PhD Program in Educational Sciences

Training activities

AF1. Attendance at seminars or conferences given by experts in the field of knowledge
  • Hours: 10
  • Activity title: Research seminar
  • Type of activity: specific to the scope of the program
  • Language(s) in which the course will be taught: Spanish or the preferred language of the conference or seminar.
  • Duration of the activity (in number of hours): 10 hours over the first two or three years, depending on whether the student is a full-time or part-time student. Each academic year, the academic committee of the doctoral programme approves the content and dates of the seminars. Doctoral students may also take part in external training sessions, which can be validated by the seminars. After presenting the summary of the seminar and verifying attendance, the required certificate will be issued.
  • Justification of the activity (skills to be acquired by students):
  • -CB11: Systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of the research skills and methods related to that field. ("Field" is replaced by "scope" as of the application of RD 576/2023, of July 4.
  • -CB14: Ability to perform critical analysis and evaluation and synthesis of new and complex ideas.
  • –CB15: Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community and with society in general about their areas of knowledge in the modes and languages commonly used in their international scientific community.), CB17 (Ability to promote Open Science and Citizen Science, in accordance with article 12 of Organic Law 2/2023, of March 22, as a way of contributing to the consideration of scientific knowledge as a common good, through the evaluation of transversal activities carried out by the doctoral student related to different dimensions of Open Science and Citizen Science, as well as the training acquired in both disciplines in the format of microcredentials or similar. (From the application of RD 576/2023, of July 4).
  • -CA02: Find the key questions that need to be answered to solve a complex problem.
  • -CA04: Work both in a team and independently in an international or multidisciplinary context. 
  • -CA06: Criticism and intellectual defense of solutions.
  • Learning outcomes: Formulate questions, express opinions and contrast value judgments regarding research results obtained by other researchers. Express written conclusions related to the dissertations attended.
  • Contents: Participation in seminars and/or conferences organized by the doctoral student's own research group or team, by other research groups, by a department or center, by the Doctoral School, etc., in which external and internal guest researchers give lectures.
  • They will also be able to participate in seminars related to interdisciplinary or multimodal research on quantitative and qualitative methods, searching and selecting specialized information, organization of information, ethical use of research, specific software or software related to transversal research competencies such as publications, types of journals, databases, among others.
  • Nature of the activity: mandatory prior to submission of the doctoral thesis.
  • Planning: temporary organization of the activity for full-time or part-time students:
  • Activities of this type will be scheduled at least once per semester so that each student can organize themselves to have a sufficient number of attendees after two or three years (full-time/part-time).
  • Suggested planning: temporary organization of the activity for full-time students: PhD students will complete 5 hours of seminar per academic year (first 2 years).
  • Suggested planning: temporary organization of the activity for part-time students: PhD students will complete 5 hours of seminars per academic year (first 3 years).
  • Planning: Human resources for its development: To carry out this training activity, all the researchers participating in the program and their national or international collaborators in networks or research projects are available.. In addition, researchers in training in this doctoral programme will be able to attend other seminars and/or conferences of interest related to the area of study of their line of research and also those of an interdisciplinary or multimodal nature, held at the University itself or at other Universities or Research centres.
  • Planning: Material resources for its development: Universities have the appropriate material and technological resources to carry out these activities in their facilities.
  • Evaluation and control procedure: Students' attendance at these activities will be monitored using attendance sheets, their level of participation in the open discussion forums established will be assessed using evaluation rubrics, and any written reports they may prepare on these seminars will be reviewed and graded.
  • Mobility actions: The training activity described, if it involves travel outside the entity of origin to which it is assigned, will be organized according to the following aspects:
  • Contents: The mobility activities are aimed at promoting the exchange and mobility of students in the Doctoral Program in Education Sciences through the mobility programs and grants that may be established or which the students may attend. Specifically, the aim is to: Promote the attendance and participation of doctoral students enrolled in the program in research seminars that take place, in the first instance, at the university of origin, which would not entail mobility activities. If necessary, the attendance and participation of the doctoral student in other national or foreign universities or research centers will be proposed, which are related to the lines of research included in the doctoral program and may be of interest to researchers in training.
  • Planning: temporary organisation of the activity for full-time or part-time students: The Programme's website will keep up-to-date with information on existing collaborations between the Doctoral Programme and internationally relevant foreign research groups that cover the different lines of research of the programme and the specific training interests of each doctoral student and enable all of them to opt for a stay throughout their doctoral training period. The assignment of exchanges and mobility activities in each case will be carried out in the order of request to the Academic Committee, one per student in each of the possible modalities.
  • The temporary organisation of mobility for each student will be proposed by agreement between the doctoral candidate, his or her tutor and/or thesis director.
  • In all cases, the Academic Committee will evaluate the mobility proposal of each doctoral student, within their plan of activities, and will decide on its approval with or without modifications.
  • Planning: Material resources for its development: As mobility aids intended to promote training activities, there are the programs of the ULL vice-chancellors with responsibilities in research and internationalization.

AF2. Assistance with presentations at National and International Congresses
  • Hours: 20
  • Activity title: Assistance with presentations at National and International Congresses.
  • Type of activity: cross
  • Language(s) in which the course will be taught: Spanish or the preferred language of the conference.
  • Duration of the activity (in number of hours): 20 hours over three or five years, depending on whether the student is a full-time or part-time student.
  • Justification of the activity (skills to be acquired by students):
  • -CB15: Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community and with society in general about their areas of knowledge in the modes and languages commonly used in their international scientific community.
  • -CB16: Ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural progress within a knowledge-based society.
  • -CB17: Ability to promote Open Science and Citizen Science, in accordance with article 12 of Organic Law 2/2023, of March 22, as a way of contributing to the consideration of scientific knowledge as a common good, through the evaluation of transversal activities carried out by the doctoral student related to different dimensions of Open Science and Citizen Science, as well as the training acquired in both disciplines in the form of microcredentials or similar. (As of the application of RD 576/2023, of July 4)
  • -CA04: Work both in a team and independently in an international or multidisciplinary context.
  • -CA06: Criticism and intellectual defense of solutions.
  • Learning outcomes: 
  • Demonstrate communication and discussion skills.
  • Exchange results and compare opinions and judgments with other researchers.
  • Contents: Attend at least two national or international scientific conferences or meetings (20 hours), throughout the three or five years of the doctoral program, with at least one presentation at the same.
  • Nature of the activity: mandatory prior to submission of the doctoral thesis.
  • Planning: temporary organization of the activity for full-time or part-time students:
  • As an organisational proposal and in collaboration with the tutor and/or director of each student in the programme, it will be facilitated that they attend one or more conferences from the first year until the end of their doctoral training period for approximately 20 hours, with at least one presentation at the same. To this end, the programme's website will maintain permanent and updated information on national and international conferences of interest to the programme's students.
  • Planning: Human resources for its development: To carry out this training activity, no human resources are required from the doctoral program.
  • Mobility actions: Students can benefit from internal and external support for registration and travel costs (scholarships or travel grants, depending on the call). Specifically, this doctoral program will encourage doctoral students to attend specific international conferences approved by their supervisor and/or tutor.
  • Control and evaluation procedure: Certificates of Attendance and of presentation of Communications and/or Papers or other forums raised at the Congress will be presented.
  • Mobility actions: It will be organized according to the following aspects:
  • Contents: Mobility activities are aimed at promoting student exchange and mobility in the Doctoral Program in Educational Sciences through mobility programs and grants that may be established or to which students may apply. Specifically, the goal is to promote the attendance and participation of doctoral students enrolled in the program in training activities carried out at other national or international universities or research centers that are related to the lines of research covered in the doctoral program and may be of interest to research trainees.
  • Planning: temporary organization of the activity for full-time or part-time students: In collaboration with the tutor and/or director of each doctoral student, they will be able to attend one or more conferences for approximately 20 hours, with at least one presentation, from the first year until the end of their doctoral training period. To this end, the programme's website will maintain permanent and updated information on national and international conferences of interest to doctoral students.
  • Planning: Material resources for its development: Mobility grants aimed at promoting training activities include the programs of the vice-rectorates of the ULL and the ULPGC, which focus on research and internationalization. In addition, all research groups allocate part of their project budgets to partially fund researchers' attendance at scientific conferences and meetings, where they can communicate and present their results.

AF3. Publications
  • Hours: 60
  • Activity title: publications
  • Type of activity: specific to the scope of the program
  • Language/s in which it will be written: Spanish and/or English (preferably) or another official language preferred in the medium where it is published.
  • Duration of the activity (in number of hours): 60 hours over four or seven years, depending on whether the student is studying full-time or part-time.
  • Justification of the activity (skills to be acquired by students):
  • -CB12: Ability to conceive, design or create, implement and adopt a substantial research or creation process.
  • -CB13: Ability to contribute to expanding the frontiers of knowledge through original research.
  • -CB14: Ability to carry out a critical analysis and evaluation and synthesis of new and complex ideas.
  • -CB15: Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community and with society in general about their areas of knowledge in the modes and languages commonly used in their international scientific community.
  • -CB16: Ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural progress within a knowledge-based society.
  • -CB17: Ability to promote Open Science and Citizen Science, in accordance with article 12 of Organic Law 2/2023, of March 22, as a way of contributing to the consideration of scientific knowledge as a common good, through the evaluation of transversal activities carried out by the doctoral student related to different dimensions of Open Science and Citizen Science, as well as the training acquired in both disciplines in the form of microcredentials or similar. (As of the application of RD 576/2023, of July 4)
  • -CA02: Find the key questions that need to be answered to solve a complex problem.
  • -CA03: Design, create, develop and undertake novel and innovative projects in their field of knowledge.
  • -CA05: Integrate knowledge, deal with complexity and make judgments with limited information.
  • -CA06: Criticism and intellectual defense of solutions.
  • Learning outcomes: 
  • Demonstrate the ability to synthesize, communicate and discuss new and complex ideas by preparing a manuscript in Spanish and/or English (or another official language) that can be published in a national and/or international scientific journal.
  • Publish and disseminate results at national and/or international level.
  • Contents: Prepare at least one scientific publication, written in Spanish and/or English (preferably) or another official language, and adapted to be submitted for review by a prestigious national and/or international journal in their field of study; accepted and/or published in recognized media as indicated in the "control and evaluation procedure" section. Writing research articles and presenting contributions at conferences and workshops are considered significant training activities, and it is advisable that before completing the thesis, the student demonstrate this with at least one article in an indexed journal among those indicated in the criteria indicated above.
  • Nature of the activity: mandatory prior to submission of the doctoral thesis.
  • Planning: temporary organization of the activity for full-time or part-time students: Each student, guided by his or her tutor and director, will select and decide the research results that are likely to be published, the journal to which to send the publication and the moment in which to do so; or the event to which to present it for acceptance, communication and editing.
  • Planning: temporal organization of the activity for full-time students. Students will complete 60 hours over 4 years.
  • Planning: temporal organization of the activity for part-time students. Students will complete 60 hours over 7 years.
  • Planning: Human resources for its development: In principle, human resources other than the doctoral candidate and his or her supervisor, or other researchers who may have participated in some way in the research carried out, are not required to carry out this training activity. Attendance at working doctoral groups. The doctoral candidate may attend research group sessions. The person responsible for the research group will issue a certificate of attendance.
  • Planning: Material resources for its development:   Compliance with this activity will be encouraged by seeking publication media that do not entail personal editing costs.
  • Control and evaluation procedure: A copy of the submitted work and its receipt/acceptance by the journal must be submitted, unless publication has been achieved within three years (for full-time students) or five years (for part-time students), in which case a printed copy of the published text must be submitted. The quality of the journal or book will be assessed according to the following criteria:
  • Articles published in journals of recognized value, accepting as such those included in the lists by scientific fields of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), Social Sciences Edition and Science Edition or Scimago Journal Rank (SJR).
  • Journals whose inclusion in specialized databases constitutes, in the opinion of the advisory committee and specialist experts, a clear indication of quality (for example, the ranking of scientific journals with FECYT quality seals or the Dialnet Métricas ranking) may also be valued, but never in the same way.
  • Books and book chapters, especially those published by prestigious publishers with a selective procedure for accepting originals (according to systems included in the Scholarly Publishers Indicators).
  • Mobility actions: For this specific dissemination activity (publications in scientific journals), mobility actions are not specifically required.

AF4. Presentation at meetings to monitor projects, work, or research results
  • Hours: 40
  • Title of the activity: Presentation of communications or posters at conferences, seminars or meetings of research groups.
  • Type of activity: specific to the scope of the program
  • Language(s) in which the course will be taught: Castilian
  • Duration of the activity (in number of hours): 40 h over four or seven years, depending on whether the students are full-time or part-time.
  • Justification of the activity (skills to be acquired by students):
  • -CB11: Systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of the research skills and methods related to that field. ("Field" is replaced by "scope" as of the application of RD 576/2023, of July 4.
  • -CB14: Ability to carry out a critical analysis and evaluation and synthesis of new and complex ideas.
  • -CB15: Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community and with society in general about their areas of knowledge in the modes and languages commonly used in their international scientific community.
  • -CB16: Ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural progress within a knowledge-based society.
  • -CB17: Ability to promote Open Science and Citizen Science, in accordance with article 12 of Organic Law 2/2023, of March 22, as a way of contributing to the consideration of scientific knowledge as a common good, through the evaluation of transversal activities carried out by the doctoral student related to different dimensions of Open Science and Citizen Science, as well as the training acquired in both disciplines in the form of microcredentials or similar. (As of the application of RD 576/2023, of July 4)
  • -CA02: Find the key questions that need to be answered to solve a complex problem.
  • -CA04: Work both in a team and independently in an international or multidisciplinary context.
  • -CA05: Integrate knowledge, deal with complexity and make judgments with limited information.
  • -CA06: Criticism and intellectual defense of solutions.
  • Learning outcomes: 
  • Be able to discuss and exchange experiences and results and express oral conclusions related to the research carried out by himself or by other members of the group.
  • Be able to present these results in communications or posters, and have them included in the proceedings of congresses, workshops, research group meetings, etc.
  • Contents: Participation in meetings to present and discuss research results, propose new working hypotheses and design experiences.
  • Nature of the activity: mandatory prior to submission of the doctoral thesis.
  • Planning: temporary organization of the activity for full-time or part-time students: Each PhD student will be required to have participated in at least two such meetings by the end of his or her cycle, one in his or her second year and one in his or her final year in the case of full-time students. Part-time PhD students will be required to have a presentation in their third year and in their fifth and final year of their PhD.
  • Planning: Human resources for its development: All researchers participating in the programme and their national or international collaborators in networks, groups or research projects are available to carry out this training activity. In addition, researchers in training in this doctoral programme will be able to attend other conferences, seminars and meetings of research groups of interest related to the area of study of their line of research, held at the University itself or at other Universities or Research Centres.
  • Planning: Material resources for its development: Universities have the appropriate material and technological resources to carry out these activities in their facilities.
  • Control and evaluation procedure: Certificate of attendance and presentation of communication or poster issued by the organizing entity (congress, conference, research group meeting, etc.).
  • Mobility actions: It will be organized according to the following aspects:
  • Contents: Mobility activities are aimed at promoting the exchange and mobility of students in the Doctoral Program in Education Sciences through the mobility programs and grants that may be established or which students may attend. Specifically, the aim is to promote the attendance and participation of doctoral students enrolled in the program in training activities that take place in other national or foreign universities or research centers, which are related to the lines of research included in the doctoral program and may be of interest to researchers in training.
  • Planning: temporary organization of the activity for full-time or part-time students: In collaboration with the tutor and/or director of each student, they will be facilitated to attend at least two scientific meetings (congresses, workshops, meetings of research groups, etc.) starting in the second year for full-time students and in the third year for part-time students, and until the end of their doctoral training period. To this end, the program's website will maintain permanent and updated information on both meetings and research groups of interest to doctoral students, as well as conferences and workshops related to their line of research. Likewise, information will be kept up to date on existing collaborations between the Doctoral Program and internationally relevant foreign research groups that cover the different lines of research of the program and the specific training interests of each student in the program.
  • The temporary organisation of mobility for each student will be proposed by agreement between the doctoral student and his or her tutor and/or thesis director.
  • Planning: Material resources for its development:  Mobility grants aimed at promoting training activities include the programs of the vice-rectorates of the ULL and ULPGC, which focus on research and internationalization. In addition, all research groups allocate part of their project budgets to partially fund researchers' attendance at scientific meetings, where they can communicate and present their results.
  • Other activities and comments: Mandatory nature of the proposed training activity. The mandatory nature of the activity is linked to conferences, seminars, and research group meetings held at the doctoral student's home university. Those held abroad will be linked to AF6 related to mobility.

AF5. Methodological, specialized or practical training courses
  • Hours: 20
  • Title of the activity: Methodological, specialized or practical training courses.
  • Type of activity: cross
  • Language(s) in which the course will be taught: Spanish and/or English
  • Duration of the activity (in number of hours): 20 over four or seven years, depending on whether the students are full-time or part-time.
  • Justification of the activity (skills to be acquired by students):
  • -CB11: Systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of the research skills and methods related to that field. ("Field" is replaced by "scope" as of the application of RD 576/2023, of July 4.
  • -CB12: Ability to conceive, design or create, implement and adopt a substantial research or creation process.
  • -CB17: Ability to promote Open Science and Citizen Science, in accordance with article 12 of Organic Law 2/2023, of March 22, as a way of contributing to the consideration of scientific knowledge as a common good, through the evaluation of transversal activities carried out by the doctoral student related to different dimensions of Open Science and Citizen Science, as well as the training acquired in both disciplines in the form of microcredentials or similar. (As of the application of RD 576/2023, of July 4)
  • -CA01: Operate in contexts where there is little specific information.
  • -CA02: Find the key questions that need to be answered to solve a complex problem.
  • -CA03: Design, create, develop and undertake novel and innovative projects in their field of knowledge.
  • -CA05: Integrate knowledge, deal with complexity and make judgments with limited information.
  • Learning outcomes: Demonstrate an appropriate use of technological, methodological and practical resources in the search for scientific information, in the treatment and analysis of quantitative and/or qualitative data, thus promoting multimodal training in research methodology and in quantitative and qualitative data analysis programs. You may also take courses related to aspects related to research ethics and the avoidance of plagiarism provided by vice-rectorates, foundations, Doctoral Schools, among others, of the two universities participating in the program.
  • Contents: Training courses related to research methodology, data processing, design and implementation of experiments, bibliographic searches, educational theories, historical, political, and sociological analysis of education, as well as any course related to Education that is necessary for the doctoral thesis of the doctoral candidate, in the opinion of his/her supervisor. That is, course(s) directly linked to research (specific qualitative and quantitative software, access to databases and electronic resources, methodology for preparing research projects and other scientific documents, etc.) or specialized course(s) on the chosen line of research or on support for research tasks of the doctoral thesis (training in tools, methods, and techniques useful in research and experimentation, handling of specific apparatus and instrumentation, qualitative data analysis, etc.), held at the University itself or at another national or foreign University or Research Center. You may also take cross-curricular courses linked to the acquisition of transversal skills or to communication, public speaking, interpersonal skills, information related to publications and other multimodal and interdisciplinary areas of interest.
  • As an example, you can see the current offer at the two universities:
  • –Courses in digital skills taught by the Library of the University of La Laguna. Of a general nature and specific to doctorate such as the search and selection of specialized information, organization of information, ethical use of information, academic integrity, academic codes of conduct for the prevention and eradication of plagiarism, evaluation of information, dissemination of research, interdisciplinary databases and general databases.
  • –Courses linked to University Extension, on communication and public speaking, digital tools, programming, interpersonal skills, etc.
  • –Courses, seminars and workshops related to software for qualitative and quantitative data analysis and other courses linked to specific multimodal and transversal areas, offered through the General Foundation of the ULL. Information provided through the Open Science Portal, which guides researchers regarding open publication sites, copyright, licenses, etc.
  • –Collaborative courses with the DISA Foundation and the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria linked to entering the world of work, cybersecurity, public speaking, among others.
  • You can also see the Training activities for the second semester 23-24 of the ULPGC specific for doctoral students with an interdisciplinary and multimodal nature.
  • Nature of the activity: mandatory prior to submission of the doctoral thesis.
  • Planning: temporary organization of the activity for full-time or part-time students: Each student, guided by his or her tutor and director, will select and schedule the course(s) to be taken according to his or her needs and availability.
  • Planning: temporary organization of the activity for full-time students: Students will complete 20 hours preferably during the first two years.
  • Planning: temporary organization of the activity for part-time students: Students will complete 20 hours preferably in the first three years.
  • Planning: Human resources for its development: All the researchers participating in the programme and their national or international collaborators in research networks or projects are available to carry out this training activity.
  • Planning: Material resources for its development: Universities have the appropriate material and technological resources to carry out these activities on their premises.
  • Control and evaluation procedure: The teaching staff in charge of teaching the courses will give the students, once they have completed them, a grade of pass or fail in each of them, through a continuous evaluation system that will take into account attendance, active participation and other complementary evaluation procedures that may be enabled according to the nature of each subject.
  • If a student receives a failing grade in one or more of the courses chosen, he or she must repeat them in subsequent years until he or she passes them.
  • Mobility actions:
  • Contents: Mobility activities are aimed at promoting student exchange and mobility in the Doctoral Program in Educational Sciences through mobility programs and grants that may be established or to which students may apply. Specifically, the following are intended: To promote the complementary training of doctoral students enrolled in the program through training activities carried out at their home university or at other national or international universities and research centers that are related to the lines of research covered in the doctoral program and may be of interest to the research trainees.
  • Planning: temporary organization of the activity for full-time or part-time students: In collaboration with each student's tutor and/or supervisor, they will be provided with a methodological, specialized, or practical training course. To this end, the program's website will maintain ongoing and updated information on training courses of interest to doctoral students. The timing of each student's mobility will be proposed by agreement between the doctoral student and their tutor and/or thesis supervisor.
  • Planning: Material resources for its development: Mobility grants aimed at promoting training activities include programmes from the vice-chancellors of the ULL and ULPGC, with responsibilities in research and internationalisation.

AF6. Internships at other research centers
  • Hours: 350
  • Activity title: Internships at other research centers.
  • Type of activity: specific to the scope of the program
  • Language/s in which it will be written: Spanish, or another language of preference of the doctoral student.
  • Duration of the activity (in number of hours): 350 hours over four or seven years, depending on whether the student is a full-time or part-time student. For the international mention, it is mandatory to stay outside Spain for at least three months (480 hours), which can be done in several stays provided that at least one of them has a minimum duration of one month.
  • Justification of the activity (skills to be acquired by students): 
  • -CB11: Systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of the research skills and methods related to that field. ("Field" is replaced by "scope" as of the application of RD 576/2023, of July 4.
  • -CB12: Ability to conceive, design or create, implement and adopt a substantial research or creation process.
  • -CB13: Ability to contribute to expanding the frontiers of knowledge through original research.
  • -CB14: Ability to perform critical analysis and evaluation and synthesis of new and complex ideas.
  • -CB15: Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community and with society in general about their areas of knowledge in the methods and languages commonly used in their international scientific community.
  • -CB16: Ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural advancement within a knowledge-based society.
  • -CB17: Ability to promote Open Science and Citizen Science, in accordance with article 12 of Organic Law 2/2023, of March 22, as a way of contributing to the consideration of scientific knowledge as a common good, through the evaluation of transversal activities carried out by the doctoral student related to different dimensions of Open Science and Citizen Science, as well as the training acquired in both disciplines in the format of microcredentials or similar. (From the application of RD 576/2023, of July 4)
  • -CA02: Find the key questions that need to be answered to solve a complex problem.
  • -CA03: Design, create, develop and undertake novel and innovative projects in their field of knowledge.
  • -CA04: Work both as a team and independently in an international or multidisciplinary context.
  • Learning outcomes: 
  • Demonstrate the ability to integrate and work in other groups. Exchange knowledge and research results.
  •  Express yourself in another language.
  • Contents: Mobility stay at a national or foreign Center, belonging to another University or Research Entity of recognized prestige.
  • Nature of the activity: mandatory prior to submission of the doctoral thesis.
  • Planning: temporary organization of the activity for full-time or part-time students: Following the guidelines of the Doctoral Programme, each student, guided by his or her tutor and director, will select and decide the host centre for his or her research stay and the most appropriate time to carry it out. Together with the host group, the objectives to be pursued with the stay will be defined and established and the work plan to be carried out will be defined.
  • Planning: temporary organization of the activity for full-time students: Students will complete 350 hours over the four years of the doctoral program. In the case of an international mention, 480 hours over the four years of the doctoral program.
  • Planning: temporary organization of the activity for part-time students: Students will complete 350 hours over the seven years of the doctoral program. In the case of international mention, 480 hours over the seven years of the doctoral program.
  • Planning: Human resources for its development: In principle, this training activity does not require human resources other than those that must be provided by the group with which prior collaboration has been established and the corresponding mobility actions defined.
  • Planning: Material resources for its development: This activity will be developed within the mobility programs that the University has established.
  • Control and evaluation procedure: A report on the activities carried out and a certificate from the group leader in which the stay took place must be submitted.
  • Mobility actions: It will be organized according to the following aspects:
  • Contents: Mobility activities are aimed at promoting student exchange and mobility in the Doctoral Program in Educational Sciences through established mobility programs and grants or to which students may apply. These will consist of stays for a total of 350 hours (480 in the case of an international mention) at prestigious national and/or international research centers, conducting research relevant to their doctoral training and the development of their doctoral thesis, and which will enhance the research lines of the various research groups integrated into the program.
  • Planning: temporary organization of the activity for full-time or part-time students: To this end, the program's website will maintain updated information on existing collaborations between the Doctoral Program and internationally renowned foreign research groups that address the program's various lines of research and the specific training interests of each doctoral student. This will allow all students to opt for a stay during their doctoral training period. The timing of each student's mobility will be proposed by agreement between the doctoral student and their tutor and/or thesis supervisor. In the case of a research stay, the schedule must be reflected in a mobility plan linked to the research plan, specifying the objectives, duration, research center, and the researcher in charge at that center.
  • The stay will preferably take place in the last two years of the doctoral programme for full-time students and in the last three years for those who do it part-time. In the case of carrying out several stays in the international mention, at least one of them will have a minimum duration of one month.
  • Planning: Material resources for its development: Mobility grants aimed at promoting training activities include programmes from the vice-chancellors of the ULL and ULPGC, with responsibilities in research and internationalisation.
  • Mobility grants according to different calls and organizations: Where appropriate, stays abroad may be undertaken within the framework of bilateral joint supervision agreements with a foreign university (thesis under international joint supervision) and in the form of an international doctorate.
  • Temporary Planning of Training Activities:
  • The following table shows a possible time schedule for all training activities (TA) so that they can be carried out properly by doctoral students in a timely manner:
  • Table. Proposed timeline for training activities based on full-time or part-time enrollment
  • The above planning suggests the organization of the program for the doctoral student with the objective of completing the Training Activities in a timely manner, without limiting the personal right to present their Training Activities before, during or at the end of the four or seven years depending on whether they are studying full-time or part-time, but always prior to the submission of the doctoral thesis.
  • They will be evaluated using an evaluation rubric obtained from the correct completion of each and every one of the training activities and the rest of the requirements: Commitment form, Annual research plan and signature of commitment to the ethical code.
  • The doctoral programme includes the participation of international experts in the monitoring committees, in the issuance of reports prior to the presentation of doctoral theses and in the thesis reading committees, but not in the Academic Committee, which, in special circumstances, may require the presence of an expert for information purposes and without a vote.
  • In the rest of the committees (doctoral theses, tribunals, evaluation committees, etc.) they will participate on equal terms with the rest of the members of the same, having to prove their status as a doctor, without having to comply with the rest of the requirements established for university professors.
  • Skills:
  • Basic Competencies
  • CB11 Systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of the research skills and methods related to that field. ("Field" is replaced by "scope" as of the application of RD 576/2023, of July 4)
  • CB12 Ability to conceive, design or create, implement and adopt a substantial research or creation process.
  • CB13 Ability to contribute to expanding the frontiers of knowledge through original research.
  • CB14 Ability to perform critical analysis and evaluation and synthesis of new and complex ideas.
  • CB15 Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community and with society in general about their areas of knowledge in the modes and languages commonly used in their international scientific community.
  • CB16 Ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural advancement within a knowledge-based society.
  • CB17 Ability to promote Open Science and Citizen Science, in accordance with article 12 of Organic Law 2/2023, of March 22, as a way of contributing to the consideration of scientific knowledge as a common good, through the evaluation of transversal activities carried out by the doctoral student related to different dimensions of Open Science and Citizen Science, as well as the training acquired in both disciplines in the format of microcredentials or similar. (As of the application of RD 576/2023, of July 4)
  • Personal abilities and skills
  • Code Name
  • CA01 Operate in contexts where there is little specific information.
  • CA02 Find the key questions that need to be answered to solve a complex problem.
  • CA03 Design, create, develop and undertake novel and innovative projects in their field of knowledge.
  • CA04 Work both as a team and independently in an international or multidisciplinary context.
  • CA05 Integrate knowledge, deal with complexity and make judgments with limited information.
  • CA06 The criticism and intellectual defense of solutions.
  • Other competences