The competencies and capabilities that students are expected to acquire are the following::

Core competencies::

1. Ability to understand in a systematic way the field of education and training and mastery of research skills and methods related to the field.
2. Ability to conceive, design or create, implement and adopt a substantial process of research or creation.
3. Ability to contribute to the breaking of the barriers of knowledge through original research.
4. Ability to critically analyse, evaluate and synthesise new and complex ideas.
5. Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community and with society in general about their fields of knowledge in the modes and languages commonly used in their international scientific community.
6. Ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural progress within a knowledge-based society.

Capabilities and skills::

1. To work in contexts where there is little specific information.
2. Identify problems of practice that can be transformed into objects of research
3. Find the key questions to be answered to solve a complex problem.
4. Design, create, develop and undertake novel and innovative projects in their field of knowledge.
5. Work both in a team and independently in an international or multidisciplinary context.
6. Integrate knowledge, deal with complexity and make judgements with limited information..
7. Intellectually defend and criticise different alternatives and solutions.