In this course the students would learn about:
1 - Implementation of the selected research methodology to the specific research project;

2 - All stages, activities and tasks of the research project, and the resources necessary;
3 - The risks of the research project and mitigation and contention strategies;

4 - Time schedule, containing all project activities (including risk management) and the distribution of all results to be achieved;
5 ? Reports presentation with the result of the analysis of available alternatives, relevant to specific decisions (e.g., alternative approaches and software), and of the progress and results achieved by the time the course is attended.

1 - Analysis of the known research methodologies and selection of the one best suited for the specific research project;
2 - General project management principles and innovation projects, in particular, with reference to project management best practices. Those principles consider both the initial project planning stage and the next stages of project monitoring and control, and the change management and re-planning;
3 - Analysis of the research goals and the proposed approach and identification of all the project activities and tasks. Identification of deliverables and milestones;
4 - Scheduling approaches. Application of the best suited scheduling approach to the specific research project;
5 - Report writing and decision records. Application of report writing and decision record methodologies to write reports documenting the achieved progress, alternative analysis, and decision / choice justification.

The course has a formal responsible. However the course is conducted by each supervisor to his or her students.
The supervisor sets the course evaluation methods, instruments and scheduling for his or her students. The evaluation is based on the analysis of the scientific report and the quality of the presentation of this report to the advisers and the members of the committee to follow the thesis.

The aim is to develop student skills to:
LG1: Place research in the scope of Science
LG2: Conduct Literature Reviews
LG3: Present scientific results

The program includes five parts:
P1: Science and Research: general questions
P2: Literature Review
P3: How to write a scientific paper
P4: How to perform an oral presentation
P5: Patents

1. Participation (10%)
2. Assessment of individual literature review (30%
3. Assessment of the scientific paper (30%)
4. Assessment of oral presentation (30%)

The follow-up seminar is intended to ensure that the student clearly understands whether or not his or her project will lead to a PhD. The student should also understand at this stage the possible changes necessary for the first alternative. It is not acceptable that at this stage the student is not able to describe in detail at least part of the innovative contributions he has produced and what the main future steps of the project are.
It is also expected that the students subject to the evaluation have submitted at least one article for publication in the journal or in the conference proceedings, describing important contributions.

This UC does not have a typical program. Instead, UC will organize the set of presentations for all enrolled students.
All students in the program must attend the presentations of their classmates, even if they have already taken the chair. The presentation will be held in front of a jury that includes a member of the accompanying committee, the advisor and the director of the doctoral program.

Each student must do a presentation consisting of a written supporting document and a live presentation, each of these is assessed with respect to the quality of the content, and the quality of the communication.

GRADE = 50% x (content(presentation) + content(document))/2 + = 50% x (communication(presentation) + communication(document))/2
The final grade will be given by the head of the UC after knowing the suggestion of the advisor and the other member of the jury.

The Seminar aims to ensure that the student clearly understands whether their project will safely lead to a doctorate. The student must still understand at this stage the possible changes necessary for the first alternative. It is not acceptable that, at this stage, the student does not know how to describe in detail at least part of the innovative contributions they produced and what the main future stages of the project are.
It is also expected that students subject to assessment have submitted at least one article for publication in a journal or in conference proceedings, describing important contributions.

This course does not have a typical syllabus. Instead, the course faculty member will organize a set of presentations from all enrolled students.
All students in the program must attend the presentations of their colleagues, even if they have already approved the course. The presentation will be made in front of a jury that includes (at least) a member of the monitoring committee, a supervisor, and the director of the doctoral program.

Each student has two assessment elements: a written supporting document, and their live presentation. Each of these elements is evaluated regarding the quality of the content and the quality of the communication.
Final grade = 30% x (content(presentation) + content(document))/ 2 + 70% x (communication (presentation) + communication (document))/2
The final grade will be given by the course leader after hearing the suggestion from the examiner and the student's supervisor.

Given its nature, this course doesn't have typical learning objectives or program. 1 - Preconditions for doing the thesis - Describe the thesis objectives and motivation to achieve them; - Show that those objectives lead to advance the state of the art; - Present examples of the application of the thesis contributions / approaches - Present a systematic but synthetic description of related work and critically analyse it - Describe the student's proposed approaches in detail - Validate the thesis outcomes - Conclude about the developed work and achieved results, and elaborate on future work to be done
2 - Learning objective
After doing the thesis, the student will be ready to initiate his or her autonomous scientific carrier. Besides, the student will be capable of scientific research communication.

Instead of a typical program, this course sets a broad set of arrangements / decisions that will enable the student to do his or her thesis:
1 - Communication between the student and the supervisor, including the work methodology 2 - Decide if the thesis should be a compilation of scientific articles / papers, or if it should be a classical text written for that purpose 3 - Design the process used to write the thesis, including decisions regarding the sequence of chapters and sections and the contents of each section 4 - Decide on the interplay of PhD work (e.g., field work, software implementation, data analysis) and PhD writing 5 - Decide on the interrelationship between supervisor's reviews and student's work 6 - Decide on the relationship between writing the thesis and writing scientific articles and papers
7 - If applicable, decide on the make-up of independent evaluation panels, and ensure the collaboration of its members

- PhD Seminars and Project Follow-up Seminar
- Scientific articles. It is recommended to publish 3 to 5 scientific articles in ISI journals and conference proceedings with peer review. If the nature of the work makes it impossible to publish, independent panels must perform adequate evaluations
- The PhD jury (changes may be suggested)
- Public thesis defense (viva). Besides these mandatory evaluation stages, supervisors may set additional evaluation stages