A person may be appointed as a mentor of the PhD candidate if he/she is an employee of the School holding a scientific (research associate, senior research associate, scientific advisor) and/or teaching degree (assistant professor, associate professor, full professor) and position. Until the appointment of a mentor, a study advisor is assigned to guide the student and suggests the selection of courses by the PhD curriculum, until the Thesis proposal.

Form for the Approval of the study advisor/mentor.

The Doctoral Studies’ curriculum is created for each student from the courses available at the University, freely selected, and that curriculum is created by the student in agreement with the PhD curriculum.

Approval of the selection of courses is given by the study advisor (proposed mentor) until the appointment of a mentor.

•standard- one mentor

•second mentor is appointed only if there is a contribution in other scientific area

•second mentor IS NOT appointed only because the work applies in other scientific research area (this problem is solved with the evaluation committee member from another area)

•second mentor may be a person in scientific-teaching position from another school/s or in scientific position working at the Institute (working place) for the improvement of interdisciplinary work and the quality of research.

A mentor is obliged to supervise the student: in his progress, when taking part in research, while writing the Doctoral thesis, monitor the quality of the student's work, promote the publication of their work, to encourage the publication of their papers and to enable them to participate fully in scientific research projects, and motivate. The mentor submits a report once a year on the student's work and progress, using the following University form:

Form dr. sc. - 05 - Annual Mentors's Report