The Collège Doctoral (CD), created in 2007, brings together the 12 doctoral schools (ED) of Aix-Marseille Université (AMU). Its mission is to organize and coordinate the establishment's doctoral policy, to contribute to its visibility, and to pool the activities of its member doctoral schools. To achieve this, it relies on the Doctoral Training Department( Direction de la Formation Doctorale- DFD), the administrative structure responsible for implementing the policy.
The CD is made up of its director, the 12 ED directors and the DFD administrative manager. As part of the implementation of its doctoral training policy, Aix-Marseille Université entrusts the doctoral college with the mission of organizing and coordinating the establishment's doctoral training policy.
In compliance with the amended ministerial decree of May 25, 2016 on doctoral training, AMU's doctoral charter and its internal regulations, the Doctoral College's missions are to:
- Contribute to the definition of the university's strategy for doctoral studies and to the pooling of certain activities and procedures of the doctoral schools that are members ;
- Guarantee the highest standards for doctoral studies;
- Give its opinion on doctoral training matters referred to it;
- Promote interdisciplinarity between doctoral schools, in conjunction with the Aix-Marseille research community and Aix-Marseille University's IMéRA foundation;
- Coordinate specific doctoral programs to strengthen intra- and inter-institutional collaboration;
- Promote the doctoral degree and strengthen partnerships with the socio-economic world and local authorities;
- Promote and strengthen the attractiveness of Aix-Marseille Université's doctoral training and contribute to its visibility at national and international level, particularly in the context of international doctoral co-supervision and national or international co-direction of theses;
- Represent the university's doctoral policy externally.