The supervisor submits the statement directly to tech-doc@utu.fi (subject line should contain ”DPT Supervisor Statement”) no later than 15.9.2023, 23.59 (Finnish local time). Applications for which we have not received the supervisor’s statement by the indicated date will not be processed and this condition is not negotiable.
Supervisor’s statement

Name of applicant:

Name of supervisor:

Assessment of the applicant
Please provide here a free-form assessment of the applicant and the research plan, giving enough information for the doctoral programme to rank the applicants. This assessment also serves the role of a letter of recommendation.

Estimated date of the public defense of the doctoral thesis 
First/second half of year 20xx.

Funding
Note! Questions regarding funding are no longer asked in detail from the applicant, it is therefore important that you as the supervisor describe the funding plan here. In some cases, we can grant the funding but for other than the preferred timespans. It would be very helpful if you could indicate below other possible timespans for the funding which can be accepted.
Please describe here the plan for financing the thesis project (existing matching funding and funding to be applied for) and fill in the timespans below.

•	Preferred timespan(s) for the max 24 months of UTUGS funding: From month/year to month/year, ...
•	Other possible timespan(s) for the UTUGS funding:  From month/year to month/year, ..

Completed publications for the thesis
Please list here accepted or submitted publications that will be included in the thesis, and indicate the applicant’s contribution. Please do not list such publications which won’t be included in the thesis.

Planned publications
Please list planned publications that will constitute the thesis in addition to the completed publications listed above. If these are already partially completed, please indicate to what extent and what is the applicant’s contribution.

Reasons for changing over to DPT Programme 
This applies only rare cases. Delete this section if not applicable.

If the applicant has a right to study for a doctoral degree at another university or in another doctoral programme at the University of Turku, please provide reasons for changing over to a Doctoral Programme in Technology. 

If any materials collected during the previous dissertation process are planned to be used in the dissertation, please indicate that the applicant has the rights to use the materials.