The Doctoral Programme Activity Report is the personal research-related learning activities control register, which will be updated regularly by the doctoral counsellor and thesis supervisor, and assessed by the Academic Committee in charge of the programme. Each doctoral candidate will record and provide evidence to this document concerning completed activities, of interest to their development as a researcher, which must be endorsed by their supervisor (or co-supervisors) and counsellor and authorised, where necessary, by the Academic Committee.

Every year, the Programme’s Academic Committee will assess the development of every doctoral candidate’s Doctoral Thesis Research Plan and the Record of Activities, together with the reports that the counsellor and thesis supervisor must issue. Positive annual assessment will be an essential requirement for continuing on the Programme.

With this purpose, the panel assessing the thesis will have the doctoral candidate’s Annual Activity Report. This document will not lead to a quantitative score, but will be a qualitative assessment instrument that will complement the assessment of the doctoral thesis (Royal Decree 99/2011, 28 January 2011).

The type of activities included in the Activity Report are all those that are of value to the development of the doctoral candidate’s research skills. These include research seminars, courses, workshops, conferences, doctoral conferences, research stays, publications, participation in research projects, consultations and interviews with experts, etc. It is not so important to make a very long list of activities, but rather that they be truly relevant and significant for the research development of the doctoral candidate himself and that of the doctoral thesis in progress.

All activities should be to the extent possible duly documented to prove their nature and authenticity. During the first year of participation in the Programme, a list of activities associated with the research to be carried out will be drawn up that will be extended and completed during the development of the doctoral thesis until its submission.

1. Annual Activity Record (list of activities undertaken)




2. Progress in the research plan: The progress of the PhD was planned and scheduled in the Research Plan submitted at the end of the first academic year. In this section you must describe the progress made during the last year and if there are any deviations from the original plan, you must explain and justify them.




3. Global reflection on the learning undertaken: doctoral candidate's reflections on the aim, use or benefits gained in the research and the training plan activity during the last year.




4. Future planned activities: If the candidates have already planned any research or training activity for the year to come, e.g. the attendance to conferences, seminars, courses, secondments, etc., it can also be included in this section.

Every activity undertaken during the research period that is submitted must be accompanied by a record that shows the relevant evidence. The records should be preceded by a table of contents – arranged chronologically and numbered, identifying the activity type and title – with the aim of aiding search and location. The records for each activity should comprise a series of sections that will include added-value information as follows:

1. Date: start and end dates of the activity.

2. Title: name and subtitle, if there is one, of the activity.

3. Place/Institution: place and institution where the activity was carried out.

4. Type: type of research activity carried out, e.g.: training course or seminar, publication, academic service, participation to an event, presentation in an event, visiting research stay, product, research activity (if it exists, please add the link to the proof/evidence of the activity)

5. Competencies and reflection on the learning undertaken: the doctoral candidate should reflect on the learning undertaken through this activity, taking into account the development of the established competencies in the programme (*see the list of competences at the end of the document).

6. Complementary material (optional): documents, results or products that have been produced during the activity; they may be images or pages inserted or references or links that contain added value to expand on the evidence.

Nom doctorand/a / Name doctoral student: -----------------------------------------------------------------

Títol projecte de tesi / Project thesis title: ---------------------------------------------------------------------

Any del doctorat / Year of the PhD: ---------------------------------------------

Curs actual / Current academic year: -------------------------------------------

Year 20xx-20xx Activity Record

1. EXAMPLE Seminar: Where to publish: How to identify leading journals

Date:

Place:

Competences and reflection on the learning undertaken:

2. EXAMPLE Conference: XXXX(name)

Date:

Place:

Competences and reflection on the learning undertaken:

3. EXAMPLE Article : XXXX(title)

Date:

Place:

Competences and reflection on the learning undertaken:

4 ….

Progress and deviations in the research plan: -----------------------------------------------------------------

Global reflection on the learning undertaken: -----------------------------------------------------------------

Future planned activities: -----------------------------------------------------------------

• Systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of research skills and methods related to that field.
• Ability to conceive, design or create, put into practice and adopt a substantial research or creation process.
• Ability to contribute to expanding the frontiers of knowledge through original research.
• Ability to carry out a critical analysis and evaluation and synthesis of new and complex ideas.
• 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 the international scientific community.
• Ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural progress within a knowledge-based society.

• Ability to function by analogy in contexts in which there is little specific information.
• Ability to find the key questions that must be answered to solve a complex problem.
• Ability to design and develop innovative projects.
• Ability to work both in a team and autonomously in an international or multidisciplinary context.
• Ability to integrate knowledge, deal with complexity and make judgments with limited information.
• Capacity for criticism and intellectual defense of solutions.

• Comprensió sistemàtica d'un camp d'estudi i domini de les habilitats i els mètodes de recerca relacionats amb aquest camp.
• Capacitat de concebre, dissenyar o crear, posar en pràctica i adoptar un procés substancial de recerca o creació.
• Capacitat per contribuir a ampliar les fronteres del coneixement a través d'una investigació original.
• Capacitat de fer una anàlisi crítica i d'avaluació i síntesi d'idees noves i complexes.
• Capacitat de comunicació amb la comunitat acadèmica i científica i amb la societat en general sobre els seus àmbits de coneixement en els modes i els idiomes d'ús habitual a la comunitat científica internacional.
• Capacitat de fomentar, en contextos acadèmics i professionals, l‟avenç científic, tecnològic, social, artístic o cultural dins una societat basada en el coneixement.

• Capacitat de desenvolupar-se per analogia en contextos en què hi ha poca informació específica.
• Capacitat de trobar les preguntes clau que cal respondre per resoldre un problema complex.
• Capacitat de dissenyar i desenvolupar projectes innovadors.
• Capacitat de treballar tant en equip com de manera autònoma en un context internacional o multidisciplinar.
• Capacitat per integrar coneixements, enfrontar-se a la complexitat i formular judicis amb informació limitada.
• Capacitat de crítica i de defensa intel·lectual de solucions.