To process a medical leave situation for the doctorate or maternity or paternity leave, please fill in the application form for medical leave accompanied by the corresponding supporting documentation (leave report) and send it to the Doctorate School from the institutional mail address, for the administrative services to process.

Once this situation has been included in the file, academic activities will be suspended until the student is reinstated and the committee will be notified as soon as it becomes aware of the situation. Once the situation is over, you will have to send the registration form to the Doctoral School to be included in the file and to activate it, informing you of the new deadline after having added the period of withdrawal and you will have to resume academic activities.

The Doctoral School will notify the academic committee of your registration.

The head of these situations exempts the doctoral student from the payment of the fees corresponding to the registration of the academic year in which he/she is enrolled.

Application for medical leave

The causes for leave established in the legislation in force are situations that cannot be accredited with the corresponding supporting documentation (leave report).

You must present the application to the Academic Committee of your doctoral programme for its resolution. If the Academic Committee authorises this situation, you must inform the doctoral student and the Doctoral School so that it can be recorded in the file and academic activities will be suspended until the Committee notifies you of your return. Once reinstated, the period of leave authorised will be added to calculate the new deadline for the deposit of the thesis.

This situation does not exempt the doctoral student from paying the corresponding fees for the academic year in which he/she is enrolled.

Temporary leave application form

Temporary leave is a situation established in the Spanish Royal Decree 99/2011, of 28 January, where academic activities are suspended for an academic year or period requested.

You must present a duly justified request for temporary leave to the Academic Committee of your doctoral programme in order to have it resolved. There is no general deadline for its submission, but you must contact the Academic Committee in case they have determined it.

The period of temporary leave will be for a maximum of 2 years (2 academic years) in a first application of 1 year (academic year) and with the possibility of requesting an extension for another academic year. It is also possible to request a specific period, considering that the maximum period will be two years (2 academic years).

Once the granted period has ended and after the return to the academic activities, the registration will be renewed and the receipt of the registration fees for the academic year will be generated, which will have to be paid in full since the registration fees are annual.

The annual report does not have to be presented for evaluation (second or first call), if the doctoral student is on temporary leave, since academic activities are suspended.

The annual report must be submitted for evaluation if the student is on temporary leave before the minutes are generated.

It is possible to request the Academic Committee to revoke the granting of temporary leave. At that time, the file will be activated, academic activities will be resumed, and enrolment renewed.

The period of temporary withdrawal will be added to the deadline for the deposit of the thesis.

Temporary leave application form

The doctoral student must submit the request for permanent withdrawal from the Doctoral School for processing. Once it has been received, it will be recorded in the doctorate's file and the renewal of the registration will be cancelled. The application will be sent to the academic committee of the doctoral programme, which will issue a favourable report. Once the Doctoral School has received the application, it will inform the doctoral student of the decision to withdraw from the programme by registered post at the address given in the file.

The procedure of cancellation in a doctorate programme will not be a problem for re-enrolment in the same doctorate programme.

Registration fees will only be refunded if the application is submitted by 31 December of the academic year in question.

You will find the form in the following link: https://www.uv.es/uvweb/doctoral-studies-school/en/administrative-information/guides-forms-1285964905505.html

Once the university studies leading to a doctoral degree have been completed, the interested party may apply to the Doctoral School for the corresponding title to be issued.

The application may be made  "tiqueting" on the website of the Escola de Doctorat --> Suport a l'estudiantat --> Certificats i títols, attaching the application form for the doctorate degree, duly completed, and signed, and accompanied by a copy of the ID card or passport.

Once the application has been received, the Secretary's Office of the Doctoral School will generate the corresponding receipt for the payment of the fees for the issuing of the degree.

The receipt can be paid through the Universitat de València's online payment platform (https://webges.uv.es/uvEntreuWeb/menuSEU.jsp), which can be accessed from Personal Area UV, Virtual Office / Student / View Receipts. This procedure can also be carried out in person at the UV or through a duly authorised representative. The authorised person will have to provide the signed authorisation, his or her copy of the ID card and must prove his or her own identity.

More information: https://www.uv.es/uvweb/doctoral-studies-school/en/administrative-information/doctor-title-issuance-1285956942479.html

The title will be collected by the person concerned after identification by ID card or passport in force.

Likewise, the title may be collected by a third party, if they identify themselves reliably with their ID card or passport and are duly authorised by power of attorney. The power of attorney must be legalised or apostilled when it comes from a foreign entity.

The title may also be sent by post upon request by the interested party, who must specify the address for delivery, which must be

• In Spanish territory: any of the government delegations.
• Abroad: any of the Spanish embassies or consulates abroad.

To obtain a new title if the original is lost or damaged, you will have to request it from the Doctoral School. The request for the duplicate requires the previous publication in the BOE of the loss of the title (it must be published for, at least, one month) and the payment of the corresponding fees.

The amounts to be paid for the provision of academic services in the public universities of the Valencian Community are fixed annually by Decree 123/2022, 23 September 2022

The fees in force for the academic year for the issue of degrees, certificates, and other doctoral documents, in accordance with this academic year Decree 170/2019 of 2 August, are as follows:

The issue of certificates corresponding to doctoral studies must be requested  through "tiqueting" on the website of the Escola de Doctorat --> Suport a l'estudiantat --> Certificats i títols

To apply for a declaration of equivalence for your foreign doctorate at the UV, you must submit the application form which you can find on our website, together with the following documents:

1. ID card or passport
2. Certified copy of the doctor's degree.
3. Copy of the degree that gave you access to doctoral studies.
4. Copy of the academic certification of the doctoral studies.
5. A copy of the thesis where the tribunal and the qualification obtained are stated.
6. An explanatory report of the thesis where the references and publications to which it has given rise are stated (it must be written in Valencian, Spanish or English).
7. An authorisation from you allowing us to contact the university issuing the documentation presented.
8. Payment of the corresponding fee, which is €150,20, which can be obtained by clicking on the link at the bottom of the website indicated above.

All the documentation submitted must be official and issued by the competent authority in the correspondent country and certified copies must be submitted; if it is not issued by an authority of an EU country or a signatory of the European Economic Area, it must be submitted duly legalised through diplomatic channels or with an apostille. A sworn translation will be requested if the documentation is not in Spanish or English.

The criteria that will be considered to declare equivalence will be

1. The equivalence between the degree required for your doctoral studies and the degree now required in our country.
2. The duration of your doctoral studies and the skills acquired during these studies.
3. The comparison between the academic level of the degree you present and the degree of doctorate in Spain.

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