Resumen de Covid-19 and the extension of the international cotutelle agreements
Purpose: The objective of this article seeks to show the particularity of cotutelle thesis during the Covid’19 pandemic crisis.
Theoretical framework: This cotutelle allows the doctoral students to be supervised by two or many thesis directors from several institutions.
Design/methodology/approach: The work carried out aims to analyze the difficulties encountered by doctoral students who are called upon to carry out their work under the supervision of a thesis director in each of the concerned countries.
Findings: For our population, the difficulties related mainly to travel, and other restrictions are multiple: experimentations and scientific progress, pedagogical and the quality of their outputs, travelling and social condition, technical and remote working, Covid’19 vaccine, institutional and financial support.
Research, Practical & Social implications: We suggest a future research agenda and highlight the contributions made to identify dimensions related to cotutelle thesis during the Covid'19 pandemic crisis.
Originality/value: An ad-hoc survey was carried out and used to collect the assessments of these students on the identified dimensions.
