In terms of the regulations, supervision of PhD students by a supervisor is compulsory from the third semester onwards. Those PhD students who have yet to submit an application proposing the dissertation theme and the supervisor, indicating the specialised subject they want to present in public examinations and the individual research programme time frame, including the selection of universities or institutes where it will be undertaken.
Similarly, those PhD students who have not signed up to give a talk at the SPEED and have yet to present their dissertation project by the end of the third semester can do so in the fourth semester.
Sometimes, the talk at the SPEED is subject to delay and it is only possible to give it in the fourth semester. The same occurs with the scheduling of the public discussion of the dissertation project.