Supervision and Monitoring
Once enrolled in the programme, a personalized activity document will be created for each doctoral student for the purposes of individualized monitoring records. All activities of interest for the doctoral student's development must be registered in it, and it will be regularly reviewed by the tutor and the thesis supervisor, and evaluated by the Academic Commission of the Doctoral Programme (CAPD).
Before the end of the first year, the doctoral student must prepare a Research Plan that includes at least the methodology to be used and the objectives to be achieved, as well as the means and the temporal planning to achieve them. This plan can be improved and detailed throughout their time in the programme and must be endorsed by the tutor and the supervisor. Changes must be mandatorily registered each academic year in the RAPI2 computer application of GEA (https://geanet.ucm.es/RAPI/faces/seleccionPerfil) (accessed while logged in).
Annually, the academic commission of the doctoral programme will evaluate the Research Plan and the Activity Document together with the reports that the tutor and supervisor must issue for this purpose. A positive evaluation is an indispensable requirement for continuing in the programme. In the event of a negative evaluation, which must be duly substantiated, the doctoral student will be evaluated again within six months, for which purpose they must prepare a new research plan. If a new negative evaluation occurs, the doctoral student will be permanently withdrawn from the programme.
The doctoral student can carry out short stays at other centers, as long as it is considered that they are aimed at improving their doctoral training. For this, the approval of the CAPD must be obtained, upon proposal of the thesis supervisor/s, who must explain the reasons for said stay. Stays should not exceed a period of three months per year, except in exceptional cases considered as such by the supervisor/s and approved by the CAPD, due to their interest in the doctoral student's training. The Doctoral Programme does not cover any expenses derived from these stays.
The supervisor of the activity carried out during the stay must issue a report on the degree of utilization and training acquired by the doctoral student during it. The doctoral student must register this activity in the Activity Document, together with the report issued by the supervisor, for its validation, assessment and evaluation.