Principles (updated 10.3.2022)
The restrictions on the number of event participants are lifted as of 14 February 2022. However, when events are organised, taking account of health security still remains important.
Visitors may once again be received on campus when following the safety instructions.
Interactive online live stream (such as Zoom) from a defence held at the campus is not required anymore. However, it is still possible to arrange the whole public defence via Zoom or similar tools, together with or instead of a defence held at the campus.
To ensure health security, general hygiene requirements will stay in force. In other words, we will take care of good hand hygiene, maintain distances and do not come to campus if ill. Event organisers are responsible for the health security of the event. A separate security and hygiene plan is not required anymore.
You can use a face mask at your own discretion. It is still recommended to use a mask particularly in crowded public indoor spaces, and especially if you have not been fully vaccinated. Of course, you can wear a mask if this feels good to you.
You need to keep up to date with the guidelines as they are updated and adhere to them.
In the case the Covid-19 situation takes a turn for the worse and the authorities issue more restrictive guidelines, it is possible that Aalto University also has to adopt stricter instructions.
Before a remote public examination of a doctoral thesis
Please ensure well in advance that the space has the appropriate equipment.
Contact IT Services several days in advance to agree on IT support for the remote public examination by writing to [email protected].
Please take the time difference into consideration. If you need to start the event later or the remote connections do not work, making it necessary to postpone the public examination, inform the planning officer/coordinator of your doctoral programme.
The public display of the doctoral thesis will be arranged as an online display according to the updated degree regulations on doctoral education. This means that the summary and unpublished articles have to be displayed online for ten days. This PDF document containing the previously unpublished texts has to be accessible to users who have an Aalto username. In addition, the file must be made available for third parties upon request in accordance with the Act on the Openness of Government Activities (621/1999). The address for such requests is [email protected]. The event information on aalto.fi has to include a link to the online display and in case of online public examination the link to Zoom or Teams via which the public can participate the event. The public online display is not the same thing as archiving the doctoral thesis in the Aaltodoc publication archive.
The person organising the public examination of the doctoral thesis (the doctoral student or the department personnel as per the custom of the school) emails the programme of the public examination to the doctoral student, the opponent and the custos in advance to ensure the smooth running of the public examination.
The dress code should follow Aalto’s usual instructions, taking account of the formality and importance of the event. If necessary, the doctoral student will decide on the dress code.
In the case the travel arrangements for the opponent need to be cancelled, please directly contact Travel Services ([email protected]).
Online public examination
If the defence is held only online, an interactive online platform, such as Zoom or Teams, is to be used so that the event qualifies as a public event. As the Panopto software does not allow such interaction, it may not be used.
Further instructions on Zoom: https://www.aalto.fi/en/services/zoom-quick-guide
If you want to record the event, please remember to get permission from the opponent and the custos.
The doctoral student and the custos must be seated at a sufficient distance (2m) from each other. Hygiene has to be ensured. Test the conference phone in advance to ensure optimum sound quality. Do not come to the campus if you are ill.