Article 11 Regulations about submission, assessment and defence of the doctoral thesis . (Regulations approved by the Governing Council on 23 July 2024 (ACGUV 252/2024). This Regulation repeals the Regulation on the deposit, evaluation and defence of doctoral theses (ACGUV 266/2011), of 29 November 2011 and its subsequent amendments and the Regulation for the award of the Industrial Mention in Doctoral Degrees issued by the University of Valencia (ACGUV 137/2019), of 20 June 2019).
The title of doctorate may include on the front of the degree the words Tesis en régimen de cotutela (Thesis under joint supervision) provided that the following circumstances are met:
a) That the thesis is jointly supervised by doctors from the Universitat de València and from one or two foreign universities, with which a co-supervision agreement must be signed. a) That the thesis is jointly supervised by doctors from the Universitat de València and from one or two foreign universities, with which a co-supervision agreement must be formalised.
b) That, for their doctoral thesis work, the doctoral student obtains two or more degrees, one from each of the higher education institutions responsible for the doctoral thesis. b) That the doctoral student obtains two or more degrees, one from each of the higher education institutions responsible for the development of the thesis.
c) During the period of training required to obtain the doctoral degree, the doctoral candidate must have spent a minimum of one year in one of the following higher education institutions c) During the period of training required to obtain the doctoral degree, the doctoral student must have spent a minimum of one stay at each of the institutions signing the co-supervision agreement, carrying out research work on the thesis. agreement, carrying out research work, in one or more periods, taking into account that the minimum stay at the Universitat de València is
at the Universitat de València will have to be 6 months and the minimum stay at the other university will have to be 6 months.
d) Co-supervised theses may also give rise to the inclusion of the mention ‘International Doctorate’ in the title of Doctorate or Doctorate degree if stays are carried out in institutions other than those of the formalised agreement, in accordance with the provisions of the formalised, as established in section a) and provided that the circumstances set out in Article 9 are met. Article 9.
e) The approval of the corresponding CAPD shall be required.
