The six Milestones

ABC-PhD Candidates meet the Program Board in at least six official meetings. The aim of each meeting is aimed at understanding/questioning/reviewing their work, evaluating progresses and recommending improvements or changes in their Training and Research Plan (R&TPlan).
Milestones confront Candidates with the PhD Board (or with a subset of its members), chosen for their affinity with Candidate's research area. They may be enriched with specialists and - if needed - supported by external reviews.
There are two kind of Milestone Meetings (see Fig. \ref{805055}):
  1. The Deep Review meetings aim at understanding and debating Candidates' work, giving suggestions and recommendations about it, without formal evaluations, and at enhancing  their research work. The Deep Reviews take place in the middle of the year, putting together few Candidates (the average number is three). They sit around a table with their Supervisors, present their work (slides required together the document specified, in Fig. , \ref{805055} in red) and receive comments and feedbacks. A Chair of the meeting is appointed by the Head of the Program.
  2. The End-of-the-year meetings come six months after and their main aim is the evaluation of the Candidates. Before this Milestone, each Candidate has to make available to the Board a series of documents:
This milestone is a question meeting, without slide presentation (except 3rd year Candidate, to be planned) . During the meeting, the Evaluation Commission (that doesn't include the Candidate's Supervisor but may include Candidate's Tutor) listens to a short presentation of Candidate's Research work and requires few additional information to assign the end of the year grade).