Research Plan Public Defense

The academic year of the second enrolment, each student must do a public presentation of his/her Research plan. The presentation will be evaluated by a three members jury chosen by the Academic Committee. The presentation  consists of exposing the general goals proposed for the thesis, its justification according to the state of art in the research area, and the exposition of the way the main goals are expected to be reached.

In order have their Research Plan evaluated, students must upload to Atenea-Phd a document containing:

  • A self-contained memory, where the general goals of the thesis are determined and justified according to the state of art of the research area they belong to.
  • Provisional title of the thesis.
  • Summary of the project.
  • Goals.
  • State of art.
  • Exposition of the way chosen to reach goals.
  • Working plan, with an estimated calendar.
  • Publications already done about that study field (when available)

After uploading the document to Atenea-Phd the advisor must validate it.


Deadlines for documentation delivery and dates for the defense are available in the calendar.