REGULATORY ORDER No. 9887/2011
General regulatory standards for Doctorate degrees
In the scope of the competences of the Scientific Council, fixed in the Legal Regime of Higher Education Institutions (RJIES) and in ISCTE-IUL's Statutes, and in view to the regulation of the study cycles that lead to the degree of Doctor at ISCTE-IUL, in the terms of Decree-Law No. 107/2008, of 25 June, along with the redaction of Decree-Law No. 230/2009, of 14 September, the Scientific Council, congregated in plenary meeting on 19 June, 2011, approved the General Regulatory Standards for Doctorate Degrees, which I hereby ratify, and which will be published.
27 July, 2011. — The Rector, Luís Antero Reto CHAPTER I General Principles
Article 1 Object
1 — The current regulatory standards are to be applied to the set of study cycles leading to the degree of doctor attributed by ISCTE-IUL.
2 — The current standards do no directly apply to those doctorates carried out in association with other higher education institutions.
3 — The standards resulting from the associations referred in the previous number are object of specific regulatory order from the President of the Scientific Council.
Article 2
Objective of the Study cycle
1 — The objective of the study cycle leading to the degree of doctor is to provide the acquisition of original scientific research skills within a branch of knowledge or one of its areas of expertise.
2 — The degree of doctor is attributed to those who demonstrate: a) Capability of systematic comprehension in a scientific area of study; b) Skills, aptitudes and research methods associated to a scientific area;
c) Ability to conceive, project, adapt and carry out a significant research in full observance of the requirements imposed by the patterns of academic quality and integrity;
d) Having carried out a significant set of original research works which has contributed towards widening the frontiers of knowledge, part of which is worthy of national or international divulgation in publications with selection committee;
e) To be able to analyse critically, evaluate and synthesise new and complex ideas;
f) To be able to communicate with their peers, the remaining academic community and society at large, about their area of expertise;
g) To be able to, in a society based on knowledge, promote, in academic and/or professional context, the progress of technology, society and culture.
3 — The degree of doctor is conferred in a branch of knowledge or in an area of expertise.
Article 3
Organisation of the Study cycle
1 — The study cycle leading to the degree of doctor has the length of three academic years.
a) An advanced training course within the scientific area of the doctoral study cycle, to which corresponds the first curricular year of the study cycle, with a total of 60 credit units, designated as doctoral studies programme;
b) The elaboration of an original thesis and especially carried out for this purpose, adequate to the nature of the knowledge branch or area of expertise;
c) Or, as an alternative to the thesis, and in equivalent conditions, the duly contextualised compilation of a coherent and relevant set of research works, already object of publication in journals with selection committees of recognized international merit, from now on simply designated as article compilation.
3 — The preparation of the components referred in subsections b) and c) of the previous number, to which correspond the study cycle's second and third curricular years, with a total of 120 credit units:
a) May be supported by the attendance of research seminars and conference cycles;
b) Is necessarily carried out at ISCTE-IUL research units.
4 — Exceptionally, within the arts domain, the thesis may also be replaced by a work or set of works or innovative achievements, supported by a written document that explains its conception and elaboration process, its position in the evolution of the referred knowledge domain or area of expertise and the candidate's research ability.
5 — The possibility mentioned in the previous number is defined in specific study cycle regulation, which also specifies the necessary adaptations made to the set of standards in the current Regulation.
CHAPTER II
Study cycle coordination Article 4
Doctorate Director
1 — Each study cycle leading to the degree of doctor is led by a director, under the terms of the standards in force regarding ISCTE-IUL courses' direction.
2 — Every professor or researcher who holds the degree of doctor and has a contract valid for one or more years may be appointed as Doctorate Director.
Article 5
Appointment and dismissal
1 — The Doctorate Director is appointed and dismissed by the responsible School Director, after consulting the Scientific Commission's Permanent Commission, in the terms of the School's Regulation.
2 — In the case of courses operating in association with other institutions, the appointment and dismissal considers the established in eventual association agreements.
Article 6 Coadjuvancy
1 — The Doctorate Director may appoint branch coordinators to assist him/her whenever the study plan is organised into alternative paths.
2 — Branch coordinators are freely appointed and removed by the Doctorate Director and shall have the duties he/she delegates to them.
3 — The Doctorate Director is also aided by the Doctorate's Scientific Commission:
a) The Doctorate's Scientific Commission is composed by the Doctorate Director, who presides with casting vote, and up to 6 members;
b) The members of the Scientific Commission are the branch coordinators, when they exist, the directors of the research units associated with the study cycle and other ISCTE-IUL professors or researchers, freely appointed or dismissed by the Doctorate Director, from among:
i) The coordinators of the doctoral studies programme's mandatory curricular units;
ii) The supervisors of the doctoral research projects.
c) May also integrate the Doctorate's Scientific Commission, as guests, and in addition to the members, up to three professors or researchers from other higher education or research institutions, national or foreign, co-opted by the majority of the members mentioned in the previous subsection
d) The Scientific Commission is compulsorily heard by the Doctorate Director in the domains specified in the current regulatory standards.
Article 7 Mandate
1 — The Doctorate Director is appointed for three years and may not serve for more than three successive mandates.
2 — In case of dismissal or renouncement, a new Doctorate Director is appointed and a new mandate begins.
Article 8
Responsibilities of the Doctorate Director
1 — The Doctorate Director is responsible for the general coordination of the Doctorate's functioning.
2 — In particular, it is incumbent on the Doctorate Director to:
a) Assure the internal and external divulgation of the Doctoral Programme; b) Assure the availability and annual updating of the Doctoral Programme's information on ISCTE-IUL'S website;
c) Assure the doctoral programme's organisation, considering the central planning and the deliberations of the School bodies, being particularly responsible for defining:
i) The Doctorate's academic calendar; ii) The Doctorate's timetables;
iii) The evaluation calendar of the Doctoral Programme.
d) Prepare and present the annual proposal of the Doctorate's faculty service distribution to the respective department directors;
e) Prepare and present the annual proposal regarding the Doctorate's numerus clausus to the School Director;
f) Prepare and present the annual proposal regarding the Doctorate's tuition fees to the School Director;
g) Elaborate and put forward the Doctorate's annual operations report to the School Director;
h) Credit the academic training and professional experience of the admitted candidates;
i) Issue opinion on the expenditure proposals in the scope of the Doctoral Programme's operation;
j) Prepare and put forward to the School Director proposals of alteration of the Doctoral Programme's systems of curricular unit precedence, knowledge assessment and limitation periods;
k) Coordinate the elaboration of proposals for the revision of the Doctorate's curriculum, after consulting the Doctorate's Scientific Commission;
l) Prepare and present to the Scientific Council proposals for the revision of the Doctorate's specific regulatory standards, after consulting the School Director and the Doctorate's Scientific Commission.
3 — It is also the Doctorate Director's responsibility to:
a) Propose the deadlines for application in the Doctoral Programme to the School Director;
b) Select and order the candidates and publish their results, after consulting the Doctorate's Scientific Commission;
c) Excuse the admitted candidates from the attendance of the Doctorate's curricular component whenever they fulfil the necessary requirements for that effect, published in the current regulatory standards;
d) Appoint the supervisors and co-supervisors of the doctoral research projects, after consulting the Doctorate's Scientific Commission;
e) Organise the doctoral research projects' evaluation procedures and ratify their results, after consulting the Doctorate's Scientific Commission;
f) Organise the evaluation procedures for the doctorate candidates progress reports;
g) Propose the constitution of the boards of examiners to the Scientific Council, after consulting the scientific commissions of the departments and research units scientifically responsible for the Doctoral Programme.
CHAPTER III Study cycle admission
Article 9
Admission conditions
1 — In general, are eligible for entry in the study cycle leading to the degree of doctor:
a) Holders of the master's degree or legal equivalent;
b) Holders of first cycle degree in any scientific area, who hold an especially relevant academic or scientific curriculum which is recognised as demonstrating aptitude for the realisation of this study cycle;
c) Holders of an academic, scientific or professional curriculum which is recognised as attesting aptitude for the realisation of this study cycle.
2 — The specific regulatory standards of each doctorate degree fix the specific conditions of admission, considering the aforementioned in the previous number.
Article 10
Application conditions
1 — Are eligible for application in the study cycle leading to the doctorate degree all those who fulfil the academic and curricular conditions referred in article 1 of the previous article, as well as the specific admission conditions made known in the specific regulatory standards of each doctoral degree.
2 — Are also eligible for application in the study cycle leading to the doctorate degree those who, in the moment of application, have the possibility of fulfilling the admission conditions referred in the previous number.
Article 11
Vacancies and deadlines
1 — The vacancies, deadlines and application, matriculation and enrolment modes, as well as the calendar for the academic year, are fixed annually by the Rector
until 31 January, after consulting the school directors, and are immediately made known.
2 — There are different vacancies and application deadlines: a) For admission in the study cycle's first curricular year;
b) For admission in the study cycle's second curricular year without enrolment in the doctoral studies programme;
3 — The application and registration in the second curricular year may take place during the whole year.
Article 12
Application standards
1 — The act of application requires the submission of the following document: a) Admission form;
b) Curriculum Vitae;
c) Copy of the certificates of all the training previously carried out by the candidate with the respective classifications;
d) Digital photograph; e) Letter of objectives;
f) Copy of the citizen card or equivalent document, if national, or passport, if foreigner;
g) Copy of the fiscal car, or equivalent document.
2 — The specific regulatory standards of each doctorate may require the mandatory presentation of other documents, provided that it is justified by their specific admission conditions, namely:
a) Indication of the domain within which the research shall take place; b) Indication of the name of the proposed supervisor;
c) Pre-project of doctoral research;
d) Declaration stating the acceptance of the proposed supervisor.
3 — Optionally, the candidate may also include in the process exemplars or copies of scientific publications or academic works of his/her authorship.
4 — Acceptance of the application is only considered complete after the submission of all the required documents and payment of the respective fee.
Article 13
Selection and ordering criteria
1 — Candidates are selected according to the following criteria:
a) Academic curriculum, especially the master and first cycle areas and classifications;
b) Scientific curriculum, especially research experience and publications; c) Professional experience.
2 — For each criterion, the application evaluation is concluded with the attribution of a classification in the integer scale of 0 to 20 points.
3 — Whenever the candidate has obtained, in competitive funding system, a scholarship conceded by a R&D funding agency, based on the assessment of the doctoral research project, he/she has the maximum classification in the scientific curriculum criterion.
4 — Each candidate's final classification results from the sum of the classifications obtained in the three criteria.
5 — Only approved candidates may be admitted, i.e., who have obtained a final classification equal to or greater than 50% of the maximum achievable classification.
6 — The approved candidates shall be ordered according to their final classification.
7 — All the approved candidates shall be selected provided that the numerus clausus is not exceeded.
8 — In case of tie between candidates to the last possible vacancy, additional vacancies shall be created to admit the tied candidates.
9 — Approved candidates who are not selected for lack of vacancy shall acquire the statute of substitute and may enter the study cycle without further evaluation in case of departure of candidates admitted during the year in which the application took place.
10 — Selection and ordering results are communicated to the candidates, by e-mail with read-receipt, within 20 working days after the closing of each application stage.
Article 14 Enrolment
1 — Enrolment is the act that enables the student the attendance of a curricular year in the doctorate's curriculum, as well as evaluation and the registration of the respective classification in his/her academic curriculum.
2 — Enrolment is formalised by:
a) Filling in and submitting the enrolment form, in which are identified the curricular year, the curricular units and other activities included in the study plan;
b) Paying the enrolment fee, the student insurance costs and the first instalment of the curricular year's tuition fee.
3) In the act of the first enrolment, the student presents, for confirmation, the originals or certified copies of the documents whose copies were submitted in the application process.
4) Enrolment in the second curricular year also requires:
a) Previous doctoral research project approval, both of the student moving up from the first year and of the candidate directly admitted into the second year;
b) Registration of the doctoral theme;
c) Conclusion of all the curricular units of the doctoral studies programme by the students who move up from the first year.
5) Enrolment in the third curricular year requires a positive opinion from the supervisor regarding the doctoral student's annual activity report.
Article 15 Tuition fees
1 — Annual tuition fees are required for enrolment.
2 — The cost of the tuition fees is defined by the General Council and made public before the commencement of the application stage.
3 — The calendar of tuition fee payment is fixed annually by ISCTE-IUL's Rector and made public before the commencement of the application stage.
4 — Tuition fee payment entitles the student for enrolment in the total amount of credit units that make up the curricular year.
5 — Attendance of additional curricular units is object of proportional tuition fee increase to the number of extra credit units, whenever the curricular unit is attended so as to obtain evaluation.
6 — Non-enrolment in part of the study plan's curricular units of the curricular year represents a reduction of the tuition fee proportional to the number of credit units of those curricular units.
7 — Re-enrolment in any of the curricular years requires the payment of the respective tuition fee.
8 — Breach of the tuition payment deadline implies the payment of default interest, besides the remaining penalties foreseen in the law and in the regulations.
CHAPTER IV
Doctoral studies programme Article 16
Definitions
1 — The doctoral studies programme is an advanced training programme within the scientific area of the doctoral study cycle in which it is included.
2 — Are eligible to attend the doctoral studies programme the candidates admitted to the doctorate and the candidates admitted to a third cycle advanced training diploma.
3 — There are specific vacancies and application processes for the doctorate and for the third cycle advanced training diploma.
4 — The attainment of the third cycle advanced training diploma does not exempt its holders from application for the doctorate in case they intend to carry it out.
Article 17 Aims The doctoral studies programme aims to:
a) Provide advanced training in the doctorate's scientific area to candidates with academic experience in other scientific areas;
b) Update knowledge and research processes within the doctorate's scientific area.
Article 18
Excuse from the doctoral studies programme
1 — Are excused from the obligation of attending and obtaining approval in the doctoral studies programme the doctorate candidates who cumulatively meet the following conditions of scientific coherence between cycles and of knowledge and skills updating:
a) Have completed a first cycle, or equivalent degree, within the doctorate's scientific area;
b) Have completed a master's degree, or legal equivalent, within the doctorate's scientific area;
c) Have completed the first and second cycles, or equivalent, in the last ten years.
2 — For the purpose stated in subsections a) and b) of the previous number, a minimum classification may be required in the specific regulation of each doctoral degree.
3 — Are excused from the obligation of attending and obtaining approval in part of the curricular units of the doctoral studies programme, to be determined after analysis of the respective academic curricula, those candidates admitted in the doctorate and who:
a) Have completed a first cycle or a master's degree, or equivalent, within the doctorate's scientific area;
b) Have completed a first cycle and a master's degree, or equivalent, within the doctorate's scientific area, but more than ten years before.
4 — Are also eligible to be excused total or partially from the doctoral studies programme, based on curriculum vitae assessment, other candidates admitted in the doctorate who do not meet the requirements specified in numbers 1 and 2 of the current article, especially in case they have a long-term experience in research or higher education teaching.
5 — Students who are, total or partially, excused from the doctoral studies programme may carry it out if they so intend, namely to obtain the advanced studies diploma.
Article 19 Operating conditions
1 — The academic and evaluation calendar, as well as the class timetables, are fixed by the Doctorate Director, in the framework of the instructions from the Rectory and the School responsible for the programme's management and published on ISCTE-IUL's website at the beginning of the application stage.
2 — In accordance with ISCTE-IUL's regulations on faculty service distribution and assessment and on the coordination of the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS), the programme's operations shall especially assure that:
a) The programme and the bibliography, the teaching methods and the evaluation system, the class planning and the operational schedule of each curricular unit in the doctoral programme's curriculum are made available for public consultation by electronic means;
b) The total number of classroom contact hours of each curricular unit in the doctoral studies programme's curriculum is entirely assured, and the curricular unit coordinator shall assume any necessary complementary classes to substitute those that, for some reason, have not been taught in the scheduled periods.
c) After each class, the professor responsible for the curricular unit electronically provides the respective summary for student consultation.
Article 20 Attendance system
1 — Students may enrol in the doctoral studies programme in part-time.
2 — Students attending the programme in part-time may enrol in a maximum of 60% of the curricular year's credits.
3 — Students attending the programme in part-time pay proportional tuition fees to the number of credit units in which they are enrolled.
4 — The option for the part-time system is made in the act of enrolment. 5 — By default, students are enrolled in the full-time attendance system.
Article 21
Curricular unit precedence and knowledge evaluation system
1 — The system of precedence of curricular units is object of each doctorate's specific regulatory standards.
2 — In the curricular units that make up the doctoral studies programme is applied the general evaluation knowledge system for the second cycle in force at ISCTE-IUL, with eventual particular provisions included in each doctorate's specific regulatory standards.
Article 22 Limitation period
The doctoral studies programme limitation period is fixed in two years for students attending the programme in full-time and in four years for students attending the programme in part-time, counting from the date of the first enrolment.
Article 23 Final classification
The doctoral studies programme final classification is obtained on the scale of 10 to 20, by calculating the arithmetic average of the classifications obtained in each curricular unit, weighted according to the respective number of credit units (ECTS).
CHAPTER V Supervision
Article 24 Assignments
The doctorate is compulsorily prepared under the supervision of, at least, a doctor, who is responsible for:
a) Supervising the doctoral student throughout the elaboration of the doctorate's research project and provide a written opinion about it;
b) Supervising the doctoral student in the elaboration of the research assignments which lead to the elaboration of the thesis or article compilation and, annually, provide opinion on the evolution of those works;
c) Supervising the doctoral student throughout the production of the thesis or article compilation;
d) Pronouncing him/herself on the suitability of the thesis or compilation of articles;
e) Taking part of the doctorate's board of examiners. Article 25
Supervisor appointment
1 — The supervisor is appointed by the Doctorate Director based on a proposal made by the Scientific Commission, the research project and, whenever they exist, the declarations of will, expressed in writing and signed by the student and the potential supervisor.
2 — The appointment of the supervisor is communicated in writing to the stakeholder and to the doctorate student.
3 — It is the Doctorate's Scientific Commission's duty to analyse and make decisions concerning any requests for supervisor alteration, when they are duly justified.
4 — There may be an appeal to ISCTE-IUL's Scientific Council regarding the decision of the Doctorate's Scientific Commission
Article 26 Co-supervision
1 —.A co-supervision system is possible, if authorised by the Doctorate's Scientific Commission and limited to two elements (main supervisor and co-supervisor), namely whenever:
a) The research field is clearly interdisciplinary;
b) The research methodology requires specialised technical-scientific supervision;
c) The research works in the scope of the doctorate involve mobility between different research units.
2 —.The co-supervision system is mandatory, if limited to two elements (main supervisor and co-supervisor), whenever:
a).The main supervisor is not a faculty or research member of ISCTE-IUL; b) The doctorate is carried out in association with another higher education institution.
3 — In the situation mentioned in subsection a) of the previous number, the co-supervisor has to be an ISCTE-IUL professor or researcher who holds a doctorate degree.
Article 27
Supervision standards
1 — Supervision takes place primarily by means of regular face-to-face meetings between the supervisor and the doctoral student, without prejudice to other distance communication means;
2 — In each supervision meeting is drafted a minute subscribed by supervisor and doctoral student, whenever such is required by one of them;
3 — The amount of supervision meetings forcibly has to assure, at least, the accomplishment of the tutorial supervision time foreseen in the doctorate's curriculum, as well as in ISCTE-IUL regulations on the faculty work distribution and evaluation.
CHAPTER VI
Registration of the doctorate's theme Article 28
Research project evaluation
1 — The evaluation of the doctorate's research project takes place within the maximum interval of 60 days after its reception.
2 — The evaluation of the doctorate's research project takes place under the terms of each doctorate's specific regulatory standards and must mandatorily require, in order to be positive, at least:
a) The supervisor's positive opinion;
b) The positive opinion of two professors or researchers from the area of expertise in which the research is included.
3 — Whenever the opinions referred in subsection b) are contradictory, it is the Doctorate Director's duty to deliberate, for which he/she has casting vote.
4 — Whenever the evaluation concludes the project must be reformulated, whether by recommendation of the evaluators or because of non-approval of the initial project, this must be concluded within the maximum interval of 60 days after its reception by the student, after which the deadlines and procedures referred in the previous number are applied anew.
5 — The evaluation referred in the previous number is final. 6 — The evaluation is registered in proper form.
Article 29 Registration process
1 — After approval of the doctorate's research project, it is mandatory to register the theme of the doctorate as a requisite for enrolment in the second curricular year.
2 — The registration takes place at the competent ISCTE-IUL's services for this purpose through the completion and signing of a form in which are included the following elements:
a) Name and gender of the doctoral student; b) Title of the doctorate's research project;
c) Scientific area and, when it is the case, area of expertise, as well as key-words that characterise the doctorate's research project;
d) Institution which confers the degree; e) Name and gender of the supervisor; f) Registration date of the doctorate's theme.
3 — The registration is also completed by the following documents: a) Copy of the doctorate's research project;
b) Copy of the form with the doctorate's research project's evaluation verdict 4 — The competent services for this purpose:
a) Keep a registry of doctorate themes in progress at ISCTE-IUL;
b) Communicate, in the terms of the law, the data in the registration to the entity responsible for the National Registration of Doctorate Theses in Progress.
Article 30
Registration length and re-entry and limitation systems
1 — The registration of the doctorate's theme is valid for three years and may only be renewed once:
a) For one more year in the case of students enrolled in full-time; b) For three more years in the case of students enrolled in part-time.
2 — Registration renewal requires re-enrolment in the second or third curricular year and the consequent payment of the respective tuition fee.
3 — The student may, for justified reasons, require the suspension of the enrolment in the doctorate, which, if accepted by the Doctorate Director:
a) Interrupts the limitation period;
b) Enables re-entry devoid of a new application, if within four years.
4 — After the end of the deadlines referred in the previous numbers, the right to new enrolment in the doctorate is time-barred.
CHAPTER VII Research works
Article 31 Definitions
1 — The research works produced by the doctoral student in the framework of research units certified for that purpose have the aim of preparing the thesis or article compilation.
2 — The second and third curricular years of the study cycles leading to the degree of doctor are exclusively aimed at the production of those research works and the thesis or article compilation.
Article 32 Support seminars
1 — The research seminars and conference cycles that support the research works:
a) Operate in attendance system and may not be object of autonomous evaluation;
b) May not represent more than 36 total working hours for each doctoral student, including contact and autonomous work hours, in each curricular year.
2 — Students must attend at least two thirds of the total support seminar time.
Article 33
Access and progression conditions 1 — Enrolment in the second curricular year requires:
a) The approval, by means of evaluation or accreditation, in every curricular unit of the doctoral studies programme;
b) Approval of the doctorate's research project; c) Registration of the theme of the doctorate thesis. 2 — Enrolment in the third curricular year requires:
a) Completion of the requisites of attendance of support seminars throughout the second curricular year;
b) Positive opinions on the student's progress report, issued by the supervisor and, at least, two professors from the area of expertise in which the research is included.
Article 34 Mobility
1 — Each doctorate's specific regulatory standards may foresee the compulsoriness of partial performance of the research works at national or foreign research units external to ISCTE-IUL with which the necessary protocols have been established.
2 — When that compulsoriness is not verified, the doctoral student may wish to perform part of the research work in national or foreign research units external to ISCTE-IUL, if, for that, he/she obtains approval from the supervisor and the Doctorate Director.
CHAPTER VIII
Article 35 Definitions
1 — The thesis consists of a monograph especially elaborated for the attainment of the degree of doctor, based on an original research work.
2 — The article compilation consists of the organisation of a work which compiles and contextualises, by means of an extensive and original introduction, a coherent and relevant set of articles of the doctoral student's authorship, produced during the period of enrolment in the doctorate, of which at least three have already been published in journals with selection committees of recognised merit and indexed in international databases.
3 — Both the thesis and the article compilation shall allow to demonstrate that the candidate is autonomously able to:
a) Conceive, project, adapt and perform an original research which meets the requirements of academic quality and integrity and contributes towards widening the frontiers of knowledge in a specific scientific area;
b) Communicate the results of that research to his/her peers and the academic community in general, namely by means of its national or international divulgation in publications with selection committee.
Article 36 Language
1 — The thesis or article compilation may be written in Portuguese or English. 2 — Each doctorate's specific regulatory standards may moreover provide the possibility of using other languages.
3 — The thesis or article compilations are always accompanied by abstracts in Portuguese and in English, as well as in the language used, if another language was chosen.
Article 37 Form
1 — The thesis or article compilation's maximum dimension is of 350 pages, with at most 700.000 characters with spaces, except for eventual annexes.
2 — Each doctorate's specific regulatory standards may define limits inferior to these.
3 — The thesis and the article compilation shall be produced in accordance with the technical standards in force on theses as well as each doctorate's supplementary standards.
4 — The cover of the thesis or article compilation must compulsorily have: a) The reference "ISCTE — University Institute of Lisbon";
b) The designation of the doctorate and, if applicable, the area of expertise; c) The title of the thesis or article compilation;
d) The candidate's name;
e) The supervisor's name and, if applicable, the co-supervisor's;
f) The sentence "A Thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor" or "An Article Compilation presented in partial fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor", depending on the case, or its equivalent in the language used , according with the technical standards in force.
Article 38 Submission
1 — Concluded the elaboration of the thesis or article compilation, the doctoral student shall require to carry out the public examinations by means of request sent to the Rector and submitted in the academic services, accompanied by:
a) A printed copy of the draft version of the thesis or article compilation;
b) A copy of the thesis or article compilation draft in digital format and support in accordance with the rules in force;
c) A printed copy of the abstract of the thesis or article compilation, including the indication of up to ten key words, in Portuguese and in English;
d) A printed copy of the curriculum vitae;
e) Written and signed declaration from the supervisor and, when applicable, the co-supervisor, attesting that the thesis or article compilation is prepared to be defended in public examination;
f) In case it is applicable, a requirement soliciting excuse from the complementary doctorate examinations;
g) Proof of owing no debts to ISCTE-IUL.
2 — The doctoral student may only require to carry out the public examinations for defence of the thesis or article compilation:
a) After having concluded two effective years of enrolment in the doctoral programme;
b) Or, in alternative, under the special regime for the presentation of the thesis or article compilation.
Article 39
Special regime of presentation of the thesis or article compilation
1 — Those candidates who hold the necessary conditions for access to the degree of doctor may require the presentation of a thesis or article compilation in public examination act without enrolment in that study cycle.
2 — It is the Scientific Council's duty to make a decision concerning the request, after analysis of:
a) The requester's curriculum;
b) The adequacy of the thesis or article compilation to the objectives defined for the degree of doctor, under the terms of the law and the current standards.
3 — The analysis referred in the previous number is based on two opinions from doctorate professors selected by the president of the Scientific Council.
4 — In any other case, the general requisites for the submission and legal procedures regarding the process of application to carry out public examination for defence of the thesis or article compilation.
Article 40 Legal procedures
1 — The verification of the formal compliance of the application documents for the doctoral public examination, including the compliance of the thesis or article compilation with the specific regulatory standards which regulate their presentation.
2 — Whenever the process is not duly supported, the services notify the candidate, who disposes of five working days after the date of the notification to apply the necessary alterations.
3 — Processes duly supported are sent to the President of the Scientific Council within five working days counting from the date of request for public examination or of the reception of the solicited alterations.
CHAPTER IX
Board of examiners and public examination Article 41
Appointment of the board of examiners
1 — The board of examiners is appointed by the Rector, after proposal of the Scientific Council, within 30 working days counting from the day in which the duly supported process had been sent by the services.
2 — In the elaboration of the proposal, the Scientific Council considers the recommendations made by the Doctorate Director.
3 — In the elaboration of the recommendations, the Doctorate Director holds formal hearings with the scientific commissions of the departments and research units directly responsible for the Doctorate.
Article 42
Composition of the board of examiners 1 — The doctorate board of examiners is constituted by: a) ISCTE-IUL's Rector, who preside;
b) Four to six members.
2 — The rector may delegate the presidency of the board of examiners to the President of the Scientific Council, one of the vice-rectors or one of the school directors, department directors or research unit directors responsible for the Doctorate, and alternatively to an ISCTE-IUL doctorate professor in active employment and contract valid for one or more years.
3 — The board mandatorily includes the supervisor and the co-supervisor, whenever there is one.
4 — At least half of the members plus one are selected among doctorate professors and researchers from other, national or international, university higher education institutions or research institutions.
5 — The board shall include at least three professors or researchers with doctorate degrees in the scientific area of the thesis or article compilation.
6 — The board of examiners may also include an expert, national or foreign, of recognised experience in the thesis or article compilation scientific domain.
Article 43 Legal procedures
1 — After the appointment of the board of examiners, the respective constitution is publicly posted and made known to the candidate, through email with receipt, within five working days.
2 — The candidate may, within 15 working days after the notification referred in the previous number, claim disqualification of any member of the board under the terms of the applicable legislation.
3 — The evaluation of the claim and eventual alteration of the composition of the board of examiners is of the Rector's competence, after hearing the directors of the bodies responsible for the elaboration of the original proposal, being object of preliminary injunction within the 15 working days after reception of the disqualification claim referred in the previous number, which is communicated to the candidate and publicly posted in the terms of No. 1 of the current article.
4 — After concluding the procedures referred in the previous numbers, the candidate submits, in the competent services, within five working days, seven printed copies:
a) Of the thesis or article compilation, without final binding;
b) Of the abstract of the thesis or article compilation, including the indication of up to ten keywords in Portuguese and in English;
c) Of the curriculum vitae.
5 — The services make arrangements for the delivery of the copies of the thesis or article compilation, the abstract and the curriculum vitae to the members of the board of examiners, within the following five working days counted from the end of the deadline referred in the previous number.
Article 44
Functioning of the board of examiners
1 — The board of examiners may only meet, deliberate and assure the performance of the public examination if at least the President and four members are present, being in any case necessary that:
a) One of the members is the supervisor;
b) At least half of the members are doctorate professors and researchers from other national or international university higher education institutions or research institutions.
2 — The meetings of the board of examiners may take place in person or through teleconference, or other electronic means which enables distance communication, if previously approved by the Doctorate Director and by the President of the board of examiners.
3 — The decisions of the board of examiners are made by the majority of the members, by means of justified roll call vote, without the possibility of abstention.
4 — The President of the board of examiners:
a) May take part in the decision when he/she is an expert in the scientific domain in which the thesis or article compilation is included;
b) Participates compulsorily in case of tie, and with casting vote.
5 — The meetings of the board or examiners result in the production of minutes in which the votes of all members are registered as well as the respective justification, which may be the same for all or some of the members of the board.
6 — It is the board President's duty to convoke and preside to the meetings, as well as to communicate all the deliberations of the board of examiners to the candidate, the Doctorate Director and the competent services.
7 — The meetings of the board of examiners shall be attended by a member of the competent services who acts as secretary, and provides all the necessary support to the President of the board of examiners in the execution of his/her duties, as well as the activation of all the necessary logistic conditions to carry out the meetings and
public examinations, including tending to the transport and reception of the external members of the board.
Article 45
First meeting of the board of examiners
1 — The first meeting of the board of examiners takes place within the maximum of 60 days after the appointment by the rector to make decisions on:
a) The acceptance of the thesis or article compilation for public discussion in the submitted version, which corresponds to the admission of the candidate for doctoral public examination;
b) The acceptance of the thesis or article compilation for public discussion in a version to be submitted within at most 20 days counting from the date of the board's deliberation, which shall include the detail corrections and alterations advised by the board of examiners;
c) The rejection of the thesis or article compilation in the submitted version, transmitting the necessary recommendations to the candidate so that he/she may reformulate and submit, within 90 days counting from the date of the board's deliberation, a version that may be accepted for public discussion;
d) The absolute rejection of the thesis or article compilation, which corresponds to the candidate's failure in the doctorate.
2 — The final acceptance of the thesis or article compilation, under the terms of subsection b) of number 1 in the present article, depends on verification, by the President of the board of examiners, of the compliance of the submitted version with the detail corrections and alterations recommended by the board:
a) The verification is carried out in at most five working days counting from the date in which the corrected version is submitted;;
b) In case its result is positive, the verification corresponds to the admission of the candidate for doctoral public examination.
3 — The rejection of the thesis or article compilation, under the terms of subsection c) of number 1 in the current article, requires the repetition of the meeting of the board of examiners so as to deliberate on the submission of a new version and other related matters, being, for that effect, applied the deadlines and legal procedures of the first submission, with exception to those referring to the appointment of the board of examiners.
4 — The members of the board of examiners have access, during the meeting, to the opinions of the supervisors about the thesis or article compilation, as well as to the records of the candidate's doctoral academic path.
5 — Having decided to accept the thesis or article compilation for public discussion, the board of examiners proceeds to the.
a) Scheduling of public examination, which shall take place within 60 days counting from the date of the candidate's admission;
b) Definition of the time the candidate shall dispose of to present the thesis or article compilation, which may not be inferior to 30 minutes;
c) Definition of the timings and order of intervention of all the members of the board of examiners.
Article 46 Public examination
1 — It is the President of the board of examiners' duty to preside the doctoral public examination for defence of the thesis or article compilation, assuring the management of the sequence of participation and distribution of intervention time, according with the established in the board's first meeting.
2 — The examination may not, in any case, exceed the length of three hours, including the time used for the candidate's initial presentation.
3 — If there is time, the President of the board of examiners may accept interventions from the audience.
4 — During the examination, the Portuguese and/or English languages may be used.
5 — Each doctorate's specific regulatory standards may moreover provide the possibility of using other languages besides Portuguese and English.
6 — Exceptionally, one or more members of the board of examiners may participate in the examination by an electronic means that enables distance communication, since the following conditions are cumulatively met:
a) That option has been previously approved by the Doctorate Director and the President of the board of examiners, as well as communicated to the candidate and to the competent services for assuring its functioning with an antecedence of at least five working days;
b) The distance communication means enables verbal and visual communication in both directions, between the candidate and the absent members;
c) The communication may be followed by all the members of the board and of the audience.
Article 47
Deliberation of the board of examiners and final qualification
1 — Immediately after the conclusion of the public examinations, the board of examiners meets in private to decide on the approval of the candidate and the classification to be attributed.
2 — The board's decision considers the classifications obtained in the curricular units of the doctoral studies programme, when they exist, and the merit of the thesis or article compilation, assessed during the public act.
3 — The final qualification is expressed by one of the following classifications: a) Refused;
b) Approved.
4 — To the qualification of "Approved" obtained by unanimity, the board of examiners may add the qualification "with distinction", if the following requisites are cumulatively met:
a) The candidate has demonstrated, throughout all the stages of the doctorate, a performance of exceptional level regarding the required capacity and skills for the attainment of the degree of doctor;
b) The thesis or article compilation shows research outcomes which significantly contribute to widen the boundaries of knowledge in the concerned study domain.
5 — After the deliberation on the candidate's approval and the qualification to be attribution, the board of examiners publicly communicates the result to the candidate.
6 — In case of approval, and without prejudice of the deliberation, the board may also resolve, in writing, that the candidate shall introduce diminutive alterations in
the thesis or article compilation's final version, which enhance it and have resulted from the public discussion, within at most 15 working days.
Article 48
Final version of the thesis or article compilation
1 — The candidate submits the final version of the thesis or article compilation after approval in public examination and introduction of eventual alterations requested by the board of examiners.
2 — The formal approval of the final version is of the President's responsibility. 3 — Of the final approved version, the candidate shall deliver, in the competent services:
a) Two copies in paper, one for ISCTE-IUL's library and the other for the Portuguese National Library's legal deposit;
b) A copy in digital format and support, according with the technical standards for theses in force, for deposit in ISCTE-IUL's digital archive and in the body of the ministry which is responsible for the registration and archiving of theses.
4 — The competent services for this effect assure the delivery of the final version to its recipients, as well as the copy and deposit of the digital file:
a) In ISCTE-IUL's digital theses' archive;
b) In the documentation services, namely for the purpose of making it available at ISCTE-IUL's repository.
5 — The President of the board of examiners proceeds to the formal approval of the final version of the thesis or article compilation by signing the minute of the meeting of the board of examiners which corresponds to the public examination.
CHAPTER X Diplomas
Article 49
Registration of degrees and diplomas
1 — The titularity of the degree of Doctor conceded by ISCTE-IUL is proved by a registry certificate of single number, generally termed as doctoral diploma, and also, for those who require it, by the doctoral certificate.
2 — The issue of the doctoral diploma, as well as the respective supplement to the diploma, and of the doctoral certificate is dependent on the accomplishment of the totality of following conditions by the requester:
a) Approval in the public examination;
b) Formal approval of the final version of the thesis or article compilation;
c) Delivery of the copies of the final version under the terms of the current regulatory standards;
d) Inexistence of debts to ISCTE-IUL.
3 — The successful conclusion of the doctoral studies programme is formalised by registry certificate of single number, generally termed as diploma of advanced studies.
4 — The issue of the advanced studies diploma, as well as the respective supplement to the diploma is dependent on the accomplishment of the totality of following conditions by the requester:
a) Approval in all the curricular units that make up the doctoral studies programme's curriculum;
b) Inexistence of debts to ISCTE-IUL.
5 — The issuing of the doctoral diploma and the diploma of advanced studies is accompanied by the respective supplement to the diploma, produced under the terms and for the purposes foreseen by the law.
6 — For issuing the doctoral diploma, the doctoral certificate and the diploma of advanced studies are charged the emoluments defined by ISCTE-IUL's Management Council.
Article 50
Diploma of advanced studies 1 — The diploma of advanced studies must indicate:
a) Designation of the doctoral programme and, if it is the case, the branch or area of expertise;
b) Number of credits (ECTS) of the programme; c) Date of conclusion of the programme;
d) Final classification obtained by the student;
e) Designation and number of credit units (ECTS) of each curricular unit; f) Classification obtained by the student in each curricular unit;
g) Student's full name;
h) Designation and number of the student's identification document (identity card or citizen card if the student has Portuguese nationality and passport if the student is foreign);
i) Student's nationality;
j) Date of issue of the diploma;
k) Name, position and signature of the element responsible for issuing the diploma.
2 — The diploma of advanced studies is issued within 15 days after its request, since the issuing conditions are fully met.
3 — The supplement to the diploma of advanced studies is issued in a maximum term of 30 days after its request, if the issuing conditions are fully met.
Article 51 Doctoral diploma 1 — The doctoral diploma must indicate:
a) Designation of the doctorate and, if it is the case, the branch or area of expertise;
b) Date in which the public examination took place;
c) Final qualification of the degree of doctor obtained by the student; d) Student's full name;
e) Designation and number of the student's identification document (identity card or citizen card if the student has Portuguese nationality and passport if the student is foreign);
f) Student's nationality;
h) Name, position and signature of the element responsible for issuing the diploma.
2 — The doctoral diploma is issued within 15 days after its request, since the issuing conditions are fully met.
3 — The supplement to the doctoral diploma is issued in a maximum term of 30 days after its request, if the issuing conditions are fully met.
Article 52 Doctoral certificate 1 — The doctoral certificate must indicate:
a) Designation of the doctorate and, if it is the case, the branch or area of expertise;
b) Date in which the public examination took place;
c) Final qualification of the degree of doctor obtained by the student; d) Student's full name;
e) Designation and number of the student's identification document (identity card or citizen card if the student has Portuguese nationality and passport if the student is foreign);
f) Student's nationality;
g) Date of issue of the doctoral certificate; h) Name and signature of the Rector;
i) Name, position and signature of the element responsible for issuing the diploma.
2 — The doctoral certificate is issued within 30 days after its request, since the issuing conditions are fully met.
CHAPTER XI Supervision process
Article 53
Scientific and pedagogic supervision
1 — The study cycle's scientific supervision is assured by the Doctorate's Scientific Commission, according with the guidelines defined by ISCTE-IUL's Scientific Council.
2 — The Doctorate's Scientific Commission has the particular purposes of: a) Proposing the specific regulatory standards to the Scientific Council, under the terms of the current regulatory standards;
b) Pronouncing itself on proposals for the alteration of the Doctorate's specific regulatory standards;
c) Pronouncing itself on proposals for the alteration of the Doctorate's curriculum;
d) Pronouncing itself on the selection and ordering of candidates;
e) Proposing the research project supervisors to the Doctorate director, considering the theme of the research project and, when they exist, the expressions of will, registered in written declarations signed by the student and the potential supervisor;
f) Authorising the co-supervision proposals under the terms foreseen in the current regulatory standards;
g) Analysing and deciding on requests for change of supervisor, when duly substantiated;
h) Pronouncing itself on the results of the evaluation of doctorate research projects.
3 — The study cycle's pedagogic supervision is assured by the Doctorate's Pedagogic Commission, according with ISCTE-IUL's Scientific Council's guidelines.
4 — The Doctorate's Pedagogic Commission is composed by: a) Doctorate Director, who presides;
b) Two members from the Doctorate's Scientific Commission appointed by the Director;
c) Two students of the study cycle elected by all the doctoral.
5 — The Doctorate's Pedagogic Commission has the particular purposes of: a) Pronouncing itself on the Doctorate's pedagogic functioning;
b) Conducting the processes of coordination between the Doctorate's faculty and the students.
Article 54 Annual report
1 — The Doctorate Director produces an annual report on the functioning of the study cycle, which is included in the Bologna Process Implementation Report foreseen by the law.
2 — The annual report is subject to the approval of the Doctorate's Scientific Commission and to a written opinion by the Doctorate's Pedagogic Commission.
3 — The annual report, along with the opinion of the Pedagogic Commission, is sent:
a) To the Rector of ISCTE-IUL;
b) To the President of ISCTE-IUL's Scientific Council; c) To the President of ISCTE-IUL's Pedagogic Council;
d) To the directors of the department, research unit and school responsible for the Doctorate.
CHAPTER XII Doctorate in association
Article 55 Definitions
1 — ISCTE -IUL may associate with other higher education institutions, national or foreign to carry out study cycles leading to the degree of doctor and the diploma of advanced studies.
2 — The doctorates in association follow specific regulations subject of consensus by the participant institutions and are approved by the Scientific Council.
Article 56 Modes of association
a) Joint doctoral programme;
b) Co-titled doctoral programme in function of common requisites regarding the student's academic path.
2 — The joint doctoral programme is a specific study cycle composed by curricular units and research activities organised jointly by the associated institutions.
3 — The co-titled doctoral programme is the degree conceded by two or more university institutions when, under the agreed terms, the student's academic path:
a) Includes a minimum number of curricular units carried out in each one of the associated institutions;
b) Includes a minimum time of participation in research activities in each one of the associated institutions;
c) Is object of co-supervision by professors or researchers from each one of the associated institutions;
d) Is evaluated in public examinations in which the board of examiners includes professors or researchers from each one of the associated institutions.
Article 57
Attribution and titling of the degree and diploma
In the doctorates in association in which ISCTE-IUL participates, independently of its mode, the degree of doctor is conceded under the terms agreed by the institutions, through:
a) Document issued by each one of the associated institutions;
b) Or, alternatively, a sole document subscribed by the bodies who are legal and statutorily competent of each associated institution.
CHAPTER XIII
Final and transitory provisions Article 58
Plagiarism and copy
1 — In all the written works subject to evaluation, including the thesis or the article compilation, the students shall declare that the text is of their exclusive authorship and that any employment of contributions or texts by third parties are duly referenced.
2 — Plagiarism, copy or any other form of false authorship in a work subject to evaluation implies the immediate annulment of that work, being the fact communicated to Rectory for disciplinary purposes, under the terms of the Plagiarism Regulation.
Article 59
Specific regulatory standards
1 — Each doctorate's specific regulatory standards are object of specific regulatory order by the President of the Scientific Council, after proposal of the Doctorate's Scientific Commission, which must include:
a) Designation, scientific area and length of the doctorate degree;
c) ISCTE-IUL research units in which the preliminary research works of the thesis or the article compilation take place;
d) Specific conditions of admission;
e) Specification of the criteria for candidate selection and ordering.
2 — Each doctorate's specific regulatory standards may moreover provide: a) Specific application standards;
b) Minimum classification in the first and second cycles for the purpose of excuse from the doctoral studies programme;
c) Specific system for knowledge evaluation in the doctoral studies programme; d) Doctoral studies programme system of curricular unit precedence.
e) Specific evaluation procedures in the research projects;
f) Mandatory partial production of research works in research units external to ISCTE-IUL;
g) The possibility of using other languages besides Portuguese and English either in the redaction of the thesis or compilation of articles and in the doctoral public examination.
3 — In the case of study cycles in the domain of the arts, the respective specific regulatory standards define the possibility of replacement of the thesis by a work or set of works or innovative achievements, supported by a written justification, and the necessary adaptation of the set of standards in the current Regulation associated to that subject.
Article 60 Revocation
The current regulatory standards revoke any opposing provisions on the same subject, to be found in other ISCTE-IUL internal regulations
Article 61 Adequacy
Within 60 days subsequent to the entry into force of the current general regulatory standards, the doctorates' scientific commissions shall put forward to the Scientific Council, for approval, each doctorate's specific regulatory standards, under the terms of article 59, after consultation of the responsible School Director.
Article 62 Entry into force
The current regulatory standards shall enter into force the day after its publication in Diário da República.
