Program access information

Specific admission requirements:

1. Doctoral students must have completed the Master’s Degree in Development Cooperation, the Master’s Degree in Management and Promotion of Local Development, or the Master’s Degree in Water Resources Management associated with this doctoral program. In case of being in possession of the Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA), obtained in accordance with the provisions of RD 778/98 or having achieved the Research Sufficiency as regulated by RD 185/85, they must have studied it in related PhD programs.
2. Students may also be admitted if they have taken other master’s degree courses which, in the opinion of the academic committee, have similar contents to those included in the aforementioned courses. Likewise, students coming from other master’s degrees will be accepted, as long as they complete the training complements. Students who meet the above requirements will be admitted to the doctoral program and the University Academic Committee will be in charge of verifying compliance with the above requirements for the admission of the doctoral student.

The evaluation criteria to be followed in the case of admission to the doctoral program will be:

• 30% academic record: the average grade of the Bachelor’s and Master’s degree will be evaluated.
• 20% complementary training: training related to the areas of local development and international development cooperation will be valued.
• 20% motivation to pursue the doctoral program: personal and professional interests for the completion of the doctoral thesis will be evaluated, as well as the feasible proposal by the doctoral student to finish the thesis within the term established by the current regulations.
• 15% previous research experience
• 15% professional experience

All of the above will be supported by the corresponding documentation in each case. Motivation will be evaluated by means of a letter requested with the application and, if necessary, by means of a personal interview.

Admitted students who do not come from the Master’s Degree in Development Cooperation, Master’s Degree in Management and Promotion of Local Development, Master’s Degree in Water Resources Management or other Master’s Degrees with similar content and research profile, must take a minimum of 12 credits of complementary courses to be chosen among the following three options:

1. Modules of “Introduction to Research” (6 credits), and “Master’s Thesis” (6 credits) of the Master’s Degree in Management and Promotion of Local Development.
2. Modules of “Introduction to Research” (10 credits) and “Master’s Thesis” (10 credits) of the Master in Development Cooperation.
3. Module “Master’s Thesis” (12 credits) of the Master in Water Resources Management.

Basics

• Systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of research skills and methods related to that field.
• Ability to conceive, design or create, implement and adopt a substantial process of research or creation.
• Ability to contribute to the expansion of the frontiers of knowledge through original research.
• Ability to critically analyze, evaluate and synthesize new and complex ideas.
• Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community and with society in general about their fields of knowledge in the modes and languages commonly used in their international scientific community.
• Ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural progress within a knowledge-based society.

Personal skills and abilities

• To develop in contexts where there is little specific information.
• Find the key questions to be answered to solve a complex problem.
• Design, create, develop and undertake novel and innovative projects in their field of knowledge.
• Work both in a team and autonomously in an international or multidisciplinary context.
• Integrate knowledge, deal with complexity and make judgments with limited information.
• Intellectual criticism and defense of solutions.

Other competencies

• Ability to develop projects aimed at artistic production and research in the field of art.
• Self-critical ability to contextualize one’s own artistic practice in the field of art and contemporary society considering a multicultural environment.
• Ability to document and manage artistic production, both their own and that of others in the field of cultural industries.
• Ability to argue and communicate the values and meanings of one’s own artistic production.
• Ability to apply methodological and conceptual techniques related to the field of artistic production and research.