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On January 27, Professor Thiago Santos Rocha, from Unoesc's Postgraduate Program in Law (PPGD), received the \"Extraordinary Doctorate Award from the University of Oviedo\" for his thesis for the 2022\/2023 course. The award was presented in a solemn ceremony during the academic celebrations of Saint Thomas Aquinas, in the Central Library of the Historic Building of the University of Oviedo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The award received by the professor, as in other Spanish universities, is given annually to the best theses developed in the five major branches of knowledge around which the University's scientific research is organized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Professor Thiago Rocha's thesis, entitled \"Derecho a la Renta B\u00e1sica Universal y Estado Social. Un an\u00e1lisis de Derecho Constitucional Comparado entre Espa\u00f1a y Brasil\" (Right to Universal Basic Income and the Social State. An analysis of Comparative Constitutional Law between Spain and Brazil, in literal translation), was developed at the University of Oviedo, under the supervision of Professor Miguel \u00c1ngel Presno Linera and Professor Paloma Requejo Rodr\u00edguez, in a co-tutorship with the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), under the supervision of Professor Ingo Wolfgang Sarlet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After an evaluation process in which the merits accumulated by the candidate from the beginning of his doctorate until the academic year following the defense of the thesis, objective criteria related to the \"Scientific quality of the thesis and contribution to the advancement of knowledge\" were evaluated, the \"Scientific impact of the thesis\" and the \"International nature of the doctorate\", Professor Thiago's work was the best scored among the theses defended in the 2022\/2023 academic year in the \"Social and legal sciences\" branch, which includes the doctoral programs in \"Law\", \"Economics: Instruments for Economic Analysis\", \"Economics and Business\", \"Education and Psychology\", \"Equity and Innovation in Education\" and \"Labor Relations and Human Resources\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The full recording of the ceremony is available on YouTube. <\/p>\n\n\n\n