PhD in Regional Development

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Participating entities

Collaborations with agreement

• Cooperation Framework for student and faculty mobility with the University of the Azores
• Agreement with the Colegio de la Frontera Norte AC of Mexico
• Framework Agreement for Cooperation with the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil)
• Cooperation Agreement with the University of Katyavala Bwila (UKBAngola)
• Specific Doctoral Agreement with the University of the Andes, Merida-Venezuela

Other collaborations

• Collaborations without an agreement. Since we do not yet have formal collaboration agreements signed (at the time of requesting verification of this doctoral programme) with any of the universities to which some of the researchers listed below are attached, we must indicate that their inclusion among the team of collaborators responds to the fact that the indicated researchers actively collaborate in projects and research with some of the researchers of the proposed doctoral programme, which can be accredited with the list of publications and doctoral thesis directors indicated in the programme. We also understand that these collaborations without an agreement are recognised in the Aneca document (Support Guide: Evaluation for the verification of official doctoral studies, version 0.4_25/03/2013)», which not only states that «the collaborations that the doctoral programme maintains with other universities, organisations or institutions must be detailed», but that «both the collaborations regulated by agreement and those that the doctoral programme carries out informally will be detailed. Furthermore, although these are not agreements, Professor Dow has been provided with a commitment document signed by her, as well as a letter from the Director of her department, authorising the collaboration.

· University of Stirling (Prof. Sheila Dow)
· University of California, Riverside (Prof. Gary Dymski)
· Paris Sud University – Faculty Jean Monnet (Prof. Jose de Sousa)

• Collaborations with an agreement. The list of collaborations in the Programme's report includes six public universities with which formal collaboration agreements have been established. These six universities are the following:

· University of Açores (Portugal)
· University of Madeira (Portugal)
· Frontera Norte AC School of Mexico (Mexico)
· Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil)
· Katyavala Bwila University (Angola)
· University of the Andes, Merida (Venezuela)

The latest agreement signed is that of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, which was promoted by the Academic Director to formalize the collaborations in research and doctoral thesis supervision already existing between that university and the University of La Laguna. The reason why the collaboration agreements signed to date have a general character is due to the fact that the Vice-Rectorate for Internationalization of our university has always suggested to us the advantage of signing framework agreements, regardless of whether they had been promoted for the activities of the Master's in Regional Development itself and the Doctoral Program in Regional Development, Training and Employment (which we have already said constitute the basis of the Doctoral Program in Regional Development that is now proposed), in order to then extend them, with successive Annexes, to other activities related to the programming of the master's and/or doctorate without having to formally repeat the steps to proceed to the signing of new agreements. The reason why these framework agreements have not been updated to date is because the University of La Laguna has been immersed (for almost a year now) in a restructuring process (see the following link) which has affected all its centres (Faculties and Schools), management bodies (Governing Team) and university departments, and which is not finished (at this time it is in the period of elaboration of the respective RRI of each of the resulting centres and departments), for which reason we have considered it inconvenient to start this update without first knowing the specific names that the centres and departments resulting from this restructuring process will have).

For this same reason, we have been forced to delay the start of the formal procedures that require the signing of framework agreements with the institutions to which some of the researchers incorporated into the new proposal for a Regional Development Doctoral Program belong, and who were not present in the previous doctoral program, such as Dr. Sheila Dow, from the University of Stirling (Scotland) and Dr. Gary Dymski, (University of California, Riverside).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]