Administrative procedures of doctorate

• Contact details of centre or campus secretariats

• Doctoral School
• Campus Catalunya. Building A2, 1st floor
  Avinguda Catalunya, 35 (43002) Tarragona
• escoladoctorat@urv.cat
• (0034) 977 256 596 / (0034) 977 558 831

Application forms are available on the website. Each procedure explains the different ways of submission, when original documents are required, and when registration of the application is necessary.

Applications must be submitted electronically and can be done:

• Online, via the URV's online procedures on the Intranet.
• If you do not have access to URV online procedures, you can submit a general request through the URV electronic register. Go to the URV General Register link, select "Access to the electronic register", and complete a "General request".

If submission must be done in person, it can be made:

• personally,
• through a legal representative, or
• through a duly authorised person.

The applicant, legal representative or authorised person must be identified with one of the following: ID card, passport, driving licence or university card.

Other possible submission methods (according to law and for deadline purposes):

• By ordinary post. If sent by registered post, it must comply with article 31 of Royal Decree 1829/1999, 3 December, in an open envelope so that it can be dated and stamped by the post office before certification. Otherwise, the valid date will be the one registered upon arrival at the URV General Registry.
• Through the registry of a state or regional public administration (local registries are not valid).
• Through Spanish diplomatic missions or consular offices abroad.

Applications must be submitted within the periods established in the annual administrative procedures calendar, approved in the master's enrolment regulations and published on the website.

URV offers the possibility of managing certain administrative procedures online.

It should be noted, however, that in order to use the online procedures, URV must have a valid email address for the student.

All URV students, during their time at the university, are assigned an institutional email address in the format name.surname1@estudiants.urv.cat, and this address will be used for all communications between the student and URV, including online procedures.

Since this institutional address ceases to be active two years after the last academic year in which the student was enrolled, URV will instead use the personal email address recorded in the student's file.

If a student no longer has access to their institutional email address and did not provide a personal email address at the time, they must contact their centre's secretariat to request that a new email address be added to their personal data, through which administrative procedures can be carried out.

Unless otherwise specified, deadlines expressed in days refer to calendar days.

If the last day falls on a Saturday or Sunday, it will be extended to the following Monday.

Except for legally established cases, the month of August is considered non-working.

The decision will be notified:

• Whenever possible, at the time of submission or within five days of presenting the complete documentation.
• In any case, within the maximum legal period of six months.

Resolutions will be notified preferably by electronic means.
Alternatively, they may be sent:

• by registered post with proof of receipt,
• by direct collection from the student, or
• by courier service contracted by the interested party.

Email communications will use the student's institutional address.
Once graduated, communications may be sent to the personal address, if previously authorised.

If an application is rejected or the applicant disagrees with the content of a resolution, the interested party may lodge an appeal.

An administrative appeal is the act by which the student requests the URV to annul or amend an administrative decision issued by the University itself, and it is regulated by Law 39/2015 of 1 October, on the Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations.

The possibility and type of appeal, as well as the period within which it may be submitted, must be explicitly stated at the bottom of the resolution notice.

The issuance of official certificates referring to the academic and financial record or to the studies pursued by a student or graduate requires the payment of a fee in accordance with the decree on public prices, except for the provisional certificate of the degree, which is free of charge. When submitting the application, the corresponding payment slip is generated and must be paid by card or at one of the collaborating banks.

The issuance of an enrolment or academic transcript certificate, when intended for specific cases (such as transfer of academic record, collaboration grants, etc.), is free of charge.

All official documents with a Secure Verification Code (SVC) or those digitally signed will be sent by email to the interested person.

Documents without an SVC or digital signature must be collected by:

• the applicant,
• their legal representative,

• a duly authorised person, or

• a courier service contracted, managed and paid for by the applicant, who must provide the corresponding authorisation from the student.