To find out about the compulsory and optional activities recognised by each doctoral programme, their duration or equivalent load in hours and the minimum number of hours you have to do, the doctoral student must consult the program's website (section "Structure", subsections "Transverse activities" and "Training activities") and the indications of his/her Academic Committee and tutor.

Specifically, in the case of transversal training activities, each academic year the Doctoral School approves the general catalogue and publishes it on its website. The approved transversal activities are offered in one or more editions depending on the number of students expected, with different dates, profiles and languages. All the editions are studied in distance mode (online), have a duration equivalent to 15 hours and are taught through the Virtual Classroom of the UV, during approximately two weeks.

Access the catalogue of transverse activities

Enrollment in the transversal training activities is free of charge. It is done during the registration period approved by the Doctoral School and announced each academic year on its website.

Prior to enrollment, it is important to consult the catalog approved for the academic year and plan the activities and specific editions of the same, which you wish to take, taking into account the following aspects:

• Each student can enroll in only one edition of each activity. If the student does not pass the activity with flying colors, he/she will not be able to take it again until the following academic year.
• The description of each edition specifies the dates, the working language and, if applicable, the student profile by academic area (humanities, basic sciences, social sciences, etc.).

In the event that there are no places available in any of the editions of a transversal activity in which the student wishes to enroll, he/she may enroll in the edition called “Waiting List”, offered in each of these activities, or wait for the next call.

The passing of the transversal activities will be determined by the faculty of the activity, after verifying the attendance and participation of the doctoral student in the training activity and the achievement of the learning outcomes foreseen in the training activity.

The faculty will communicate to the student his/her academic grade, which may be PASS or FAIL.

Although the essential activity of the doctoral student will be research, the doctoral programmes include organised aspects of research training that include both transversal and specific training within the scope of each programme.

As for the specific activities of each programme, you can check them here.

Once the specific activity or activities that are the object of recognition have been carried out, and within the deadlines established by the Academic Committee of their doctoral programme, doctoral students must submit this Committee an application for recognition and subsequent incorporation of the activities into their file.

The application form for recognition of specific activities can be downloaded here .

The application must be accompanied by the corresponding supporting documentation. If the Academic Committee accepts the recognition of the activities, it will transfer the documentation to the Doctoral School because the specific activities of the doctoral student are incorporated into his/her activities document.