SIGNATURE OF THE DOCUMENTARY AGREEMENT:
Royal Decree 99/2011 of 28 January, regulating official doctoral studies, establishes that universities will develop supervisory and monitoring functions of the doctorate by means of a documentary agreement signed by the university, the doctoral student, the tutor and the supervisor (article 11.8). This agreement must be signed immediately after the doctoral student is admitted and must include a procedure for resolving disputes, also clarifying aspects of intellectual property rights that may arise within the scope of the Doctoral programme.
In development of the aforementioned decree, the University of Seville establishes those functions by means of this documentary agreement which will be signed at the moment of the first enrolment for the academic tutelage. The agreement will set out the procedure for resolving disputes, intellectual property rights and the assignment of the intellectual property exploitation rights scheme (Article 11.12, Resolution 7.2/CG 17-6-11 establishing the Doctoral Studies Regulation).
The procedure for signature of this agreement by the supervisor, tutor and doctorate will be as follows:
- Once the doctoral student is admitted to the programme, the documentary agreement form will be handed to the student when completing the enrolment for academic tutelage.
- Within six months of enrolment, the documentary agreement must be returned and included in the document of activities (DAD) duly signed by the supervisor and the tutor of the thesis. This document will be filed in the record.
The documentary agreement prepared by the University of Seville is available at:
https://www.doctorado.us.es/impresos/formularios/M05_compromiso_documental_y_supervision_RD_99.pdf
All information regarding intellectual and industrial property generated during the development and reading of the doctoral thesis as part of the Doctoral programme framework is available at the following address:
https://www.doctorado.us.es/impresos/verificacion/propiedad_intelectual_industrial_web.pdf
ENROLMENT FOR TUTELAGE:
When students are admitted, they are assigned a tutor who will be responsible for adapting the training and the research activity at the start of the programme. The Academic Committee of the Doctoral programme will assign the student admitted to one of the lines of research of the programme, considering, as far as possible, the preferences expressed by the student in his or her application. At the same meeting, the Academic Committee will assign a tutor to the doctoral student, distributing the workload evenly among the lecturers in the programme. It is recommended that no more than two tutelages be assigned to a tutor at any time to ensure adequate supervision of the doctoral students.
Acceptance of the admission application and assignment of the tutor will be notified by the programme coordinator to the applicant, the tutor and the unit responsible for managing the doctorate students at the University of Seville within 30 business days of the deadline established for the admission application. The tutor must be a doctor with certified experience in research and must be a lecturer participating in the programme.
Once notified of the acceptance, the doctoral students will be enrolled on an annual basis. Students will be enrolled by the unit responsible for doctoral studies at the University of Seville for “academic tutelage of the doctorate” within the deadlines established.
Among the duties of the tutor who will tutor the doctorate are the following:
- Oversight of the training process of the doctorate.
- Ensure that resources and procedures are suitable for training the doctoral student while producing the doctoral thesis.
- Perform regular reviews of the doctoral activities document. It is considered appropriate that this document be revised at least three times during the academic year.
- Issue a report for the annual evaluation of the Research Plan and the doctoral activities document. When the doctoral work is adequate, a favourable report will be issued. If the work is inadequate, sufficient notice will be given during the development of the course to enable the doctoral student to take opportune measures with the tutor’s agreement.
- Complete the administrative document required by the doctoral student for due processing 15 days before the delivery date.
- Coordinate with the thesis supervisor, if this is another lecturer.
- Any other duties that may apply.
ADDITIONAL TRAINING:
As established in the general admission criteria for this Doctoral programme, having received a request from the candidate to be included, and once the Academic Committee has reviewed all the documentation submitted, the Academic Committee may draft an additional training proposal. This additional training, for a maximum of 18 ECTS research credits, will be linked to certain materials and seminars associated with the Master’s degree in Strategic Management and International Business of the University of Seville, or following the courses offered in the context of the official Master’s degrees of the University of Seville. In general, and notwithstanding individual evaluations of the Academic Committee, students accessing the Doctoral programme through a Master’s degree without research content or through a Degree with at least 300 credits must complete additional training in the course on “Research Methodology” of the Master’s degree in Strategic Management and International Business of the University of Seville.
Students who access based on prior doctoral studies with sufficient research or with equivalent foreign studies in terms of training and content will be analysed individually by the Committee. In any case, when planning this proposal, the Academic Committee will consider whether the student is applying to study full time or part time in the Doctoral programme, or if the candidate has special academic needs.
Students who are required to complete specific training to be admitted to the Doctoral programme must obtain the qualifications required within one academic year. During that academic year, the student will be considered a doctoral candidate once provisionally admitted to the programme. When students complete the additional training, they will be permanently admitted to the Doctoral programme.
Enrolment of doctoral students in training within a university Master’s degree will be necessary for doctoral students who must complete additional training for the purpose of complying with the admission requirements established for the Doctoral programme. The body responsible for the university Master’s degree must give written authorisation for these students’ enrolment in the Master’s degree.
Students must enrol for the requisite additional training at the university of the Master’s degree and pay the public fees for the academic year that they are enrolling for, which may be simultaneous to enrolment for academic tutelage for the doctoral thesis.
Students who do not successfully complete the additional training will be rejected from the Doctoral programme and the enrolment for academic tutelage will be cancelled. In these cases, the time used is not included in the student’s continuity.
Additional training completed by students enrolling under this scheme will be specified on their official qualification certificates. However, at the end of the course, students will apply for an “academic certificate” from the University Secretariat specifying the qualification obtained to prove that the student has successfully completed the additional training established.
The additional training completed must be listed in the doctorate activities document.