This communication reports on some of the decisions taken by the Academic Commission of the Doctoral Program in relation to the current state of alert.

Due to the quarantine, from now on the following actions will be carried out telematically:

- The deposit of the necessary documentation to present the thesis before its defense, with the previous approval of the director. For this specific case, the International Graduate School has enabled a section in the ‘Portal de Seguimiento Académico de Doctorandos’ [Portal for Academic Monitoring of Doctoral Students]. More information at the following link: https://escuelaposgrado.ugr.es/doctorado/estudiantes/deposito/index?lang=en

- All the defenses in court (Research Plans and Doctoral Theses, including those that opt for international mention).

- All training activities whose development allows for virtual presentation.

The procedure of virtualization of the defenses of Research Plans, defense of Doctoral Theses and training activities will be carried out from now on through Google Meet, a videoconferencing platform included in the package of applications available in the personal account @go.ugr.es

This decision has been taken to guarantee the protection of the data of the program's students, since this is an institutional account.

In relation to the Call for the Defence of the Research Plans [Convocatoria de Defensa de los Planes de Investigación] of the people enrolled in the present academic year 2019/2020, the Academic Committee has decided that it will be carried out in the middle of September of this year. In principle, until further notice, this presentation will be virtual and through the already mentioned Google Meet platform.

This does not mean that the uploading of the completed Plan document to the ‘Portal de Seguimiento Académico de Doctorandos’ [Portal for Academic Monitoring of Doctoral Students] has to be delayed until this date. If the director approves, the upload can be done earlier.

The following decisions have been taken in relation to the training activities offered by the Programme and programmed for the present course:

- The Seminar on 'Arts, Architectures and Territories in Education' [‘Artes, Arquitecturas y Territorios en la Educación’], which began on March 12 and was interrupted by the state of alarm, will continue in September 2020 in the form of virtual assistance. That is why, until the end of it, no certificates of attendance and participation will be sent.

- The Seminar 'Video-Artography. The Inclusion of Audiovisual Narratives in Art Research Studies' [‘Video-Artography. La Inclusión de Narrativas Audiovisuales en Estudios de Investigación en Arte’]has been postponed until next year, due to the fact that the planned workshop format cannot be carried out satisfactorily via video conference.

- The lectures by Drs. Jeff Adams and Diederik Schönau and Dr. Samia Elsheikh and Rita Irwin are cancelled until further notice.

- The doctoral courses scheduled for November 2020 will be held virtually if the social distancing measures are continued.

In addition, we remind you that the University of Granada has created a virtual training program entitled #yosigopublicando. It offers a series of courses every week aimed for researchers and that are considered as training activities [Actividades formativas] for doctorate. More information in the link https://sites.google.com/go.ugr.es/yosigopublicando