COMMITMENT OF GOOD PRACTICES (DOCTORAL CHARTER)

The COMMITMENT OF GOOD PRACTICES  (Doctoral Charter) is the document that includes the rights and obligations of each researcher in training, and of the people who assume the direction of the thesis and the tutoring. That is why the researcher in training, and the supervisors of the thesis must know and accept its content, from the moment of the first enrollment in the Doctoral studies.

The Doctoral School demands and guarantees the compliment of this Commitment, and is accepted by the University of Lleida itself, and by all the people involved, through the validation of all the documents of the doctoral student's file.

COMMITMENT OF GOOD PRACTICES

First.- I am aware that the Internal Internal Regulations for the Doctoral School set out the functions, rights and obligations of the researcher in training, the thesis supervisor and the thesis tutor.

Second.- The commitment is acquired at the time of acceptance of this document, which is made simultaneously when the trainee researcher enrolls in the Doctoral Programme for the first time, and ends at the time he/she acquires the status of Doctor through the defence and approval of the doctoral thesis and the payment of the fees for the Doctoral degree. The commitment will also be terminated when the trainee researcher permanently withdraws from the Doctoral Programme.

Third.- All parties are subject, in terms of rights and duties, to the provisions of the Regulations of the Doctoral School of the University of Lleida as well as any other complementary regulations that may affect them.

Fourth- Tutors and thesis supervisors must undertake not to maintain any relationship that may generate a conflict of interest with the doctoral student, thus guaranteeing impartiality, transparency and integrity in the monitoring of the doctoral process.

Fifth.- Both the researcher in training, the tutor and the thesis supervisor undertake to comply with the performance of the work under the safety measures that current legislation provides, both in terms of accidents and in the prevention of occupational risks. When the research requires the use of living beings, it will be done in compliance with the requirements of current legislation and the ethical standards that regulate experimentation with this material. The confidentiality and human dignity of the people involved will be the basic principle to be respected when they intervene in the experimentation.

Sixth.- Both the researcher in training in training, the tutor and the thesis supervisor undertake to carry out the work in an original way and without being a copy of other unauthorized works.

Seventh.- The trainee researcher must be recognised as the owner of intellectual or industrial property rights, in accordance with current legislation (RD 1/1996 of 1 April 1996 on intellectual property; Law 11/1986 of 20 March and RD 55/2002, of 18 January, on patents) and must appear in all works,   articles or communications in which the trainee researcher has participated in a relevant way. Likewise, the researcher in training must respect the principle of intellectual property or joint ownership of data when the research is carried out in collaboration with other researchers, always understanding that the results belong to the entity in which they have been generated.

Eighth.- Regardless of the ownership rights that may correspond to the parties, the researcher in training and the principal investigator are obliged to communicate to the R+D+I Support Office the results derived from the research training that may be susceptible to exploitation. These results may be disclosed by the UdL provided that the intellectual and industrial property rights derived from this research are respected.

Ninth.- The amounts that they may receive for the exploitation or transfer of rights will not be in any case of a salary nature.

Tenth.- The trainee researcher must notify the UdL of any change of address. If they do not do so, the UdL is authorized by the researcher in training to represent them in the procedures that the procedure requires. The UdL will make known in the form and place indicated by the researcher, the benefits that may derive from the industrial or intellectual property in which he or she participates.

Eleventh.- The trainee researcher undertakes to maintain the secrecy of all information that is confidential, whether provided by the thesis supervisor, by the tutor, or by any other researcher in the group, whether it is oral, written or other type of dissemination. Nor may they transfer to third parties information relating to the research they carry out on the occasion of the thesis.

Twelfth.- Both the researcher in training, the tutor and the thesis supervisor undertake to learn about the policies on equality and harassment prevention of the University of Lleida. They also undertake to respect and ensure at all times the principles, rights and policies on equality and prevention of harassment in the development of their work.

Thirteenth.- The confidentiality and secrecy commitment will continue to be in force even after the end of the administrative relationship with the UdL and can only be modified by writing and signature of all the parties involved.

Fourteenth.- Any breach of the commitments set out in this document, if it leads to a conflict, must be resolved in accordance with the procedure indicated in the document "Conflict Resolution in the Field of Doctoral Studies”. In the event of sexual harassment or harassment based on sex, it will be resolved in accordance with the Regulations for action in cases of gender violence, based on sexual orientation, gender identity or expression of the University of Lleida. In the event of workplace harassment, it will be resolved in accordance with the Workplace Harassment Protocol.

Fifteenth. - In the event of a refusal to continue with the doctoral thesis by the researcher, he or she must inform the thesis supervisor in writing of the reasons that lead him or her to do so.

Sixteenth.- Once the examination of the doctoral thesis has been approved, the author will deliver a copy of the thesis to the UdL in the format indicated by the latter to be filed in the institutional registry constituted for this purpose.

Seventeenth.- Once the doctoral thesis has been approved, the UdL will ensure that the thesis is entered in an open access electronic format in an institutional repository. The institutional repository for depositing the theses read and approved in the universities of the university system of Catalonia is TDX (Tesis Doctorales en Red, www.tdx.cat), according to the agreement of the Board of the Interuniversity Council of Catalonia at the meeting of 06/10/2011. To this end, the author of the thesis will deliver, together with the contract to authorise publication, the complete text of his or her thesis in electronic format.