Doctoral students must take the following specific training activities:

1. Doctoral Sessions (8 hours a year): Once a year and at the beginning of the academic year doctoral seminars are organized, in November, to be spent over two or three consecutive days on which there will be a presentation of the programme. The activities offered throughout the year and other issues of interest for the development of research tasks will also be explained. For example, the opportunity to meet a professor with experience in research activities and the supervision of doctoral theses, advising the students about their thesis project.

2. Seminars course (40 hours in the first year for full-time students; and distributed over the three first years for part-time students): Doctoral students must attend at the seminars course offered under the Master’s degree in Human Rights, Democracy and International Justice. Only during the first year of doctorate in case of full-time students; if part-time students during the first three years of PhD.  At a minimum, students must attend 80% of seminars.  Should take a Doctorate part time, 40 hours of seminars may distribute over the first three years.  Assistance will be monitored.  If students carry out the doctorate by distance, then the students will visualise seminars through Youtube channel and will make comments on them in their document activities.  This option can also choose whether the doctoral students study in person.

3. Other Seminars (10h each year): Doctoral students have to attend -or had attended- other seminars, conferences, congresses or similar activities organized by the University of Valencia or other universities that are related to their thesis project. This will add a total of 10 hours each year of the doctorate.

4. Mobility stays: The students of the doctoral programme can make short stays in Spanish and foreign universities; for full-time students the stay will last a maximum of three months and can only be made for two years. Part-time doctoral students can make 1-month stays, and they can make 3 throughout the doctoral studies. In this way, all doctoral students of our Programme will stay long enough in other universities to be able to defend a European thesis. The doctoral programme in Human Rights, Democracy and International Justice can apply for funding for financing the mobility of some doctoral students, due to the condition of doctoral programme with mention for excellence. The rest of students will have to look for external funding, either through the several calls for mobility of the UVEG, of the Ministry or of the autonomous government. The research grantholders can make short stays allowed by the supplementary aids of their corresponding grants.

In order to request the validation of activities carry out outside the doctoral programme in Human Rights, Democracy and International Justice, the Coordination Committee approved the following calculation of hours:

In the certificates given for the validation of credits for the attendance at: congresses, conferences, seminars, in which the number of hours do not appear, the following scale will be applied:

-The attendance at conferences will have a validity of two hours.

-The attendance at seminars will have a validity of three hours.

-A part-time attendance at congresses will have a validity of four hours.