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Shortly after admission, the department will invite the PhD candidate for a start-up meeting. Both main supervisor and any co-supervisor(s) should attend the meeting, as well as the Head of Department, the academic and the administrative PhD coordinator at the department.

The meeting has several purposes:

clarify the candidate’s and supervisors’ expectations to supervision
clarify the frequency of academic supervision
discuss the distribution of responsibility between the supervisors
set a preliminary date for the midway evaluation
plan for any required teaching duties
plan for the training component
talk about affiliation to the research community

Note that the start-up meeting is for all groups of PhD candidates, not just for candidates employed at the Faculty of Social Sciences.

SOURCES AND MORE INFORMATION

Programme description (faculty level)	PhD- Education Action Plan, 2020-2024
Structure and content of the programme, Start-up meeting	C. PRIORITY AREA: IMPLEMENTATION