Industrial doctorate

This mention will be obtained upon completion of doctoral studies in collaboration with the social and economic network in order to promote the collaboration, transfer and exchange of knowledge between academia and the social and economic environment, either in the public or private sphere.

In order to obtain the industrial mention, the following REQUIREMENTS must be met, as established in Royal Decree 99/2011, of January 28, regulating official doctoral studies, modified by Royal Decree 576/2023, of July 4, as well as in the rules governing doctoral studies at the University of Valladolid:

The thesis must develop a research project of industrial, commercial, social or cultural interest either in an entity, public or private company, or in a public administration. Universities, public research organisations (either national or regional) and university hospitals are excluded. Exceptionally, this mention may be achieved in any of these latter institutions, except for universities, provided that the thesis offers eminently applied content.
The doctoral student will draft a scientific-technical report of the project that will reflect the direct link between the doctoral thesis and the research project carried out at the entity or company, and which will be incorporated into the doctoral activities document. It will also be approved and the academic committee of the doctoral programme will issue a report thereon.
A collaboration agreement must be signed between the parties (the University of Valladolid and the corresponding entity, company or public administration), accompanied by an annex of specific clauses, for the academic preparation of the doctoral thesis, which will establish at least the obligations of the different parties involved and the industrial property rights which may derive.
The doctoral student must have been hired for at least one year by the entity, company or public administration in which the research project is being undertaken. A substantial part of the thesis must also be conducted at said entity, company, or public administration.

The doctoral student will have a thesis tutor appointed by the academic committee of the doctoral programme in which they enrolled, and a person in charge appointed by the company or public administration who may, if applicable, also be a thesis supervisor, in accordance with the rules of the Doctoral School of the University of Valladolid.

In no case shall the person in charge designated by the company or entity take part in the thesis examination board.

Expression of interest in the Industrial Doctorate and information

Procedure for processing doctoral theses with the "Industrial Doctorate" mention

The mention of "Industrial Doctorate" in the doctoral degree will be granted at the student’s request. In addition to the usual procedures, the following issues must be taken into account:

A) The doctoral student will submit the scientific-technical report of the project to the academic committee of the doctoral programme, thereby expressing their intention to undertake an industrial doctorate.

Submission deadline for this scientific-technical report: before the end of the second year of enrolment in a doctoral programme, if the thesis is conducted on a full time basis, or before the end of the fourth year of enrolment in a doctoral programme if the thesis is done on a part time basis.

B) It is necessary to have:

A person in charge designated by the entity, company or public administration.
A tutor, who will be appointed by the academic committee upon admission to doctoral studies.
A thesis supervisor, who may be the same as the person in charge designated by the entity. In any case, the appointment corresponds to the academic committee and this supervisor must meet the requirements established for thesis supervision in the UVa’s rules governing doctoral studies.

C) Once the report is approved by the academic committee of the doctoral programme:

It will be incorporated by the doctoral student into the doctoral activities document with code no. 11.
The procedure to sign a collaboration agreement between the parties will be initiated, accompanied by the annex of specific clauses, which must be signed as soon as possible. Access to the procedure document.

D) At the end of the research period and before the thesis is deposited, the doctoral student must include in the doctoral activities document –with code no. 10– the work contract signed with the entity, public or private company or public administration, as well as the justifying documents of said contractual relationship (safeguarding third party personal details) in order to demonstrate their contractual relationship for at least one year during the preparation of the thesis.

Application for an agreement for the “Industrial Doctorate” mention

The agreement between the entity, public or private company or public administration and the University of Valladolid (UVa) is formalised through three documents: Form 1; the collaboration agreement; and the annex of specific clauses:

Form 1. Here the proposer justifies the agreement’s suitability.
Collaboration agreement. Before starting to negotiate the agreement, the deputy director responsible for the "Industrial Doctorate" mention at the Doctoral School should be contacted (subdireccion.escuela.doctorado@uva.es).
Once an agreement is signed, it will cover all doctoral students who prepare their thesis within that same entity and, afterwards, it will only be necessary to subscribe the annex of specific clauses for each doctoral student.

The collaboration agreement

The collaboration agreement:

Collaboration agreements must be signed by the rector of the UVa and the person in charge for the entity, public or private company or public administration. This agreement can support, as long as it is in force, several industrial doctorates prepared within the same entity, company or public administration. It will always be accompanied by an annex of specific clauses.
Every agreement must have a promoter. The promoter will be the thesis supervisor at the UVa.
The terms of the collaboration agreement will be agreed between the deputy director of the EsDUVa and the entity, company or public administration. In order to simplify the process, the agreement model approved by the EsDUVa’s management committee is recommended.
Once the collaboration agreement has been agreed it must be sent by the agreement’s promoter, together with Form 1.
After the rector's signature, the promoter of the agreement will obtain the signature of the person in charge of the student in the company and, afterwards, send the signed document to the deputy director of the EsDUVa, who will send a copy to the university agreements department.

Appendix of specific clauses:

Each annex of specific clauses is signed by the vice-chancellor for research, by the person in charge of the student in the company, and by the doctoral student.
This annex must be processed after the collaboration agreement between the entity, company or public administration in which the doctoral thesis is to be prepared and the UVa. This is because this latter document must support that annex.
Each annex of particular clauses will be sent to the deputy director of the EsDUVA, who will forward it to the vice-chancellor for research to be signed.
The thesis supervisor will then obtain the signatures of the person in charge of the student at the company, and the doctoral student. The thesis supervisor will send a copy of the document with all the signatures to the deputy director of the EsDUVa.

The agreement proposal forms and the co-supervision agreement template (together with the appendix) are available HERE in the panel "Application forms for Industrial Doctorate".

Grants

Procedure for obtaining the Industrial Doctorate mention

The collaboration agreement

Appendix of specific clauses:

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