Coordinator

The coordinator will be appointed for a four-year term by the Rector, at the proposal of the Director of the Doctoral School, from among the professors with doctorates who participate in the programme and meet the requirements of Royal Decree 99/2011, of 28 January. In the case of a joint programme, the coordinator will be appointed by the body specified in the collaboration agreement or contract.

Functions

• Direct and coordinate the programme's activities, ensuring continuity and fulfilment of its objectives, and ensuring that the programme is carried out with the highest degree of efficiency, quality and success.

• Chair the programme's Academic Committee and implement and enforce its agreements.

• Represent the programme on the EDUZ Management Committee and ensure that EDUZ agreements relating to the programme are complied with.

• Ensure that programme members are informed of any matters related to the programme's activities that may affect them.

• Any other duties assigned to them by the regulations of the University of Zaragoza.

• The coordinator shall convene and chair, at least once a year, a meeting with the teaching staff of the Doctoral Programme in order to inform them about the progress of the programme and the actions carried out by the Doctoral School. Likewise, possible actions to improve the programme shall be raised and discussed.

Regulations

• Agreement of 17 October 2017, of the Governing Council of the University, approving the internal regulations of the Doctoral School of the UZ, amended by Agreement of June 2020 and 13 December 2021
• Q111_2. Procedure for the appointment, renewal and dismissal of agents of the Internal Quality Assurance System in Doctoral studies

Recognition in POD

The Doctoral School currently has a pool of 1,400 hours for the recognition of dedication to doctoral management, excluding the management team. These hours are distributed among the different Doctoral Programmes based on a weighted average of the number of doctoral students enrolled in the three academic years prior to the academic year in which the distribution is made, which will take effect in the following academic year (70%), and the average number of theses defended in those academic years (30%). In addition, 20 hours are allocated for the chair of the Doctoral Committee, 10 hours for the secretary of the same, 5 hours for the members of the Doctoral Committee and 5 hours for the representatives of each branch on the Standing Committee of the EDUZ Management Committee (on the date of distribution). Likewise, 5 hours are added to the inter-university Doctoral Programmes coordinated by the University of Zaragoza.

The hours corresponding to each programme will, by default, be assigned to the programme coordinator. Exceptionally, the coordinator may, at their discretion, distribute these hours among the other members of the programme's Academic Committee. For example, when the coordinator cannot benefit from the reduction because they hold another management position with higher recognition or because they are not teaching or research staff at the University of Zaragoza. This fact may be communicated in response to the notification from EDUZ of the hours deducted and assigned to the programme for the POD for the following academic year.