PhD in Health Sciences

Mobility

Internships at other research centers (mobility)

• Number of hours: 400
• A stay of at least three months, to be completed in one or two visits, at another national or foreign centre of recognised prestige. The selection of the destination centre and the most suitable period of stay must be agreed 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: Being able to integrate into a foreign research group and collaborate on its lines of research. Resolving specific questions raised in your research. Learning new techniques and being able to apply them to the development of your doctoral thesis. Initiating 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: Provision of external resources and travel grants for conferences and stays at other centres). 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 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 of 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 by the person in charge of the host group in which the stay was carried out on the use made of it, 2. Personal reasoned report on the objectives achieved and not achieved with respect to the proposed plan, 3. Presentation of the progress that the stay has meant for the thesis in a seminar of the research group. The report must be included in the personalized record of activities.
• 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 regulating the correct development of mobility programs) of this report.