Competencies and skills
CB11. Systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of the research skills and methods related to that field.
CB12. Ability to conceive, design or create, implement and adopt a substantial research or creative process.
CB13. Ability to contribute to the expansion of the frontiers of knowledge through original research.
CB14. Ability to carry out critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis of new and complex ideas.
CB15. Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community and with society in general about their fields of knowledge in the modes and languages commonly used in their international scientific community.
CB16. Ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural progress within a knowledge-based society.
CB07. Ability to initiate, manage and lead teams and innovative research projects and scientific collaborations, national or international, within their subject area, in multidisciplinary contexts and, where appropriate, with a high component of knowledge transfer.
CB08. Ability to carry out research activity with social responsibility and scientific integrity.
CB09. Ability to disseminate the results of their research activity to all types of audiences.
CA01. Perform in contexts in which there is little specific information.
CA02. Find the key questions to be answered in order to solve a complex problem.
CA03. Design, create, develop and undertake novel and innovative projects in their field of knowledge.
CA04. Work both in a team and autonomously in an international or multidisciplinary context.
CA05. Integrate knowledge, deal with complexity and formulate judgements with limited information.
CA06. Critique and intellectual defence of solutions.
The competences of the programme are as follows:
OC01. Ability to identify problems at the frontier of knowledge within the specialisation of the programme.
OC02. Ability to handle methodologies and recognise the achievements and limitations of science within the specialisation of the programme.
OC03. Ability to recognise practical economic or social problems that can be solved by applying the scientific method to promote principles of sustainability.
OC04. Ability to relate concepts and information related to the programme specialisation and to discuss and critique them.