Calendrier récurrent

DS Important Dates 2025-2026

Common dates and deadlines per semester

Please check with the academic unit concerned and refer to the specific pages of the website/or formal communication (mail,etc.) for work-term deadlines.
Consult the calendars below to find out more about some important dates and deadlines or recurrent milestones.This information can change without notice.

1st Semester

(Re-)Enrollment for 2025/2026 session begins

July

Course (selected registration): Animal Experimentation handling course

November and December 2025 (Thursday, Friday mostly)

"Graduate Programme day - Master and doctorial students meeting"

November 5, 2025

André Verbert’s Day – DS PhD student congress

Phygital edition - recorded online video + on site communications

December 2, 2025

"Rentrée doctorale" orientation for all incoming grad students, to help bridge the transition to doctorate studies.

December 16, 2025

(Tuition fees) Payment deadline

December 19, 2025

University closed for the winter break.

December, 22 2025 to January,2 2026

PhD Welcome for all incoming international grad students. A seminar to help the transition to doctorate studies.

January 27, 2026

Recommended tuition fee payment deadline for students enrolling or starting their program in October.

mid-September

Recommended tuition fee payment deadline for Health PhD students enrolling or starting their program in November

mid-October

Final date to submit final doctoral theses to DS and DAS for a defence before the end of the civil year (in any cases, request is due 8 weeks before the defence)
without having to enrol in next academic year

mid-October

Recommended CSI report transmission to DS deadline

mid-October

Deadline for standard admission in doctoral program (appart from Joint or Double diploma, CIFRE, …)

Late November

2nd Semester

Course: Practice Makes Perfect

January 12, 2026 to March 30, 2026

Course (selected registration): French course for PhD students (Semester 2)

February 6 2026 to April 10 2026

PhD Job Day:

February 23, 2026 to March 13, 2026, remote

March 16, 2026 in person (LILLIAD)

Holidays – University not closed but service may be slowed down

Winter holidays - february 14 to March 2 2026

Doctoral ceremony for 2025 graduates will take place:

on Monday, 9 March 2026
at 5:00 p.m. at the Nouveau Siècle

MT180s 2026

preselections: March 12
finale régionale: April 8
GoMT180: to come

Course (selected registration): MC - Approches CRISPR/Cas : de la théorie à la pratique en laboratoire

May 4, 2026

Course (selected registration): Integrity in Research Day

May 20, 2026

Doctoriales Hauts-de-France

June 9, 2026 to June 12, 2026

Course (selected registration): MC - La chromatographie en phase supercritique, une technique verte pour la purification chirale : de l’échelle analytique à l’échelle semi-préparative.

June 19, 2026

Talk Like Ted

April 28 ; May 5-12-19 ; June 2-9 2026

Jury : June 23 or June 30 2026

University closed for the summer break

July, 27 2026 to August, 16 2026

Enrollment deadline for CIFRE

Late April

Deadline for supervisors to propose Doctoral position to the entrance Exam for Doctoral Contracts

late-January

Application deadline for the International Selection for foreign PhD candidates

mid-March