The following minimum standards must be met in order to be awarded a doctorate:
1. publication of at least one scientific article, during the doctoral internship, in journals indexed by BDI in Annex no. 31 of the Order of the Minister of National Education and Scientific Research no. 6.129/2016 on the approval of the minimum standards necessary and mandatory for the conferral of teaching titles in higher education, professional degrees in research and development, the quality of doctoral supervisor and the habilitation certificate;
2. publication of at least one study in collective volumes in CNCS-recognised publishing houses;
3. participation with scientific papers in at least two national/international conferences with a programme committee, as evidenced by the conference programme;
4. the doctoral candidate must be a first author and the published/communicated works must contain results from the doctoral thesis.