In order to be admitted to Biomedicine PhD Programme offered by UPF, candidates must provide accreditation that they have obtained an accredited undergraduate degree (Bachelor degree or recognised equivalent degree from an accredited Higher Education Institution).
Moreover, they have to proof that they have obtained or are in position to obtain an accredited graduate/master's degree(equivalent to a Spanish Master Universitario/Oficial, Master's of Research.... ) which enables them to access a Phd programme in their home country.
To access a PhD programme at UPF you must have an official university degree and a master's degree, and have passed at least 300 ECTS credits.
You can also access the doctorate with:
- an official Spanish university degree or equivalent, as long as at least 300 ECTS credits have been passed and a level 3 of the MECES is accredited;
- a degree from the European Higher Education Area (non-Spanish) that accredits a level 7 of the European Qualifications Framework, as long as this degree entitles to access a PhD in the issuing country;
- a foreign title (non-EHEA) of a training level equivalent to a Spanish university master's degree and that entitles to access a PhD programme in the issuing country;
- a doctoral degree;
- a minimum of two years of positively evaluated training programme leading to the obtaining of the official title in one of the specialties in the field of health sciences.
Mandatory documents to be submitted
- A photocopy of the undergraduate degree/diploma or Certification/proof of degree completion (Bachelor degree or recognised equivalent degree from an accredited Higher Education Institution).
- A photocopy of the official final undergraduate transcript.
If you have finished your Master's degree when you formalise your application, you will need to send us the following documents:
- A photocopy of the graduate/master's degree/diploma or Certification/proof of degree completion.
- A photocopy of the official final graduate/master's transcript .
However, if you have not yet completed your graduate/master's studies when formalising application, you will need to provide us with the following documents:
- A signed declaration of obtaining your graduate/master's degree before the commencement of the PhD programme.
- A photocopy of the provisional graduate/master's transcript.
If the diploma or the academic transcript are not written in Catalan, Spanish, English, French, Portuguese or Italian, you will also have to include the respective sworn translations into Catalan or Spanish.
Students holding a Spanish DEA (Diploma de Estudios Avanzados) according to RD 778/1998 / Suficiencia Investigadora according to RD185/1985 or an undergraduate degree of 300 ECTS credits (such as Medicine...) will not need to have completed a master's degree.
All candidates must also present the following mandatory documents:
All candidates must have 1 tutor (academic support) and may propose between 1 and 3 thesis supervisors (scientific leaders responsible for the development of the doctoral research). Any proposed supervisor from the UPF/CRG/IBE/EMBL/IRB research centers may simultaneously act as both supervisor and tutor.
Requirements to be a thesis supervisor:
- Have current or recent accredited research experience with at least five recent publications.
- Be the Principal Investigator (PI) of an active research project obtained through competitive funding calls.
- Ensure contractual continuity that allows for the proper and complete development of the doctoral thesis.
The PhD Program in Biomedicine requires that the research group hosting the student has sufficient funding to guarantee the viability of the research project, and that the thesis supervisor(s) declare the name and reference of the project that will fund the PhD student’s research by completing and signing this form.
Once completed, you will receive a copy of the responses by email. All proposed supervisors and the tutor must save the document as a PDF and sign it. The PhD candidate must upload this document during the admission application process.
- Personal and research details of the thesis supervisor (if this is their first time supervising a thesis at UPF):
- Ask your future thesis supervisor to complete this form to collect their personal and research details.
- Once completed, they will receive a copy of the responses by email. Ask them to save it as a PDF document, as you will need to upload it during the registration process.
- Research project: Brief description of the future project to be carried out in order to identify the research line.
- National Identity Document or Passport.
The program has a limited number of places (120 students per year). If more than 120 applications are received, the academic committee will use research evaluation criteria to allocate the available places.
ADMISSION CRITERIA
In addition to having met the general access requirements established by current regulations, in the event that the number of applications submitted exceeds the number of places offered, the following admission criteria will be applied to applicants, which will be counted out of a maximum of 10 points:
- The suitability of the applicant's research interests to the lines of research defined in the research programmes of the MELIS or to the lines of research of the collaborating institutions (EMBL, CRG, IRB, IMIM) (up to 5 points).
- The suitability of the applicant's research interests to the lines of research developed by the biomedical research institutions located in the PRBB environment (BBRC, CBC, ISGlobal, IBE) (up to 3 points).
- That the research to be developed by the applicant has the support of a MELIS researcher (up to 4 points).
- That the research to be developed by the applicant has the support of a researcher from the collaborating institutions (CRG, EML, IRB, IMIM) (up to 2 points).