CALENDAR OF THE DOCTORAL PROGRAMME 2023-2024
The programme has established a calendar for certain specific procedures, namely the following:
Calendar for Specific Procedures:
- Submission of the Doctoral Commitment Document for students admitted in the academic year 2023/2024, until 31 MARCH 2024.
- First application period for the recognition of training activities, until 5 APRIL 2024.
- Second annual assessment academic year 2023/2024, submission of documents until 2 FEBRUARY 2024.
- First annual assessment academic year 2023/2024, until 14 JUNE 2024.
- Applications for extension of studies for the academic year 2024/2025, until 14 JUNE 2024
It includes the submission of the following documents depending on the start date of the doctoral studies:
- Students who started doctoral studies in the academic year 2023/2024, must submit the following documents by 14 JUNE 2024:
- Research plan
- Annual monitoring report for the academic year 2023/2024.
- Activities report of the PhD student for the academic year 2023/2024.
- If applicable, second application period for the recognition of training activities.
- Students who began their studies in previous years must submit the following documents by 14 JUNE 2024:
- Annual monitoring report for the academic year 2023/2024.
- Activities report of the PhD student for the academic year 2023/2024.
- If applicable, second application period for the recognition of training activities.
- Second annual assessment academic year 2023/2024, February 2025.
- Second annual assessment academic year 2022/2023, submission of documents until 2 February 2024.
Calendar for other ordinary procedures:
However, there are other ordinary procedures that do not have a specific start date, such as the application for thesis submission, application for modification of research plan, and others.
For these types of non-specific applications, the Academic Committee, at its meeting of 18 April 2018, established the following deadlines for submission of applications:
- Applications for the submission of doctoral theses may be submitted at least 10 working days before the next meeting of the Academic Committee.
- Applications not included in the specific calendar of the doctoral programme may be submitted at least 5 working days before the next meeting of the Academic Committee. (Other applications)
In the following link you can check the dates of the meetings of the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Programme in Law, Political Science and Criminology. Indicative calendar
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LENGHT OF STUDIES
Full-time enrolment
The length of doctoral studies, if you enrol full-time, shall be a maximum of three years.
The Committee responsible for the programme may grant the extension of this period for a further year, which may exceptionally be extended for an additional year, up to a non-extendable total of five years.
Part-time enrolment
In the case of part-time studies, these may last for a maximum of five years from the date of admission.
In this case, the extension may be granted for two more years, which, exceptionally, may be extended for a further year, up to a non-extendable total of eight years.
The time frames are counted from the date of admission to the programme until the application for the submission of the doctoral thesis.
The individual date of completion of studies can be checked in the Online Office.
Time frame
First year of the programme
