The academic committee of the program will specifically analyze cases of trainee researchers with special educational needs, as well as doctoral students who are abroad or enrolled part-time, in order to adapt the training program, its development, and follow-up to guarantee the acquisition of competencies appropriate for the doctoral level, taking into account their particular needs or circumstances.

The University of Granada has the Student Assistance Service, which students with special educational needs resulting from disabilities can approach.

Some specific measures of the program are:

1. Consider specific quotas for reserving places at the time of program access: up to 20% (disability) and 25% (part-time for practicing professionals).
2. If necessary, interpreters or special resources will be used to facilitate communication, interaction, and follow-up procedures.
3. Special deadlines will be considered for the completion of training activities for students enrolled part-time or who have specific difficulties that hinder their travel and access to information.
4. The program allows participation online in most of its training activities through the Adobe Connect Virtual Room, so that students with travel difficulties or those outside Granada can follow and interact without difficulty.
5. Agreements can be established with other universities or research centers for the design and recognition of training activities for doctoral students at those institutions.

• The program's CAD will assign a tutor to each doctoral student at the time of enrollment. To do this, the line of research in which the doctoral student has been admitted will be identified and determined.

* The general criterion will be the representative of the research line in the CAD. This assignment will be communicated to the interested party, and during the initial seminar of the program, there will be a space for initial dialogue and tutoring.

• This tutor will plan and assign an individualized training plan taking into account the needs and particularities of the doctoral student and will accompany and supervise them in the process until a tutor is assigned and a work plan (thesis project) has been signed and approved by the CAD.

• In case of controversies or difficulties between tutor and doctoral student, and no satisfactory agreement is reached for both parties, the Research Line (at the suggestion of its leader or the program coordination) will study the case and make a consensus proposal for approval by the CAD.

• The CAD of the doctoral program, at the suggestion of the assigned tutor and the Research Line, and having heard the doctoral student, will assign a thesis director within the first six months of the first year, who will be responsible for accompanying and supervising the work plan and the completion of the doctoral thesis.

• The direction of the thesis will fall on permanent program faculty, although the thesis may also be co-directed by “external collaborating” faculty, who meet the requirements to be able to co-direct theses at UGR and are authorized by the Academic Committee of the Program (CAD) and the doctoral school.

• For an external researcher to direct theses within the program, they must have the approval of the Research Line to which the doctoral student is assigned and must request it from the EIP. The Academic Committee of the Program (CAD) and the doctoral school, once the documentation and reasons stated have been studied, will issue a ruling on the matter.

• In case of controversies or difficulties between director and doctoral student, and they do not reach a satisfactory agreement for both parties, it will be the tutor who submits a report to the Research Line, to study the case and make a viable and consensual proposal for approval by the CAD.

Each year, the University of Granada develops its Own Research Plan. The programs included in the 2017 Own Plan are designed to meet the current needs that the University of Granada has in terms of scientific policy and research, always aiming to promote research by supporting our scientists and research groups.

A priority objective of the Own Plan is to foster the training and improvement of young researchers, betting on the strengthening of human resources dedicated to research from the initial stage of the research career, which is why a high percentage of the available budget is allocated to this purpose. It is important to highlight the subsidiary and complementary nature of the actions of the Own Plan, in relation to the scholarships, aids, and grants that are awarded under similar calls in the context of the European, national, and Andalusian research plans.

This research plan serves both the doctoral programs and the doctoral students to finance essential training activities to achieve the competencies that the different doctoral programs assign to their doctoral students.

Programs of the Own Plan of the University of Granada applicable to students of doctoral programs and/or to the doctoral programs for organizing their activities:

Incentive for Research Activity.

1. Enhancement of human resources: initiation scholarships, researcher training program, doctoral improvement program, etc.
2. Talent attraction.
3. Mobility and Improvement of Research Personnel: short stays at national and international research centers; organization of conferences, seminars, and scientific-technical sessions; participation in international scientific-technical conferences and meetings, etc.
4. Recognition of Research Activity.
5. Complementary Actions.
6. UGR2020 Programs.
7. Support for the Transfer of Research Results.
8. Aids in collaboration with CEMIX. UGR - MADOC Program.
9. Program of the Vice-rectorate for Community Outreach.

The University of Granada currently has its Own Internationalization Plan, which consolidates its international dimension, using part of its budgets to undertake internationalization initiatives not covered by the different national and European programs, as well as to complement the external funds obtained for their management. The programs offered in relation to postgraduate studies are:

• Program 1. Support for the international mobility of students:

1. Grants and travel scholarships for postgraduate students.
2. Aids for mobilities in joint international degrees.

• Program 2. Support for short international training stays:

• Program 3. Support for the international mobility of faculty:

1. Supplements to the aids of the Erasmus + program: Erasmus.
2. Aids for mobility to destinations not belonging to the Erasmus + Program for teaching purposes within the framework of bilateral agreements or multilateral networks of the UGR.
3. Aids for attending a two-week English language course at the National University of Ireland (Galway).

• Program 5. Awards for excellence in the internationalization of students.
• Program 6. Support for language policy.
• Program 7. Support for the management of internationalization.
• Program 8. Support for new internationalization initiatives.

1. Aids for the preparation of project applications within the framework of European programs.
2. Aids for the establishment of double, multiple, or joint international degrees.
3. Aids for establishing new collaborative actions with foreign universities.
4. Aids for other internationalization and cooperation actions.

The University of Granada also provides all the information about the Erasmus Mundus II Program to the programs and doctoral students. The global objective of this program is to improve the quality of higher education in Europe, contribute to improving and enhancing the professional prospects of students, promote intercultural understanding through cooperation with third countries, and contribute to the sustained development of third countries in the field of higher education.

To achieve these objectives, the Erasmus Mundus II program contemplates the following activities:

• Action 1: Joint Erasmus Mundus Programs. The objective of this action is to promote postgraduate programs of outstanding academic quality, developed jointly by consortia of European universities and, if applicable, third countries, capable of providing greater projection and attractiveness to the European higher education sector. These joint programs must involve mobility between the consortium's member universities and lead to the achievement of a double, multiple, or joint degree recognized. This action is composed of:

1. Action 1A: Erasmus Mundus Master Courses (EMMC).
2. Action 1B: Joint Erasmus Mundus Doctorates (EMJD).

• Action 2: Erasmus Mundus Partnerships. To carry out this action, consortia will be established, formed by higher education institutions from Europe and third countries, which will serve as a basis for structured cooperation, exchange, and mobility at all higher education levels, including a scholarship program. Erasmus Mundus Partnerships are the continuation of the Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Window program (EMECW).
• Action 3: Promotion Projects. These projects aim to promote European higher education through measures that enhance Europe's capacity to attract as an educational destination and as a global center of excellence.

• The International Graduate School has its funding plan for doctoral programs, mainly aimed at financing the training activities of the programs.

• The collaborating master's programs of the program offer some of their courses and seminars as training activities or complementary training, opening the possibility of conducting a Master's Thesis Research (TFM) in them as a way to overcome the complementary training that may have been recommended or required during their first year of doctorate.

• The faculties participating in the program have rooms, resources, offices, and materials to support the normal development of research groups, the development of research seminars and inter

relationship, and personalized attention in tutorials.

• The Research Groups have infrastructure, research projects, networks, and resources to support the research they are conducting.

• The university library has a comprehensive research support service, both in its library catalogs, periodicals, and media library, and through access to databases of special relevance (WOS, ERIC, etc.). In the same way, it offers information, research support tools, and training courses, which provide doctoral students and researchers in training with the basic resources they need to know and have in mind when embarking on a doctoral thesis. Consult:

Research support
Specialized training courses
Specific support for doctoral theses

• The CEVUG offers support for the virtualization of interaction and training courses of the doctoral programs. In particular for the Recording and Storage of Academic Activities. Consult Virtual Teaching Center

• Finally, the doctoral program has a Virtual Room that operates with the Adobe Connect program, which allows students to carry out training activities in a virtual mode.

• Every doctoral student must present a Research Plan, which organizes the design and process of conducting their doctoral thesis.

At the time of applying for admission to the program, it is appropriate to have advanced the same, to guide the Academic Committee on their research line, as well as for it to assess and endorse their work proposal.

• There is a Guide of Procedures and Criteria for assessing Research Plans (consult), which may be of particular interest.

• The EIP has a general procedure for annual monitoring that you should consult and that will help you resolve some doubts that may arise. Link

• There is a doctoral student monitoring portal with identified access of the University of Granada: Link.

In this portal, the doctoral student must upload both the certificates of the completion of the specific and complementary training activities assigned annually by their tutor (with the approval of the CAD), the research plan, and the final monitoring report of their work. These documents must have the supervision and the favorable report of tutor, director, and program (coordination).

• This information, studied by the research line (and the responsible tutor and director), will be assessed by the line and the CAD, issuing a final report to allow or not the renewal of the registration.
• A documentary Commitment of supervision assumed by the University itself, along with the doctoral student, their tutor, and their director, will be signed, establishing the supervision functions of the tasks that the doctoral student must carry out with the purpose of conducting their doctoral thesis.
• The training plans are established by school years and must be duly documented in a portfolio system, which complements the Doctoral Activities Document (DAD) of the online application. This portfolio is presented annually to the Research Line and CAD, with the approval of the tutor/director, making it publicly known throughout the annual doctoral days.

General rules of permanence of the University of Granada. Applicants for the doctoral degree in the program must meet course by course three blocks of content:

1. Completion of training activities (different depending on the stage of development of the work plan).
2. Presentation, development, and monitoring of the Research Plan.
3. Interaction and monitoring with tutor, director, and research line.

And this is specified in the following criteria for continuity in the same:

• After admission to the program and, complying with the deadline to present their work plan, they must defend it publicly before the research line in the terms that it dictates (doctoral days, expert committee, etc.).
• Successfully complete and documentally accredit the complementary training activities required during the first year in the assigned terms (contents and forms). Only those activities taught by doctors and that have been organized, approved, and supervised by university institutions and higher institutes of scientific research, and in which a grade of achievement appears, are valid as such.
• Adequately comply with the annual training activities assigned, both those mandatory for the program and those specific to their

line and those agreed upon in their work plan. They must be accredited in a portfolio. This must be endorsed by those who direct and tutor the work.

• Annually account for their research progress in the public defense of their work at the doctoral days. Those students from other countries or on academic stays who certify their absence from Spain may perform the defense of their work by videoconference.
• Cover the following training and progress itinerary in the publication and defense of research reports related to their doctoral thesis: during the first year, perform a scientific review or present and defend a communication at a conference or congress. During the second year, present and defend a communication at an international congress with a review system or publish an article. Afterward, and until the defense of the doctoral thesis, the publication of an article in an indexed journal with an impact factor (see detailed description later).
• Submit to public judgment of the doctors of the program's line and the scientific community in general and before specific Evaluation Commissions their Research Plan (before six months from their registration) and their final thesis report, following the common procedures of the University of Granada and the research line in which the work is inscribed.

Given that there is a procedure for monitoring, control, and permanence in the program (doctoral student monitoring portal), those doctoral students who do not comply with it will cease to belong to the program, will not be able to renew their registration in the program, and such work plans in development will no longer be counted for all intents and purposes. In such cases, it will be justified if such non-compliance is due to the doctoral student or a lack of rigor in the selection and direction of works.

• All administrative procedures will be processed at the International School of Doctorate. The documentation will be delivered in person at it, in the computer applications that are enabled for enrollment application or by email to epdoctorado@ugr.es
• Any document that does not follow this standardized procedure is considered not received nor processed. The responsibility for the damages that this error may cause falls on the doctoral student and their director/tutor.
• The members of the CAD and the program coordination do not collect, process, or take responsibility for any procedure, process, or document that does not reach them through official channels (from the EIP) via the Documenta application or Doctorate Portal of identified access.
• The Doctoral School of Humanities and Social and Legal Sciences meets once a month, and all matters must be processed at it. For this, any document, report, or process must be delivered at the EIP and duly endorsed by the program's CAD at least five days before the Committee meets.
• The CAD of the program will meet once a month, eight natural days before the Committee of the Doctoral School, for the management of the entire program.
• All the documentation and procedures to be discussed in the CAD sessions must be reviewed and endorsed beforehand by the respective research lines. For this, the EIP must provide the program and the CAD with an electronic copy of the documentation that has been previously registered. This implies in practice that all procedures and documentation must be submitted to the EIP at least one week before the CAD meeting.
• It is recommended to be well aware of the procedures and administrative deadlines to avoid surprises.

The Doctoral Schools have launched a measure to expedite the collection of signatures from the co-authors of the research works accompanying the doctoral theses.

Currently, students can have a waiver form for each publication associated with the doctoral thesis that the co-authors must sign by hand. However, in addition to this option, doctoral students can also carry out this process by email as indicated below:

1. Send an email to the co-authors including the text, in Spanish or English, found at the following web address: http://escuelaposgrado.ugr.es/doctorado/impresos/tesis >> Waiver or acceptance of co-authors of publication (by email).
2. The messages received in response from the institutional/professional email addresses of the co-authors will replace their signatures. Once all the messages from the co-authors of a given publication have been received, they must be printed in pdf files.
3. For each publication, these files must be joined into a single pdf file.
4. This procedure applies to all publications, whether the thesis is presented as a “compilation of publications” or in the case of the publication that must be attached as a guarantee of the quality of the thesis when it is presented in “report” format.

These documents must be attached along with the rest of the documentation at the time of the deposit of the Doctoral Thesis.

• On the official website of the International School of Doctorate, you will find General information about the Doctoral Thesis: rules for the preparation of the thesis report, publication associated with the doctoral thesis, etc.

• Consult specific procedures of the program.

• The CAD of the doctoral program must review and approve all documents, processes, and circumstances of the thesis. To be able to issue the pertinent reports or signatures and send them to the Committee of the Doctoral School for its final approval. Remember at this point the normal operating deadlines and that from the final approval and communication of the Doctoral School, a minimum of fifteen days must pass. It is recommended to have everything duly finished and delivered with the certainty that it is in time and form as to be able to defend on the expected dates.
• The documentation must be duly completed (complete, documented, and justified, endorsed by the research line, and signed by the doctoral student and their director) to be reviewed and processed by the CAD. Otherwise, it will be returned and not processed, with the responsibility falling on the doctoral student and their director.

• To obtain a positive assessment of the thesis by the CAD, it must be defended publicly, before it or before the Committee to which this function is delegated.
• Remember that it is an essential requirement the publication of an article, or its acceptance, in an impact journal (duly justified) and that this takes time (several months). It is not recommended to leave it until the last moment.

Criteria required for the presentation of a Doctoral Thesis as a Compendium of Publications.

• The presentation of a minimum of three articles published or accepted for publication, after the start of doctoral studies, and in impact journals (see previous point on criteria for evaluating articles) is required.

• The works/articles presented must not be part of another doctoral thesis presented under this same modality. In case of co-authorship, the remaining authors must provide a written statement, with original signature, recognizing the doctoral student as the main author and expressly renouncing to present said article as part of another doctoral thesis.

• It is essential to consider that it is not just a sum of articles, it is essential that they are integrated into an overall vision, which is perfectly articulated and with a clear cross-reading. A report will also be presented with an introduction, common theoretical framework, objectives, discussion, and conclusions, in which the thematic unity of the set of articles is justified. A copy of each of the published articles will be included in the report.

• The co-authors of the articles included as part of the doctoral thesis may not be part of the thesis tribunal or make valuation reports of it.

• The doctoral program will maintain contact and monitor doctoral graduates (maintain regular contact, doctoral days, tracking of publications...). For this, the following protocol is established:

1. Collection and storage of contact details (with the consent of the graduate).
2. Integration in Research Groups or in lists of possible “collaborators” (in research, publications, co-supervisions...).
3. Periodic sending of surveys. Preferably by email and with web support (Google application)

• The program and its research lines will count on the graduates in research seminars, training activities, as well as in the processes of interrelation with doctoral students in training and with the research lines and networks that may be of their interest.

1. REFERENCE VARIABLES AND INDICATORS FOR MONITORING:

Variables: The degree of labor insertion of the doctoral students, the average time for their insertion, their satisfaction with the training received, and the satisfaction of employers with the training provided by the graduated doctoral students will be assessed. This monitoring will be carried out from three years after the defense of the Doctoral Thesis and for each of the cohorts of graduates.

Indicators:

• Labor insertion rate of doctoral students (postdoctoral contracts, other labor situations, etc.). Reference value established for monitoring: 15.00 %
• Average time for insertion. Reference value established for monitoring: 12 Months
• Degree of satisfaction of graduates with the training received.
• Degree of satisfaction of employers with the training provided.

2. INFORMATION SOURCES:

The main sources of information will be documentary such as reports from graduates, reports on their employability, etc. and also the Vice-rectorate for Students and the General Business Foundation-UGR

3. INSTRUMENTS/REPORTS:

Available on the website of the Vice-rectorate for Quality Assurance:

Annual Report on the Quality of the Program.

The procedure for monitoring graduated doctors proposed by the Internal Quality Assurance System (SGIC) of the title can be accessed at the following link.