| The systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of skills and methods of research related to this field |
| The ability to conceive, to design, to create, to implement and to adopt a substantial process of research and creation |
| The ability to contribute to the expansion of the frontiers of knowledge through an original research |
| The ability to make a critical analysis and of evaluation and synthesis of new and complex ideas |
| The ability to communicate to the scientific community and to society in general about their areas of knowledge in the ways and languages commonly used in their international scientific community |
| The ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, the scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural advances within a society based on knowledge |