The submission of the defence dossier starts with the agreement of the mentor and, if appointed, the co-mentor.

Before binding the thesis, the student must send the thesis in a Word file for technical review by email to: tehnicni.fov@um.si together with a scan of the thesis decision. The size of the attachment should not exceed 10MB.

After the technical review, the student must submit the final thesis electronically to the University of Maribor Digital Library website. Instructions can be found on their website.

After submitting the pdf version to the Digital Library, the student activates the plagiarism program, the plagiarism report is emailed to the student and to the mentor and co-supervisor (if appointed). On the basis of the report, the mentor and the co-supervisor sign a Declaration of Acceptability of the final thesis.

The received Similarity Detector Report should be sent to: tehnicni.fov@um.si in order to check the correctness of the electronic submission and to complete the submission in the digital library.

Before submitting the documentation for the defence, the student must visit the FOV library to obtain confirmation that he/she has returned all the books he/she has borrowed. Of course, the receipt will be issued if the books have actually been returned. Even a student who has never registered at the FOV library must obtain a certificate, as this measure was necessary to recover the books.

In order to be able to submit the documentation for the defence, the student must:

• have completed all the study requirements of the programme in which he/she is enrolled,
• the topic of the thesis must be valid (the validity period of the topic must not have expired).

The thesis must be submitted to the Student Affairs Office (not to the tutor):

• 3 copies of the binding of the thesis (1 hardbound copy for the library and 2 spiral bound copies).
  At the end of all of them there must be bound a Declaration of Authorship of the final thesis and a Declaration of Identity of the printed and electronic form of the final thesis and a Decision on the temporary unavailability of the final thesis - if you have been granted temporary unavailability, as stipulated in Article 12.a of the
• Guidelines on the Procedure for the Preparation and Defence of the Final Thesis in the First- and Second-Level Degree Study Programmes of the Faculty of Education and Science.
  A statement on the appropriateness of the final thesis (it must be signed by the supervisor at the time of submission and not bound into the final thesis), together with the Plagiarism Detector Report (a report in which 95% of the same sentences from other documents are included, print only the introductory text with a list of similar works, and do not print the similar text).
• Declaration on the publication of personal data (not linked to the final thesis)
• a certificate from the library.

In case the student has also carried out additional activities related to his/her studies at the FOV during his/her studies, he/she may submit an application for additional information about the student related to his/her studies at the FOV to be included in the Diploma Supplement, which will be given to the student at the award ceremony.

The student will be informed in writing of the date and time of the defence and the members of the jury. The final thesis defences are published at https://testwww.fov.um.si/en/study/instructions-for-the-final-theses/final-thesis-defences/.

Contact: Špela Zupan

Tel: +386 (0)4 23 74 212
E-mail: diplomanti.fov@um.si