UPDATE PROCEDURES AND IMPROVEMENT PLANS

The Academic Committee of the Doctoral Programme will analyze the administrative and scientific information derived from the Doctoral Theses and the results of the evaluation surveys carried out on the students in the training phase to decide the necessary actions aimed at updating and improving the Programme.

Procedures to guarantee the quality of the formative phase of the Doctorate.

The information obtained from the administrative data and from the surveys carried out on the students in the training phase of the Doctorate will be evaluated by the Academic Committee, which will dictate in each case the actions to be followed for the improvement of the Programme (improvement of the training activities, promotion of mobility stays, attendance at congresses, requests for a European Doctorate).

Procedures to guarantee the quality of doctoral theses.

The student must complete an annual report at the end of each academic year. This report includes the Objectives, the Work Plan and the Research Results obtained. In parallel to the delivery of this annual report, the doctoral student must submit the doctoral student's activity notebook that includes the training activities carried out by the doctoral student during the academic year. For the defense of the Doctoral Thesis, the publication of part of the results obtained in the research period in an international scientific journal with an impact index that is included in the Journal Citation Reports with the authorship of the doctoral student will be required.

Exceptionally, publication in an international journal may be replaced by an exploitation patent.

Procedures to guarantee the quality of mobility stays.

The monitoring of stays abroad will be carried out through the reports of the stay made by the students and incorporated into the notebook of activities of the doctoral student, which will be evaluated by the Doctorate Quality Commission.

Procedures to guarantee the dissemination and publicity of the Doctoral Programme and the results obtained.

The Doctoral Quality Commission will be in charge of updating the scientific information derived from the Doctoral Theses and of its dissemination on the Program's website. Likewise, it will provide this information for its total or partial dissemination in reports of activities or events of scientific dissemination of the institutions.

Procedures of attention to the suggestions / complaints of the students.

Attention to the suggestions and complaints of the students is an essential tool to ensure the improvement of the quality of the Programme. The ETSIAAB quality department has a mailbox for complaints, suggestions and congratulations. Alternatively and for more direct attention, suggestions and complaints can be registered with the Administrative Secretary of the Programme. The management of these suggestions and complaints will be carried out through the Academic Committee of the Program. Once the claim has been processed by the commission, the claimant will be informed of the decision.

The Academic Committee of the Doctoral Programme, in its first session of the academic year, will evaluate these reports and establish the appropriate Improvement Plans.