Mid-term evaluation | Gdańsk University of Technology

The implementation of the individual research plan is subject to mid-term evaluation in the middle of the training period specified in the training program. The exact timing of the mid-term evaluation shall be determined by the School Director and announced in the news.

The Mid-Term Report on the Implementation of the Individual Research Proposal is accompanied by:

• A list of PhD student's scientific papers and creative professional work, published and/or sumitted for publication (indicating their status: sent to the editor, after the first review, accepted etc.) from the date of starting doctoral training at the Doctoral School,
• Table of contents of the doctoral dissertation,
• Individual Research Proposal (the latest version approved).

The Mid-Term Report on the Implementation of the Individual Research Proposal must:

• be written in English
• be of minimum 50,000 and maximum 70,000 characters (including spaces, excluding the list of references)
• contain:

1. the research objective(s) and description of the research problem,
2. justification of the research problem undertaken (motivation) in the context of the state-of-the-art,
3. review of the related literature.
4. description of the research methodology,
5. description of the work progress and presentation of the results of research activities achieved to date, in relation to the Individual Research Proposal,
6. list of literature references, cited in the report.

The mid-term report and its annexes must be approved by the supervisor:

In addition to submitting the report, the PhD student also assesses the quality of the supervisor's mentorship by filling out the evaluation questionnaire. The assessment of the quality of supervising concerns the results of the PhD student's work achieved in cooperation with the supervisor and the degree of the supervisor's fulfillment of obligations indicated in the Regulations.

The templates of the mid-term report and mid-term evaluation of the supervisor are available in word format on the Doctoral School website in the tab For PhD Students--> Downloads--> Templates (accessed by login).

The mid-term report and the quality assessment questionnaire of the supervisor's mentorship are prepared in English and submitted electronically.  The mid-term report and its attachments must be approved by the supervisor. The questionnaire is not made available to the supervisor.

To submit these documents and get signatures that are needed, please use the: MojaPG system -> Student -> eDocuments.  

Instructions for using the eDocuments (forms) is also available at our webpage > PhD students > Formalities > Download materials > Templates (access after logging in).

[2nd year] PhD candidate's mid-term report (mid-term evaluation) and [2nd year] Questionnaire for assessing the quality of PhD supervision (mid-term evaluation) eDocuments are assigned automatically to all 2nd-year doctoral students by the school office.

The mid-term evaluation is based on:

• assessment of the mid-term report submitted by the doctoral student, completed with 3 reviews - individual reviews are prepared by 3 members of the mid-term evaluation committee, they may be positive or negative,
• the doctoral student's response to negative reviews,
• the result of the interview with the doctoral student documented in the protocol (panel evaluation) - an element of the interview is a short presentation in English concerning the results achieved by the doctoral student. During the interview a member of the committee may change his/her earlier review, giving the reasons.

The result of the mid-term evaluation: