2. Skills and Competences

List of  basic skills that students must acquire during their studies (established by Royal Decree 861/2010)

Basic Skill 1 (BS1):

 The systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of the research skills and methods related to the ITC.

Basic Skill 2 (BS2):

 To conceive, design or create, implement and adopt a substantial research or creating process. 

Basic Skill 3 (BS3):

 To contribute to the expansion of the frontiers of knowledge through original research. 

Basic Skill 4 (BS4):

 To perform a critical and assessment analysis, and synthesis of new and complex ideas.

Basic Skill 5 (BS5):

 To communicate with the academic and scientific community and the society at large, about their areas of expertise in the ways and languages commonly used within the international scientific community. 

Basic Skill 6 (BS6):

 To promote scientific, technological, social, artistic and cultural progress within a knowledge-based society, in academic and professional contexts.

Basic Skill 7 (BS7):

 To develop the research activity with social responsibility and scientific integrity. 

Personal Skills (established by Royal Decree 861/2010)

Personal Skill 1 (PS1):

 To work in contexts where there is little specific information. 

Personal Skill 2 (PS2):

 To find the key questions to be answered in order to solve a complex problem. 

Personal Skill 3 (PS3):

 To design, create, develop and undertake new and innovative projects in their field of knowledge. 

Personal Skill 4 (PS4):

 To work both collaboratively and individually in an international or multidisciplinary context.

Personal Skill 5 (PS5):

 To integrate knowledge, to deal with complexity and to formulate judgements with limited information. 

Personal Skill 6 (PS6):

 Critical and intellectual defence of solutions 

 List of other generic skills that students must acquire during their studies 

Generic Skill 1 (GS1):

 To use, treat and develop complex analytical tools, in particular mathematics, statistics and computing ones. 

List of specific skills that students must acquire during their studies 

Specific Skill 1 (SS1):

 To analyse and solve complex problems in the ICT field, and specifically in the line of research of the doctoral thesis. 

Specific Skill 2 (SS2):

 To define and develop measurement and/or simulation campaigns within the line of research of the doctoral thesis. 

Specific Skill 3 (SS3):

 To operate laboratory and/or computing equipment for conducting experimental research in the line of the doctoral thesis. 

List of transversal skills that students must acquire during their studies

Transversal Skill 1  (TS1):

 To communicate scientific results 

Transversal Skill 2 (TS2):

 To write scientific texts 

Transversal Skill 3 (TS3):

 To develop of the ability for teamwork in a coordinated and complementary way.