• Within the Student Affairs and Registrar's Office operates the Educational Management Office, where doctoral students can turn to for academic and degree-related matters.
• For other issues, they may contact the staff of the Secretariat of the Doctoral School.

Contact information: https://www.ppk.elte.hu/en/psychologyphd/contact

The link above also provides a detailed description of whom to contact for specific matters.

https://www.elte.hu/en/academic-calendar

Doctoral Student Rooms in the Kazinczy Street Building
At the Kazinczy Street building, shared rooms are available for use by doctoral students. These rooms are: Ground floor Room 7 and Room 402. Wi-Fi is available in all rooms, and printing is possible from the room on the 4th floor using the shared printer located in the hallway. These rooms are shared by students of both the Doctoral School of Psychology (PDI) and the Doctoral School of Education (NDI).

Students must register for room use each semester by filling out a Qualtrics form, which is sent to the doctoral student mailing list at the beginning of every semester.

Below is a summary of the key information regarding the use of the Kazinczy Street doctoral student rooms:

• Access cards can be picked up at the reception desk and must be returned upon leaving.

• Computers in the rooms can be accessed using your IIG (Caesar) ID and password.

• To use the hallway printers, you need an ELTE email address, to which a PIN code will be sent. This PIN is required to log in to the printers.

• The ground floor room has a kitchenette with a refrigerator and microwave.

Doctoral Student Rooms in the Izabella Street Building
The Faculty provides workstations for doctoral students of the Institute of Psychology in the Izabella Street building, assigned by the departments. These workstations can be used upon prior arrangement.
The rooms designated by the departments are as follows:

• Department of Developmental and Clinical Child Psychology: Room 517 (Doctoral Student Room)

• Department of Clinical Psychology and Addiction: Courtyard doctoral student room; also Rooms 412, 416, and 417 (staff rooms)

• Department of Personality and Health Psychology: Courtyard doctoral student room

• Department of Social Psychology: Rooms 205, 207, 208, and 215 (staff rooms)

• Department of Cognitive Psychology: Rooms 310, 312, 501, 502, 506, and 510 (staff rooms)

• Department of Organizational and Leadership Psychology: Room 320 (staff room)

• Department of Counselling and School Psychology: Room 105 (staff room)

• Department of Affective Psychology: Rooms 125, 511, 516, 518, and 522 (staff rooms)

For detailed information on requesting and using these workstations, please contact the relevant departmental administration.

If you have any questions, please contact us by email at: pdi@ppk.elte.hu.

The Doctoral School of Psychology sends information and reminders to the mailing list of doctoral students about deadlines and tasks related to their studies, conference calls, and doctoral defences, etc. Students are strongly recommended to subscribe to the mailing list to be informed in time about the various tasks, deadlines, applications and conference calls.

To subscribe, please fill out this form.

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Regarding doctoral training, the following regulations within the University are recommended for review:

• University Doctoral Regulations (EDSZ)
• Faculty Doctoral Regulations (KDSZ) of the Faculty of Education and Psychology, which form Annex 6/4 of the EDSZ
• Further information about the operation of the Doctoral School of Psychology (PDI) can be found in The operational regulations of the Doctoral School of Psychology

Please make sure to take into account the year in which you began your studies when referring to the regulations (before 2016, in 2016, or after 2016).

The regulations are available here.

All students are required to complete three modules. The specific modules to be completed are indicated in the student’s admission decision letter.

To fulfill the requirements of each module, students must complete four courses per module.

Any additional courses taken beyond the required number within the compulsory modules are considered electives. In addition, any course offered by the Doctoral School of Psychology or the Doctoral School of Education may also be counted as an elective.

The current curriculum is available here:
https://ppk.elte.hu/en/psychologyphd/curriculum

Searching Courses

1. Subjects, Register for subject, Terms: 2021/2022/1, All other subjects in the institution, Subject code: dpsy:

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2. Information, Subject/Course list, Terms: 2021/2022/1, Organizational unit: if you start to type ppk, then chose PPK_PHD Pszichológiai Doktori Iskola, list subjects. Than you can see all the courses announced by the Doctoral Scool of Psychology for this semester.

Timetable informations

The purpose of the Training plan is for the student to plan their studies for the first four semesters—i.e., the training and research phase. (As this is a plan, it may naturally be modified in later semesters.)

All first-year students must submit their Training plan to the Secretariat by the last day of the academic term via email to pdi@ppk.elte.hu, with the approval of both their supervisor and the head of their program.

A template for the Training plan is available under the Templates menu.

According to the Operational Regulations of the Doctoral School of Psychology (PDI), based on Section 19 of the Faculty Doctoral Regulations (KDSZ) of the Faculty of Education and Psychology (PPK), students are required to report on the progress of their doctoral research each semester as follows:

• On the fulfillment of their study plan during the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd semesters

• On the fulfillment of their research plan from the 5th semester onward, each semester

Therefore, students in their 4th active semester who are taking the complex examination are not required to submit a semester progress report.

The semester-end progress reports, as outlined in Section 19 (4) of the PPK KDSZ, are organized by the PDI on a program-by-program basis. Reports may not be scheduled during the final week of the exam period. The student's supervisor and program coordinator must attend the report session. The reports are public.

The program leaders are responsible for arranging the date and format of the reports in consultation with the students. The result of the report is submitted to the Secretariat of the Doctoral Schools by the head of the program.

According to Section 53 (1) of Act CCIV of 2011 on National Higher Education, “During doctoral training, at the end of the fourth semester, a comprehensive (complex) examination must be taken to conclude the training and research phase and as a prerequisite for entering the research and dissertation phase. This examination assesses and evaluates academic and research progress.”

Detailed information about the procedure of the comprehensive examination is available on the website:

https://www.ppk.elte.hu/en/psychologyphd/complex-exam

The student reports on their research and teaching activities by submitting a credit application form. This form is submitted as a request through the Neptun system.

The credit application form must be submitted both at the beginning and at the end of the semester—the end-of-semester submission reports on completed activities. At the beginning of the semester, only the supervisor’s approval is required, whereas at the end of the semester, approval from the supervisor(s) and the head of the program is necessary.

Based on the credit application form, the Student Affairs and Registrar's Office records the credits earned by the student in the Neptun.

Approval from the supervisor (and co-supervisor, if applicable) is ALWAYS required to submit the credit application form, and at the end of the semester, the approval of the head of the program is also required. Without these approvals, the form will not be accepted.

Additionally, the form submitted at the end of the semester will not be accepted if the “to be completed at the end of the semester” column is left blank.

The Student Affairs and Registrar's Office publishes information about submission deadlines and other rules on the faculty website each semester before the submission period, in the form of announcements: https://www.ppk.elte.hu/en/student_administration

IMPORTANT: Late or incomplete submission of the credit application form will result in a late submission fee! A submission is considered incomplete if the approvals of the supervisor(s) and/or the head of the program are missing.

If the Doctoral Dchool finds the credit application form incorrect or incomplete, it will be returned in Neptun for correction.

Counselling Centre

The Counselling Centre provides free individual counselling to all ELTE students both in Hungarian and English.

There are challenging situations in everyone’s life, when we feel like we can’t handle certain difficulties by ourselves. If you feel like you need professional help to solve some of these problems, please feel free to contact the Counselling Centre. 

Detailed information is available on the Counseling Center’s website: https://www.ppk.elte.hu/en/counselling