Formative resources

General resources

The University of Valladolid has the appropriate material resources and services available to guarantee the correct development of doctoral training activities, observing the criteria of universal accessibility and design set out in Law 51/2003, of 2 December. Specifically, the following resources are highlighted here:

1. UVa Library. The Library of the University of Valladolid has 14 service points, 3 are located in the provinces of Palencia, Soria and Segovia, the others are in Valladolid: 8 specialised Area or Campus Libraries and 3 Central Libraries (BG Reina Sofía, Histórica de Santa Cruz and CDE). Its collections are accessible through the Almena Catalogue, Almena Plus and the UvaDoc Repository, including more than 1 million books among which it is worth highlighting its valuable old collection of 45,000 documents, 16,856 titles of printed periodicals, of which 2,500 are still received by subscription, 21,753 titles of electronic journals, 16,087 electronic books, 34 databases and 41,000 titles including theses, TFG and TFM (data from 2016).
2. Bibliographic collections and research journals of Centres, Institutes and Departments.
3. Resources and scientific equipment of the Instrumental Techniques Laboratory of the UVa.
4. Resources and equipment of the Science Park Foundation of the University of Valladolid.
5. The Doctoral School has a multifunctional classroom, administrative area, work boxes, areas for interaction between doctoral students and tutors, and management and administration area, as well as the Doctoral School Assembly Hall, equipped with a multi-video conference system.
6. High-capacity data network and wi-fi connection that allows interconnectivity and internet connection from all UVa buildings and facilities.
7. Language centre with a dual function:
   • Foreign language teaching, aimed at doctoral students, which includes:
     • General courses (English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, Arabic, Chinese, Hindi and Japanese).
     • Preparation courses for official exams (First Certificate, Advanced (CAE), TOEIC, TOEFL iBT, BEC 1, IELTS and CELI),
     • Specific courses (for different areas of knowledge).
     • Intensive courses.
   • Teaching Spanish as a second language
8. Grants from the Vice-Rector's Office for Research for attendance at courses and conferences relevant to the development of doctoral theses and for research stays in other research centres for doctoral students.
9. Grants from the Vice-Rector's Office for Research to finance stays by internationally renowned researchers at the Doctoral School with the aim of promoting doctoral training in different aspects, among others:
• Professional guidance for doctoral students in order to ensure that programme graduates are suitably integrated into the labour market.
• Information and resources for a professional research career.
• Training in new skills and new professions: spin-off companies, information on self-employment, transfer of results, patents, protection of research results.
• Guidance on information and knowledge management, scientific publications, quality indexes, indexed journals, peer review process, databases, etc.
• Scientific congresses: communications and poster presentations.
• Information on curriculum vitae development and elaboration, accreditation processes, preparation of national and international research projects.