How to apply for a Cotutelle agreement?
Make sure you have a realistic plan for supervising your doctoral researcher and allocate sufficient time to complete this application and respond to emails from the Admissions Office and the Doctoral Programme. The doctoral researcher needs to be admitted to Hanken, and an agreement needs to be signed between Hanken and the partner university. It is advised to reserve 2-3 months for this process.
A proposal for a Cotutelle agreement can only be initiated by a Hanken degree supervisor who wishes to establish a joint doctoral arrangement for a doctoral researcher enrolled at another university. We recommend that you read the general guidelines about a Cotutelle agreement before you start filling in the application.
There are three steps before a cotutelle agreement can be signed.
- The degree supervisor fills in the Suggestion of doctoral researcher for Cotutelle agreement form.
In the application, you, as a degree supervisor need to submit the following documents: Doctoral researcher research proposal, Doctoral researcher mobility plan, An overview of which courses the doctoral researcher needs to complete at Hanken, and a Supervision plan done together with the partner university.
You need to fill in all the necessary information for a possible Cotutelle agreement. All attachments should be provided in PDF format.
- The Doctoral researcher needs to be admitted to Hanken and fulfil Hanken’s admission requirements. The PhD Admissions Committee needs to approve the nomination before it goes to the rector for final decision. The information on the admission requirements is available on this page.
The doctoral researcher needs to fill in this form for admissions: Attachments for PHD Studies
The Admissions team will go through all the attachments and check the eligibility of the candidate.
- An agreement needs to be signed between Hanken and the partner university.
The Doctoral Programme is in contact with the contact person at the partner university. As the agreement needs to be reviewed by the legal teams of both universities, this stage typically takes the longest.
The study right can only start on 1.1. or 1.8. This should be taken into consideration when planning the courses the doctoral researcher needs to take at Hanken.
The degree supervisor is responsible for the onboarding of the doctoral researcher when s/he arrives at Hanken. The Doctoral Programme is happy to support the degree supervisor throughout the process. The degree supervisor is also responsible for ensuring that the doctoral researcher has a designated workspace at Hanken during their stay.
If you have questions regarding the instructions, please be in contact with Hanken’s PhD programme by emailing doctoral.studies@hanken.fi