Training Activities Programme
Training Plan
Activities of the Doctoral School
Character
Optional
Hours
12
Description
It is planned as a course with compulsory attendance, with a theoretical explanation of each of the modules, which will be accompanied by a series of practical exercises which the participants must perform throughout the sessions.
Results
The doctoral student will acquire the necessary tools to access, evaluate, use and disseminate information in an ethical manner.
Assessment systems
It is an on-site seminar, and therefore attendance is compulsory and will be monitored by means of signatures for each of the modules. At the end of the activity the tutor will be given a report allowing an assessment of the acquisition of the skills associated with this activity.
Character
Optional
Hours
40
Description
These are intensive residential seminars lasting a week. They are conducted in English in an inter-disciplinary and multicultural environment. Forty researchers from each university, in their second year of doctoral training, receive extensive training designed for their future vocational integration in a socio-labour environment not exclusively linked to research at universities and/or public and semi-public centres. All the activities are dynamised by personnel specializing in the organization of doctorials and the facilitation of teamwork. The scheduled activities include visits to companies, research centres and cultural entities selected from both sides of the border, the testimonies of executive doctors and entrepreneurs and teamwork for the joint preparation of an innovative project which will be submitted at the end of the encounter. Participation in the doctorials is optional and does not entail any enrolment fee. All the maintenance, accommodation and transport costs will be financed by the organizing universities, with the help of the funding obtained from the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Aquitaine-Euskadi cooperation fund of the Basque government.
Results
The doctoral students acquire practical training in communication, innovation, teamwork, leadership and entrepreneurship. Based on the testimonies and experiences of different professionals working in companies and associations in the field of culture and language, as well as visits to companies and associations, the students come into direct contact with professional experience. These seminars have an inter-disciplinary approach, grouping the students together in units which combine different universities of origin and areas of knowledge. The experience should provide a wealth of knowledge about how to articulate a future professional project both in and outside the University.
Assessment systems
The whole procedure for the doctorials is overseen by a pedagogical cabinet, with professional advisers who will provide continuous feedback on the group activity and monitor the work done every day by the doctoral students. Once the latter have enrolled for the doctorials, attendance and active participation in the sessions is compulsory.
Program activities
Character
Compulsory
Hours
60
Description
They are weekly seminars, each lasting 60-90 minutes, throughout the period of the doctoral training. In this type of seminar, the doctoral student or a senior researcher discusses a recently-published significant research article. As they are held on a weekly basis, each laboratory doctoral student will present at least 3-4 seminars each year.
Results
Critical analysis of the research results.
Assessment systems
Attendance at the bibliographical seminars is compulsory. 1. There will be individualized monitoring of the attendance at this training activity. 2. This activity will be evaluated by means of the regular presentation by the student of scientific articles to be discussed. The director and/or tutor of the doctoral student will issue the corresponding report. 3. These controls will form part of the doctoral student activity document, regularly reviewed by the tutor and the thesis director and evaluated by the academic committee of the program.
Character
Optional
Hours
40
Description
The doctoral students of the Program in Molecular Biology and Biomedicine present their results at national and international congresses related to the subject of their doctoral theses. Attendance lasts 10 days (5 days' stay and 5 days' preparation) and they are held annually.
Results
The learning achieved in this activity allows students to acquire confidence in their own approaches and scientific objectives.
Assessment systems
1. The results of the participation in each congress (or seminar, etc.) will be assessed by means of the conventional indicators (type of contribution accepted, presentation of the work at the congress, possible selection of the work for a journal, etc.). At the end of the activity the doctoral students will draw up a written report which will be assessed by their directors/tutors. 2. Students will summarize the most significant results and conclusions of the congress at a seminar for the presentation of the results of the research team. 3. These controls will form part of the doctoral student activity document.
Character
Optional
Hours
60
Description
They are weekly lectures, each lasting 1.5 hours, throughout the period of the doctoral training. They have been organized for several years at the Faculty of Science and Technology (Bioforo), at the Biophysics Unit and at the CIC-bioGUNE Centre on a weekly basis, given by international experts in the area of molecular biology and biomedicine. Almost all of the lectures are given in English. The aim of these lectures is to present the research projects which are being carried out at the above institutions, so that all their members have an up-to-date idea of the research being conducted, thereby promoting collaboration between the groups and teams.
Results
Increase in the specific knowledge of a particular scientific area.
Assessment systems
1. There will be individualized monitoring of the attendance at this activity by means of the signature of the doctoral student at the end of the lecture itself. 2. The director/tutor will assess the degree of progress made by the doctoral student in this activity. 3. These controls will form part of the doctoral student activity document, regularly reviewed by the tutor and the thesis director and evaluated by the Academic Committee of the program.
Character
Optional
Hours
40
Description
La UPV/EHU organiza anualmente cursos presenciales teórico-prácticos de Experimentación Animal (RD 1201/2005) para la obtención de categoría B, impartidos por la empresa Animalaria S.L. La obtención de dicha categoría, acreditada por la Diputación Foral de Bizkaia, es un requisito imprescindible para llevar a cabo los procedimientos experimentales con animales.
Results
La obtención de la acreditación de categoría B para experimentación animal capacita a los doctorando para la realización de trabajo con animales.
Assessment systems
El curso tiene un número limitado de estudiantes, teniendo prioridad las personas relacionadas con la UPV/EHU. Requiere el pago de una matrícula. 1. Existe un control individualizado diario de la asistencia a esta actividad formativa. 2. Una prueba de evaluación del grado de aprovechamiento al finalizar el curso, que se traduce en un diploma expedido por la diputación foral de Bizkaia. Este documento formará parte del documento de actividades del doctorando (DAD).
Character
Compulsory
Hours
4
Description
It consists of one or more courses, each lasting 4 hours, organized by the Prevention Service of the UPV/EHU, for the training of the doctoral students in the field of occupational health and safety. It covers aspects related to the use of chemical and biological agents, the assessment of risk and containment levels, waste management and emergency and action plans in the event of accidents.
Results
Training for the doctoral student in preventive matters in aspects related to work safety.
Assessment systems
Attendance requires prior registration, which is free of charge. There will be individualized monitoring of the attendance at these courses, which are compulsory for all the doctoral students. 1. Each of these courses includes its own evaluation system (individualized monitoring of attendance, participation in class, final test), in which the progress made by the student in the training received is reflected and the corresponding certificate is issued. 2. These controls will form part of the doctoral student activity document, regularly reviewed by the tutor and the thesis director and evaluated by the academic committee of the program.
Character
Optional
Hours
20
Description
It consists of one or more specific training courses facilitating the learning of specific techniques required by the doctoral student for the development of his or her doctoral thesis project, contributing to the updating of scientific knowledge.
Results
Learning and updating of specific advanced methodologies.
Assessment systems
Attendance at each of these training activities will be at the discretion of the doctoral student and the tutor/director, depending on the thesis project to be conducted. 1. Each of these courses includes its own evaluation system (individualized monitoring of attendance, participation in class, test), in which the progress made by the student in the training received is reflected and the corresponding certificate is issued. At the end the doctoral student will draw up a written report which will be assessed by the director/tutor. 2. These controls will form part of the doctoral student activity document, regularly reviewed by the tutor and the thesis director and evaluated by the academic committee of the program.
Character
Compulsory
Hours
5
Description
Annually (one day a year), the doctoral students give a seminar lasting 30-40 minutes, generally in English, at which they present the results of their research projects to the rest of the members of the research groups participating in this activity. The aim of these seminars is to accustom the students to presenting and discussing their results and the results of other members of the research group.
Results
By means of this activity there is first-hand knowledge of the degree of progress of the doctoral thesis project of the student and the student gets accustomed to presenting and discussing the results in public.
Assessment systems
The annual oral presentations are compulsory. The director/tutor directly monitors this by participating directly in the seminar sessions. 1. There will be individualized monitoring of the attendance at this training activity. 2. These controls will form part of the doctoral student activity document, regularly reviewed by the tutor and the thesis director and evaluated by the academic committee of the program. 3. This activity will be assessed by means of the regular presentation by the students of scientific articles to be discussed and the results of their research projects. The director and/or tutor of the doctoral student will issue the corresponding report.
Character
Optional
Hours
30
Description
The doctoral students regularly (every two weeks) conduct seminars reporting on the status and evolution of their doctoral theses projects throughout the period of the doctoral training, within their research teams. These sessions serve both to discuss the technical aspects of the projects and to design new experiments and projects. More than six months means that they are conducted throughout the year.
Results
The learning is reflected in the focus realized and the resolution of the problems which may have arisen during the course of the scientific experimentation, and in the vision of how the different objectives established in the thesis project are obtained.
Assessment systems
The monitoring of these seminars conducted by the doctoral student will be directly carried out by the thesis director, who is always present at these seminars. 1. There will be individualized monitoring of the attendance at this training activity. 2. These controls will form part of the doctoral student activity document, regularly reviewed by the tutor and the thesis director and evaluated by the Academic Committee of the program. 3. This activity will be assessed by means of the regular presentation by the student of the results of his or her research projects. The director and/or tutor of the doctoral student will issue the corresponding report.
Character
Optional
Hours
500
Description
Stays lasting an annual average of three months (at least once) at a centre different from that of the doctoral student, in Spain or abroad, where, on the recommendation of the thesis director or tutor, the doctoral student carries out an activity related to the research carried out on the doctoral thesis project. The doctoral student learns or perfects a particular methodology or technique and becomes familiar with the different work dynamics, contributing to his or her training and the technological enrichment of the groups. The short stays can be subsidized for students with pre-doctoral grants from the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Basque Government or other national or international bodies (British Council, EMBO, etc.).
Results
When the doctoral student returns he or she can develop and implement this methodology or technique in the laboratory where he or she is conducting the doctoral thesis.
Assessment systems
1. The student's tutor must prepare or supervise the work plan to be followed by the student during the stay. This work plan must specify the set of goals to be achieved and the way of verifying them. 2. On completing the stay, the doctoral student must write a report justifying the activities carried out at the recipient laboratory, attaching the letter of certification of the application and the documents necessary for justifying the financial aid received by the competent body to perform the stay. The monitoring will be carried out by the thesis director, who will assess and verify the achievements made by the doctoral student on his or her return. This document will form part of the doctoral student activity document.