Forms are available as Word documents, digital forms ("Nettskjema") or e-mail templates (zip-files). Zip-files must be extracted before use.

Questions? Please contact the PhD coordinator at your faculty, or send an e-mail to the Research Support Office.

Forms for PhD candidates:

1. Application and admission

PhD fellow at NMBU

Admission to one of NMBU's PhD programmes will be handled in connection with employment in a PhD fellow position. The faculty may, when necessary, request the NMBU 1.1 Application for admission to be completed and sent to the faculty.

External PhD candidates

If you are employed at an external institution/ establishment you must apply to the relevant faculty for admission into a PhD programme. You must send the NMBU 1.1 Application for admission  to the faculty, at the latest within two months after the start date for the PhD education. More information on this web page.

2. PhD contract and education plan

• NMBU 1.2 PhD Contract
• NMBU 1.3 Education plan
• NMBU 1.4 Cotutelle agreement

3. Collaboration supervisor and candidate

• Establishing a good relationship (between supervisor and candidate)

4. Data Management Plan

• Data Management Plan (DMP) (web page)

5. Progress reporting

• NMBU 2.1 Progress report for PhD candidate - BIOVIT
• NMBU 2.1 Progress report for PhD candidate - HH
• NMBU 2.1 Progress report for PhD candidate - KBM
• NMBU 2.1 Progress report for PhD candidate - LANDSAM
• NMBU 2.1 Progress report for PhD candidate - MINA
• NMBU 2.1 Progress report for PhD candidate - REALTEK
• NMBU 2.1 Progress report for PhD candidate - VET

6. Changes to the contract period, the supervisory team or the required coursework

If you need to make changes to the contract period (for example due to delays), the supervisory team or the education plan/ required coursework, please fill in the form 2.2 PhD changes. More information is to be found on this web page Research work, courses and seminars.

• NMBU 2.2.1 Changes contract period (Word document)
• NMBU 2.2.2 Changes required coursework component (Word document)
• NMBU 2.2.3 Changes supervisory team (Word document)

7. The required coursework

• NMBU 3.1 Agreement for special syllabus (Word document)
• NMBU 3.2 Application for approval of completed coursework (Word-skjema)

8. Writing the thesis

• PhD thesis template (Word document)
• Tittelblad NMBU (Word document, Norwegian)
• Thesis title page (Word document, English)

9. Finalization of thesis

• NMBU 4.2 Submission of thesis (Word document)
• NMBU 4.3 Co-authorship declaration (Word document)
• NMBU 4.6 Errata (Word document)

10. Doctoral degree examination

• Press release form  

Forms for staff:

1. Collaboration supervisor and candidate

• Establishing a good relationship (between supervisor and candidate)

2. Compulsory seminars (start, midway- and final seminar)

• Recommended procedures for the three compulsory seminars of the PhD education

• NMBU 2.4 Midway assessment - BIOVIT
• NMBU 2.4 Midway assessment - HH
• NMBU 2.4 Midway assessment - KBM
• NMBU 2.4 Midway assessment - LANDSAM
• NMBU 2.4 Midway assessment - MINA
• NMBU 2.4 Midway assessment - REALTEK
• NMBU 2.4 Midway assessment - VET

3. The required coursework

• External Examiner Agreement (Word document)
• Assessment protocol for special syllabus (Word document)

4. Appointment of evaluation committee 

• NMBU 4.1 Proposal for evaluation committee (Word document)

5. Evaluation of the thesis

The evaluation committee must submit its recommendation to the faculty no later than 25 working days before the planned date of the public defence. The faculty decides on the basis of the assessment committee's recommendation.

NMBU 4.4 Assessment of the thesis - a word document applicable for all NMBU faculties.

• NMBU 4.4 Assessment of the thesis - BIOVIT 
• NMBU 4.4 Assessment of the thesis - HH
• NMBU 4.4 Assessment of the thesis - KBM
• NMBU 4.4 Assessment of the thesis - LANDSAM
• NMBU 4.4 Assessment of the thesis - MINA
• NMBU 4.4 Assessment of the thesis - REALTEK
• NMBU 4.4 Assessment of the thesis - VET

• At the BIOVIT faculty
• At the HH faculty 
• At the KBM faculty
• At the LANDSAM faculty
• At the REALTEK faculty
• At the VET faculty (in Norwegian, English to come)

6. Evaluation of trial lecture and public defence

The 3 forms are developed to accommodate whether the trial lecture is held in connection with (the day before or on the same day as) the public defence, or at an earlier time. 

• NMBU 4.5a Evaluation of the trial lecture (Word document) (if the trial lecture is held separately from the public defence)
• NMBU 4.5b Evaluation of the public defence (Word document) (if the trial lecture is held separately from the public defence)
• NMBU 4.5c Evaluation of the trial lecture and public defence (Word document) (of the trial lecture and the public defence is held in connection)

E-mail template info

The e-mail templates are accessible from the list above, as zip files. Clicking on the link will download the zip tile to your computer, and you have to “Extract” the file before using the template.

Once the template has been extracted you can double click to open it in your e-mail programme or app. You will now be able to:

• add recipient(s)
• copy the heading in the form/ name of form (e.g. “NMBU 3.2 Application …”) as the e-mail subject
• type the requested form information
• add any attachements
• send the e-mail

Are you at the moment not able to complete the content? Send the e-mail to yourself (temporarily instead of sending it to the intended recipient) and finish it later, from your inbox.