Individual Research Plan (IPB)

In accordance with the Law on Higher Education and Science of July 20th, 2018, Article 202. 1. Doctoral students, in consultation with the doctoral student’s supervisor(s), shall draw up an Individual Research Plan including in particular a schedule for the preparation of the doctoral dissertation and they shall submit it to the entity operating the doctoral school within 12 months of the date of the commencement of education. If an assistant supervisor is appointed, the plan shall be presented after the provision of opinion by that supervisor.

The Individual Research Plan (IPB) is an extremely important document in the education track of a doctoral student, as it is the one that defines the framework, timetable and next steps on the way to obtaining a doctoral degree. The draft of the IPB is submitted to the Director for approval within a month from the date of its submission, i.e. 30 September of this year, with the recommendation that the IPB be submitted by 23 September of this year in order to verify if the submitted document is administratively correct and complete.

In accordance with MSD Regulations § 22 subparagraph 4, the IPB draft is subject to approval by the Director within one month of its submission. Before approving the IPB draft, the Director may consult it with the expert panel referred to in § 21. The MSD Director approves the IPB by 31 October of a given year.

Due to the charakter of MSD, we encourage you to submit a trial IPB for earlier (by June 15 this year) expert review, which will significantly affect the quality of the document. Experts have one month to give a descriptive opinion on the IPB, which is submitted to the doctoral student. The opinion can be positive, without suggestions, with suggested changes or indicating necessary changes to the IPB.

Doctoral students who submitted the IPB for expert evaluation are obliged to send to the school’s secretary’s office (szkola.m@uw.edu.pl) by 30 September either the IPB revised after consultation (if the expert suggested amendments and the doctoral student together with his/her supervisors acknowledged them and made them) or e-mail information that the IPB submitted in June is a binding document and will be subject to future evaluation by the Midterm Evaluation Committee.

In accordance with MSD Regulations § 22 subparagraph 5 The Director may ask a doctoral student to revise, in consultation with supervisor(s), the draft IPB and resubmit it for approval. Indications for improvement of a draft IPB shall be formulated by the Director and delivered to the doctoral student in writing or via EUM.
The doctoral student is obliged to submit the revised IPB with the approval of the supervisors within one month from the date of delivery of the indications referred to in paragraph 5.

Once the documents have been submitted, you will only be contacted by the secretariat in the event of formal incompleteness.

If you do not receive any feedback from the secretariat, this means that the documents have been accepted and passed on for further processing.

PLEASE NOTE:

In accordance with MSD Regulations § 22 subparagraph 7. Failure to submit the draft IPB within the time limit referred to in section 1, failure by the Director to approve the draft IPB or failure to submit a revised IPB in accordance with section 6 may result in removal from the list of doctoral students.

PLEASE NOTE:

Submission of the IPB is independent of the completion of the academic year.

Individual Research Plan (IPB) – Download printable Individual Research Plan – docx document

Important recommendations for IPB submission:

The IPB must be accepted and signed by the supervisors (even in situations where the doctoral student submits a trial draft for expert review).

The schedule in the IPB does not need to be detailed. The exception is the date of submission of the dissertation, which must be a daily date (day-month-year) and no later than the date of completion of the doctoral school (30 September four years after the start of education).

The document must be uploaded as a single file, even if the signatures on the last page of the form were submitted and scanned separately. In this situation, you do not duplicate the entire IPB but only the page with the signature.

Scans of the IPB should be sent to the school address (szkola.m@uw.edu.pl), indicating in the title of the email IPB – name of the doctoral student.

You can either send a scanned document or a document electronically signed with a qualified signature (a pasted scan of the signature is not valid).