Co-supervision. If there are academic reasons for doing so (an interdisciplinary topic, joint or international programmes, etc.) and the academic committee of the programme gives its approval, an additional thesis supervisor may be assigned. Supervisors and co-supervisors have the same responsibilities and academic recognition. The maximum number of supervisors of a doctoral thesis is two: a supervisor and a co- supervisor. For theses carried out under a cotutelle agreement or as part of an Industrial Doctorate, if necessary and if the agreement foresees it this maximum number of supervisors may not apply. This notwithstanding, the maximum number of supervisors belonging to the UPC is two.
Co-supervision. Thesis supervisors must hold a doctoral qualification and have proven research experience. Thesis supervisors undertake to carry out their roles fully and to deal with any issues related to the development of the student’s research on a regular basis. If any of the supervisors ceased to be so, they would be replaced following the rules established by the relevant university. Any changes of supervisor must be notified to the doctoral student and to the other university. Otherwise, this agreement would automatically lapse. In such cases, doctoral students must be guaranteed the right to finish their doctoral studies at the other supervisor’s institution.
