Training Plan
Mandatory Training Activities
MANDATORY CROSS-CUTTING
First year for full-time researchers-in-training and first or second year for part-time researchers-in-training:
- AF1 Advanced document search and management techniques applied to research.
- AF2 Evaluation and assessment of scientific production.
- AF9 Reading Plan for legal and/or economic training.
Third year for full-time researchers-in-training, fourth or fifth year for part-time researchers-in-training:
This activity is offered every year regardless of whether they are part-time or full-time researchers-in-training:
Mandatory Annual Activities
Mandatory for all students regardless of year and full- or part-time status
AF5.Predoctoral Orientation
AF11. Work meetings with supervisor(s)
Additional training
The doctoral program´s Academic Committee will determine if any additional training (coursework, research) is required on a case-by-case basis.
Research Methodology.
Optional Activities
Open to all students regardless of year and full- or part-time status
AF3. Transfer of research results.
AF4. Calls for research grants: competitive national and European projects.
AF6. Attend research seminars or conferences on topics related to the PhD program.
AF8 Participation in meetings of competitive R+D projects or incipient research work.
Skills
BASIC AND GENERAL SKILLS
– Comprehensive understanding of a field of study and mastery of related skills and research methods.
– Ability to devise, design, create, implement and adopt a significant process of research or development.
– Ability to push the limits knowledge through original research.
– Ability to analyze, assess, and synthesize new and complex ideas in a critical fashion.
– Ability to engage the academic and scientific communities, and society at large, with your fields of knowledge, through international scientific standards and languages
– Ability to promote, both academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic and cultural progress within the knowledge society.
PERSONAL SKILLS AND ABILITIES
– Coping in contexts where specific information is limited.
– Finding the key questions that must be answered in order to solve a complex problem.
– Designing, creating, developing, and undertaking new and innovative projects in your field of knowledge.
– Working both independently and as part of a larger team, in an international or multidisciplinary context.
– Integrating knowledge, dealing with complexity and forming opinions
based on limited information.
– Criticism and intellectual defense of solutions.
