Point of View
As a Ph.D. participant at ESCP Europe, I particularly enjoy the multicultural environment I get the opportunity to evolve in and the availability of the fellow teachers and colleagues. They help and advise me throughout my research as well as my teaching activities. Besides flexibility and high standards, what I especially value at ESCP Europe is the balance between the benefits granted for research from a top-leading Business school and the close relations built with the staff, peers and students. It is the perfect opportunity for a transition into research, as Ph.D. students are given wide responsibilities and autonomy, and work closely with internationally-recognised researchers. I can appreciate all the conditions that are provided so as to conduct my research genuinely and can only strongly advise this programme to whoever desires thoroughly to start an academic carrier.
Alain Caussieu, Ph.D. Student
Paris Ph.D. Programme
Follow-up of the thesis work
Three processes are designed to help students progress in their thesis work:
Progress Workshop: each doctorate presents their progress in their research study at least once per year. The objective is to no evaluate the work but to aid the student in his or her research orientation. This workshop gathers doctorates, the thesis director, the programme director and other professors chosen internally or externally in accordance with the subject.
Annual Assessment: each doctorate presents a general result of his or her activities (thesis, publications, teachings, assistance, etc.) and his or her projects planned for the following year. The objective is to validate the work done in the previous year and to prepare those planned for the following year. The participants present are the thesis director, the program director and eventually other professors chosen internally or externally. It takes place in September.
Pre Viva Voce with possible members of the jury (reporters) about six months before the end of the project.
