Minimum requirements:

  1. Research Activities
    • at least two publications in a Scopus database-indexed journal with at least one primary authorship (issued or typically documented with the allocated DOI) and two presentations of research results at conferences (documented by the conference programme, certificate, proceedings), at least two papers published in scientific journals indexed by Scopus or Web of Science databases, one of which is indexed in the SSCI or SCIE edition of the Web of Science database, before applying to defend the dissertation, while the student must be the first author of at least one of these articles and the articles must be closely related to the topic of the dissertation
    • it is necessary to present at least two papers at international scientific conferences
    • the evaluation of publication activity also takes into account other professional and scientific publications, as well as papers presented at conferences
  2. International Research Collaboration, Involvement in International Research Teams/Projects, Research Visits
    • a one-month internship abroad, participation in an international research project with result publication or presentation abroad, or other direct participation in international cooperation, such as active involvement of foreign researchers as consultants of student’s dissertation thesis, active participation of the students in seminar/workshops and other activities of the foreign site (university, research institute), where this other form of collaboration must be documented by a written statement of the foreign researcher (Czech Republic and Slovakia are not considered outland)