International Mention
La international mention is one of the mentions that the student can include in his title. According to the Regulations Governing Doctoral Studies, the student who does his doctorate at the Rey Juan Carlos University can include in his doctoral degree and under certain conditions, the following mentions:
1. International Doctorate
2. Industrial Doctorate (link)
3. Cum laude: The thesis evaluation committee may grant the mention of cum laude if the overall grade is outstanding and the positive secret vote is unanimously issued in this regard.
The title of doctor may include the mention "International Doctorate" on its front, provided that the following circumstances concur:
a) That, during the training period necessary to obtain the doctorate degree, The doctoral candidate has completed one or more stays at one or more prestigious higher education institutions or research centres with a cumulative minimum duration of 3 months or 90 days.
- The stay can be divided into a maximum of 4 time periods, provided that each period has a minimum duration of 14 days. In addition, at least one of the periods must have a minimum duration of one month. Hybrid or remote stays are not permitted and must be entirely in-person.
- Prior to their realization, the stays and activities must be endorsed by the director and authorized by the academic committee of the doctoral program. Once the doctoral student has completed his/her studies, he/she must: incorporate it into the doctoral student's activities document, that is, it will be included as a training activity in RAPI. As supporting documentation in RAPI, the authorization of the Academic Commission will be provided (form) and certification/proof of stay at the receiving centre (free format, see next item: point c).
c) That the person responsible for the stay(s) at the destination center(s) certifies/accredits the completion of the stay(s), indicating specific dates..
b) That part of the doctoral thesis, at least the summary and conclusions, has been written and defended in one of the usual languages for scientific communication in their field of study, 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.
c) That at least two expert doctors belonging to a non-Spanish higher education institution or research institute issue a favorable report on the doctoral thesis (form). These experts may not coincide with the PhD researchers who received the PhD student and carried out tutoring or project supervision tasks at the host institution. These informants may coincide with the external experts who will report on the doctoral thesis (article 24.3 of the regulations on doctoral studies).
d) That at least one expert belongs to a non-Spanish higher education institution or research center, with a doctorate degree, and other than the person responsible for the stay mentioned in paragraph a), has been part of the thesis evaluation committee.
The EID Steering Committee will be the one who will authorize the reading of the thesis with International Mention, given the favorable report of the Academic Commission based on the documentation provided by the doctoral student to said commission.
joint guardianship
Doctoral thesis co-supervision consists of co-supervision of a doctoral thesis by researchers from the URJC and from another foreign university, so that it leads to obtaining a doctoral degree from both universities. This modality of doctoral thesis under a co-supervision regime represents a further step in achieving the internationalization of doctoral training and of the research carried out during the thesis.
To apply for a doctoral thesis under co-supervision, you must have:
1 – The commitment of two thesis directors, one linked to the doctoral program corresponding to the URJC and the other to a foreign university.
2 – The signing of a co-supervision agreement between both universities (the agreement model is available at the EID upon request).
3 – The completion of a stay of at least six months at the collaborating university. The details of carrying out a thesis under a joint supervision regime are in the regulations of the doctoral studies of the EID. In summary, and in addition to the conditions indicated above, the following must be met:
- Each institution will recognize the validity of the doctoral thesis based on a single defense and each institution will issue the doctoral degree.
- The doctoral student must meet the prerequisites of both countries and will enroll in each of the two institutions.
- The stay at the collaborating university can be divided into a maximum of 4 periods of time as long as each period has a minimum duration of 14 days. Furthermore, at least one of the periods must have a minimum duration of one month. Hybrid stays are not allowed and must be entirely in-person.
- The court before which the thesis must be defended will be designated by mutual agreement between the two institutions and its composition and operation will be in accordance with the legislation in force in each of the countries.
Visual Archives
IV Internationalization Conference (December 2024)
III Internationalization Conference (November 2023)
- Sources of funding (slideshow)
II Conference on Internationalization
- Financing, joint supervision and international mention (link)
I Conference on Internationalization
- Financing, joint supervision and international mention(link)
Internationalization actions
Form for collect information and evidence on internationalization actionsBoth in person and remotely, organized by URJC staff, and from which students in the predoctoral stage can benefit: https://forms.office.com/e/wYUmC0kJ1z
La information about these actions, duly collected in the form, will be transferred by the International Doctoral School annually to the Vice-Rector for Teacher Training and Teaching Innovation, which will explicitly include them as merits within the DOCENTIA evaluation program, starting from the DOCENTIA 2023 call.
IMFAHE Platform
Access to the IMFAHE website: www.imfahe.org
2024-25 academic year information session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aPDtQVkfYo