Education sector: Biology, Ecology and Environment
Study program: Protection of Aquatic Ecosystems
doctoral study, full-time form
Postgraduate study in the accredited study field Protection of Aquatic Ecosystems represents an interesting possibility to continue with acquiring new scientific knowledge according to an individual study plan. This study deepens knowledge and abilities acquired in the master study in relation to detailed professional specialization usually in context with current scientific and research issues in environmental chemistry, toxicology, aquatic ecology and molecular biology etc. Students will be included in working groups in scientific laboratories of our faculty based on their dissertation topic. Aside ability to work in team, students will be requested to show creativity and self-activity and ability to publish results in scientific literature. Study aims to prepare students for their future research, scientific or pedagogical career at universities or research institutions and top-management of big companies even transnational ones.
MAIN FEATURES OF THIS PROGRAM: |
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• It is a daily study with minimum of 25 days of vacation + 12 days of national holiday. • The study is free of charge – when you study in standard period. • Under this study a scholarship will be paid to you. • You will get a minimal work load at our faculty of 10 %. Under certain condition it might be up to 100 %. • Your average monthly income (scholarship + salary) will be about 15,000 – 20,000 CZK. Excellent students can have income even more than 20,000 CZK. • It is an English study program. |
HOW TO APPLY FOR A STUDY: |
1) Look at the offered themes of Ph.D. thesis for forthcoming academic year and select one of them. The themes are here.
2) Get in contact with supervisor written by the selected theme. In case of a mutual deal, complete the application form to study at a university (also available on here) or on-line application on https://wstag.jcu.cz/portal/studium/uchazec/eprihlaska.htmlhttps://wstag.jcu.cz/portal/studium/uchazec/eprihlaska.html, from which then print the application form. The name of the field of study, the form of study and the language of study (Czech or English) must be specified in the application.
3) Include all necessary attachments:
All attachments except for the documents verifying the level of achieved education can be delivered as e-attachments when submitting the application online by 10th May 2021 (by e-mail to the address of the Study Office or as an attachment to online application to study). In case of fields of study taught in English, the application and all attachments must be in English. If there are any formal deficiencies in the application, the Study Office prompts these applicants to remove them. In case that substantial formal deficiencies are not removed by 14th May 2021, such applications will be excluded from the admission procedure. Applicants are responsible for accuracy of data provided in the application. If the applicant specifies incorrect information in the application, they can be excluded from the admission procedure or they will not be allowed to enrol to study at the FFPW USB. Applications for study shall be sent to the following address:
University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters Office DSP and foreign relationship Zátiší 728/II 389 25 Vodňany Czech Republic 4) Pay a fee of 500 CZK for processing of your application and admission procedure (see details below). 5) Wait until you are contacted by our study office with further instructions 6) In case of doubts, feel free to contact our study office. Contact is shown below. |
CONDITIONS OF ADMISSION TO STUDY:
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All applicants whose application is not eliminated by the Admission Committee from the admission procedure due to formal imperfections are invited to take part in an admission interview. The admission interview can also be conducted in well-founded communication technologies. However, in this case it is the applicant who bears the risk related to their evaluation due to low-quality connection. Applications of the applicants who do not participate in the admission interview are eliminated from the admission procedure.
During the admission interview, an applicant must prove sufficiently broad basic knowledge iof animal biology, fishery, water ecology and chemistry. Basic knowledge of professional literature in the field with a clear idea of the topic of his / her Ph.D. thesis topic and methods of handling a given topics and showing interest in a scientific work are expected. An integral part of the admission interview is verification of the ability to communicate in English language.
The admission committee assigns 0-15 points to the applicant on the basis of the oral interview. Another 0-15 points will be assigned to the applicant on the basis of information about previous education, experience, publication and pedagogical activity etc. In this evaluation, the committee of the admission procedure will also take into account the position of the head of the relevant organizational unit of the faculty, where the student is going to work, and a point of view of a possible trainer of an applicant if he/she is not a member of the Admission Comittee. The evaluation itself will be created by the average of the points proposed by the present members of the committee, rounded to two decimal places. Applicants, who do not receive more than 20 points, cannot be admitted to study.
If more than one applicant is assigned to the topic of dissertation, the candidate who receives the highest score will be accepted. In the case of the same number of points, the lot decides about the selected applicant. If one candidate is assigned to a given topic and he / she obtains at least 20 points from the admission committee, he / she will be accepted for study after the other conditions are fulfilled. Applicants who gain more than 20 points, but the topic of the Ph.D. thesis they have applied for will be filled by an applicant with a higher number of points, will be offered the opportunity to accept free topics of Ph.D. thesis if their supervisors are interested. Offering topics of vacant dissertations will be done according to the instructions of supervisors who issue them.
The admission procedure for the Doctoral study program is held in English language; other conditions for the admission procedure for the Doctoral study are identical to the remain conditions mentioned above. Fees for the study conducted in English are stipulated by the Dean of the faculty in an individual measure which is taken befor the date of the submission of applications.
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The fee for the activities associated with the admission procedure is CZK 500 and must be paid by the time of the application submission, preferably by a bank transfer or by a post money order to:
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Are you missing information? Did you not find answers to your questions? Contact the study office: |
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Bc. Lucie Kačerová
study office of doctoral study of the FFPW USB
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Tel.: +420 38 777 4736, +420 734 269 084
E-mail: lkacerova@frov.jcu.cz
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