Mobility

Internships in R&D Centers

• Number of hours: 480
• Description:
  • Stays of a minimum of 480 hours (12 weeks) will be encouraged. PhD students will be encouraged to undertake research stays, whenever possible, during the time required to obtain the European mention. PhD students, under the advice and coordination of their tutor or director, may arrange with an external academic centre, national or international, a research stay supervised by a professor or researcher from said centre, in order to develop instrumental or specific aspects of their thesis, from learning specific techniques, designing measurement or analysis instruments, critical review and design of specific sections of their research, etc. The reception centres will be determined based on existing agreements, or from specific contacts of the thesis tutor or director. If the PhD student has external co-directors, the stay may be carried out at the centre and under the supervision of that co-director. In cases where the thesis director deems it appropriate, various short stays of four weeks each will be promoted to learn methods and techniques useful for the development of the research being carried out by the doctoral student, as well as collaboration in research activities of research groups of interest to the student.
  • Learning Outcomes (Competencies that are promoted):
    The activity will help the PhD student to consolidate the competencies CB11, CB12, CB13, CB14, CB15, CA01 to CA06. In particular, to gain a deeper knowledge of the methodology of scientific research in social sciences and current issues in the field of Regional Development, guiding them towards specific application in the various lines of research that articulate the program. Likewise, it will serve to establish contacts with certain international specialists, first relationships with researchers from other networks.
    that offer special interest, consolidate these if they have already been started, etc.
    This activity is recommended from the second year for full-time PhD students and from the third year for part-time PhD students. In any case, the stay is recommended after the first year, both for full-time and part-time students.
  • Teaching Languages: Spanish and English.
• Monitoring procedure: Each stay will generate an attendance check and an evaluation (positive or negative) by the doctor supervising the doctoral student at the host centre in the event of a positive evaluation. The corresponding certificate of stay will be included by the doctoral student in his or her respective "Document of Activities". These recorded activities will be evaluated favourably or unfavourably by the tutor and/or Director before the evaluation by the Academic Committee responsible for the Programme. Both full-time and part-time students may participate in all of the training activities described. All these controls will form part of the doctoral student's document of activities (DAD) which will be regularly reviewed by the Tutor and the thesis Director and evaluated by the Academic Committee responsible for the programme.
• Mobility activities: The mobility activity programming for part-time students is developed in the same way for this type of students with the only particularity that those enrolled in this second category have two additional years to be able to develop it. For the financing of this type of activity, public and/or private aid will be used:
  • FPU/FPI programs
  • Erasmus Programme
  • Ministry grants support for student mobility in programs with a Mention towards Excellence
  • European, national, regional and ULL calls for short research stays
  • The research group where the doctoral student is integrated