Before the end of the first year, counted from the date of enrolment, the PhD student, with the assistance of his or her Director and tutor, will draw up a document that includes a research plan and a personal training plan. The research plan will include at least the methodology to be used and the objectives to be achieved, as well as the means and timetable for achieving them. The personal training plan of the doctoral student will contain a forecast of the different training activities to be carried out during the doctoral thesis (courses, seminars, mobility activities, etc.). This document may be improved and detailed throughout their stay on the programme and must be endorsed by the Director and the tutor. In the case of doctoral students with an Industrial Mention, the provisions of article 15 bis shall also be taken into account.
Each year the programme's Academic Committee will assess the progress of the PhD student in terms of the research plan and the activities document, together with the reports to be issued by the Director and the tutor for this purpose. In the event that the Academic Committee detects significant shortcomings, the doctoral student must be reassessed within a maximum period of six months. In the event that the shortcomings continue to occur, the academic committee must issue a reasoned report, after hearing the interested party, and the doctoral student will be definitively withdrawn from the programme.
DURATION OF DOCTORAL STUDIES:
Students who started studies prior to 2023/2024, RD 99/2011 applies, in this case:
Full-time mode: Duration 3 years.
- Extensions: one year and exceptionally one more year.
- Maximum duration: 5 years.
Part-time modality: Duration 5 years.
- Extensions: two years and exceptionally one more year.
- Maximum duration: 8 years.
Students who started their studies from the academic year 2023/2024, RD 576/2023 applies in this case:
Full-time mode: Duration 4 years.
- Extension: one more year.
- Maximum duration: 5 years.
Part-time modality: Duration: 7 years.
- Extension: one more year.
- Maximum duration: 8 years.
Students with a degree of disability equal to or greater than 33 percent who began their doctoral studies as of the academic year 2023/2024 (RD 576/2023), in this case:
- Full-time modality: 6 years without the possibility of extension.
- Part-time modality: 9 years, with no possibility of extension.
