It has to analyse the actions of guidance, supervision and follow-up to doctoral students, detect needs and propose possible improvements.

The responsible staff for doctoral programmes can upload to the computer platform of the Internal Quality Guarantee System the information corresponding to the DE1d procedure. This procedure will analyse if the academic orientation services respond to the needs of the training plan of the students as researchers. It will therefore study the actions of reception, tutoring, support to training and academic and professional orientation developed by each programme.