Doctoral degree in Natural Resources and Environment
Twenty-first century society requires technologies that allow the use of natural resources to be optimised following sustainability and circularity criteria. The programme has various research lines on using geological resources and minimising the environmental impact of this use. Use is considered holistically, covering all environmental aspects, from the harvesting of raw materials to their disposal once they have become waste, and including all of the stages in their physicochemical transformation. Within this framework, the doctoral programme in Natural Resources and Environment proposes a series of research lines that has fostered greater awareness of environmental conservation in the use of natural resources.
The aim of the doctoral programme in Natural Resources and Environment is to provide advanced research training in natural resource use and its environmental impact.
| Academic year | Start date: 1 October End date: 30 September |
| Duration | 3 years (full-time) or 5 years (part-time) |
| Number of places | 10 |
| Official degree | Doctoral degree in Natural Resources and Environment from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (recorded in the Ministry of Education's degree register) |
| Study load |
To be chosen when you pre-enrol:
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| Fees | |
| Coordinators | Toni Dorado Castaño |
| Secretary’s office | UPC-Manresa Av. Bases de Manresa, 61-73 (08242 - Manresa) Tel.: +34 938 777 228 Email: doctorat.manresa@upc.edu |
When?
Open all year. Choose the year you wish to start in.
How?
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- Check you meet the entrance requirements.
- Make sure your documents have been legalised.
Where?
The UPC's pre-enrolment website.
Who decides on admission?
The academic committee of the programme is in charge of evaluating and admitting candidates.
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- It prioritises students who have had a thesis supervisor appointed.
- Having a means of funding is essential.
When will I know if I have been admitted?
Within a month from the start of the process.
Document generated
The Doctoral Studies Support Unit of the UPC in Manresa generates the letter of admission once a decision on admission has been taken.
First-year students
How?
In person.
Where?
At Unitat de Suport a la Gestió d'Estudis de Doctorat of UPC-Manresa
Av. Bases de Manresa, 61-73
08242 Manresa
Tel: 938 777 228
doctorat.manresa@upc.edu
When?
- Ordinary enrolment: From 1st to 31st of October.
- Extraordinary enrolment: From 1st to 28th of February.
Second-year students and above
How?
On-line
When?
By e-Secretaria
When?
- Ordinary enrolment: From 1st to 31st of October.
Documents generated
- Enrolment (e-Secretaria)
- Registration certificate (e-Secretaria)
Who evaluates?
The Academic Commission of each program.
What is avaluated?
The specific requirements to pass the doctoral student's activities document consist of accrediting the completion of at least one of the following activities during the academic course:
- Articles published in indexed journals
- Stays at other universities or research centres or resulting from an agreement (co-supervisor, mobility, Erasmus Mundus, etc.)
- Presentations at International conferences
For first year students, the Accademic Comission also considers participation in courses, seminars and conferences.
When?
- In July. The supervisor and the student receive an e-mail stating how and when they must submit the documents for the academic committee of the programme to assess.
When will I know the result?
In September, when the committee has taken a decision, you will receive an e-mail telling you that the marks have been uploaded to the e-Secretaria.
Documents generated
- Official academic transcript
What is it?
The research plan is an outline of the project you are working on that starts off the research and acts as a guide over the course of the degree.
What format must it have?
When do I have to submit it?
The research plan is presented and publicly defended before an examination committee in the first year.
A public defence may take place in:
- September (students who enrolled for the first time in October).
- February (students who enrolled for the first time in the extraordinary February enrolment period).
To check dates, ask the administrative person in charge of each programme.
What does a public defence consists of?
It consists of the oral presentation of the research plan. It lasts a maximum of 20 minutes, followed by comments and questions from the examination committee. The mark will be "Satisfactory" or "Unsatisfactory". If your mark is "Unsatisfactory", the academic committee of the programme may give you up to six months to make the necessary amendments.
The examination committee is composed of three PhD holders from the doctoral programme. The thesis supervisors and the thesis tutors may not form part of the examination committee.
When?
All year.
What are the programme's conditions for depositing the thesis?
You must have had one article definitively accepted for publication and one article under review in indexed journals in your area of specialisation that are listed in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) in at least the third quartile (Q3) in its field. The articles must stem from the research carried out for the doctoral thesis (Decision CA 19/7/2018).
What are the conditions for submitting an article-based thesis?
PLEASE NOTE:The Doctoral Unit will not carry out thesis deposits on holidays and non-working days (including periods of low occupancy), from 22 to 23 December 2022 or from 24 to 31 July 2023. Theses deposited up to 30 September 2023 are considered to belong to the 2022-2023 academic year.
Aplications...
- To change from full-time to part-time study.
- To change thesis supervisor.
- For an extension.
- To stop studying.
Where?
Go to the standard application form section in the UPC's e-services portal and upload the document established for each procedure by the Doctoral School (forms).
For information and procedures pertaining to...
- Cotutelles
- Agreements
- Industrial doctorates
- Grants
- Mobility
- Legalisation of documents
- Equivalences
Where?
Consult the website of the Doctoral School of the UPC.
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