Teaching
Activities to develop your transversal, specialised and methodological skills as well as to promote the development of critical analysis and research skills
Doctoral Credits (CDs) measure the workload required of the PhD student in research and training activities for the degree.
Each CD is worth 25 hours of work and the PhD student must achieve 60 CDs per year. Each Course divides the total amount of CDs between research activities, training activities and teaching activities (seminars attendance), ensuring that the research activity ranges between 65 percent and 80 percent of the total.
The Course establishes the minimum CD value to be achieved for each of the following activities:
disciplinary and multidisciplinary seminars;
training related to the acquisition of transversal skills;
extra-curricular training for the growth of PhD students as members of a scientific community (summer school, PhD symposia, etc.);
dissemination of research results.
The Course establishes its own criteria for determining the number of CDs to be allocated to individual activities, in accordance with the practices of its disciplinary field and the University's guidelines. Finally, the Course establishes the recommended number of CDs to be acquired through training, dissemination and seminars attendance during each year of the course in order to ensure a balance among different types of activities.
PhD students, in agreement with their supervisors and co-supervisors, define their specific teaching, training and research work, and choose the activities to be carried out, by type and quantity, within the constraints established by the Faculty for each activity and year of the course.
The acquisition of CDs is verified at the end of each academic year, with rules and procedures established by the Course.
Activities to develop your specialised and methodological skills as well as to promote the developent of critical analysis and research skills.
Multidisciplinary seminars for all PhD students. Seminars are mandatory for first-year students of each curriculum and optional for second-year and third-year students.