Doctoral School

Escola de Doctorat

Escuela de Doctorado

Basic information

National External Quality Assurance Requirements

External Quality Assurance Reports and Decisions

Institutional level

Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
IQAs Audit, University of Barcelona
Decision: positive
DOCENTIA audit, University of Barcelona

Programme level

Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Physics (third cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Física
  • Qualification/award
    • Doctorate
    • Doctorat
  • Level
    third cycle (NQF level 8)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Podiatric Surgery (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Cirugía Podológica
    • Cirurgia Podològica
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
    • Máster
    • Màster
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF level 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Podiatry (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Podologia
    • Podología
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor
    • Grau
    • Grado
  • Level
    first cycle (NQF level 6)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Podiatry (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Podologia
    • Podología
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor
    • Grau
    • Grado
  • Level
    first cycle (NQF level 6)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Principles of Care and Education for Diabetes Sufferers (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Bases para la Atención y Educación de las Personas con Diabetes
    • Bases per a l'Atenció i Educació de les Persones amb Diabetis
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
    • Máster
    • Màster
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF level 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Principles of Care and Education for Diabetes Sufferers (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Bases para la Atención y Educación de las Personas con Diabetes
    • Bases per a l'Atenció i Educació de les Persones amb Diabetis
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
    • Máster
    • Màster
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF level 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Social and Organizational Psychology (third cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Psicologia social i de les organitzacions
    • Psicología Social y de las Organizaciones
  • Qualification/award
    • Doctorate
    • Doctorat
    • Doctorado
  • Level
    third cycle (NQF level 8)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Social and Organizational Psychology (third cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Psicologia social i de les organitzacions
    • Psicología Social y de las Organizaciones
  • Qualification/award
    • Doctorate
    • Doctorat
    • Doctorado
  • Level
    third cycle (NQF level 8)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Society and Culture: History, Anthropology, Art and Heritage (third cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Sociedad y Cultura: Historia, antropologia, Arte y Patrimonio
    • Societat i cultura: història, antropologia, art i patrimoni
  • Qualification/award
    • Doctorate
    • Doctorado
    • Doctorat
  • Level
    third cycle (NQF level 8)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Society and Culture: History, Anthropology, Art and Heritage (third cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Sociedad y Cultura: Historia, antropologia, Arte y Patrimonio
    • Societat i cultura: història, antropologia, art i patrimoni
  • Qualification/award
    • Doctorate
    • Doctorado
    • Doctorat
  • Level
    third cycle (NQF level 8)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Sociology (third cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Sociologia
    • Sociología
  • Qualification/award
    • Doctorate
    • Doctorat
    • Doctorado
  • Level
    third cycle (NQF level 8)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Sociology (third cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Sociologia
    • Sociología
  • Qualification/award
    • Doctorate
    • Doctorat
    • Doctorado
  • Level
    third cycle (NQF level 8)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Teaching and Learning of Sciences, Languages, Arts and Humanities (third cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Didáctica de las Ciencias, las Lenguas, las Artes y las Humanidades
    • Didàctica de les ciències, les llengües, les arts i les humanitats
  • Qualification/award
    • Doctorate
    • Doctorado
    • Doctorat
  • Level
    third cycle (NQF level 8)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Teaching and Learning of Sciences, Languages, Arts and Humanities (third cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Didáctica de las Ciencias, las Lenguas, las Artes y las Humanidades
    • Didàctica de les ciències, les llengües, les arts i les humanitats
  • Qualification/award
    • Doctorate
    • Doctorado
    • Doctorat
  • Level
    third cycle (NQF level 8)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
The Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (third cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Cerebro, Cognición y Conducta
    • Cervell, cognició i conducta
  • Qualification/award
    • Doctorate
    • Doctorado
    • Doctorat
  • Level
    third cycle (NQF level 8)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
The Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (third cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Cerebro, Cognición y Conducta
    • Cervell, cognició i conducta
  • Qualification/award
    • Doctorate
    • Doctorado
    • Doctorat
  • Level
    third cycle (NQF level 8)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Transdisciplinary Global Health Solutions (third cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Soluciones Transdisciplinarias para la Salud Global
    • Solucions transdisciplinàries per a la salut global
  • Qualification/award
    • Doctorate
    • Doctorado
    • Doctorat
  • Level
    third cycle (NQF level 8)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme

Verifiable Credentials

A Verifiable Credential (VC) is a digitally-signed and thus tamper-evident document containing information on a subject (e.g. personal information, entitlements of an individual, degrees held by an individual or accreditation of a higher education institution). Quality assurance results recorded in DEQAR can be downloaded as W3C-compatible Verifiable Credentials.

Currently, two types of credentials can be issued:

EBSI Verifiable Accreditations (VA) can be used by a higher education institution in the context of the EBSI Early Adopters programme.

  • The VA allows the institution to prove its external quality assurance on the Trusted Issuer Registry (TIR). EBSI VAs are only issued for external quality assurance results with an official status in a national system (“part of obligatory EQA system”).
  • At present, the higher education institution’s EBSI DID needs to be communicated to EQAR and recorded in DEQAR manually at the moment. If you are a higher education institution participating in EBSI, please contact us to register your DID.
  • EBSI VAs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:ebsi:zk4bhCepWSYp9RhZkRPiwUL.

DEQAR Format Verifiable Credentials primarily serve as a proof of concept and public demonstrator currently.

  • DEQAR Format VCs are based on the plain W3C Recommendation and our own data model. While they closely follow the EBSI Schema, no EBSI-specific or EU-specific elements or data types are used.
  • The higher education institution is identified by its DEQAR URI in this case.
  • DEQAR Format VCs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:web:data.deqar.eu.

Please note: this is an experimental feature.