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Requirements for defense
📝 To request the defense of a Master's or Doctorate, the student must have cumulatively met the following requirements:
- Have accomplished the Qualification exam;
- Have completed all the credits required for the course, according to the catalog in force in the year of entry;
- Have passed a foreign language proficiency exam – 1 (one) language for the Master's degree and 2 (two) for the Doctorate;
- Have your dissertation/thesis ready for defense;
- Not have any pending personal documents with the DAC;
- Have indicated an ethics statement option in SIGA, approved by the advisor. Access the filling guidelines.
- Upload the opinion of the Research Ethics Committee, when necessary.
Research Ethics Committee for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CEP-CHS)
✉️ email: cepchs@unicamp.br
Executive Board of Information and Communication Technology – DETIC
Research Ethics Committee – CEP
📞 Phones: (19) 3521-6836; (19) 3521-8936; (19) 3521-7187
📍 Saturnino de Brito Street, 45
University City “Zeferino Vaz”
Barão Geraldo District – Campinas, SP – ZIP Code 13.083-889
If there are any pending issues in SIGA/DAC, please inform the Postgraduate Secretariat: educacao@unicamp.br
Composition of the Examining Board
Careful reading of the GUIDELINES FOR THE COMPOSITION OF EXAMINING COMMITTEES FOR THE DEFENSE OF DISSERTATIONS AND THESES is recommended , in accordance with Chapter V of Resolution CONSU-A-10/2015.
👥 The 3-member Examination Committee may consist of:
👉 by the supervisor, one internal member and one external member; or
👉 by the Supervisor/two external members.
👥 An Examining Committee with more than three members will be composed of:
👉 Excluding the supervisor, the number of external members must be at least equal to the number of internal members; or
👉 by the Advisor and other external members.
⚠️ Important: It will be necessary to indicate two substitute members, at least one of whom must be external.
Composition of the Doctoral Committees:
👥 The Examining Committee with 5 (five) full members may be composed of:
👉 by the Advisor, two internal members and two external members; or
👉 by the Advisor, one internal member and three external members; or
👉 by the Supervisor and four external members.
👥 The Examining Committee with more than 5 (five) full members will be composed of:
👉 Excluding the supervisor, the number of external members must be at least equal to the number of internal members; or
👉 by the Advisor and other external members.
⚠️ Important: You will need to nominate three alternate members, at least two of whom must be external.
Important information for Master's and Doctoral defenses
👉 If the external member (primary and alternate) cannot be found in the SIGA/DAC search, a mini-CV should be submitted: click here.
👉 The co-advisor may not participate as a member of the Examining Board.
👉 For the Master's program: members with any type of affiliation to the Faculty of Education are considered internal members, for example: Volunteer Collaborating Professors or Researchers, Professors retired from Unicamp, Post-Doctoral Researchers.
👉 For PhD programs: members with any type of affiliation to UNICAMP are considered internal members, for example: Volunteer Collaborating Professors or Researchers, Professors retired from UNICAMP, Postdoctoral Researchers.
👉 Only members who adhere to the principles of impartiality and ethics in their relationship with the student, their advisor, and other members of the Committee, as per INFORMATION CCPG/003/2015 , may serve on Examining Committees for master's dissertations or doctoral theses.
Defense Scheduling
Step 1: Textual similarity check
📅 Deadline: up to 45 calendar days before the defense date.
Before requesting a defense in e-DAC, it is mandatory send the complete file of the Thesis or Dissertation for verification of textual similarity, according to the CCPG Normative Instruction No. 3/2021.
This requirement is provided for in the CPG/FE Resolution No. 01/2021, in force since 24/04/2024.
📄 The text must be in PDF and be sent via the electronic form:
👉 [Click here to access the form]
Step 2: Scheduling the defense in e-DAC
📅 Deadline: up to 40 calendar days before the defense date.
Appointments must be scheduled through e-DAC, on the DAC website:
👉 [Click here to access e-DAC.]
👉 [Click here to access the e-DAC tutorial.]
This step follows Normative Instruction CPG No. 01/2023 , based on Article 40, paragraphs 7 and 8 of the General Postgraduate Regulations, which deals with defenses and qualification exams.
⚠️ We recommend scheduling in advance to avoid problems in case the system experiences instability.
⚠️ The e-DAC system only accepts files in PDF-A format.
Step 3: Request for video conferencing support (exclusively for members of the Examining Committee)
📅 Deadline: up to 30 calendar days before the defense date.
If members of the Examining Committee participate via videoconference, technical support in the FE rooms must be requested in advance.
🔸 This scheduling is the responsibility of the student and the advisor.
🔸 It must be done with at least 30 consecutive days Before the defense, all participants in the videoconference must complete the AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF IMAGE AND VOICE form. Click Here
🔸Also follow the guidelines of CPG Normative Instruction No. 01/2023.
📌 Consult FE's Distance Learning guidelines for scheduling this appointment:
👉 https://wwww.fe.unicamp.br/a-fe/ead/solicitacao
Final version
📅 Deadline:
The copy must be uploaded to SIGA – the Academic Management System of DAC – within 60 days of the defense.
⚠️ Important: the diploma will only be issued after the final version has been approved by PRPG.
Final version submission flow:
📝 Formatting:
The formatting of the final copy of the thesis/dissertation must follow the guidelines below:
CCPG REGULATORY INSTRUCTION No. 002/2021
❗UPDATE : CCPG Normative Instruction No. 06/2025 – Revokes CCPG Normative Instruction No. 002/2021, for defenses held from 02/03/2026 onwards. ❗
Carefully check the formatting of the mandatory opening pages of the final copy, according to your course level:
❗UPDATE! Required Initial Page Template (Master's and Doctoral) – Click here – for defenses held from March 2nd, 2026 onwards. ❗
⚠️ Please note: Acknowledgments are mandatory if the author has received financial support, whether partial or full, from a funding agency. In this case, the author must comply with the specific legislation in force for each funding agency regarding the need to cite the support received and the process number.
>> Compliant ORDINANCE No. 206, OF SEPTEMBER 4, 2018, works produced or published, in any media, resulting from activities financed, in whole or in part, by CAPES, must necessarily refer to the support received, and the following expression must be used in the language of the work:
“This work was carried out with the support of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel – Brazil (CAPES) – Financing Code 001”.
>> CNPq: CNPq scholarship students who publish or present research-related work must use the following expressions in their presentation (in the language of the work):
a) if published individually:
“This work was carried out with the support of CNPq, National Council for Scientific and Technological Development – Brazil”.
b) if published in co-authorship:
“CNPq Scholarship Holder – Brazil”.
📄 Catalog Card:
The cataloging record must be included in the final version of the dissertation or thesis.
👉 To request, fill out the form available at the link below. The FE Library will send the form within 4 business days:
[Click here to access the form]
⚠️ Important: The area of concentration indicated in the application must be exactly the same as the one that appears on your academic transcript. Please verify this information before submitting your application.
📈 If the work has received support from a funding agency, the beneficiaries must reference the support received and enter the name of the agency in the Cataloging Form creation system, and in the “Process number” field, register “Not applicable”.
REDU – Unicamp Research Data Repository
👉 Access it at https://redu.unicamp.br/ : Unicamp's official platform used to store, preserve, share, reuse, and ensure the reproducibility of research data produced at the University.
👉 If the data is not in REDU, it is mandatory to fill in the metadata indicating where this data is stored.
❗ Including the DOI will be mandatory in SIGA in the following situations:
📝 Doctoral theses: mandatory for approvals starting March 1, 2025.
📝 Master's dissertations: mandatory for approvals starting August 1, 2025.
⚠️ IMPORTANT: Master's and Doctoral thesis defenses will only be approved if the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) is correctly registered in the system.
👉 The SIGA system only accepts files in PDF-A format.
Printing the Final Copy (optional)
📕 If the student is interested in obtaining printed copies, they must follow the following procedures:
👉 After the dissertation or thesis has been approved , access the link below to view the graphic material options for theses/dissertations:
🌐 https://grafica.dga.unicamp.br/teses-g21
👉 Click on “+Details” to view the prices according to the desired model and quantity:
👉 Choose the model and quantity, view the price, and make the payment according to the information below:
⚠️ ATTENTION! The student will not be able to complete the purchase, as the transaction will be finalized by the Faculty of Education!
👉 After payment:
- send an email to educacao@unicamp.br, with the subject “PRINTING THE FINAL COPY”;
enter the order details (printout of the order details); - attach the attached proof of payment;
- attach the PDF of the thesis/dissertation
👉 When the copy is ready to be printed, the student will receive an email requesting collection from the printer.
⚠️ IMPORTANT! It is the student's responsibility to pay in advance and collect the copy from the printer.
Address: Rua Josué de Castro, 80 – Next to Banco do Brasil.