During the second academic year, FULL-TIME students must participate in training seminars for a total amount of 60 hours.

PART-TIME students will complete these 60 hours during the third and fourth academic years, with a minimum of 30 hours per year.

Students will have to cover at least 60% of these hours -36 hours- (except for those who reside abroad, who must cover 30% -18 hours-) with:

1. Seminars and/or Conferences proposed in the Annual Training Plan of the Doctoral Programme with the participation of programme lecturers and invited lecturers, both national and international
2. Seminars proposed by the ICE (Education Sciences Institute) of the Universidad de Sevilla (through AFOROS).

The training activities in which students must participate may be linked to their line of research:

• Seminar on Current Trends in Research on Institutional Analysis and Educational Innovation Processes
• Seminar on Current Trends in Research on Agents and Processes of Guidance, Training and Professional Development
• Seminar on Current Trends in Research on Information and Communication Technologies in Educational Settings
• Seminar on Current Trends in Research on Curriculum Design, Development and Evaluation in Educational Contexts
• Seminar on Current Trends in Educational Intervention and Evaluation Research

or preferably related to Methodology, Management and Dissemination of research:

• Seminar on processes and programmes for the analysis of quantitative data in educational research
• Seminar on processes and programmes for the analysis of qualitative data in educational research
• Seminar on the preparation, writing and presentation of research projects.
• Seminar on impact indexes of publications in educational research, among others.

The remaining 40% of the training hours may be covered by the student with seminars, courses or conferences outside of the programme that may contribute to their training, with the authorisation of the dissertation advisor. For students with residence abroad it will be 70%.

In addition to the above, students must participate in at least one national or international congress, and it is recommended that they present the progress of their Research Plan.

Students must also participate each year in the annual Doctoral Conferences that will be organised (during the month of February), presenting the progress of the Research Plan.

CONTROL PROCESS:  Students will apply for enrolment in each of the seminars offered by the programme through the Annual Training Plan. A record of attendance at the seminars will be kept. This record will ensure that the activities are included in the Doctoral Student Activity Document (DAD).

Students may participate in seminars and courses outside of the doctoral programme. In this case, the corresponding certificate of participation must be provided, as well as the programme of contents of the seminar and the approval of the advisor authorising it.

Students participating in conferences must submit a certificate of attendance. Students presenting projects at the congress must submit a certificate of conference presentation at the corresponding conference.

Students must participate in the annual Doctoral Conferences, presenting the progress of their research in person. A record will be kept of attendance at the doctoral conferences. Participation in the annual Doctoral Conference may be counted as 6 hours of training activities.