Core competencies

 Doctoral studiess must guarantee, at least, the acquisition of the following core competencies, as well as those which appear in the Spanish Qualifications Framework for Higher Education:

• CB1 Systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of the research skills and methods related to that field.
• CB2 Ability to conceive, design or create, implement and adopt a substantial process of research and creation. 
• CB3 Ability to contribute to the expansion of the frontiers of knowledge through original research.
• CB4 Ability to critically analyse, evaluate and synthetise new and complex ideas.
• CB5 Communication skills with the academic and scientific community and society in general about their areas of expertise in the modes and language commonly used in the international scientific community.
• CB6 Ability to develop, in academic and professional contexts, the scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural advances in a knowledge-based society.

Personal skills

The obtention of a doctoral qualification must provide advanced professional training in various fields, especially those that require creativity and innovation. Doctors will have acquired, at least, the following personal skills:

• CA01 Operating in contexts where there is little specific information.
• CA02 Finding the key questions that must be answered to solve a complex problem.
• CA03 Designing, creating, developing and launching new and innovative projects in their field of knowledge.
• CA04 Working in groups and individually in an international or multidisciplinary context.
• CA05 Integrating knowledge, handling complexity and formulating judgments with limited information.
• CA06 Intellectual critique and defense of solutions.