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1. What is the Personalised Document of Doctoral activities?

The personalised document of activities is understood as the personalised control record of training activities undertaken by the doctoral student. This document will be regularly reviewed by the doctoral thesis supervisor and director, and reviewed annually by the Academic Committee in charge of the doctoral programme. You can find here the assessment application form.

2. What should I do during the first year of doctoral studies?

During your first year as doctoral student, you must do the following:

  • To submit the document of documentary commitment duly completed to the Academic Committee.
  • To fill out the personalised document of doctoral activities. To do this, you have to put in contact with the tutor and/or director of the thesis.
  • To perform the activities planned in the personalised document of doctoral activities. To obtain the certificates and/or assessment reports of each training activity.
  • To prepare the research plan before the end of the year.
  • To enrol and, when appropriate, to pass the bridging courses specified by the doctoral programme.

3. How is the follow-up of my training programme and research plan monitored?

The Academic Committee of the programme will predictably open an annual deadline from 1 to 25 July for the assessment of the training programme and the research plan progress. To do this, you must submit the corresponding application form together with the supporting documentation and/or the assessment reports required under each of the developed activities.
Since the end of the deadline set for the request for assessment, the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Programme has 15 working days to notify the result.
For the enrolment of successive years a favourable report by the Academic Committee on the personal activities document and the research plan is necessary.
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 If there is a second negative evaluation, the doctoral student will be permanently withdrawn of the programme.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.
Remember that it is very important to provide to the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Programme all the necessary assessment reports and/or certificates indicated in the training activities programme.

4. What should I do during the years after the first year of enrolment?

During the years after your first year as doctoral student, you must do the following:

  • To update the personalised document of doctoral activities. To do so, you must put in contact with the tutor and/or the director of your thesis.
  • To perform the activities planned in the personalised document of doctoral activities. To obtain the certificates and/or assessment reports of each training activity.
  • If necessary, to update the research plan.
  • If necessary, to apply for an extension, supported by reasons, to stay in the programme.
  • Each year you will predictably have a period from 1 to 25 July to apply for the annual assessment of the training activities and the degree of implementation of the research plan.

5. How long can I be without enroling?

The doctoral student can apply for a temporary withdrawal in the programme for a maximum of one year, extensible to another year. This application form should be sent to the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Programme within the usual term (from 1 to 25 July) that is set for the annual monitoring of activities by the Academic Committee.

6. What should I do in order that a stay in international research centres will be recognised as a training activity of the doctoral programme? Can it be used for obtaining the International Certification for Doctoral Degrees?

The Academic Committee will authorised the stay and the activities developed in an international higher education institution or in an international research centre. It will also indicate whether such activities are considered appropriate to grant the International Certification for Doctoral degrees. This stay should have a duration of at least 3 months if the student wants to apply for the International Certification for Doctoral degrees. To do this, the doctoral students should submit their applications to the Academic Committee of the Programme with the approval of the thesis director and supervisor at least fifteen days before the beginning of the stay. At the end of the stay, the receiving centre supervisor and/or director must confirm the stay and give his/her approval, through a signed document, on the work done by the doctoral student. At the end of the corresponding academic year, the Doctoral Academic Committee of the Doctoral Studies will include it in the student’s Annual Personalised Document of Activities.