The title of Doctor will include on the front the statement "Thesis in co-supervision with the University U", provided that the following circumstances are met:

1. That the doctoral dissertation is supervised by two or more PhDs from two universities, one Spanish and one foreign, who must formalise a co-supervision agreement during the first months of the thesis.

2. During the period of training required to obtain the PhD degree, PhD student must have spent a minimum of six months at the institution with which the co-supervision agreement is established, carrying out research work, either in a single period or in several periods. Stays and activities will be reflected in the co-supervision agreement.

1. The Industrial Doctorate involves the completion of a doctoral dissertation in the framework of a project of research of a business, which is framed in one of the lines of research of a doctoral program of the University.

2. It will be necessary to signature of a partnership agreement between the business and the School of doctorate According to the model established. To manage this agreement , contact the area of Contracts research and development at contratosid@unav.es .

3. Academic regime:

a) The student will apply for admission to a doctoral program offered by the UN and will be governed by the provisions of RD 99/2011.

b) Your thesis Director will be part of one of the research groups of the doctoral program and will meet the requirements established by the rules and regulations of the Doctoral School.

c) The PhD PhD student will have a thesis tutor appointed by the university and a manager appointed by the entity, business or public administration, who may be, where appropriate, the Director of the thesis Director agreement with the provisions of the Royal Decree. In no case the manager designated by the business may be part of the thesis evaluation board. 

1. Contracting regime: The PhD PhD student must be hired by the entity, business or public administration where the research project is developed for at least one year during the development of the thesis , being necessary that a substantial part of the thesis is developed in the entity, business or public administration.

2. Confidentiality: In the event that the collaboration agreement includes a confidentiality clause with the business or the possibility of generating patents, the doctoral dissertation will be subject to the protocol established for this purpose by the Doctoral School.

3. accredited specialization of "doctorate Industrial": Once the doctoral thesis has been defended within the framework established in the agreement, an accredited specialization of "doctorate Industrial" will be incorporated in the student 's official transcript . written request application.

procedure

Once the thesis has been defended, the student will be able to apply for in the School of doctorate the accredited specialization "International Doctor" for which he/she will have to justify the fulfilment of the following requirements:

a) Have spent a minimum of three months outside Spain during the period of training in a prestigious institution of teaching or research center , studying at programs of study or doing work at research. The stay and activities must be endorsed by the director and authorized by the Academic Committee, and must be recorded in the Activity Registration Document of the PhD student. In addition, the PhD student must present a certificate from the institution where the stay was carried out, certifying the duration of the stay and that the activity carried out is related to the thesis doctoral program.

b) That part of the doctoral dissertation, at least the summary and the conclusions, has been written and presented in one of the usual languages for scientific communication in the field of knowledge, other than any of the official languages in Spain. This rule will not apply when the stays, reports and experts come from a Spanish-speaking country. The PhD student must present a certificate from the chairperson or secretary of the panel accrediting this.

c) That the thesis has been reported by a minimum of two PhD experts belonging to an institution of Education higher education or high school of research non-Spanish(staff model).

d) At least one expert from a non-Spanish higher education institution or research centre, with the title of doctor, and other than the person responsible for the stay mentioned in section a), must have been a member of the thesis examining board.

form application form for the International Doctorate

• Interruption/leave and readmission to doctoral studies

• rules and regulations for the submission of theses for publications

• Deposit and Defense of the thesis Doctoral thesis.

SUBMISSION OF THE thesis

• procedure of deposit of the thesis doctoral 

• procedure for the admission to defence and public defence of doctoral theses subject to technology protection or transfer processes, or of knowledge

• application of the beginning of the procedure of deposit of the thesis (Word)

• Annex Results thesis (Word)

• proposal of External Experts (Word)

• report of External Experts (Word)

• Response to External Expert Reports (Word)

thesis DEFENSE thesis

• Process of defense of the thesis

• proposal of Tribunal (Word)

• Court Incorporation Form (Word)

• Confidentiality commitment for the members of the confidential doctoral thesis examining board (PDF)

• Confidentiality commitment for those attending the defence of a confidential doctoral dissertation (PDF)

• doctorate application

• procedure for the awarding of the award Extraordinary Doctorate from doctoral program in Applied Engineering

• Application form for the awarding of the award Extraordinary Doctorate of the doctoral program in Applied Engineering (PDF)