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Universidad Internacional Menéndez y Pelayo (UIMP), Fundación Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) and Fundación José Ortega y Gasset y Gregorio Marañón (FOM) have planned, through an academic partnership, the Doctoral Program in Economics and Government.
This program brings together two areas of knowledge as broad as interconnected, the Economy and the Government, and includes a group of researchers who are the best guarantee and endorsement for excellence that will guide the training of future students in this Doctoral Program.
Academic Year 2021/2022
Director of the Doctoral Program: Diego Puga, CEMFI
Academic Coordinator: Salvador Rus Rufino, FOM
Vice-Rector of Postgraduate and Research UIMP: Mónica Álvarez de Buergo, UIMP
CEMFI representative: Josep Pijoan-Mas, CEMFI
FOM representative: Antonio López Vega, FOM
Experts from the UIMP Commission for Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies: Miryam de la Concepción González de Rabanal, UNED and Mónica Fuentes Naharro, UCM
Spanish and English
Admission of candidates will be decided by the Academic Committee for the master's according to the conditions for access and specific requirements for admission to the program with the objective of not surpassing the 20 spaces established as the course maximum.
Of these 20 places, 15 will be reserved for full-time students and 5 for part-time students.
Universidad Internacional Menéndez y Pelayo (UIMP) has created this Doctoral Program in Economics and Government in an academic partnership with Fundación Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) and Fundación José Ortega y Gasset y Gregorio Marañón (FOM).
The CEMFI (Centre for Monetary and Financial Studies) is an institution which was created by the Bank of Spain in 1987 with a dual vocation: the traning of postgraduate students and research in the field of economics.
This doctoral proposal is based on the background of the doctoral program in economics UIMP-CEMFI, which precedes it, and on the prestige of the CEMFI teaching staff, who are also recognised active researchers in their respective fields of specialisation. Amongst them are three Fellows from the Econometric Society, three Fellows from the European Economic Association and seven researchers associated to the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Also taking part are directors, co-directors and editors associated to extremely prestigious journals such as Review of Economic Studies, Journal of the European Economic Association and Journal of Applied Econometrics. Furthermore, they sit on the executive committees of scientific associations such as the Econometric Society, the European Economic Association and the Spanish Association of Economics. Last but not least, three of them have received the Rey Jaime I prize in economics, and a further two have been awarded with the Sabadell-Herrero Award for Research in Economics.
The ten participating researchers in the doctoral program, who will be mentioned later on, publish in prestigious scientific journals. To use a common indicator, the average impact of articles written by these researchers during the period 2009-2013 (measured by quotations received in scientific journals from the Science Citation Index, ISI) is 5.3 times the annual world average in the field of economics, and eight out of ten of these researchers surpass 1.5 times the aforementioned threshold, which is used as an indicator of international excellence, for instance, in the Centros de Excelencia Severo Ochoa program. Another common indicator is the number of articles published in the five most prestigious international scientific journals in economics. Since 2009 the CEMFI lecturers have published 14 articles in these five journals, more than 20% of the total number of articles published by researchers from Spanish institutions, which makes the CEMFI the Spanish institution with the highest number of articles per researcher in the top international economics journals.
As far as the demand for this program is concerned, due to the acceleration in the economic and educational integration processes worldwide, there is currently a great demand for researchers who are highly qualified and who are in a position to offer independent, original and significant contributions to knowledge in the field of economics. This can be corroborated by a great deal of data. Generally speaking, postgraduate education is in increasing demand, and the economic performance that they provide is growing. For instance, in 2010 it can observed that in the United States a postgraduate student earned an average salary 47% higher than a student with a bachelor’s degree, and 29% higher in the United Kingdom, the former increasing substantially over the last few decades, ("The Rising Postgraduate Wage Premium", Joanne Lindley & Stephen Machin, Discussion Paper 5981, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2013).
Regarding the UIMP-CEMFI Doctorate in Economics, which precedes the one proposed here, evidence of a growing demand can be observed from the number of applications for the MA in Economics and Finance, which is the usual pathway to this doctoral program. In particular, during the academic year 2013-2014 there were 276 applicants from universities in Asia (32%), Spain (21%), Latin America (21%), Europe (excluding Spain) and the United States (18%), and Africa (9%). Most of these applicants stated that they wanted to pursue doctoral studies once their MA had finished. These intentions are coherent with the fact that 75% of students who graduated from the MA program during that academic year went on to do the doctoral program.
A second indicator regarding the demand comes from the number of graduates from the aforementioned doctoral program. On average, those who graduated set up 13 interviews with potential employers, they had 6 invititations to teach seminars on hiring ("flyouts") and had 4 job offers. Among the employers of the graduates from this doctoral programme are some of the most prestigious universities in the world, such as MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), the main central banks as well as international organisations and private companies. This would all reveal the capacity the programme has to train highly qualified researchers who are contracted by both universities and institutions alike.
Through its University Institute, and since the Ministry of Education published the first drafts of what would become the Royal Decree 99/2011, 28th January, by which official doctoral programes are regulated, the Fundación José Ortega y Gasset - Gregorio Marañón started looking into the possibility of taking advantage of the change in legislation to reorganise the management of doctoral education. It has made a great effort to study and analyse the different doctoral programs that had been taught, the dissertations read, the research carried out, the research capacity of the lecturers and researchers, both those who were involved in these programs and those who had participated and had been recognised for their work as reseachers (supported by the recognition of six-year terms and competitive management projects withing the National Plan).
Having examined all of this data, and recognising the need for society to promote the training of researchers, the implication of the researchers in the University in this training, and having established the need to promote the creation of new multidisciplinary groups and networks along with the ever-present obligation to carry out rational and effective use and organisation of research resources, both human and material, and taking into account the variety of needs and methods of research in the different fields of knowledge, the Fundación José Ortega y Gasset - Gregorio Marañón has decided that it is timely to propose this doctoral program to the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo.
The proposed doctorate would allow:
Promoting the training of researchers, a key element of a society based on, and offering quality doctoral training guaranteed by researchers and groups of acknowledged experience.
Consolidating doctoral teaching of excellence, which has already been in existence, and promoting doctoral education in areas where the University already has experienced researchers.
Offering training in doctoral dissertations.
Offering structured, organised and flexible doctoral training.
Boosting internationalisation, an interdisciplinary approach, and the possibility of transfer programs, while at the same time making a rational, transversal and efficient use of resources.
The lines of research in the doctoral program have been defined through the existence of competitive projects in the National Plan, and intend to promote the management of dissertations in areas where this has not been happening, despite having reliable groups or researchers, as well as, on the other hand, to encourage experienced researchers to participate in competitive projects in the areas in which the arise (state or regional), and thus uniting research strategy at institutional level with university research strategy, with a strong inter- and multi-disciplinary character.
The need for doctoral training of graduates from degrees related to Political Science and Administration, International Relations and Sociology is defined both in the academic and professional fields, where a need for further research and knowledge, techniques and methods is clear. This doctoral training would mean the main route for educating researchers.
The doctoral program is added to the area of research of Political Science and Administration, International Relations and Sociology, offering the students a setting for constructive critical thinking, as well as the discussion of key social and political problems, and for asking questions about research and indentifying the gaps in knowlege in the field of Social Sciences.
We include work experience over the last three decades in Political Science and Administration, International Relations and Sociology in the Instituto Universitario de Investigación Ortega y Gasset, thanks to its 5 doctors and more than 150 doctoral dissertations read.
At the same time it is important to underline the international vocation of the UIMP, which along with vast experience and intense relations with Fundación Ortega-Marañón with Latin America, provides a distinct international flavour to this program, above all where Latin America is concerned.
The Foundation proposes this doctoral program in order to offer a doctoral training, which on one hand contributes to promoting the training of individuals who are competent in research and innovation, and on the other hand, improves through research, the response to the needs of society in the framework of an inclusive program, whose structure and organisation allows specialisation, updating and diversification of education, research and the transfer of knowlege.
With this doctoral programme the Foundation proposes:
To train new researchers and prepare teams who can contribute to social, scientific and economic progress.
Foster the training of new lecturers in the corresponding disciplines.
To give specialized training to postgraduate students who are interested in a suitable professional, scientific and technical development.
Promote the creation of research groups and networks on a national, international and interdisciplinary level.
In conclusion, the immediate objective of this doctoral program in the Governing Body is to create PhD graduates who are equipped with a critical scientific spirit, a capacity for research and teamwork, via organised education in two areas, one general (research techniques and methods, tools and resources for the same) and the other, specialised, along the lines of specialisation and research topics that have been consolidated during the program.
The general objectives of the doctoral program in this area will be, at the very least, the following:
Motivate and further professional, scientific and technical knowledge and development of the doctoral students in the relevant fields.
Train new researchers to be capable of participating in research teams.
Boost teaching careers while furthering research training.
The specialisation of the student in his/her corresponding field, particularly in so far as research is concerned.
Provide methodological tools from which to tackle the analysis of theory and practice from an interdisclinary perspective, as well as offering basic criteria from which to approach practical matters in multiple areas that may arise.
Avail of an adequate framework to execute and transmit scientific advances.
Train doctoral students so that they can play a vital role in the public and private institutions involved in innovation and research, and in this way, be capable of leading the shift from knowledge to the well-being of society.
Menéndez Pelayo International University and its Collaborating Centers offer different educational activities provided for in RD 99/2011, which regulates official doctoral studies, aimed at doctoral students who want to acquire complementary training to the research activity they develop in the different doctoral programs.
You can consult in this link the offer of transversal and specific educational activities by academic year.
Duration: 75 hours
Brief description: This activity aims to introduce students to research techniques specific to a Doctoral progam. This knowledge can be acquired in two different ways: by participating in a reading group or attending a course on research approaches and methods. The details of both alternatives follow:
1.1. Reading group
Justification: A regular meeting in which students present and open up to discussion articles published in leading scientific journals to their fellow students and two coordinating teachers.
Planning: In each session the students present articles which will be immediately open for discussion among all of the participants.
Language: English.
Learning outcomes: This activity helps the students to define their research projects. The students learn to become familiar with the elements of a successful research project, what kind of contributions are worthy of being published in top journals, and how these relate to the frontier of knowledge.
Schedule: Each student gives a presentation at least once during the academic year. In the case of part-time students, the course hours and the calendar of this activity will be adapted to their studies.
1.2. Research approaches and methods
Justification: This activity has a dual objective: (a) to guide students in the design of the research topic, providing them with the basic theoretical and methodological tools while including them in debate and critical analysis (b) to enable the doctoral student to master the essential research tools and techniques, both quantitative and qualitative, to carry out their doctoral thesis. These objectives are achieved by means of two sub-activities.
Planning: These objectives are achieved by means of both methodological courses, which are complemented by the work carried out by the student alongside their research tutor and thesis supervisor.
Language: Spanish.
Learning outcomes: On one hand, the student will learn how to define their Research Project, and consequently, master their own conceptual framework for their chosen research topic. On the other hand, the student will acquire the following skills: (a) advanced knowledge related to the main theoretical and methodological approaches and debates in the areas of their Doctoral program, (b) the definition and development of the the theoretical and methodological approach of their Research Project, (c) the contact and interaction with the research community (teachers and researchers), and (d) a better and deeper insight into the motivations, aptitudes, interests and concerns of the students regarding the assigning of their respective thesis supervisors by the Academic Committee of the Doctoral program.
Schedule: These methodolgy courses take place in the first year of the Doctoral program. Part-time students have until the first term of their second year.
Inspection procedures: Generally speaking, the Academic Committee will control PhD participation and fulfillment of tasks by means of the anual assessment set out in doctoral studies regulations, subject to a prior report by the thesis supervisor, which will reflect the doctoral student's progress and endorse their achievements. Said assessment will evaluate the extent to which the student has used the program of activities and recommend complementary activities to strengthen the progress and content of their PhD to the student. To be precise, the control process is carried out by the teachers responsible for each activity, who will check the attendance and follow up on the student's acquisition of presentation and discussion skills, providing them with relevant feedback. Lastly, at the end of the academic year, these teachers will provide a performance assessment, the results of which will be included in the Doctoral Student's Activity Document (DAD).
Duration: 120 hours
Brief description: A regular meeting in which students present and open up to discussion their research projects to fellow students and teachers. The seminar also allows the other doctoral students to become familiar with their fellow students’ research work and to collaborate. This activity is complemented by attending seminars given by prestigious external researchers.
Planning: At each session the student presents a chapter of their thesis at different stages of its development. When the presenters are external researchers, they present work in progress.
Language: Spanish and English.
Learning outcomes: Seminars lead to improving presentation skills, and in particular, to receiving feedback from teachers and fellow students who help to improve ongoing work and to explore the viability of new ideas and projects. When the presenters are external researchers, students become familiar with cutting-edge research work in the areas of the Doctoral program and open up relationships with leading renowned researchers.
Schedule: This activity will be carried out on a continuous basis throughout the academic year, with students presenting according to the progress being made in their research. Each student must present once a year, during the last term. The three presentations corresponding to the part-time students will be given between the second and fifth years of the Doctoral program.
Inspection procedures: Generally speaking, the Academic Committee will control PhD participation and fulfillment of tasks by means of the anual assessment set out in doctoral studies regulations, subject to a prior report by the thesis supervisor, which will reflect the doctoral student's progress and endorse their achievements. Said assessment will evaluate the extent to which the student has used the programme of activities and can recommend complementary activities to strengthen the progress and content of their PhD to the student. To be precise, the control process is carried out by the teachers responsible for each activity, who will check the attendance. Moreover, the seminar allows the teachers to verify the progress made by the students. At the end of each academic year, the seminar coordinators meet with the members of the thesis commission to prepare an individual assessment. In the case of external researchers' seminars, students will submit a short summary of the content of the seminar, including critiques, which will in turn be assessed by the corresponding teacher. Finally, at the end of each academic year, the teachers will submit an evaluation on student performance during the activity, the results of which will be included in the Doctoral Student's Activity Document (DAD).
Brief description: Students are recommended to become familiar with research carried out in centres other than those where they are doing their doctoral thesis, particularly when they are studying at universities where prestigious researchers in the student's research topic are based.
Planning: Students are given the option of spending time in foreign universities to complete their training. The thesis supervisor will be responsible for the organisation of a supervisor in the host university, who will act as a thesis tutor during the stay. The collaborating universities will take on the duty of looking for the necessary financing for these stays, which may come from it being included in either national or international teacher research projects, from their own grants from the Research Personnel Training Programme (FPI) or from PhD grants awarded through external selection processes, normally from private institutions.
Language: Spanish or English, depending on the country of the host university.
Learning outcomes: The students reap the benefits of a research supervisor who is renowned in his/her own field, and of having their own work recogised by researchers and doctoral students from another university. Moreover, they become familiar with how the research system of another country works.
Schedule: The duration of the stays will be for a mininum of three months and will take place preferably as and from the second year of the Doctoral program. The duration for part-time students will be the same, but will take place preferably as and from the third year of their Doctoral program.
Inspection procedures: Both the thesis supervisor and the researcher who acts as tutor during the stay abroad will write up reports describing progress made in research by the students. The results of this report will be included in the Doctoral Student's Activity Document (DAD).
The description of the research lines can be consulted at this link.
Line 1 - Microeconomics and Industrial Economics
Line 2 - Financial and Bank Economics
Line 3 - Econometrics
Manuel Arellano González, CEMFI
Rafael Repullo Labrador, CEMFI
Enrique Sentana Iváñez, CEMFI
Gerard Llobet Codina, CEMFI
Javier Suárez Bernaldo de Quirós, CEMFI
Line 4 - Macroeconomics
Line 5 - Labor and Demographic Economics
Line 6 - Economic Geography and International Trade
Samuel Bentolila Chocrón, CEMFI
Nezih Guner, CEMFI
Diego Puga Pequeño, CEMFI
Paula Bustos, CEMFI
Monica Martinez-Bravo, CEMFI
Line 7 - Democracy, Government and Public Administration
Carles Ramió Matas, Universidad Pompeu Fabra
Fernando Vallespín Oña, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Manuel Villoria Mendieta, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
María Esther del Campo García, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Pablo Oñate Rubalcaba, Universidad de Valencia
José Ramón Montero, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Line 8 - Social and Political Change in a Global World
Fernando Escalante Gonzalbo, El Colegio de México
Ludolfo Paramio Rodrigo, CSIC
José Antonio Sánchez Román, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Isabel Bazaga Fernández, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Marisa González de Oleaga, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Manuel Villoria Mendieta, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
CB11 - Systematic comprehension of a field of study and mastery of research skills and methods related to said field.
CB12 - Ability to conceive, design or create, put into practice and adopt a substantial research or creative process.
CB13 - Ability to contribute to the broadening of knowledge frontiers through original research.
CB14 - Ability to carry out critical analysis and assessment as well as the synthesis of new and complex ideas.
CB15 - Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community as well as with the public at large on their field of knowledge in the standard international scientific register and language.
CB16 - Ability to promote scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural advances in academic and professional contexts within a society based on knowledge.
CA01 - Navigate contexts where there is little specific information.
CA02 - To find key questions which require answering to solve a complex problem.
CA03 - Design, create, develop and undertake novel and innovative projects in their field of knowledge.
CA04 - Work in a team or autonomously in an international or multidisciplinary context.
CA05 - Integrate knowledge, face complexity and make judgements with limited information.
CA06 – Critique and intelectual defense of solutions.
1) Firstly, the candidates for this Doctoral program must have a BA degree in a Social Science area such as Economics, Business Administration and Management, Law or Political Science and Sociology. Cadidates with a BA in Mathematics or Science or any type of Engineering will also be admitted.
2) Secondly, candidates must have an MA in Economics for the PhD in this area, and in Political Science and Public Administration for the PhD in the area of Government, geared towards research (at least 60 ECTS credits), or a BA in these areas which demonstrate:
Postgraduate level knowledge in the specific area.
Research experience at dissertation level (MA).
Ability to obtain, process and communicate information.
Ability to form part of a research group.
Ability to start a Doctoral thesis.
As a means to merely illustrate but not define the profile, the Master's degrees currently on offer by the UIMP would fulfil these requirements: MA in Economics and Finance for the area of Economics, or the following MA courses for the area of Government: MA in Senior Public Management, MA in Governance and Public Administration; MA in International Cooperation and Management in Public Policies, Programmes and Development Projects, and MA in Applied Political Studies.
3) Regarding foreign language requirements, there are varying needs depending on each area:
In the area of Economics the requirement is CEFR C2 in English; the reason being that a vast majority of the bibliography and information needed throughout the PhD programme is in English. Furthermore, it is also a requirement for attending international scientific conferences and for mobility around foreign research centres.
In the area of Government, no minimum level of English is required, as it is not necessary to produce a doctoral tesis. However, any certified level above that of CEFR B1 of any modern language (English, French, German, etc.) will be taken into consideration.
4) The use of new information and communication technologies is essential in any of the areas of the program. Intermediate to advanced IT knowledge (word processing, presentations, statistical programmes, etc) is recommended.
In order to access an official doctoral program, the candidate, in general, should hold official Spanish Qualifications at both Graduate level, or equivalent, and University Master's level, or equivalent, provided that at least 300 ECTS credits have been earnt in the course of both degree courses (Royal Decree 99/2011).
However those who come under one of the following categories can also apply:
Applicants holding an official Spanish University Degree, or from another member State of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), which is sufficient for access to Master's Degree studies in accordance with the contents of art. 16 of Royal Decree 1393/2007, of 29 October, and who have passed a minimum of 300 ECTS credits in the set of official university studies, of which at least 60 must be at Master's level.
Applicants holding an official Spanish Bachelor's Degree, the duration of which, according to European Union law, has to be equivalent at least to 300 ECTS credits. These degree holders must agree to undertake obligatory, additional training as decided by the PhD Academic Committee except in those cases that the study plan undertaken within the bachelor's degree includes research credits. These credits must be equivalent, in training credits, to those of a master's degree.
University graduates who having gained a training placement following the corresponding exam to access specialized health training placements, will have completed at least two years of training with positive evaluations in a program related to a recognised degree in one of the specialities of Health Sciences.
Applicants holding a a Degree Qualification obtained from education systems outside the EHEA, will be granted admission, without homologation being required, but only after verification that the Degree Qualification certifies a level of educational training equivalent to the corresponding Spanish Masters' Degree Qualifications, and which, in the country of issuance, entitles the holder to admission to Doctorate-level Studies. This admission will, in no case, imply the official equivalence of the aforementioned qualification held by the interested party nor its recognition for any other purposes than to gain access to Doctoral studies..
Applicants holding another Spanish Doctoral qualification awarded in accordance with previous university regulations.
Applicants holding the Diploma in Advanced Studies awarded in accordance with the provisions of Royal Decree 778/1998, of 30 April, or having achieved the Aptitude for Research Qualification as regulated by Royal Decree 185/85, of 23 January.
Applicants holding an official university qualification that has the equivalence at Level 3 of the Marco Español de Cualificaciones para la Educación Superior (MECES) [Spanish Framework of Qualifications for Higher Education], in accordance with the procedure established in Royal Decree 967/2014, of 21 November, establishing the requirements and the procedure for equivalence testing and the declaration of the equivalence of an official university qualification and academic level and for the convalidation of foreign Higher Education studies, and the procedure to determine the correspondence at levels of the official qualifications of Architect, Engineer, Licentiate, Technical Architect, Technical and Diplomate Engineer.
Each student is advised to consult the website of the corresponding Doctoral Program and make sure that he or she meets all the entry requirements, as well as the specific criteria for admission.
Universal accessibility will be guaranteed and the necessary resources and support will be monitored for those students with disabilities in order to assure the correct completion of the Master's. We ask that these students indicate their specific needs when enrolling.
In this link you can consult the UIMP Protocol for the attention of students with specific educational needs.
Candidates applying for this Doctoral program must have a BA degree in areas of Social Sciences, such as Economics, Business Management, Law, Political Sciences or Sociology. Holders of BA degrees in Mathematics or Sciences, or any engineering degree will also be admitted. Moreover, candidates should also have completed an MA related to research in Economics, Political Sciences and Public Administration (or a BA degree in these subject areas).
As far as a foreign language is concerned, in the area of Economics the requirement is CEFR C2 in English. No minimum level of English is required for the area of Governance, but any certified level above that of CEFR B1 of any modern language (English, French, German, etc) will be taken into consideration.
Intermediate to advanced IT knowledge (word processing, presentations, statistical programmes, etc) is recommended.
Admission to this Doctoral program will be global and will be done according to the strict application criteria, independent of the research topic, which are outlined below. The Academic Committee of the Doctoral program in Economics and Government will contribute to the admission process:
The CV should include:
a) Academic student record (1): BA degree in the corresponding areas (2 points for the area of Economics, and 3 points for the area of Government - the higher the average mark, the more points awarded).
b) Academic student record (2): MA degree (or BA degree) in the corresponding areas (2 points for the area of Economics, and 3 points for the area of Government - the higher the average mark, the more points awarded).
c) English: CEFR C2 level for the area of Economics. A minimum mark of 100 on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL IBT) will also be admitted, provided that the applicant has completed an MA in English or is from an English-speaking country (2 points for the area of Economics).
d) Other merits: the research potential of the applicant will be taken into consideration, and will be based on two references from prestigious researchers who should descibe the applicant’s research potential in his/her ongoing articles, works and projects (2 points).
Total points: 8.
A brief statement of a maximum of 2 pages should be included, in which the applicant should state his/her motives for applying to the program, describe his/her research topic and professional expectations.
Adequate motivation to carry out a doctoral research project which coincides with the research topics of the teachers in the doctoral program will be taken into consideration.
Points: 1.
An interview will take place with two of the teachers from the doctoral program, who will subsequently submit a report to the Academic Committee of the Program stating the suitability of the applicant. The same aspects outlined in part 3 (Statement of interest) will be evaluated.
Points: 1.
To be admitted onto the Doctoral program, the applicant must fulfill the following 2 conditions:
Score between 6 and 8 points on their CV.
Score at least 7 points total (see sections 1, 2 y 3 above).
Enrollment in the program may be done part-time, with prior authorization from the Academic Committee of the program. The admission criteria will be the same as those indicated above. Any admitted student may change the modality under which the doctorate is taking by directing a reasoned request to the Academic Committee, which will be competent to accept or deny it.
The CEMFI acceptance procedure for the Doctoral program in the area of Economics is the:
When students are accepted onto the Doctoral program, they should attend a meeting with its Director, who will inform them of the structure of the program, the procedure for choosing the thesis supervisor, the compulsory and optional training activities, the opportunities available to become teachers' research assistants and to obtain grants abroad, the available financing to attend scientific conferences and stays in foreign centres, and the procedures for monitoring the progress in the development of their doctoral thesis.
At the outset, a provisional thesis supervisor will be assigned, according to the information provided in the candidate's application. The supervisor will either be confirmed or changed during the first year. During the first year, the doctoral students will have meetings with the teachers from the area of the research topic in order to be able to choose a topic and definitive supervisor.
Students will also meet with personnel from the IT department, who will provide information about the computers and computer programs available to them. A PC or laptop is provided for each student. Access to the CEMFI server is also available, which means the student will be able to use a range of programs necessary for his/her research. The CEMFI also has a budget to acquire economical data bases.
Lastly, the student secretary will take care of all the formal aspects: University registration, subscriptions to medical insurance and signing onto Social Security. The services of a law firm specialised in obtaining visas and resident permits will be made available to foreign students.
The Fundación Ortega-Marañón (FOM) acceptance procedure for the area of Government is the following:
The students are given the category of doctoral students once their application has been accepted, and will have a first meeting with the managing board of the program. During this meeting they will be informed about the program structure, the working procedures and also about services offered by the FOM. They will be given a registration form and access to the library, and to the computer rooms and study rooms. Information about where the different administrative departments, academic secretary's office, finance office, management and director of studies' office are located will be given.
Since the doctoral students belong to the FOM community they will have access to the open academic and cultural activities, seminars, conferences, exhibitions and book presentations. Moreover, they will be able to attend, by invitation only, academic discussions and other restricted events and activities.
The Academic Secretary will provide information and support related to their application. The doctoral students will be treated in a personalised manner so that integrating and adapting to their new environment, especially in the case of foreign students, will be made easier.