Objectives and competences

The doctoral program at Chemistry, developed under the current Instruction on the doctorate Programmes of the University of Navarra and the general Instructions of the School of Sciences, has as its ultimate goal the training of highly educated PhDs with a broad research vision, capable of acquiring the basic competences established in the Spanish framework of Qualifications for Higher Education (MECES) and the achievement of the particular objectives of the programme.

Objectives

The general objectives of doctoral program are integrated in:

• To train professionals with a critical scientific spirit, a capacity for experimental methodological approach, skill and skill internship at laboratory and a capacity for communication and teamwork work .

• train to work independently in the field of research .

• Achieve a comprehensive knowledge of chemical techniques and methodologies in the applied research .

• work To provide an ethical sense of professional work to carry out an efficient service to society with honesty, responsibility, capacity for teamwork and a spirit of solidarity.

Competences 

The basic competences, personal skills and abilities, and the specific competences described below are required for the award of the degree scroll PhD and are translated into the corresponding learning outcomes.

The programme guarantees the acquisition by doctorate of the following basic competences:

• CB11 - Systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of the skills and methods of research related to that field.

• CB12 - Ability to conceive, design or create, put on internship and adopt a substantial process of research or creation.

• CB13 - Ability to contribute to the expansion of the frontiers of knowledge through an original research .

• CB14 - Ability to carry out critical analysis and assessment and synthesis of new and complex ideas.

• CB15 - 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 academic community .

• CB16 - Ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural progress within a society based on knowledge. 

The degree scroll of Doctor awarded through this programme also allows the performance of a high professional training concretising in the acquisition of the following personal skills and abilities:

• CA01 - Perform in contexts where there is little specific information.

• CA02 - Find the key questions to be answered to solve a complex problem.

• CA03 - Design, create, develop and undertake novel and innovative projects in their field of knowledge.

• CA04 - Work both in a team and autonomously in an international context or multidisciplinary.

• CA05 - Integrate knowledge, deal with complexity and make judgements with limited information.

• CA06 - Intellectual critique and defence of solutions.

In addition, the doctoral program integrates the specific competences related to the chemical field of application listed under:

• SC01 - Apply the chemical knowledge acquired to propose and carry out a project of research within an applied context in order to tackle the resolution of a complex problem, defending it by means of arguments with a specific basis Chemistry that corroborate the solution provided.

• CE02 - Be able to elaborate and execute as manager, a safety protocol (general rules, handling of toxic or flammable substances, waste disposal, apparatus or instrumentation and installations) for the work in a laboratory of research and/or development in the field of Chemistry.

• CE03 - Capacity for the assessment of a project of research/development/patent/professor etc. of its area of specialization in the framework of the forecast of its possibility of advancement in the knowledge and/or the already existing internship .

• CE04 - Ability to integrate knowledge when faced with a chemical problem and to acquire the skill ability to formulate foreseeable judgements based on initial hypotheses with information that, although limited, allows different solutions to be proposed, anticipating potential economic and/or environmental risks and even with ethical implications.

• CE05 - skill technical and scientific to obtain accurate and reproducible chemical results from which valid conclusions can be drawn on the specific profile of work chemical.

List of competences (.pdf)