As strategic objectives in which this doctoral are framed are to be developed:

Quality

• Increasing excellence scientific production: through the Vice-principal of Research and Scientific Politics it is aimed to strengthen the intern assessment system of the research activity based on the quality of scientist production, assessing the outcomes through the Research Report (GREC).

Social responsibility.

• Fostering impact research on priority questions within the area of social responsibility of the Institution: Office of the Vice-Principal for Research and Scientific Politics a plan for fostering collaboration between research groups with the productive service is developed.
• Fomenting development of international relation and collaboration nets of our research staff: through the Office of the Vice-principal for Research and Scientific Politics it is consolidated the role of OPER as a structure to enhancing the carrying out of international projects, using relational synergies of the international area, and through the Office of the Vice-Principal for International Relations and Cooperation fostering training and research in the cooperation area.

International Law

• Fostering development of international relation and collaboration nets of our research staff: Office of the Vice-Principal for Research and Scientific Politics
• Fomenting research groups which participate in international projects; fostering cooperation with international reference researchers.

Transparency:

• Improving visibility and understanding of our researching activity and its outcomes.

Efficacy

• Promoting competitive research: Office of the Vice-Principal for Research and Scientific Politics Developing incentivising policies to foster those high production and quality research areas.
• Fostering teamwork and multidisciplinary research within the UV: Office of the Vice-Principal for Research and Scientific Politics
• Encouraging the creation of high production and research quality research groups; developing a regulation frame for the activity of the research groups which foster quality researching productivity and a plan of action of researching structures; Research groups, Departments, Interdisciplinary Research Structure (ERI) and Research Institute.

Other objectives in which the strategy of the Doctoral Studies of the Faculty of Geography of the UV is framed:

Innovation Identifying and boosting strategic areas and researching potential.

Sufficiency: Diversifying locate sources of external funding to the purpose of guarantying financial sustainability in all our activities. And, providing adequate infrastructures for the development of our activities.

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