In accordance with the information encompassed in the verification document, the supervision and monitoring of the doctoral students is articulated as follows:

1. Once accepted and enrolled in the doctoral programme, the academic committee will appoint each doctoral student a tutor, who has to be a doctor with accredited researching experience, related to the unit or School who organises the programme (also see “research lines“).

2. The academic committee responsible of the programme will appoint each doctoral student, in the maximum period of six month since the enrolment, a doctoral thesis director who can be the same or different to the tutor. This director can be any doctor with properly accredited researching experience independent from the university, centre or institute where he/she develops his/her work (also see “research lines“).

3. After formalising the first year enrolment, the doctoral student, the University, the tutor, and if applicable the director should jointly subscribe the doctoral commitment document, related to, among other questions, procedures of conflict solving which can be applied to aspects concerning to copyright or industrial property and in general to the monitoring functions of the research activity of the doctoral student. The doctoral commitment will be written following a format recommended by the University of Valencia.

4. Once the first enrolment is done, a personalised activities document will be issued for each doctoral student, where all the activities of interest for the development of the doctoral student will be recorded, as well as the development of the thesis, under the purpose of being reviewed by the thesis supervisor and director, and being assessed by the appropriate Academic Committee of the doctoral programme.

5. Before the end of the first year the doctoral student will make a research plan supported by the supervisor and the director. This plan has to include the methodology and goals, the mediums and the time planning as well as a positive report by the Ethics Committee in Experimental Research of the University of Valencia if applicable. This plan can be improved throughout their stay in the doctoral programme and must be supported by the supervisor and the director

6. The Ethics Committee will asses research plans which include experimentation with humans or biological human samples, experimentation with animals, the use of biological pathogenic agents or genetically-modified organisms.

7. The committee yearly assesses the research plan and the activities document together with the reports issued by the supervisor and the director. The positive evaluation will be a requirement to be able to continue in the programme. In the event of a negative evaluation, which must be supported, the doctoral students must be assessed again within six months. In order to do so they must develop a new research plan. If there is a second negative evaluation, the doctoral student will be permanently withdrawn of the programme. Against these resolutions, which do not exhaust the administrative procedures, the applicant may lodge an appeal, which will be determined upon a report from the Postgraduates Studies Committees by the Principal or by his/her delegate.

   The yearly assessment carried out by the Academic Committee of the Programme will be done according to material viability, methodological suitability, its objective’s importance and potential impact as well as its adaptation to supervision and readjustments of the plan. In order to do so, the Programme’s Academic Committee can collect experts’ reports. In the following yearly assessments, advancement and readjustment of the plan will be valued.

   The University of Valencia will establish the computer procedure necessary for the control of documents. The Programme’s Academic Committee will register the training activities which have been established in the corresponding section.

   These documents will have to be inscribed and registered in the Postgraduate Centre’s Third-Cycle Unit.

8. For the enrolment of successive years a favourable report by the Academic Committee on the personal activities document and the research plan is necessary.

9. The Programme’s Academic Committee will yearly ask the teaching staff for their availability to tutor and direct doctoral thesis as well as precisions on research topics which can be developed in those thesis. The Programme’s Academic Committee will hear the researching and academic interests of the students and, depending on them, it will appointing a tutor. Tutors will guide students to reach their interests, even with rotation and interview with potential directors if applicable. After it, having listened to both the student and the tutor, the Programme’s Academic Committee will apoint a director.

10. Although it is not included in the training activities, the programme will promote students’ stays in prestigious external centres. This stays will have to be relevant in order to acquire techniques and methods or to carry out specific works in relation with the doctoral thesis’ conducing research. These stays will have to count with the Programme’s Academic Committee approval and will have to be registered in the doctoral student’s activities documents ( see also “Mobility Programmes”).