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Pre-deposit, deposit, authorisation and defence of the thesis

• Checks prior to thesis pre-submission
• Thesis with protected content
• Pre-deposit of the doctoral thesis
• Documentation required for the application for admission to the thesis process
• Admission to the process
• External reports and authorisation for thesis deposit
• Proposal for the examination board
• Public exhibition and upcoming defences
• Appointment of the examining board and authorisation of the defence
• Accommodation and expenses for members of the board
• TESEO file and defence fees
• Call for the defence event
• Evaluation of the doctoral thesis. Conduct of the defence event
• Defence by videoconference
• Submission of documentation generated during the defence
• Doctoral thesis archive

Regulations

• Regulations on Doctoral Theses at the University of Zaragoza (Resolution of 29 June 2026 of the University Governing Council)

• Procedure for the submission, approval and defence of theses at the University of Zaragoza (Resolution of 30 April 2026, of the Steering Committee of the Doctoral School of the University of Zaragoza).

• Instruction relating to the open publication of doctoral theses in the UZ institutional repository (30 May 2017, Governing Council;  procedure related to the doctoral theses subject to confidentiality (June 2017).

• Management Instruction on travel, accommodation and subsistence payments to members of doctoral thesis tribunals (17 March 2025).