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Español Doctoral students have the possibility of extending the submission of their doctoral thesis in the fourth year of permanence for full-time students and in the seventh year of permanence for part-time students (see Permanence Regime Diagram).
In the case of doctoral students with a disability degree equal to or greater than 33 percent, the possibility of extension will be in the sixth year for full-time and in the ninth year for part-time (see Permanence Regime Diagram for Doctoral Students with Disabilities).
Under the previous regulations, for students enrolled before the 2023-24 academic year, they will have the possibility to request an extension in the third year of full-time permanence, and the fifth year for part-time permanence (see Permanence Regime Diagram for Continuing Students).
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Upon completion of the work, the student will submit the doctoral thesis as the start of the procedures prior to its defense and evaluation. They must meet the requirements for thesis submission and have external expert reports on the doctoral thesis.
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Once authorization for the thesis defense has been communicated, the body responsible for the program will propose the examining board that will evaluate the doctoral thesis.
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This will consist of the doctoral student's presentation and defense of the elaborated research work before the members of the examining board for its subsequent evaluation.
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Only in exceptional circumstances, if it is not possible for some of the examining board members to be physically present, the thesis defense may be carried out via videoconference, with prior authorization from the Executive Committee of EIDUS, although only two of the board members will be permitted to participate remotely. In any case, the president and secretary of the examining board must be present at the location where the defense takes place.
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Once the doctoral thesis has been approved, the University of Seville will be responsible for archiving it in an open electronic format in an institutional repository and will send, in electronic format, a copy of the thesis and all necessary complementary information to the Ministry of Universities for its publication in a national repository, which will be managed by the General Secretariat of Universities.
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