Internationalisation

Research activities nowadays necessarily take place in an international context. For this reason it is necessary to promote the internationalization of doctoral programmes in order to take advantage, on the one hand, of the knowledge and experience of a wider scientific community and, on the other, to use this global community to disseminate the results obtained in the Doctoral Programme in Computer Science and Technologies for Smart Cities.

 The internationalization of the programme is organized around three fundamental pillars:

1. The collaboration of the research teams supporting the programme with international groups.
2. Mobility agreements signed by the ETSISI with European university centers.
3. Mobility planning within the Programme (Training activities: Stays in research groups).

Options for students:

 International co-supervision

Requirements:

• The doctoral thesis must be supervised by two or more PhDs from two universities, one Spanish and one foreign, who must formalize a co-supervision agreement.
• During the period of training required to obtain the PhD degree, the 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.

Procedures: Thesis under the International Co-supervision

• Procedure and agreement (Español/English)
• Co-supervision Request Form (Español/English)

 International doctoral mention

Requirements:

• During the period of training required to obtain the PhD degree, the PhD student must have spent a minimum of three months outside Spain in a prestigious higher education institution or research center, studying or carrying out research work. The stay and the activities must be approved by the Director and authorized by the Academic Committee, and will be included in the student’s activities document.
• Part of the doctoral thesis, at least the summary and conclusions, must have been written and presented in one of the usual languages for scientific communication in their field of knowledge, other than any of the official or co-official languages of Spain. This rule will not apply when the stays, reports and experts come from a Spanish-speaking country.

Steps to take:

1. Application for the stay: this must be submitted by the PhD student, with the approval of the Director, to the CAPD, (before the stay application).
2. The application for the ‘International Doctor’ award must be submitted at the time of applying for the deposit of the doctoral thesis. (more information in the procedures section).

Active collaboration agreements and agreements of the research teams participating in the Doctoral Programme.

 The consolidated research groups of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid to which the teaching staff of the Doctoral Programme belong collaborate with other research groups from other prestigious national and/or foreign centers, as a result of which, in addition to joint publications, they have participated in joint projects and have carried out stays of teaching staff and hosted students.