Program Overview

Doctoral School

The Doctoral School offers a range of programs and resources for doctoral candidates.

Program Details

• Doctoral candidates can enroll in various courses, including:
  • Cross-disciplinary training
  • Courses
  • Capsules for Emotional Well-being
• The Capsules for Emotional Well-being course is a free online course that includes a test and retests.
• The course covers personal skills and emotional wellbeing, and is available online.

Cross-Disciplinary Training

• The Doctoral School offers cross-disciplinary training in various areas, including:
  • Training in specific methods of research
  • Training in transferable skills
  • Language skills
  • Personal skills and emotional wellbeing
  • Development of the Doctoral Thesis
  • Open science and RRI (Open science, Citizen science, Data management, Sustainability, Ethics, Gender dimension in research)
  • Teaching and guidance
  • Career development
  • Research management
  • Innovation and creativity
  • Valorization of research results and entrepreneurship
  • Online training and other resources

Doctoral Thesis

• The Doctoral School provides resources and support for doctoral thesis development, including:
  • Doctoral theses
  • Thesis supervisors
  • Thesis examination committee
  • Research integrity
  • Deposit and assessment
  • International Doctorate mention
  • Industrial Doctorate mention
  • Cotutelle
  • Thesis in 4 Minutes competition
  • CRUE #HiloTesis Competition
  • Extraordinary Doctoral Awards
  • Doctoral qualifications
  • Equivalence of foreign doctoral qualifications
  • Legalization of Spanish documents
  • Sant Jordi Micro-stories Contest

Industrial Doctorates

• The Doctoral School offers industrial doctorates with various research groups, including:
  • UPC research groups - Smart City
• Industrial doctorates provide added value, including:
  • Economic management
  • Government calls

Internationalisation

• The Doctoral School participates in international programs, including:
  • Marie Curie Doctoral Networks
  • Unite!
  • Cotutelle

School

• The Doctoral School has various functions, including:
  • Introduction
  • Functions
  • Governing and representative bodies
  • Quality
  • Legislation and regulations
  • Health and safety
  • Doctoral School's Newsletter
  • Suggestion box
  • Logo and corporate image