Mobility

Article 30 of the Regulations for Official Doctoral Studies at the University of La Laguna provides for the possibility of joint supervision of doctoral theses between the University of La Laguna and a university in another country, with the aim of creating and developing scientific cooperation between research teams from both institutions and facilitating the mobility of doctoral students.

Initiatives currently under evaluation are framed in this specific area of international co-supervision, such as two Marie Sklodowska-Curie European Training Networks (ETNs). The first brings together the Universities of Amsterdam, Wageningen (NL), Aalborg (DK), Tromso (NO, Coordinating U) and La Laguna, on the topic of marine governance in the context of the European Blue Growth strategy. The second ETN is organised around the challenges presented by research on small-scale fishing in the Mediterranean.

Europe, which is receiving special attention in the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, both of which have been recently approved by the European authorities. This ETN is organised by the University of Aberdeen and includes the participation of the University of Santiago de Compostela, the Scottish Association for Marine Science, the Spanish Institute of Oceanography, the Technological Centre of the Sea (Galicia), the University of Aveiro (Portugal) and the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (Greece). The possibilities of exchanges of doctoral students between the Universities and Research Centres linked as promoters of these ETNs, as well as with the remaining institutions that appear as level 2 partners, offer very interesting facilities for the exchange of experiences and the training of doctoral students. Most of the theses planned in these ETNs involve international joint supervision.

As regards the International Mention, article 28 of the aforementioned regulation promotes and establishes the conditions for the title of Doctor to include the recognition of "International Doctor". It provides for the stay outside of Spain and the role of international experts both for the prior information of the thesis and for their presence in the evaluation committee of the same. In this case too, the university has developed the Application procedure for the International Mention.