Mobility

The doctoral programme will make use of the collaboration agreements signed by the ULPGC and the ULL with foreign European, American, Asian and African universities to facilitate the mobility of the programme's students. Furthermore, by virtue of the research ties that have been established between researchers from other centres and those of our Programme, there are also other universities and research centres for which no agreement has yet been reached, but which are willing to accept our students.

The ULPGC Doctoral School is also committed to guaranteeing the mobility of those students who cannot benefit from regional, national and European mobility programmes. To this end, it will have the necessary budgetary measures in place. The ULL has its own Research Aid Plan, which provides for the granting of grants to doctoral students in two modalities. The first consists of financial aid for stays in national and foreign research centres, of varying amounts depending on the place where they are carried out. The second modality consists of financial aid for the presentation of research papers at scientific conferences and meetings. The specific regulations for these calls can be consulted on the ULL website. ULL website.

Furthermore, the Academic Committee will make the necessary contacts, at the request of the doctoral thesis supervisor, to facilitate stays for a period of three months or more at an international centre, in order to promote the International Doctoral Mention in doctoral theses that wish to opt for it. The flexibility in the development of the mobility stay (adding several stays or doing it in a single year) aims to facilitate the realization of this activity for students enrolled part-time. The Academic Committee may recognize mobility activities prior to the enrollment in the Program.

Mobility

• Number of hours: 160
• Character: Mandatory
• Full-time students: Depending on the specific needs of each job (can be carried out consecutively or intermittently)
• Part-time students: Depending on the specific needs of each job (they can be carried out consecutively or intermittently)
• Description: Each doctoral candidate must carry out at least one stay in a research centre, a university, or a documentation centre (archives, libraries, museums), preferably international, although this circumstance can be changed for a similar institution in the Spanish State if the type of work to be carried out so advises, which together, at the end of the training period, amount to at least one month. The purpose of this stay will be to attend specific courses and research seminars and exchange experiences with other researchers, or consult documentation necessary for the thesis project, or acquire specific training in a certain methodology. The thesis supervisor, in collaboration with the tutor and the doctoral candidate, will schedule these stays; they will be included in the training activities plan of each doctoral candidate and must, therefore, be approved by the academic committee of the doctorate. The flexibility in the development of the mobility stay (adding several stays or carrying them out in a single year) aims to facilitate the completion of this activity for students enrolled part-time. In order to verify mobility, the student must prove it and preferably carry it out in any of the foreign institutions with which there are signed collaboration agreements, although other collaborations can also be signed in the future that are more in line with the thesis topic of each student.
• Contents: These will vary depending on the topic of the thesis project.
• Skills:
  • CB11 Ability to demonstrate a systematic understanding of each field of study and mastery of the research skills and methods related to it.
  • CB12 Ability to conceive, design, implement and adopt a research process with academic rigor.
  • CB13 Ability to make a scientific contribution, through original research, that expands the boundaries of knowledge in this field, and that merits publication referenced at a national or international level.
  • CB14. Ability to carry out critical analysis and evaluation and synthesis of new and complex ideas.
  • CB15. Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community and with society in general about their areas of knowledge in the modes and languages commonly used in their international scientific community.
  • CB16. Ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural progress within a knowledge-based society.
  • CP01. Ability to function in contexts where there is little specific information.
  • CP02. Ability to propose key questions that must be answered to solve a complex problem in relation to each field of study.
  • CP03. Ability to design innovative projects in the fields of geography, history, archaeology and heritage management.
  • CP04. Work both in a team and independently in an international or multidisciplinary context.
  • CP05. Integrate knowledge, deal with complexity and make judgments with limited information.
  • CP06. Have the capacity to criticize and intellectually defend solutions.
• Activities carried out by the PhD student: They will be in accordance with the nature of each thesis project. The PhD student must submit a report on the activities so that they can be evaluated.
• Control procedures:
  • Activity evaluation:
    • Accreditation of stay: 50%
    • Report from the person in charge of the host institution: 50%
  • Training activities 1, 2 and 3 will be assessed by the teaching staff who teach them. Activity 3 will also take into account the opinion of the thesis supervisor, who will assess the comments received by each student from external evaluators. As for the weightings, Activity 4 will be assessed based on the accreditation of attendance at the 20 hours of lectures and seminars (The Academic Committee will make available to students a specific form to carry out such accreditation, which must be supervised by the event organizer). Each training activity is assessed with a maximum of 10 points, which will result from the sum of each of the proposed criteria. Mobility activity 5 will be assessed by the Academic Committee based on the report of the person responsible for the stay and the accreditation of the same.