Presentation
The doctoral program in Food, Physiology and Health falls within the framework of the Doctoral School that the University of Navarra has implemented, in the framework established by RD 99/2011, as a planning, coordination and monitoring body for Doctoral Programmes. Responsible for its development and organisation is the School of Pharmacy and Nutrition.
The programme was adapted to the verification procedures foreseen by Royal Decree 99/2011, of 28 January, which regulates official doctoral studies (BOE of 10 February 2011). It received the report Favourable Verification by the National Agency for Assessment of Quality and Accreditation on 12/11/2012 (Title ID 5600109). It was positively verified by the committee of Universities on 08/01/2013. It was published in the BOE on 22 April 2013. On 27/07/2018 it received the report Favourable Renewal of Accreditation from the National Agency for Assessment of Quality and Accreditation.
The doctoral program in Food, Physiology and Health of the University of Navarra obtained the Mention of Excellence (MEE2011-0136) according to the Resolution of 6 October 2011, of the General Secretariat of Universities (BOE of 20 October 2011). An overall weighted assessment of 97 points out of 100 can be found at report of the National Agency for Assessment of Quality and Accreditation .
The Academic Committee of doctoral program is made up of:
- Coordinator: Ms. María Paz Peña, Professor of Nutrition and Bromatology.
-Vice-Dean of the School: Ms. Carmen Sanmartín Grijalba, Professor of Chemistry.
-Deputy Director of the School of doctorate at area of Experimental and Health Sciences: Ms. Ana Rouzaut Subirán, professor at Biochemistry and Genetics.
The academic background of this doctoral program is based on the previous existence of a doctoral program called "Physiology and Food", governed by RD 778/1998 which was C as an Official Programme of postgraduate program by the Ministry of Education and Science according to Royal Decree 56/2005 (BOE of 25 January 2005), which obtained and maintained the Mention of Quality awarded by the Ministry of Education and Science (Ref. MCD-2007-00012) (BOE 12 October 2012).
This programme was adapted to the European Higher Education Area (Royal Decree 1393/2007, 29 October), with the name doctoral program in Food, Physiology and Health, by the abbreviated procedure . It was positively evaluated by the National Agency for Quality Assessment of Universities (National Agency for Assessment of Quality and Accreditation), and positively verified by the committee of Universities (10 June 2009). It has official status and is registered in the Registry of Universities, Centres and Degrees (BOE of 10 February 2010).
Associated with this doctoral program it is worth mentioning the European UniversityMaster's Degree in Food, Nutrition and Metabolism (E-MENU), which is an official Master's Degree (ref.MO2006-00958) of agreement with Annex I of RD 1393/2007 establishing the organization of official university education and has the positive assessment of the VERIFICA program of the National Agency for Assessment of Quality and Accreditation (National Agency of assessment of Quality and accreditation). This Master's Degree provides training suitable for the doctoral program.
The following Departments and centres of the University of Navarra are participating in development .
- department of Food Science and Physiology of the School of Pharmacy and Nutrition.
- department of Pharmaceutical Sciences of the School of Pharmacy and Nutrition.
- department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Interfaculty of the Schools of Medicine, Science and Pharmacy and Nutrition.
- Centre for Nutrition Research (CIN) attached to the School of Pharmacy and Nutrition.
Occasionally, depending on the project of doctoral dissertation, professors and researchers from other Departments of the Science area of the University of Navarra and the Clínica Universidad de Navarra may participate in the development of the Programme, mainly in the co-direction of doctoral theses.
Likewise, professors and doctors from other national and foreign institutions can participate in the Programme, as they have been doing, either in the co-direction of doctoral theses, teaching seminars, mobility actions (both of doctoral students and of the professors themselves), participation in thesis tribunals convened to obtain the European/International Mention in the title of Doctor, etc.
- Resolution of the MEC (.pdf)
- report final evaluation (.pdf)
INFORMATION AND CONTACT
Mª Paz de Peña Fariza
Programme Coordinator
mpdepena@unav.es
Campus University
31009 Pamplona, Spain
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