The requirements for the applicants who have completed their previous studies abroad, depend on the country where the degree was obtained.

Depending on the case, the following documents will be required:

• Translations of documentation.
• The list of marks converted according to a scale from 1 to 10.
• Legalisation or apostille of the degree and of the official academic certificate.
• Official accreditation («homologación») of foreign higher education qualifications or, in the absence of it, the payment of a fee corresponding to the equivalent study degree.

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No, it is not a mandatory requirement. In line with a specific doctoral programme, professional experience may only a criteria to prioritise applications in respect to one another if there are many admission applications.

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For all purposes, in order to be admitted to a Doctorate Programme in its training period, it will be necessary to hold the official Spanish Undergraduate Degree (or equivalent) and University Master's Degree. Similarly, those who are in any of the following situations can also access:

1. For all purposes, in order to be admitted to an official Doctorate Programme, it will be necessary to hold the official Spanish Undergraduate Degree, or equivalent, and University Master's Degree.

2. Similarly, those who are in any of the following situations can also access:

a) To hold an official Spanish University Degree, or from other country member of the European Higher Education Area, which enables the access to a Master in accordance with the provisions of the article 16 in the Royal Decree 1393/2007, from 29 October, and have gained at least 300 credits ECTS in the official university studies, 60 of which may be Masters-level.
b) To hold an official Spanish Undergraduate Degree, the duration of which, according to the rules of Community law, must be at least of 300 credits ECTS. The mentioned graduates need to obligatory pursue the supplementary training mentioned in the article 7.2 of this regulation, unless the curriculum of the corresponding undergraduate degree includes research training credits, equivalent in training value to research credits from Master's studies.
c) University graduates who, after being admitted to the corresponding access test to specialised health training, have passed with a positive evaluation at least two years of training in a programme for obtaining an official degree of any of the specialities in Health Science.
d) To hold a degree according to foreign education systems, without needing to be homologated, after verification by the university that it is equivalent to the official Spanish University Master's Degree and that ir entitles the holder to access Doctorate studies in the country that issued the degree. This admission will not imply, under any circumstances, the homologation of the previous degree that the interested party holds nor its recognition for other effects different to the access to Doctorate studies.
e) To hold other Spanish Doctor's degree obtained according to previous university regulations.
f) To hold an official university degree equivalent to level 3 of the Spanish Qualifications Framework for Higher Education (MECES, for its Spanish: Marco Español de Cualificaciones para la Educación Superior), in accordance with the procedure established in the Royal Decree 967/2014 from 21 November, that establishes the requirements and procedure for the homologation and the attestion of equivalence to degree and to an official university academic level and for the recognition of foreign higher education studies, and the procedure to determine the equivalence to the Spanish Qualifications Framework for Higher Education of official titles of architect, engineer, graduate, technical architect, technical engineer and diploma.

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Any of the following degrees:

A Bachelor’s and Master’s degree

A licentiate degree

A Master of Advanced Studies obtained in line with the Spanish Royal Decree 778/1998 as of 30 April or sufficient research work regulated in the Spanish Royal Decree 185/1985 as if 23 January.

Accreditation of a positive assessment of the courses in specialized healthcare training.

The PhD degree in the abovementioned regulations.

More information:

https://www.uv.es/uvweb/doctoral-studies-school/en/admission-enrolment/preregistration-/-admissions-/general-admission-criteria-1285951943615.html

The students who finish their prior studies to access a PhD programme this academic year 2019-2020 can pre-enrol even if they have not completed these studies at the moment of application.

They can be admitted and enrol in the programme. However, this enrolment procedure will be subject to checking whether all the admission requirement were met before 30 November 2020 at 11.59 p.m. Failure to fulfil these conditions shall result in the cancelation of the official enrolment.

Each doctoral programme can set specific requirements for the admission. The specific requirements for the admission can be found in the description of the Doctoral programme online on the websites of the Student Service and of the Doctoral School in the corresponding section of Doctoral programmes offering.

The process of legalization or apostille is necessary for the degrees and certificates issued by the university outside the European Union or any signatory countries to the Agreement on the European Economic Area or to the bilateral agreement with the European Union. A student should legalise or apostille the degree or the certificate in the country where it was issued.

Meanwhile, validation of the university degree issued outside Spain is a resolution authorised by the Spanish Ministry of Education, which declares that the foreign degree has an equivalent academic level or an official university degree in Spain.

To pre-enrol in a PhD programme at the Universitat de València and start the admission process, a student should legalise or apostille the degree issued by the university outside the European Union or any signatory countries to the Agreement on the European Economic Area or to the bilateral agreement with the European Union. Concerning the foreign degree validation by the Spanish Ministry of Education, it is sufficient for a student to pay the fees corresponding to the equivalent degree in Spain during the pre-enrolment procedure.

Candidates who have been admitted to a master’s degree and do not enrol within the period established will lose their right to the place initially allocated to them, which will be offered to applicants on the waiting list or made available in the next pre-enrolment phase, as appropriate.

If you have been admitted in pre-enrolment Extraordinary Phase and you do not enrol within the deadline set, you can ask the Student Services if there are any places available.

Generally, for entering an official doctoral programme the applicants must hold one of the Spanish official qualifications such as an Undergraduate degree, or equivalent and a Master’s Degree qualification.

 Although, acces will be given to those under the following circumstances:
a) To hold a Spanish official university qualification, or from other country of the European Higher Education Area, which entitles you to entry in a Master’s Degree according to the established in the article 16 of the Royal Decree 1393/2007 29 October, and having completed a minimum of 300 ECTS of official university studies, of which at least 60 are from Master’s level.
b) To hold a Spanish official qualification of Undergraduate Degree, whose duration, according to the regulations of the Community Law, is at least of 300 ECTS. These graduates must take compulsorily a bridging course that is referred in the article 7.2 of this regulation, unless the curriculum of the corresponding Undergraduate Degree includes credits of research training, which its training value is equivalent to the research credits from the Master’s.
c) The graduates who after obtaining a post in the training of the corresponding access test for entering in specialised health training posts and who have completed positively at least two years of training in a programme for obtaining the official qualification of some of the specialisations in Health Sciences.
d) To hold a qualification obtained from foreign educational systems, without need of its approval, after verification of the university that certifies an educational level equivalent to that of the Spanish official qualification of the Master’s Degree and that empowers to the country issuing the qualification for accessing the doctoral studies. The study of the equivalence of qualifications is subject to an administrative fee that is paid at the time in which you perform electronic pre-registration and amounts to €155,22.
e) To hold the Spanish qualification of Doctor obtained according to previous university ordinances.
f)To hold an official university degree corresponding to the level 3 of the Spanish Higher Education Qualifications Framework, according to the procedure stablished in the Decree Law 967/2014, 21 November, on the requirements and procedure for the homologation and attestation of equivalence of qualifications at an official university academic level and for the recognition or foreign higher education studies, and the procedure to determine the correspondence to the levels within the Spanish Higher Education Qualifications Framework of the determine the correspondence to the levels within the Spanish Higher Education Qualifications Framework of the official qualifications of Architect, Engineer, Degree, Technical Architect, Technical Engineer and Advanced Diploma.

Those who hold a licenciatura (Spanish former Undergraduate Degree), Architects and Engineers who have a Diploma of Advanced Studies obtained according the Royal Decree 778/1998, 30 April or had reached the Research Proficiency regulated in the Royal Decree 185/1985, 23 January, also could be admitted in the doctoral studies regulated in the current Decree.

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Even though it is not a general requirement to have a thesis supervisor before the pre-enrolment procedure, some doctoral programmes do include this demand as their specific requirement. To find more information, please, check the specific requirements of each doctoral programme in the “Admission” section.

It depends on the specific requirements of each doctoral programme. The specific admission requirements can be found in the doctoral card of each programme in the “Admission” section.

Starting from 30 November, the Doctoral School will cancel the enrolment of all student who have not certified the completion of their previous studies which give them access to the doctoral programmes.

Pre-registration is free of charge, except for students who have graduated in countries out of the European Higher Education Area and whose degree is not homologated by the Spanish government. In these cases, the procedure of pre-registration is subject to a fee of 155.22 Euros, corresponding to the study of equivalence of the degree with that with which the student aims at accessing the doctorate. This fee will be paid through the same electronic application at the time of application, using a bank card.

Each doctorate programme has an Academic Coordinating Committee that runs the programme. As part of the admission process, after the end of the set deadline for the presentation of pre-enrolment applications, these committees meet and assess the candidate’s applications. As a result, the Student Services and the Doctorate School publish on their web pages the list of the admitted, on the waiting list and excluded students. Furthermore, each applicant is individually notified by e-mail at the end of the process.

Pre-enrolment is a process that takes place before enrolment during which applications for a course are assessed and the places available are allocated. Therefore, the final step in the pre-enrolment process is to notify candidates if they have been admitted, conditionally admitted, included on the waiting list or excluded.

Enrolment is the process following pre-enrolment. Students admitted in the corresponding pre-enrolment phase can enrol within the period established (refer to enrolment calendar). Also students conditionally admitted that have proved the compliance with the academic requirements within the period established.

The calendar with the period for submission of pre-enrolment applications, the admission date and the enrolment period is published every year.

More information:

Please, find the complete doctoral programme offering following this link.

Everyone can apply up to a maximum of three doctoral programmes presented in the order of preference. Yet, no one can be admitted to more than one programme. The final admission into one or another programme will depend on the final scale of assessment of the student merits and the order of preference indicated during the pre-enrolment procedure.

Students can amend their submitted pre-enrolment application or attach new documents to it once it has been submitted, from the moment of submission up to the end of the deadline set for pre-enrolment.

To amend the submitted pre-enrolment application, the doctorate student must send an e-mail to preinscripcio.doctorat@uv.es with the definitely chosen doctoral programme and line of research, and the desired order of preference, before the end of the deadline set for pre-enrolment.

To attach new documents to the application once it has been submitted, the student must access “My personal site” in the Online Office of the Universitat de València (ENTREU). There they can check the applications that they have submitted, choose the Doctoral pre-enrolment application and the column “Actions” offers the option to “Attach”.

To make a change in the doctoral programmes selected or a change in their order, you must send an e-mail to preinscripcio.doctorat@uv.es, with the list of doctoral programmes athat you have finally chosen, as well as the desired order of priority. The request must be made before the end of the pre-enrolment application period.

The concept of online doctoral programmes does not exist at the Universitat de València. For specific attendance requirements, you should consult the Academic Committee of the doctoral program you wish to study. The contact details for each doctoral programme can be consulted in the "Summary" section of the file for each programme.

Generally, the communications between the coordination of each doctoral programme and the doctoral students is done in one of the official languages of the Universitat de València. This does not prevent, however, that on a more individual level with a foreign doctoral student, English can be used as the working language. In any case, you should consult the specific doctoral program in which you are interested, given that some programs have, among the specific admission requirements, the certification of knowledge of some language.

Although the general commitment to a doctoral program is full-time, part-time commitment can be applied for in duly justified circumstances (compatibility of the doctorate with a job, family responsibilities, etc.). The application for part-time employment is made at the time of pre-registration, with the corresponding supporting documentation.

You will receive a notification through the ENTREU online office informing you of your admission and providing you with the necessary data to carry out the enrolment.

You will have to register in the programme you have been admitted to. If you are subsequently called up for the waiting list in the other program and are admitted, the Doctoral School will contact you to let you know so that you can modify your registration.

A waiting list appeal is made whenever there are vacancies after enrollment, and only in the case that the Academic Committee asks for its activation.

No, you don’t. The call of candidates from the waiting list is not made face-to-face. The Student Services staff will make the admission offers following the order of the waiting list according to the number of places available after the enrolment period.

Students who are admitted to a doctoral programme are notified of the results of the waiting list.

Legalisation or apostille is a necessary procedure for academic titles and certificates issued by a country outside the European Union or not signatory to the agreement on the European Economic Area or the bilateral agreement with the European Union. The procedure for legalisation or apostille must be carried out by the student in the country that issued the official university degree.

On the other hand, the homologation of a university degree issued by a country outside the European Higher Education Area is the resolution issued by the Spanish ministry with responsibility for education. This resolution declares that the foreign degree is equivalent to a level of study in Spain or to an official university degree in Spain.

In order to pre-registrate in a doctoral programme at the Universitat de València and be admitted, degrees issued by a country outside the European Union or a country that has not signed the agreement on the European Economic Area or the bilateral agreement with the European Union must be legalised or apostilled. As for the homologation issued by the Spanish ministry with competence in education that is required for degrees that are not part of the European Higher Education Area, it is not necessary if instead, at the time of pre-enrolment, the fees corresponding to the degree equivalence study are paid.

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Supporting documents in Catalan, Spanish, English, French, Italian or Portuguese are accepted. A translation will be required for the documents issued in any other language. 

Starting from 28 October 2020, the date when the pre-enrolment results are published, you will be able to download your admission letter through “My personal site” in the Online Office (ENTREU). This electronic document includes a digital signature and a secure verification code (CSV) through which its validity can be verified by any official body.

In case a university degree is issued by the university outside the European Union or any signatory countries to the Agreement on the European Economic Area or to the bilateral agreement with the European Union, you should add to the electronic application legalized or apostilled and translated, if necessary, supporting documents. To process the electronic application, the university requires the documents to be added in an electronic format to the pre-enrolment application. In line with the Spanish Law 39/2015, no other certified copies should be presented.

In rare cases, when the authenticity of the presented electronic documents is doubtful, an applicant will be requested a verification of the submitted copies, so the original documents may be required. The documents will be verified by the Doctoral School of the Universitat de València, not by the registry offices.

More information:

 https://www.uv.es/uvweb/college/en/postgraduate-courses/doctoral-studies/admissions/general-admission-criteria-1285958261072.html#3

No. It would be sufficient to add this document in an electronic form to the pre-enrolment application. The degree of disability indicated in the certificate must be equal to or greater than 33%.

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Disability

No. The documents associated with the degrees issued by the Universitat de València should not be submitted. Only if the students pre-enrol at the university, and their previous study cycle has not finished yet, they should send an e-mail to preinscripcio.doctorat@uv.es notifying that the degree shall be issued before the deadline for modifications expires.

According to the Spanish Law 39/2015, there is no need to present the “certified copies” and, thus, file any document in paper form.

In rare cases, when the authenticity of the presented electronic documents is doubtful, an applicant will be requested a verification of the submitted copies, so the original documents may be required.

Generally, together with your online application, you must submit the following scans of documents:

1. The university degree certificate required to be eligible for admission to the PhD degree studies.
2. The academic transcript of records obtained at the university studies required to be eligible for admission to the master’s degree, which must include the average mark. Foreign students must calculate their average mark according to the procedure established by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport.
3. A copy of DNI (Spanish citizens), NIE (Spanish residents), or passport (foreign citizens). 

Depending on specific situations, a student may be asked to provide additional documents. Please, see the corresponding section on documentation on our website.

In addition, each PhD programme may request additional documents depending on specific requirements established in that degree.

More information:

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https://www.uv.es/uvweb/doctoral-studies-school/en/admission-enrolment/preregistration-/-admissions-/instructions/procedure-1285956646509.html

https://www.uv.es/uvweb/doctoral-studies-school/en/doctoral-programmes-offering/doctoral-programmes-1285954699016.html

A visa is not a requirement for admission to a doctorate programme, but it is for your stay in Spain if you are a non-EU citizen.

Also, check answer to: When can I apply for an admission letter?

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Amb caràcter general, s’ha de presentar en format electrònic, escanejada juntament amb la sol·licitud electrònica: Una còpia de la titulació universitària prèvia amb la qual s’accedeix als estudis de doctorat. Una còpia del certificat de notes o qualificacions, de la titulació universitària prèvia amb la qual s’accedeix al doctorat, amb indicació de la nota mitjana. Si ets estudiant estranger, hauràs de presentar aquesta nota mitjana calculada segons el procediment establert pel Ministeri d’Educació, Cultura i Esport. Una còpia del DNI, NIE o passaport. Segons la situació de cada estudiant, haurà d’aportar aquesta documentació o més. Es recomana veure l’apartat documentació de la nostra web. A més, cada programa de doctorat pot requerir documentació addicional segons els requisits específics que s’hagen pogut establir.

Més informació: http://go.uv.es/30OjEww 

Programes de doctorat per branca de coneixement

Some scholarship awarding bodies require a letter of pre-admission to a doctoral programme to apply for a scholarship. The interested person who has made his or her application for pre-registration may request a letter of pre-admission from the Doctoral School. The Doctoral School will issue the pre-admission letter after verifying that the pre-enrolment application has been made and that all the requirements for admission to the doctoral programme have been met.

In the case of university degrees obtained in countries outside the European Union or signatories of the agreement on the European Economic Area or the bilateral agreement with the European Union, at the time of the electronic application, the documentation must be legalised or apostilled and, if applicable, translated. The presentation of the documentation in electronic format with the pre-registration application will be a requirement for its processing.

In accordance with the provisions of the Spanish Law 39/2015, it is not necessary to submit certified copies. Exceptionally, where there are doubts as to the authenticity of the electronic documentation submitted, a reasoned request will be made to compare the copies provided by the interested party, for which purpose the original document may be required to be shown. The matching of the copies will be carried out at the Universitat de València's Doctoral School, never at the registration units.

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Legalisation is an administrative act by which a foreign public document is given validity by verifying the authenticity of the signature placed on the document and the authority signing the document. This procedure is carried out in the country of origin.     

The deadline is permanently open.

Official documents can be legalised by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, and non-official documents (degrees, diplomas...) can be legalised by a notary.vació i Universitats, i els documents no oficials (títols, diplomes…) que es legalitzaran per via notarial.

- Official university degrees that are valid throughout Spain, issued by the Principal of each University. 
    - Higher education and postgraduate degrees, issued by the Ministry of Education. 
    - Official academic certifications of studies leading to obtaining the degrees mentioned in the previous sections.

The documents will always be originals, written in Spanish or bilingual text.
The academic certifications must be signed by hand or digitally and must indicate the position and full name.

Certificates issued and signed with an official electronic seal are considered equally valid, in accordance with the section 42 of the Spanish Law 40/215, of 1 October, of the Legal System of the Public Sector.

No. Signed rubrics by Order, Absence or Authorization will not be recognised.

They will be submitted in person at the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.

The documents are returned on the spot.

To speed up the process of signature recognition, prior to the legalisation of documents (official university degrees, supplementary official degree certificates and personal academic certificates) you can send an e-mail with the images of these documents to the address: legalizacion@educacion.gob.es.

The subject of the message will be: “Reconocimiento de firmas” (Spanish for Signature Recognition). In the body of the message you can indicate details identifying the person who will submit the documents. If it is an academic certificate in electronic format, send only the file itself as an attachment.

Signatures of non-official degrees, certificates of studies not leading to the degree (if you have not completed all the subjects/credits leading to the degree), and university entrance exams (university entrance exams or equivalent) will not be accepted.

The Education Unit of the Government Sub-delegation in Valencia is the administrative unit responsible for processing applications for the validation of foreign degrees and studies - both university and non-university - by sending them either to the Spanish Ministry of Education and Vocational Training or to the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

The Education Unit of the Sub-delegation of the Government in Valencia, carries out guidance and advice tasks, since most of the people interested do not know both the procedure and the documentation to be submitted.

There are two links, depending on whether the studies are university or non-university:
    For non-university studies: http://www.educacionyfp.gob.es/servicios-al-ciudadano/catalogo/gestion-titulos/estudios-no-universitarios.html  
    For university studies: http://www.ciencia.gob.es/portal/site/MICINN/menuitem.26172fcf4eb029fa6ec7da6901432ea0/?vgnextoid=d8a7f08ad12b4610VgnVCM1000001d04140aRCRD

Documents whose content is in a language other than Spanish must be translated by a Spanish sworn translator.

If the document is intended for a country that has signed the Hague Convention:
    1.- The signature of the academic authority issuing the document will be recognised by the Principal of the Universitat de València.
    2.- The recognition of the signature by the Notary.
    3.- Recognition of the signature of the previous Notary by the Dean of the College of Notaries to which he or she belongs, who will stamp the Hague Apostille.

This procedure consists of four steps:

1.  Recognition of the signatures of the Academic Authorities issuing the document, by the Notary who knows them.
2. Acknowledgement of the signature of the previous Notary by the Dean of the Notary School to which he belongs.
3. Legalization itself:
   • Presentation to the Ministry of Justice.
   • Presentation to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.
4. Acknowledgement of the previous signatures at the Diplomatic or Consular Representation in Spain of the country where the document is to take effect.

The system will automatically generate a number to match the Spanish identification system which will be a M95XXXXXX. As soon as you have a valid ID card number, you can request that the identification number be changed in your file by sending an email to the Doctoral School from your institutional email address user@alumni.uv.es, attaching a copy of your ID number.

Pre-enrolment is a process that takes place before enrolment during which applications for a course are assessed and the places available are allocated. Therefore, the final step in the pre-enrolment process is to notify candidates if they have been admitted, conditionally admitted, included on the waiting list or excluded.

Enrolment is the process following pre-enrolment. Students admitted in the corresponding pre-enrolment phase can enrol within the period established (refer to enrolment calendar). Also students conditionally admitted that have proved the compliance with the academic requirements within the period established.

From 30 November on, the Doctoral School will automatically cancel the enrolment of all doctoral students who have not proved the completion of the studies required to access the doctorate programmes.

Enrolment will take place from 2 to 8 November 2021 online through the student portal. To register online, the student must identify him/herself. To do so, the application will require the following data:

• The DNI, NIF or passport that you introduced when you made the pre-registration application.
• The date of birth.
• The number of the pre-enrolment application. This number, in addition to being included in the pre-enrolment application (it appears in the upper right corner of the PDF document generated with the initials UV-DOC_PDOC21-XXXX), will be indicated to the students in the personal notification with the result of the pre-enrolment, in the case of having been admitted to a doctoral program. Incidents that may arise must be addressed to the Doctoral School by e-mail.

You have to enrol in the academic tutelage and first year research plan. In addition, in some cases the academic committee may indicate in the notification of admission some complementary trainingin which the doctoral student will also have to enrol.

Students who have been admitted to a doctoral programme but have not enrolled within the established period will lose their right to a place. Admission to a doctoral programme is valid for the academic year for which it has been requested.

If a doctoral student who has already been enrolled in the programme in which he/she has been admitted obtains a place on the waiting list for another doctoral programme that he/she had applied for on a preferential basis, he/she can remain in the doctoral programme in which he/she is enrolled or enrol in the new one that he/she had previously resigned from. In the mail accepting the new place obtained by waiting list, you must attach the express waiver in the program in which you were already enrolled to include it in your file. Once received, the Doctoral School will proceed to formalize the registration in the new programme.

You must contact the academic committee of the doctoral programme for which you have pre-enrolled, so that they can send a favourable admission report to the Doctoral School, indicating that you must register for the program in an extraordinary manner before the beginning of the ordinary registration period, in order to be able to sign the pre-doctoral contract. Obviously, as long as you comply with the general requirements established in art.6 of the Spanish Royal Decree 99/2011, of 28 January. Once the report has been received and it has been confirmed that the general requirements for admission have been met, you will receive an e-mail, at the e-mail address indicated in the pre-enrolment application form with the instructions for formalising the enrolment.

You can obtain a certificate of enrolment for the doctorate in Spanish, Valencian or English through this online procedure from the UV’s Virtual Office.

To prove a fee exemption, you must send a mail to the Doctoral School from your institutional "alumni" mail, attaching the justification of the fee exemption in force. You must justify the exemption every year to prove that it is still in effect. If at the time of formalising or renewing your enrolment, the renewal is being processed, the enrolment will be considered ordinary until you send the renewed documentation. At that time, the enrolment will be modified. If your exemption is of a permanent nature, you must inform the Doctoral School of this because they will check whether it is in your file. If necessary, they will ask you to send it again. An exemption for large families that has not been issued by the competent authority of the Spanish administration or autonomous community will not be applicable. The following link provides information on fee exemptions: https://www.uv.es/uvweb/doctoral-studies-school/en/admission-enrolment/enrolment/fees-exemptions-1285951943221.html

Modification of the bank account data for the payment of the doctorate enrolment: The account number can only be modified if the receipt or, if applicable, the periods into which the payment has been divided, have not been generated. If the receipts have already been generated, you will have to wait until the PREPARAMAT programme is opened for the next academic year to send the direct debit order and from the Doctoral School they will modify the account number.

• The returned receipts will be generated again by the Doctoral School and can only be paid through the UV's online payment platform
• You can request that an invoice be issued for payment. You must send an email to the Doctoral School from the institutional email address user@alumni.uv.es indicating the fiscal data that must be included in the invoice. It is also possible that an invoice for a paid receipt will be issued if you need to justify the payment to an organisation or company. If you need the invoice to be sent to the requesting body, you have to send a mail to the Doctoral School from your institutional address authorising the Doctoral School to send the requested invoice and posing in copy the mail address where it has to be sent.

The options for paying the doctoral tuition are:

* Credit card: payment made through UV's online payment platform. It will not be necessary to register either the card number or the CVC code when the registration is formalised. Once the corresponding receipt or deadline has been generated, you will receive an e-mail in your "alumni" account informing you that you already have the corresponding receipt or deadline for payment. (for problems accessing the receipt send mail to entreu@uv.es)

* Spanish direct debit: you will need to fill in the direct debit order and send it duly signed to the Doctoral School by e-mail because it will be included in the file.

* Bank transfer: to make the payment through this option, you will have to send an email from the institutional account user@alumni.uv.es at the Doctoral School, to request the details of the UV's bank account. Once the transfer has been made, a copy of the proof of payment must be sent to the address indicated above. The transfer costs that may arise will be charged to the applicant.

The payment of the enrolment fees is annual and is not made at the moment of the self-enrolment or at the moment of its renewal by the Doctoral School. The receipts will be generated later.

The approximate dates of issue of the receipts are as follows:

• Single payment: last working day of November 2020
• Payment in 2 instalments: the last working day of November 2020 and February 2021
• Payment in 6 instalments: the last working day of October, November, and December 2020; and January, February, and March 2021.

The cost of enrolment is established annually in a decree by the Generalitat Valenciana (Valencian Government) which sets the fees for university academic services. Concepts (Decree 170/2019 for the 2019/2020 academic year):

• Academic tutoring: €300
• University card: €5.87
• School insurance, if applicable: €1.12. Only for those under 28 years of age. 
• Opening of the academic record: €27.34 (only paid for the first year)
• Master's credits by area of knowledge - regulated in the fees decree (only if the academic committee establishes this in the application for admission)

Once you have enrolled for the current academic year, the refund of fees corresponding to academic supervision and other concepts paid will only be made if it is submitted by 31 December of the academic year in question. You must send the application for fee refund, attaching the corresponding supporting documentation, from your institutional "alumni" mail. If the account indicated in the application is not a Spanish account, the transfer costs, if any, will be deducted from the amount to be refunded. You can access the application at: https://www.uv.es/uvweb/doctoral-studies-school/en/administrative-information/guides-forms-1285964905505.html

The doctoral enrolment will be cancelled in the following cases:

- For non-payment of the enrolment fee or some of its instalments, if it is paid in instalments. In no case will the amount paid be refunded, unless the cancellation of the registration is due to a justified cause of force majeure, which has been requested by the interested party. In this case, the file can be regularised, and the registration can be renewed if the doctoral student pays the outstanding receipt or instalments. Once the payment has been regularised, you must inform the Doctoral School and request that your registration be renewed.

- If the deadline for the deposit of the thesis has expired and the file has not been regularised The file will be regularised if the extension or, if applicable, extension of the extension has been requested from the academic commission of the doctoral program and is granted. It is not possible to apply for more extensions than those established in art.3 of Spanish Royal Decree 99/2011, 28 January.

- If the evaluation of the second call of the previous academic year has not been passed. The definitive cancellation for this reason will mean that it is not possible to re-enrol in the programme in which you have cancelled your enrolment until two academic years have passed, without prejudice to the possibility of applying for admission to a different doctorate programme.

The issue, maintenance or updating of the university card is subject to a fee which is regulated in Annex Y of the Fees Decree approved annually by the Valencian Government. (III. Degrees and Secretariat point 2.3) and is paid annually with the renewal of the enrolment. Once the enrolment has been formalised, you must go to the office of Santander Bank on your campus on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8.30 to 10.30 and from 15.30 to 17.00. For any incident that your office cannot issue you a card, you must send a mail to the Doctorate School from your "alumni" address. You can request a duplicate card for loss or theft by sending an e-mail to the address above from your institutional mailbox. You will then have to go to the Banco de Santander office on the corresponding campus to have it printed out. If you have a university card, you can request a change of relationship to that of a doctorate student by sending an e-mail to the address above. Expired cards are renewed by Santander Bank and sent by ordinary mail to the postal address on file within one month of the expiry date. If after one month you have not received it, you must contact the Santander office on your campus.

Within a maximum of three months from the start of the first enrolment, the CAPD (Academic Committees of the Doctoral Programme) must assign the doctoral student a tutor and a director. The tutor must always be a UV doctoral lecturer. The director, or co-directors, may be a Spanish or foreign doctor with accredited research experience at the UV or from outside. In some doctoral programmes, the academic committee may establish as a specific requirement that, to be admitted, you must already have a tutor assigned to you. If you have not been assigned a tutor by the deadline, you must contact the academic committee of your doctoral programme. You can consult the academic contacts of the coordinators of all the doctoral programmes offered by the UV at the following link: https://www.uv.es/uvweb/doctoral-studies-school/en/doctoral-programmes-offering/doctoral-studies-alphabetically-sorted-1285951943872.html

The renewal of the enrolment of second year and subsequent doctoral students will be carried out annually by the Doctoral School during the first week of October. The Doctoral School will send an e-mail to the institutional address user@alumni.uv.es in July to inform about the renewal of the enrolment and, if necessary, update the personal data, or payment method through the PREPARAMAT programme.

Once the doctorate enrolment has been renewed, an email is sent to the institutional address user@alumni.uv.es. You will be able to access the summary of the enrolment at the UV Virtual Secretary (https://secvirtual.uv.es). If you do not remember the password to access the institutional mail or your personal space, you must send an email to the Doctoral School, attaching a copy of your ID card or passport in force for a correct identification and a new password will be generated.

Your doctoral enrolment will not be renewed, in any case, if you are in any of the following situations:

* You have missed the deadline for the deposit of your thesis without it having been done.

* The receipt for the registration fees of the previous academic year is pending. In case of doubt, you can send an email to the Doctoral School from the institutional address user@alumni.uv.es.

* If Iyou have made the deposit of the thesis until October 31st of the current year.

* If you have applied to the academic committee of my doctoral programme for a temporary cancellation for a specific period or corresponding academic year.

In both cases, you must attach the corresponding justification to the address admin.doctorat@uv.es from the institutional address usuari@alumni.uv.es. Once the deposit of the thesis has been confirmed and the copy of the application for temporary cancellation has been received, the Doctoral School will proceed to cancel the renewal of the registration. If the corresponding academic committee rejects the request for temporary cancellation, the registration will be renewed, unless a definitive cancellation of the doctoral programme is processed.

The utility of PREPARAMAT is to verify or modify, as appropriate, personal data and select new payment method, if this is to be changed, as well as update registration exemptions by submitting the documentation justifying the exemption in effect to the email address of the Doctoral School from your institutional email address user@alumni.uv.es .

The programme will be open from July to September. If you do not have to modify any personal data or change the payment method, you do not need to access PREPARAMAT; the enrolment will be renewed by transferring the data from the previous year.

Here are some useful links related to doctoral studies:

• Enrolment instructions (Not available in English)
• Spanish Royal Decree 99/2011 of 28 January regulating doctoral studies (Not available in English)
• Guide to doctoral studies (Not available in English)
• Guides and forms
• Information e-mails
• Information on calls for pre-doctoral scholarships

The Doctoral School has published on its website the list of organisations that offer pre-doctoral contracts. For more information, please send an e-mail to the R&D Management and Support Service.

The FPU and FPI scholarships. The rest of the predoctoral scholarships (Consellería, Atracción de Talento (UV), Prometeo, Grisolía scholarships), do not cover the academic tutelage. If you are a beneficiary of an FPi grant but the contract is not signed with the Universitat de València, to process the payment of the registration fees you must send an email to admin.doctorat@uv.es from your institutional email address user@alumni.uv.es because they will send you the receipt in PDF format and present it to the entity with which you sign the contract for processing.

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

Registration for the transverse training activities is free and is currently done through the computer platform of the Staff Development and Educational Innovation Service, which can be accessed with the UV student user and password during the registration period approved by the Doctoral School and announced each academic year on its website.

Prior to registration, it is important to check the catalogue approved for the academic year and to plan the activities/courses and specific editions of these that you wish to take, taking into account the following aspects: - Each student can register for only one edition of each activity. If you do not pass the activity with flying colours, you will not be able to return to it until the next academic year.

In the description of each of the editions, the dates, the working language and, if applicable, the student profile to which it is addressed are specified by academic areas (humanities, basic sciences, social sciences, etc.)

If there are no places available in any of the editions of a transverse activity in which the student wishes to register, he/she may register in the edition called "Waiting list", offered in each of these activities, or either wait for the next call.

Access the guide of doctoral transverse activities

The success of the transverse activities will be determined by the teaching staff in accordance with specific criteria that will be communicated to the doctoral student at the beginning of each edition.

The teaching staff will inform students of their academic qualifications, which may be either APPROVED or NOT APPROVED. The results can be consulted on the “Manuel Sanchis Guarner” Centre for Education and Quality (SFPIE) platform throughout the academic year. To do so, you must go to the tab Training > Certificate Management > Consult my SFPIE file and access the link: "Training Management Platform".

Once all the courses offered in each academic year have been completed, during the month of July, the information will be transferred to the file of each doctorate student. The SFPIE will in no case certify this training received by the doctoral student.

Access the guide of doctoral transverse activities

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.

The six experts proposed for the evaluation of the doctoral thesis (3 will form the titular tribunal and 3 the substitute one) must hold a doctorate degree and accredited research experience.

In the case of permanent teaching staff with access to the CNAI assessment system, they must have at least one recognised six-year period in the last 10 years. In the event that any of the experts does not comply with the above, but the Academic Committee considers that they should be part of the panel in view of their curriculum vitae and professional career, this committee would have to request authorisation from the ED in writing addressed to the Director of the School and justifying the merits of the expert.

In the rest of the cases they will have to justify 5 relevant contributions, of which at least 3 of them must be indexed publications or published in prestigious media, in the last 10 years.

Both the proposal of 6 experts and the 3 that form the titular tribunal will have to comply with the equality regulations (50% men, 50% women) or at least the parity (60% or 40%). If it is not possible to comply with the equality regulations due to problems in finding experts of one of the two sexes in the area of knowledge of the thesis, the directors of the thesis will have to make a written justification that the doctoral student will attach to his/her application.

It is possible to authorise the deposit of the thesis in any language of scientific, technical or artistic use other than Spanish or Valencian. In this case, the doctoral thesis must include a comprehensive summary written in one of the languages that are official at the Universitat de València (Spanish or Valencian), which must include the objectives, methodology and conclusions of the thesis with a length between 4000 and 8000 words.

A thesis cpmpendium may be submitted to the UV as a doctoral thesis  if the following requirements are met:

1- The doctoral student must submit a minimum of 3 articles published or accepted for publication in an international index such as JCR (WoS) and/or SJR (Scorpus) (If the above requirement cannot be met, each academic committee of the corresponding doctoral programme will determine, in each case, the impact factor that the publications must have on the bibliographic indexes).

2- It must be the first signatory of all the works that I present, in the case of not being it the directors will have to contribute a report that I justify it.

3- The thesis must include a global summary of the theme, the main results and the conclusions, which justify the original contribution of the doctoral student, written in any of the official languages, with a minimum of 4000 words.

4- As an annex, a complete copy of the papers published or accepted for publication shall be included, clearly stating the name and affiliation of all the co-authors of the papers and the complete reference of the journal in which the papers have been published or accepted for publication. In the case of articles admitted for publication, a justification of this admission by the journal must be attached.

5- A report from the thesis directors must be attached, justifying the place of signature of the doctoral student. In the case of co-authorship of the articles, the participation of the doctoral student in these articles must be specified, and whether any of the co-authors of any of the works presented in the doctoral thesis has used, implicitly or explicitly, these works for the completion of another doctoral thesis.

If you are going to deposit your thesis and it is subject to a protection process you must request it in writing at the Doctoral School together with:

• A favourable report from your directors and your tutor or
• A copy of your thesis in encrypted form signed by your directors (only the part that is strictly necessary to ensure protection must be encrypted)
• Or the documentation proving the need for protection.

If the Doctoral School authorises it, the doctoral student will have to deposit the thesis in encrypted form.

If they so request, the Doctoral School may authorise access to the full version of the thesis to 2 members of the academic committee, so they make a report for the commission. These two members will have to sign a confidentiality agreement beforehand. Similarly, the members of the panel may request access to the full version of the thesis, in which case the Doctoral School will send it to them, but they will also have to sign a confidentiality commitment beforehand.

The publication of the doctoral thesis in the institutional repository (Roderic) will take place when the protection process has been completed, which will be communicated by the doctoral candidate at the Doctoral School.

According to the Royal Decree 99/2011, which regulates the official Doctoral Studies, the title of Doctor will include on its obverse side the diligence "Thesis in joint supervision regime with the University U" whenever the following circumstances:

• That the doctoral thesis is supervised by two or more doctors from two universities, one Spanish and one foreign, who will have to formalise a joint tutelage agreement.
• During the training period required to obtain the doctoral degree, the doctoral student must have spent a minimum of six months at the institution with which the joint supervision agreement is established, carrying out research work, either in a single period or in several. The stays and activities will be reflected in the agreement.

More information

The completion of a co-tutorised thesis requires the prior signature of an agreement between the two universities involved in the joint thesis. Likewise, the doctoral student must comply with a series of administrative requirements to apply for the co-tutorised thesis.

You can check the requirements, as well as the minimum content of the co-tutorised agreement here.

No. Pre-registration and appication for joint supervision doctoral thesis are two separate procedures; and admission to a doctoral programme must always be prior to the co-tutelage application. Thus, the first thing to do is to apply for admission to a doctoral programme by making the corresponding pre-registration. Once you have been admitted to a doctoral program, you can proceed to apply for the co-tutorised thesis.

More information about pre-registration for the doctorate.

Doctorate students enrolled at the Universitat de València who meet the requirements for co-tutelage must submit the Co-tutelage Application Form to the Doctoral School in order to start the procedures for signing the agreement with the university where the co-tutelage will be carried out. This form must be signed by the interested doctoral student and by the rest of the Universitat de València teaching staff involved in the thesis (coordinator, tutor and director). Access to the co-tutorship application form:

https://www.uv.es/escoladoct/procedimientos/formulari_sol_cotutela.pdf

You must be enrolled in both universities, even though the academic fees will be paid, each year, only in one university, according to the agreement for joint supervision.

The text of the joint supervision of doctoral thesis agreement is agreed between the two universities involved once the corresponding co-tutorship application has been received at both universities.

No. The defence of the thesis will be unique and will take place at the university stipulated in the agreement, and in accordance with the conditions established in the agreement.

A thesis under a co-tutorship regime implies that each university will issue the corresponding doctoral degree, upon payment of the corresponding associated fees. In the case of the Universitat de València, and in accordance with state regulations, on the front of the degree there will be a notice stating, "Thesis under a joint supervision with the University U".

The title of Doctor may include the mention "International Doctorate" on its front if at the time of the provisional deposit this is requested, and the following requirements are met

1-A minimum stay of three months in a prestigious foreign university or research centre.

2-That at least the summary and conclusions of the thesis (the academic commission may require, if necessary, a longer extension or even the whole thesis) are written and are going to be defended in a language of scientific use other than Spanish or Valencian (this will not be necessary if the stay and the experts come from a Spanish-speaking country).

3-That two international experts are part of the proposal of experts and issue a report on the thesis (they have to be doctors, justify 5 publications, 3 of them indexed or published in prestigious media, and a link with their university of at least 5 years) and that one of them (who has to be different from the person in charge of the stay) is part of the titular tribunal.

The stay for the mention of International Doctorate must be at least 3 months and can be done in any university or research centre of prestige outside Spain, as long as it is not your home university.

It can be done with or without a scholarship; in both cases the stay must have been approved by the director and authorised by the academic committee of the PhD programme. It can be done in several periods if authorised by the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Programme.

The two foreign experts (they can belong to any university or research institute outside Spain) must meet the same requirements (they must hold a doctorate, accredited research experience, at least five years' connection with their university and cannot be responsible for the stay), since if they do not meet these requirements, if the holder cannot act, the substitute must do so, and if they do not meet the requirements, you will lose the mention of International Doctorate.

The regulations do not prevent the person in charge of the stay from forming part of your thesis, but your thesis will have to be evaluated by two other foreign experts and one of these two will have to form part of the titular tribunal.

The research experience of the two experts will have to be justified by 5 publications in the last 10 years, and at least 3 of them will have to be indexed or published in prestigious media.

In all cases you will have to attach to the deposit of your thesis if you want to apply for the international mention:

1- A certificate issued by the University where you have made the stay in which I make clear the duration (3 months minimum) and who has been the professor responsible for it.

2- The approval of this stay issued by your academic committee.

3- In addition, if you have made the stay with funding (scholarship), you must attach the necessary documentation to justify it. If you have not done it with financing, you will have to attach (in addition to the previous certificate) a report with the work plan that you have done in this one, the curriculum vitae of the professor responsible and of the director of the receiving team (if it is not the same person).

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 by e-mail, 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 of the Council of the Valencian Government.

The fees in force for the 2019/2020 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:

• Issuance of doctoral degrees €225.20
• Issuance of academic certificate €27.34
• Document compulsion €10.69
• Sending titles to Spain €15
• Sending titles to Europe €30
• Sending titles to other countries €50
• Duplicate of previous titles, due to loss or modification €27.34
• Application for declaration of equivalence of foreign degrees at the academic level of doctorate €166.89

The issue of certificates corresponding to doctoral studies must be requested in person or by sending an e-mail to certificats.doctorat@uv.es from the institutional address of the doctoral student (usuari@alumni.uv.es).

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

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 €166.89, 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.

More information.

After the enrolment, a mentor will be automatically assigned, and three months later, a thesis director and up to a maximum of 3 codirectors “in cases of reasons of academic nature”. In the first year, the Research Plan (PI, for its Spanish: Plan de Investigación) will be set, including at least the methodology and the objectives of the research, as well as the tools and planning. Enrolments are done on a yearly basis. 

The doctoral commitment includes a procedure for resolving conflicts that may arise in relation to intellectual or industrial property, and in general to the functions of supervision of the doctoral student's research activity.

You must sign it within three months of formalising your enrolment and you must address it to the academic committee of your doctoral programme, indicating the dedication with which you have been admitted to the programme, signed by your tutor, director or, where appropriate, co-directors.

Doctoral commitment form

The research plan must be completed and submitted to the academic committee of the corresponding doctoral programme for approval at the end of the first year, according to the calendar established in the doctoral programme.

The modification of a research plan requires the completion of the modification document and its submission to the corresponding academic commission for approval, if applicable. The modification can be processed at any time before the thesis is submitted. If the modification involves the resignation of the tutor, director, or co-director, it is imperative to attach the resignation for it to be included in the file.

Once the research plan has been approved and, if appropriate, the research plan has been modified, it will be sent to the Doctoral School to be included in the file.

More information

Every year the academic commission of the doctoral programme will evaluate the research plan and the document of activities, together with the reports that will have to be issued by the tutor and the director. Each commission determines the deadline for the delivery of the corresponding documentation for its first evaluation.

If the evaluation is negative, the doctoral student will have 6 months to make up for the deficiencies for which he/she has not passed the evaluation. In this case, the registration can be renewed, but if after 6 months the evaluation is negative again, the student will be permanently withdrawn from the doctoral program. Each academic committee determines the deadline for submitting the corresponding documentation for the second evaluation.

In the following link you will find the form.

The duration of doctoral studies will be a maximum of three years full time, from the date of the first registration until the deposit of the thesis, or five years part time, if authorised by the academic commission of the corresponding doctoral programme.

Part-time dedication can be authorised by the academic committee at the time of pre-enrolment or you can request a change of dedication once you have enrolled. To process it, the application for a change of modality must be presented to the academic committee of the doctoral program, with the corresponding justification, for its approval, if applicable.

Part-time dedication influences the duration of doctoral studies.

In no case does it mean that the amount of the enrolment fee is reduced by half or that the deadlines for submitting the corresponding documentation for the annual evaluation to the academic committee of the doctoral programme are reduced.

The change from part-time to full-time mode will also be processed by submitting the application to the academic committee for approval. Once the change of dedication has been approved, the committee will inform the doctoral student and the Doctoral School so that it can be recorded in the file.

Form for the application for dedication change

The extension must be requested before the deadline. The application must be submitted to the academic committee of the doctoral program, duly motivated and justified, for approval, if applicable.

There is no set deadline for applying, but you must contact the academic committee in case they have set a deadline for processing it.

If you work part-time, you can apply for an extension of 2 years and an additional year (maximum 3). If you work full-time, you can apply for an extension of 1 year and an additional year (maximum 2).

No more extensions can be authorised than those established in art.3 of the Royal Decree 99/2011, of 28 January, for each of the activities. Once the request for extension has been approved, the committee will inform the doctoral student and the Doctoral School so that it can be recorded in the file.

Extension application form

The Spanish Royal Decree 99/2011 of January 28th, which regulates the official doctoral courses, establishes that the mention of "Industrial PhD" will be granted provided that the following circumstances are met:

• The existence of an employment or commercial contract with the doctoral student, the contract may be entered into by a company in the private or public sector, as well as by a public administration.
• The doctoral student will have to participate in an industrial research or business development project to be carried out in the company or public administration in which the service is provided, which cannot be a university. The industrial research or experimental development project in which the doctoral student participates must be directly related to the thesis he/she is working on. This direct relationship will be accredited by means of a report that will have to be endorsed by the UV.

In the event that the industrial research or experimental development project is carried out in collaboration between the UV and the company or public administration in which the doctoral student or doctoral candidate worked, a framework collaboration agreement will be signed between the parties. This agreement will indicate the obligations of the University and the obligations of the company or Public Administration, as well as the procedure for selecting the doctoral students.

More information about the industrial doctorate

The Regulations for obtaining the mention of industrial doctorate in the doctoral degrees issued by the Universitat de València develop the specific requirements needed to obtain the mention.

Access to the regulations

To process the agreement, you must contact the Doctorate School. Here you can access the model agreement.

The deadline for the thesis deposit is the maximum date you have to make the deposit in the ENTREU platform.

As established in the resolution of the Office of the Principal of 8 April 2020 in view of the exceptional situation caused by COVID-19, with regard to the deadline for the deposit of the thesis and, in accordance with the third additional provision of the Spanish Royal Decree 465/2020, the deadlines for deposit within this period will not be taken into account and, when the situation is re-established, the deadline will be recalculated for all doctoral students affected.

In other words, once normalcy has been restored, the Doctoral School will automatically add the length of the period of the alarm condition to the deadline. Thus, for example, if this state lasts one month, an additional month's deadline for the submission of the thesis will be added to all doctoral students whose submission deadline is later in the declaration of the state of emergency.

The deadlines set for the submission of annual reports and research plans to the academic committee for the corresponding evaluations are maintained. Any documentation relating to a situation of medical leave, maternity leave, paternity leave or temporary leave can be processed online and normally.

Situations that end and imply an activation of the file and the consequent renewal of the registration for the current academic year will be processed with complete normality by the Doctorate School.

The payment of the bill maintains the same deadlines. The Doctoral School will inform doctoral students who, once the last instalment has been generated, have a receipt or a pending instalment of their status to proceed with the payment.

Access to the resolution of the Office of the Principal.