Doctor Europaeus/ Europaea, hereinafter referred to as European Doctorate, was proposed in 1991 by the Confederation of European Union Rectorsʼ Conferences, today the European University Association.
European Doctorate is a supplement label, awarded in addition to the national doctorate earned in sciences or arts from the University of Bucharest (UB) doctorate diploma. It grants the Romanian doctorate recognition at the European level, in accordance with the herein set of compulsory criteria established by the UB following the rules of the Confederation of European Union Rectorsʼ Conferences.
The goal of the European Doctorate is to facilitate the graduates’ recognition of and integration in the EU academic, cultural and socioeconomic environment.
EUROPEAN DOCTORATE CRITERIA:
- Doctoral candidate has gone through a UB accredited doctorate programme and enrolled in the European Doctorate the latest in the third year of doctoral studies.
- As part of the UB doctoral programme, the doctoral candidate has spent at least 3 months in two or more EU institutions outside Romania (Romania does not count as one of them): either two universities, or one university and one research institution.
- The doctoral thesis is to be written and defended in a language of international circulation.
- The agreement for the public defence of the thesis is underwritten by the Doctoral School on the basis two favourable reports signed by academics or researchers from universities or prestigious research from two EU countries (others than Romania). These two academics or researchers will be referred to as external experts. They will be approved by the director of the Council of the University Doctoral School and the doctoral committee chair, upon the consultation with the doctoral candidate and the doctoral committee. This approval will be also endorsed by the Council of the University Doctoral School. Experts’ reports will be written in an international language with a large circulation and will include the fact that the thesis fulfils the scientific and deontological criteria of the European Doctorate.
- At least one public defence committee member has to be an academic / researcher in a university or research institution from the EU (other than Romania) and to fulfill all criteria defined by Romanian legislation regarding the public defence committee. One of them may be an external expert.