The program coordinator will be appointed by the Academic Committee from among the two representatives of the University of Zaragoza and will act as its chair. The two members of the Academic Committee from each university will be appointed by agreement between the rectors of the participating universities (Art. 8.4 of Royal Decree 99/2011).

Each non-coordinating university will appoint a specific coordinator from among the two members of the Academic Committee. This coordinator will chair the corresponding local Academic Committee, designated by each participating university. The committee will include the two members from the university who are members of the Academic Committee. The committee will be constituted in accordance with current legislation.

The program's Academic Committee will assign a mentor to each doctoral student admitted to the program, who will coordinate interaction with the program's Academic Committee. The mentor must be a doctor with proven research experience. Proven experience is defined as meeting one of the following conditions:

a) Have two research six-year periods, the last one alive,

b) Have three six-year research periods,

c) Be the IP of a project of the National or Autonomous Plan,

d) Having directed at least one doctoral thesis graded “cum laude” unanimously,

e) Have a patent,

f) Have at least 5 publications in the last 6 years, three of which must be in JCR journals.

The program's academic committee will assign a thesis supervisor to each doctoral student within a maximum of six months of initial enrollment. The thesis supervisor is ultimately responsible for ensuring the consistency and appropriateness of the doctoral student's research training and transversal skills.

As a general rule, the thesis supervisor will be a professor or researcher from one of the participating universities, who holds a doctoral degree and has proven research experience, as in the case of the tutor. However, the inclusion of PhD holders from entities affiliated with the various participating universities, as well as from research institutes, as co-supervisors of doctoral theses will be facilitated, in accordance with the respective collaboration and affiliation agreements. Co-supervision by two professors will be encouraged: one from the student's home university, with proven research experience, and another from any university, who does not need to meet the above requirements. This will facilitate access to doctoral theses supervision for young researchers without prior experience, who may co-supervise with a researcher with extensive experience in doctoral theses supervision.

If a researcher from the business sector participates as a co-director of a doctoral thesis, the aforementioned accredited research experience requirements will not be required.

Within thesis committees, the participation of international experts will be encouraged, as is already the case in the doctoral programs currently offered at participating universities. Specifically, the development of theses with an international doctoral degree will be encouraged, which already requires the mandatory request for two reports from international experts in the thesis evaluation and that one member of the committee must also be a foreign expert. Note that this is already being done (see the list of submitted theses in section 6 for an example).