PhD Program in Health Sciences

Mobility

Internships at other research centers (mobility)

  • Number of hours: 400
  • Mobility actions: Mobility actions will be regulated by the ULL mobility regulations. See also the points 5.2.4 (Forecast of doctoral stays in other centers) and 8.1.3 (Procedures that regulate the correct development of mobility programs) of this report.
  • A stay of at least three months, to be completed in one or two visits, at another prestigious national or foreign center. The selection of the destination center and the most appropriate length of stay must be agreed upon with the thesis supervisor.
  • Justification: Strengthening of basic specific competencies CB13, CB15, and capacities CA04 and CA05.
  • Time planning:
  • Full-time students: during the second or third year
  • Part-time students: during the third or fourth year.
  • Learning outcomes: Be able to integrate into a foreign research group and collaborate on its lines of research. Resolve specific questions raised in their research. Learn new techniques and be able to apply them to their doctoral thesis. Initiate contacts for future collaborations.
  • Language: Spanish/English.
  • Voluntary activity subject to budget availability. The funding provided for this activity comes from mobility funds of the
    own university, from specific items of agreements and projects and from external calls at local, national and international level (see section 7.2: : Forecast of external resources and travel grants for conferences and stays at other centers). It is estimated that 25-50% of full-time students and 15-35% of part-time students will be able to benefit from this activity.
  • Without prejudice to the establishment of new collaborations based on objectives, in the section 1.4 Some groups with which there are currently collaborations and centers with which there are agreements (annexes) that include the mobility of doctoral students are mentioned (see also sections 5.2.4: Programme organisation. Provision of doctoral student stays at other centres).
  • The Internal Quality Assurance System will be responsible for the procedures for the correct development of mobility (see Section 8.1.3).
  • Control procedure: Pre-stay report, including: 1. Justification for the opportunity of the stay in the context of the thesis work, 2. Experience of the host group in the topic and/or technique to be developed, 3. Presentation of the specific issues to be resolved, 4. Work plan, 5. Source of funding for the stay. Once the stay has been completed: 1. Report from the person in charge of the host group where the stay was carried out on the use of the stay, 2. Personal reasoned report on the objectives achieved and unachieved with respect to the proposed plan, 3. Presentation of the progress that the stay has made for the thesis in a research group seminar. The report must be included in the personalized activity log.