the industrial doctorates plan
what is an industrial doctorate project?
modalities
of project
requirements
and procedure
the industrial doctorates plan
The Industrial Doctorates Plan is a public initiative of the Generalitat de Catalunya, promoted at the end of 2012, in collaboration with the Catalan university and research system, closely related to doctoral training, knowledge transfer and project development of R+D+I in collaboration with the socio-economic environment – companies and institutions. In this sense, during this decade, the Industrial Doctorates have proactively promoted strategic, collaborative and applied research in Catalonia, and with a return to its society.
- Strategic, because the socio-economic environment, made up of companies and institutions, has a long-term vision and wants to contribute to the economic and social development of the country, facing a challenge that currently has no answer;
- Collaborative, because this strategic challenge of the socio-economic environment is answered through collaboration with a university or research center, making available its knowledge and the infrastructures of the academic environment;
- Applied, because it is a research close to the current or future needs of society, and that is why, in the end, it has a return to the society that forms it.
The Industrial Doctorate Plan has as its essential element the industrial doctorate project : a strategic research project of a company or institution that will have to be developed in collaboration with a Catalan university or research center, and that will become the subject of a doctoral thesis that will allow a doctoral student to acquire the training that will allow him or her to start a research career in a dual environment: business and academic. These projects aim to respond to the challenges that the socio-economic fabric has identified as strategic for the coming years and that require the expert and specialized knowledge of the research groups to be able to face them with guarantees of success.
The industrial doctoral students, future industrial doctors, therefore act as knowledge transfer bridges , contributing to closer relations between both environments, the socio-economic and the academic. These people, thanks to the training and experience accumulated during the doctoral research and training project, are the ones who will become key – in other words, they will become a necessary strategic asset – for the economic and social development of Catalonia.
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What is an industrial doctorate?
The essential element of the industrial doctorate process is the research project of the company or institution in which the doctoral student develops his or her research training, in collaboration with a university or research center, and which is the subject of a doctoral thesis.
Industrial doctors thus act as knowledge transfer bridges and contribute to closer relations between the industrial fabric of Catalonia and universities and research centres.
The objective of the Industrial Doctorate Plan is to contribute to the competitiveness and internationalization of Catalan industry , to strengthen the instruments to capture the talent that the country generates and to place future doctors in a position to develop R+D+I projects in a company
project modalities
co-financed aid (DI-COF)

Specific Aid (DI-ESP)
The work center of the business environment may or may not be located in Catalonia . It does not require the doctoral student's exclusive dedication to the research project.

IN BOTH MODES:
Eligible are:
- Private companies and public commercial companies belonging to or linked to the public sector.
- Non-profit foundations and associations, entities belonging to the local, regional or central public sector , consortia with majority public participation and town councils.
- Entities of the Public Sector of the Generalitat of Catalonia , in the modality of specific aid.
They exclude:
- Research organizations and their dependent entities.
- Centers attached to universities.
requirements
companies and institutions
- The company or institution must designate a person responsible for the industrial doctorate project, who must have sufficient training and experience to properly supervise the doctoral student.
- The company or institution must employ the doctoral student, according to current labor legislation, with a minimum gross remuneration of 22,000 euros gross per year and the corresponding employers' fees.
Academic environment (universities and research centers)
- The thesis director must be a member of a research group recognized in force by the Generalitat de Catalunya, or be a researcher of the ICREA program or have obtained funding from the European Research Council (ERC).
Future industrial doctorate students
- Comply with the profile defined by the project parties (academic training, professional experience, knowledge of languages and other requirements).
- Weighted average mark of the studies that give access to the doctorate, according to current legislation, equal to or higher than 6.50.
procedure
companies and institutions
- Download the project proposal form and fill in all the information related to the parties participating in the project, as well as the required profile of the candidate.
- Send it, both digitally signed and in editable format (without signatures), to the email address doctorats.industrials.recerca@gencat.cat
- The DI Plan team will publish it in the Projects section of the website for a minimum period of 5 working days for the reception of applications from interested persons. After this deadline, the parties involved must request the closing of the period for receiving candidacies. It will be necessary for the parties to evaluate all the nominations received.
- Request aid for an industrial doctorate project in theVirtual Office of Procedures of the Generalitat de Catalunya in one of the current periods of the active call. You will need to present the standardized form that you will find in the procedure, following the steps indicated in the procedure, to which the following documentation must be attached:
- Collaboration agreement , which must include, at least, the clauses defined in the regulatory bases of the aid.
- Selection report , in free format and containing the list of candidates interviewed, as well as the summary or selection criteria used for the final decision.
- Document of admission to the doctoral program of the selected candidate.
- Personal academic certificates of the candidate selected from the university studies that give him access to the doctorate in accordance with current regulations.
- In case of a favorable resolution of the request, accept the aid in accordance with what is established in the regulatory bases of the aid (base 16).
PEOPLE CANDIDATES FOR PROJECTS DI
- Consult the proposals for industrial doctorate projects available on the web. You can filter them by university, company or institution and field of knowledge.
- Download the PDF document of the chosen industrial PhD project proposal, fill in the last two pages with your details, profile and motivation letter and sign electronically.
- Submit your application by sending the electronically signed document to the email address doctorats.industrials.recerca@gencat.cat (it is not necessary to attach the CV or any other additional documentation).
- Once the candidacy is received, the Industrial Doctorates Plan team will send it to the project manager at the company or institution and to the researcher for evaluation.
- The selection process, in any case, is carried out by the company or institution and the university or research center. You will receive any communication or update directly from the parties involved in the project.