The Academic Committee of the Doctoral Programme will be the body responsible for establishing individually for each doctoral student the training activities that must be taken and passed in order to complement their training on admission to the Doctoral Programme. These training complements will preferably be subjects from official degrees and in any case will not be activities that form part of the Doctoral Programme, and must be taken during the first year after admission to the Doctoral Programme. These complements must be reported favourably by the responsible academic bodies and will be considered as doctoral training for the purposes of public prices, scholarships and grants.
The Doctoral School is conceived as a space for exchange and interrelation between students, professors, researchers and professionals of recognised prestige. It is therefore the appropriate environment to promote training activities that enable doctoral students to acquire knowledge and skills that will have a positive impact on their research training, and which would otherwise be very difficult or costly for the research groups involved in a particular doctoral programme to provide. Some of these activities may be general in scope, and can be extended to all doctoral students. Others, on the other hand, may be more positively developed on a sectoral basis, i.e. by broad areas of knowledge. The planning and decision on the scope of application of each of the activities will be carried out by the Directorate of the Doctoral School in collaboration with the Academic Committees of the different doctoral programmes.
Throughout the training period (3 years full-time, 5 if part-time student), students on the programme must carry out at least the following activities:
- Conferences and seminars on topics of the research lines (75 hours).
- Study of the state of the art literature on the thesis topic to be carried out (60 hours).
- Seminars on the fundamentals and fundamental tools (20 hours).
The Doctoral School Management, in collaboration with the Academic Committees of each doctoral programme, will promote the mobility of doctoral students by providing information on grants and subsidies for the mobility of doctoral students to other R+D centres, as well as on the availability of places for doctoral students' stays in the different national and international research organisations.
The research groups will inform the students of the possible summer schools on related topics that are usually held in different European countries (some of them, of course, in Spain) and of the grants, if any, that these schools make available to the students.