DOCTORAL ENROLLMENT : 1st YEAR 2026/2027

From  September 1 to  November 15 2026

How to enroll ?

Enrollment in doctoral studies takes place in several steps (complete procedures below, depending on your home institution) :

  1. Creation of your personal account and course registration on the ADUM website (www.adum.fr) (tutorial : https://spim.ubfc.fr/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2026/07/Tuto_Doctorants_InscADUM_25-26_1_Eng.pdf)

     2. On the ADUM website :  fill all required fields and submit all the required documents in only one PDF file :

  • 2026/2027 CVEC attestation, “Student Life and Campus Contribution” entry. The CVEC is paid to the CROUS, this contribution of 105 euros is aimed at « favouring student reception and support in social life, health, culture and sports for the students and at reinforcing the prevention and health education ». To pay the contribution, you have to go to https://www.messervices.etudiant.gouv.fr/UNLESS you have a cotutelle agreement and if you paid the enrollment fees in the partner university . In this case, you attach the copy of the school certificate (you are exempted of registration fees), to the documents you have to submit on ADUM, you don’t pay CVECand you don’t have to do anything with the CROUS. 
  • CV
  • Provisional Individual Training Plan (Excel sheet : https://spim.ubfc.fr/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2026/07/PIF-ED-SPIM-1.xls), filled with your supervisor and signed by him/her. You can use the catalogue available on the Doctoral College : https://collegedoctoral.ubfc.fr/formations/doctoral-students/?lang=en. You have to indicate the mandatory 100 projected hours for your 3 years PhD thesis. This form will be updated for each registration.
  • Proof of financing (copy of your employment contract if you have it/scholarship certificate, etc.) – EXCEPT FOR PhD students having a doctoral contract (Your application was validated in the SPIM doctoral school concours in June or on file, so you don’t have your contract yet)
  • External member’s proposal form for your Individual Follow-up Comitte : https://spim.ubfc.fr/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2026/07/Formulaire-proposition-membre-externe-CSI-ED-SPIM.docx. This form has to be filled, signed by you and your thesis supervisor.
  • ONLY if you are in a CIFRE PhD thesis : ANRT acceptance letter
  • Copy of diploma/certificate of achievement allowing you to enroll in a Phd thesis + transcripts
  • Description of the thesis topic
  • Copy of the valid identity document
  • Deposit of your ID picture on your ADUM profile is recommended in order to print your student card
  • Certificate of Civil Liability

IMPORTANT : Be careful when you fill the fields regarding your diploma allowing you to enroll in a PhD thesis : if you obtained your diploma in a country out of the Bologna process (list of the countries part of the process in the procedure below), you must check “Foreign diploma” in the drop-down menu and clearly indicate the country of graduation.

3. Payment of the registration fees to the institution where the thesis will be prepared (Amount : 398€). UMLP/UBE/UTBM/SUPMICROTECH.

You will receive an e-mail from ADUM inviting you to pay the registration fees. Please read the procedure depending on your home institution to see the different possibilities proposed to you to pay registration fees.

If you are a scholarship PhD student (CAMPUS FRANCE, CSC for example), or if you have a cotutelle agreement and if you have already paid the registration fees in the partner university, you must check “Fee exemption” on ADUM.

4. Your student card is printed by your registration institution once your registration is validated and registered.

 

 

ANY INCOMPLETE FILE WILL BE REFUSED

DOCTORAL RE-ENROLLMENT

  • From  September 1 to  November 15 2026

VERY IMPORTANT : This schedule must be respected. After November 15, 2026, the doctoral school reserves the right to declare your thesis as abandoned if your registration is not effective.

 

Why take the steps to register from September 1st?

 

  • You will get your 2026/2027 school certificate quickly, very helpul for your personal and administrative procedures.
  • This a quick and easy procedure, in a few minutes. No paper, everythong is done online on www.adum.fr
  • When your register as early as possible, you can pay the registration fees in 3 times (it is possible until October 10, 2026).
  • Between October and September, there are many defenses. When you finalize your registration as early as possible, from the beginning of September, you allox the doctoral school secretariat to be more available for the PhD students who are preparing their defense and to provide a quality servie.
  • Registration in the respect of the official schedule is mandatory.

 

REMIND : The PhD students who defend their thesis before December 31, 2026, must not register and don’t pay the CVEC. If yo defend your PhD thesis in the beginning of the 2027 year, you have to register for a complete year.

 

How to re-enroll ?

Enrollment in doctoral studies takes place in several steps (complete procedures below, depending on your home institution) :

  1. Creation of your personal account and course registration on the ADUM website (www.adum.fr) (tutorial : https://spim.ubfc.fr/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2026/07/Tuto_Doctorants_InscADUM_25-26_1_Eng.pdf)

     2. On the ADUM website :  fill all required fields and submit all the required documents in only one PDF file :

  • 2026/2027 CVEC attestation, UNLESS you have a cotutelle agreement and if you paid the enrollment fees in the partner university . In this case, you attach the copy of the school certificate (you are exempted of registration fees), to the documents you have to submit on ADUM, you don’t pay CVECand you don’t have to do anything with the CROUS. 
  • Provisional Individual Training Plan updated (Excel sheet : https://spim.ubfc.fr/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2026/07/PIF-ED-SPIM-1.xls), filled with your supervisor and signed by him/her. 
  • Proof of financing ONLY IF IT IS NOT THE SAME OR IF YOU WERE NOT ABLE TO SUBMIT IT DURING YOUR FIRST REGISTRATION (copy of the work contract/scholarship certificate, etc.)
  • Latest Individual Follow-up Comitte report validated by the doctoral school and sugned by you and your thesis supervisor.
  • Summary of the progress of your PhD thesis (between 1 and 3 pages)
  • For any PhD student who is enrolling after the 3rd year and having a full time thesis (whatever reason) : Extension request form, available on your ADUM personal account, filled and signed by you, your PhD thesis and the director of your lab (The doctoral school direction will validate it when your file will be received on ADUM). Please do not send this document to the doctoral school separately
  • Certificate of Civil Liability

IMPORTANT : Be careful when you fill the fields regarding your diploma allowing you to enroll in a PhD thesis : if you obtained your diploma in a country out of the Bologna process (list of the countries part of the process in the procedure below), you must check “Foreign diploma” in the drop-down menu and clearly indicate the country of graduation.

3. Payment of the registration fees to the institution where the thesis will be prepared (Amount : 398€). UMLP/UBE/UTBM/SUPMICROTECH.

You will receive an e-mail from ADUM inviting you to pay the registration fees. Please read the procedure depending on your home institution to see the different possibilities proposed to you to pay registration fees.

If you are a scholarship PhD student (CAMPUS FRANCE, CSC for example), or if you have a cotutelle agreement and if you have already paid the registration fees in the partner university, you must check “Fee exemption” on ADUM.

4. The 2026/2027 sticker to put on your student card is send by your registration institution once your registration is validated and registered.

 

 

ANY INCOMPLETE FILE WILL BE REFUSED

CONTACTS AND PROCEDURES

For the Phd students enrolling in UMLP (Besançon) : 

Mrs Alika ROSSETTI (alika.rossetti@umlp.fr)

UMLP registration procedure : https://spim.ubfc.fr/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2026/07/Pr_ED_Insc_UMLP_26-27_1_Eng.pdf

 

For the PhD students enrolling in SUPMICROTECH : 

Mrs Isabelle LIGIER/Mrs Anne RONDOT (scolarite@supmicrotech.fr)

SUPMICROTECH registration procedure : https://spim.ubfc.fr/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2026/07/Pr_ED_Insc_SMT_26-27_1_Eng.pdf

 

For the PhD students enrolling in UTBM (Belfort) : 

Mrs Caroline DELAMARCHE (caroline.delamarche@utbm.fr)

UTBM registration procedure : https://spim.ubfc.fr/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2026/07/Pr_ED_Insc_UTBM_26-27_1_Eng.pdf

 

For the PhD students enrolling in UBE  (Dijon) :

Mrs Céline DAUBIGNEY (celine.daubigney@ube.fr)

UBE registration procedure : https://spim.ubfc.fr/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2026/07/Pr_ED_Insc_UBE_26-27_1_Eng.pdf