the Applicant to study at a doctoral school in Poland will be left unprocessed.
- Copies of documents and materials confirming the academic and/or artistic achievements and other achievements indicated in the curriculum vitae must be submitted by the Applicant together with the documentation listed in section 1. The Applicant must provide a translation of the titles of academic achievements given in a language other than Polish or English.
- In justified cases, the Office of the IDS TUL or the Admissions Committee may ask the Applicant to provide additional documents or to submit a translation of other documents or materials constituting the recruitment documentation within a specified time limit.
- In exceptional cases, at the request of an Applicant who has not submitted all the required documents by the deadline specified in the admission procedure schedule, the Head of IDS TUL may admit the Applicant to an interview, indicating the deadline for supplementing the documents.
Additional attachments - only if applicable
14) Appendix No. 2 Application - only for beneficiaries of the “Diamond grant” program
15) Appendix No. 8 Application for the appointment of a supervisor from outside TUL.
NOTICE: If the Applicant chooses an academic supervisor from outside Lodz University of Technology, the Applicant shall submit an application to the Rector for permission to choose an academic supervisor from outside Lodz University of Technology together with an opinion of the Head of the relevant Discipline Council, justifying the choice of a given supervisor. A specimen of the application is given in Appendix No. 8 to this Resolution. A positive decision of the Rector about the choice of academic supervisor from outside TUL is a prerequisite for taking part in the admission procedure.
NOTICE: If you have been conditionally qualified for IDS TUL submit an Application for admission to IDS TUL, generated from the TUL Recruitment Portal and signed by the Candidate, together with a signed clause on personal data protection processing, to the office of the doctoral school together with the original recruitment documents.