Specific and Cross-curricular Training Activities

PhD in Health and Wellness Technologies

According to the applicable regulations, doctoral training shall include, in addition to the completion of the doctoral thesis, the performance by the doctoral student of specific and cross-curricular training activities.

Each training activity has a valuation in equivalent hours. The doctoral student will have to obtain a minimum of 600 equivalent hours in the development of the different training activities in order to present the thesis, of which at least 10 percent (60 hours) will correspond to cross-curricular training courses.

The evaluation in equivalent hours of each type of activity, as well as the maximum recognized evaluation, have been established by the Academic Committee of this Doctoral Program for its students.

	Block	Min.	Max.	Hours per activity (max.)
	Cross-curricular
Specific	Contribution to international congress			40 h. (30 h. if not presented by the student)
	Contribution to national congress	0		20 h. (15 h. if not presented by the student)
	Article in JCR/SJR indexed journal			200 h .(1st quartile) 150 h. (remainder)
	Co-authorship of a book chapter with ISBN in a national or international publishing house.	0		100 h. (international) 50 h. (national)
	Stay at a research center	0		60 h./month
	Participation in a competitive R&D project	0		100 h./year
	Participation in a research contract with a company	0		50 h./year
	National patent	0		100 h.
	Patent with international extension	0		200 h.
	Article in non-JCR/SJR journal	0		40 h.
	Extra Merits – Research work; DEA Old Plan	0
	Extra merits – other specific activities related to the Thesis	0		direction of TFG/TFM [20 h./directed work, max. 50 h.]. editorial committees journals scientific committees congresses [50 h. max.] intellectual property software [30 h.max.]
	Courses received or given related to the Thesis	0		1 h. recognized for every 2 h. of course received