• Second year students contact the local programme coordinator to get information on the available thesis topics. If needed students can contact individual research groups at the second year university to inform themselves about possible topics, based on which they make a final decision on the topic of their choice.  At the May workshop first year students can also ask information about the thesis topics to the university responsibles. Students select a topic and inform the supervisor, the local coordinator of the university where he/she is studying and the program coordinator.
• Thesis work is carried out according to the common thesis rules that are available of the website. For all issues that are not included in the common rules, the local rules of the universities apply.
• Every thesis has a supervisor at the university where the thesis is carried out, and an external examiner at KU Leuven. The external examiner has to be selected by the student and the supervisor, with the help of the program coordinator. All thesis evaluation commissions should be approved by the program director and/or the educational committee.
• hardcopies of the thesis books should be sent to the KU Leuven (1 for the external examiner, 1 for public display and 1 for the coordinator) ; 1 pdf version should be sent to the coordinator.
• Students should mention in the thesis that it was part of the Erasmus Mundus program and should mention their EMM trajectory.
• All thesis students present a status of their work at the EMM-workshop in May, 10 minutes presentation + 5 minutes questions. There is no common final thesis presentation, the thesis is defended at the university where the thesis work is carried out according to the local rules.
• The thesis is scored by both the supervisor, the eventual local assessors, and the external examiner, based on the content of the scientific work, the quality of the text and of the presentation, and according to the local criteria of the university where the thesis is done.