Information for candidates for the Doctoral School below

1. Recruitment regulations for the Doctoral School of Gdansk University of Physical Education and Sport for the academic year 2025/2026
2. ORDINACE NO. 37 / 2025 of the Rector of Gdansk University of Physical Education and Sport determining the deadlines for the registration of candidates and a detailed schedule for the qualification procedure for the Doctoral School of Gdansk University of Physical Education and Sport in the academic year 2025/2026
3. EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM AT THE DOCTORAL SCHOOL at GDANSK UNIVERSITY OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORT

We kindly inform that the required level of speaking and listening in English necessary to defend a doctoral dissertation
in English at Gdańsk University of Physical Education and Sport is at least B2

Requirements for defending a doctoral dissertation in a language other than Polish

Detailed information regarding the doctoral procedure can be found in the documents below. Please OPEN THEM and read carefully.

1. REGULATIONS FOR THE AWARDING OF THE DOCTORAL DEGREE at GUPES_14.12.2023

2. REQUIREMENTS FOR A DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AS A SET OF SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES

3. Rules for the recognition of documents certifying knowledge of a modern foreign language at the level of at least B2 language proficiency in the procedure for awarding the degree of doctor

4. List of required documents and Forms for English speaking candidates for Ph.D.

5. Rules for determining the costs of proceedings for awarding the academic degrees of doctor and habilitated doctor as well as doctoral proceedings at GUPES.

6. The cost of doctoral procedure for English speaking PhD candidates

A collection of published and thematically related scientific articles, hereinafter referred to as the „collection”, may constitute a doctoral dissertation in the proceedings for the awarding of the doctoral degree in physical culture sciences at Gdansk University of Physical Education and Sport if it meets the following conditions:

• the scientific problem combining all the scientific publications forming the collection was described in an overview prepared by the candidate in Polish or English, called a “paper”, which consolidates the collection;
• the collection consists of at least three scientific articles published:
  1. in scientific journals included in the list issued by the minister responsible for higher education and science
  2. at least two scientific articles have been published in scientific journals:
     • included in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) database and having an Impact Factor (IF) or
     • included in the list, which have been assigned at least 140 points each.

The collection may include multi-authored scientific articles if the candidate:

• is the first author and his/her contribution to the creation of the scientific publication is at least 50%,
• submits declarations signed by all co-authors specifying, both in percentage and descriptive terms, the individual contribution of each of them to the creation of the scientific article.