Doctoral School

Escola de Doctorat

Escuela de Doctorado

Basic information

National External Quality Assurance Requirements

External Quality Assurance Reports and Decisions

Institutional level

Decision: positive
DOCENTIA audit, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech

Programme level

Decision: positive
Enginyer Tècnic en Informàtica (first cycle degree)
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Environmental Engineering (third cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Enginyeria ambiental
  • 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
Environmental Engineering (third cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Enginyeria ambiental
  • 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
Environomical Pathways for Sustainable Energy Services (third cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Caminos vias econo-ambientales para servicios de energia sostenible
    • Erasmus Mundus en vies econo-ambientals per a serveis d'energia sostenible/Environomical Pathways for Sustainable Energy Services
  • 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.
Decision: positive
Geological Engineering (first cycle degree)
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Decision: positive
Geological Engineering (first cycle degree)
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Geotechnical Engineering and Geo-Sciences (third cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Enginyeria del terreny
    • Ingeniería del Terreno
  • 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
Geotechnical Engineering and Geo-Sciences (third cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Enginyeria del terreny
    • Ingeniería del Terreno
  • 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.
Decision: positive
Informatics Engineering (first cycle degree)
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Decision: positive
Informatics Engineering (second cycle degree)
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Decision: positive
Informatics Engineering (first cycle degree)
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Decision: positive
Informatics Engineering (second cycle degree)
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Information Technologies for Business Intelligence (IT4BI) (third cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Tecnologias de la Información para la Inteligencia Empresarial (IT4BI)
    • Tecnologies de la Informació per a la Intel·ligència Empresarial (IT4BI)
  • 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.
Decision: positive
Innovation and Research in Informatics (second cycle degree)
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Decision: positive
Innovation and Research in Informatics (second cycle degree)
Decision: positive
Innovation and Research in Informatics (second cycle degree)
Decision: positive
Innovation and Research in Informatics (second cycle degree)
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Interactive and Cognitive Environments (third cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Entornos interactivos y cognitivos
    • Entorns interactius i cognitius
  • 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
Materials Science and Engineering (third cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Ciència i Enginyeria de Materials
  • Qualification/award
    • Doctorate
    • Doctorat
  • Level
    third cycle (NQF level 8)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Materials Science and Engineering (third cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Ciència i Enginyeria de Materials
  • Qualification/award
    • Doctorate
    • 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.