6.1. Overcoming the crisis of the development of international science.
Factual state of the international scientific and educational sphere is in the fact that consequences of global disunity of the world intellectual community of teachers and researchers are not only obvious but also negatively affect the general state of international science. Such situation is explained and predetermined by the wide range of reasons: various national scientific-educational standards; factors of different level of development of science and education in different countries; factors of different level of accessibility of educational and scientific processes in different countries; factors of corruption, unnecessary bureaucracy and violation of human rights in scientific and educational environment in different countries; complicated mechanisms of international scientific communications; different world outlook (ideological attitude) and level of respect from the side of authorities and society of certain countries towards scientific activities and scientific titles; complicated mechanisms of scientific cooperation; complicated systems of interaction of certain national scientific schools; various levels of opportunities of scientists from different countries in matters of publication of their studies in leading scientific journals and participation in scientometric nomination (analysis), ensuring certain citation coefficient and professional reputation of the author; slow international distribution of scientific information; significant scale of plagiarism in the field of scientific studies; different levels of copyright protection in different countries; problems of mutual (academic and professional) recognition of scientific and educational qualifications; problems of practical implementation of scientific studies (innovations); problems of ensuring international mobility of specialists, students, scientists and teachers from various countries; absence of international system of working organizational unification, consolidation of efforts and collegial representation of interests of scientists from different countries; other consequences of global and specific character.
Doctoral programs (implemented in the context of the GISAP project operation by the IASHE) offer an original mechanism of encouragement, support and development of scientific activity and creativity of scientists from different countries with a parallel resolution of a number of deep problems in matters of development of international science.
6.2. Accessibility of scientific activity and absence of discrimination.
Any person, regardless of his age, nationality, linguistic status and the current scientific or educational qualification may participate in doctoral programs. One and only condition is: he must have higher education in the relevant field of science (or must be obtaining it at the moment).
6.3. International character.
Research-analytical project GISAP, as well as doctoral programs linked with it, imply and actually have an international character of research analytics championships participants and also the expert committees involved in the evaluation of scientific studies.
General rules and principles of realization of doctoral programs are relatively simple and open for the interested persons to pass.
The mechanism of realization of the GISAP project, as well as the related doctoral programs are open, available for free and easy tracking of all the necessary and relevant information by any interested persons. During the implementation of doctoral programs there can not be any decisions or factors (except decisions or factors directly depending on the program participant), which could be a result of the sole opinion of any person or entity or actions of such an entity that do not comply with officially announced rules of the GISAP project and doctoral programs.
6.6. International promulgation.
All scientific materials, scientometric and rating data, results of participation of the interested persons in research analytics championships of the GISAP project are to be made ??internationally public via online resources of the IASHE and projects of the Academy as well as via pages of these projects in international social networks, websites of partner organizations of the IASHE. Other ways of promulgation are collections of scientific studies, journals, newsletters and other scientific, journalistic and presentational editions of the IASHE. Scientific publications of the IASHE are to be sent to libraries and literary agencies of different countries according to their requests and quotas.
6.7. Fighting plagiarism.
There are several mechanisms to counter the hypothetical possibility of plagiarism within the GISAP project: 1) Initially, all submitted scientific works are published in an interactive way and subject to an open examination and discussion by all interested parties (participants and non-participants of the GISAP project); 2) during the process of evaluation of scientific studies, scientists specializing in relevant fields of science can identify borrowed innovations (ideas) of other scientists in reports of certain authors; 3) when collections of scientific studies or specialized scientific journals of the IASHE (containing these studies) are internationally distributed, these materials become available for the general public; 4) collections of papers and specialized scientific journals of the IASHE are sent to libraries around the world and also be explored there by interested persons on matters of presence of elements of plagiarism; 5) scientometric nomination (analysis) of publications, carried out by the IASHE and various scientometric databases may also counteract plagiarism and contribute to its detection; 6) materials published in specialized IASHE journals are subject to the detailed study from the side of specialized editorial boards of such journals, 7) results of research analytics championships or doctoral programs may be canceled or adjusted in a certain way by the IASHE if such results had been reached by persons concerned with the usage of plagiarism.
6.8. Absence of formalism and corruption.
Realization of doctoral programs is carried out following the stated rules using a transparent mechanism of implementation of functionally and legally significant actions by all the program participants and is accompanied by a collegial discussion and evaluation of scientific studies by international expert team. Results of research analytics championships are available for examination by all the participants of championships and interested third parties. No other circumstances except the standard norms of the GISAP project operation, quality of studies, their collective assessment and general rules of research analytics championships results accounting, can affect the doctoral programs outcome.
6.9. Free of charge.
Realization of doctoral programs is free of charge. The cost of participation in research analytics championships, publication of scientific studies, mailing diplomas, certificates, digests and journals – all this is refunded by the GISAP project participants independently and apart from the fact of participation in doctoral programs. The cost of registration of documents, fixing and certifying the results of passing the doctoral program, is not significant and is made public in a standard way.
6.10. Affordable scientometric analysis.
Participation in research analytics championships and doctoral programs is accompanied by the scientometric analysis undertaken through the IASHE scientometric database and other relevant bases. Scientometric analysis, carried out under the auspices of the IASHE, is a statistical definition of ratings of scientific and analytical activity and efficiency of authors and universities. It is expressed in the functioning of the international scientometric database «Socrates-Impulse». Scientometric activities of the IASHE do not exclude similar analysis of scientific studies presented in the GISAP project, from the side of various scientometric databases.
6.11. Providing international scientific communications.
Integral part of the realization of the GISAP project and doctoral programs - the inevitable (mandatory) mass communications between scientists from different countries, their interaction and mandatory participation in mutual evaluation of studies of each other.
Discussions, as part of the implementation of doctoral programs, assists in: the process of critical rethinking of the research by its author; formulation of main arguments, defending the author's position; providing incentives to further deepening of the research and examination of additional scientific sources; borrowing of innovative ideas, theses or approaches of each other, encouraging scientific studies and promoting the progress of science by authors; the development of skills in oratory, phraseological design of arguments and logic opposing.
Competitiveness in the GISAP project, serving a certain form of intellectual competition, not only stimulates the interested party (including the factors of professional ambition, social and personal growth, formation of high professional image, etc.) and complicates the task of ensuring the success in the research analytics championships and doctoral programs, but also makes the scientific process dynamic and exciting, generates alternative objects for comparative mapping during the assessment. Competitiveness in the process of realization of doctoral programs promotes the development of creative abilities of the researcher more significantly than a rather closed, depending on the will of individual officials, systematic, choiceless and formalized standard procedure of acquisition of doctoral degrees (regalia), traditionally implemented in most of the universities.
6.14. Intensity and clear standards.
Doctoral programs require intense intellectual work of their members. It is necessary to take into account the fact that the competitiveness of research analytics championships makes high demands to winners and awardees of such championships. Consequently, the quality of scientific studies submitted within the framework of the GISAP project, must meet the very highest international standards.
At the same time, the GISAP project has clear standards of admission of studies to participate in a research project, their publication and peer assessment.
6.15. Laboriousness and science linkage.
The laboriousness of participation in doctoral programs is in the obligation of participants to provide a considerable amount of scientific works for the collective evaluation by colleagues during the calendar year within the framework of the GISAP project. This, in addition, can provide a person with the required average score in the evaluating process and a number of diplomas of research analytics championships.
Significant laboriousness of this process is ensured by the fact that only consistently high quality scientific works presented in the project can call for positive collegial opinion of the scientific community during the evaluation of such report and win relevant diplomas.
6.16. Balanced and collegial nature of international professional evaluation.
Assessment of scientific studies presented within the framework of the GISAP project and doctoral programs, has a professional and collegial nature as many scientists are involved in it - experts in relevant fields of science from around the world with various academic degrees, titles and regalia. This factor provides the credibility and quality of evaluation, based on unified international standards of analysis of scientific studies and perception of them from the point of view of various national scientific schools.
Balanced nature of evaluation is expressed through the fact that it involves both: invited experts of the GISAP project and researchers with the status of a research analytics championship participant in a certain branch of science (i.e. persons acting as actual competitors of a person, whose scientific work is subject to assessment). Thus, in accordance with the stated proportions, while determining a winner and an awardee of research analytics championships, impartiality and objectivity of assessment is ensured by collegiality and balancing of experts’ and participants’ marks.
6.17. The democracy.
The democracy of doctoral programs is expressed not only through the free access to them from the side of the interested parties involved in scientific studies, but also in the fact that all key decisions in the process of implementation of such programs are made collectively and openly by representatives of the scientific community - professionals from around the world, specializing in relevant fields of science. In this process the IASHE establishes common standard rules for the implementation of programs, organizes their practical implementation and provides status support and recognition of doctoral qualifications.
6.18. Status and international recognition.
Doctoral programs have the nature of combined academic (educational) and creative (research and creative-innovational) procedures aimed at establishing of a set of necessary knowledge, skills and creative abilities of the scientist, intended and sufficient for effective and innovative settlement of urgent and pressing problems of modern science.
Programs are educational (academic) for they serve as an integral part of an educational process and directly perform the function of stuffing a relevant person with specialized knowledge and skills necessary to undertake his professional tasks of high complexity.
Programs are research-based (creative) for they develop skills of an interested person necessary for professional undertaking of innovative tasks of scientific progress.
First of all doctoral programs solve the problem of formation of academic specialists, able to generate innovative ideas aimed at overcoming (resolution) of problems of modern science.
Legal status of the program is based on: a) the form of its realization, based on methods of self-education and creative development of the person; public support of research activities by the international scientific community; critical expert analysis; wide professional discussion and opposing; collegial comparison and assessment of results of studies; b) status and competence of the IASHE as the organizer and guarantor of objective, fair and high-quality (professional) realization of programs; c) international scale of realization of programs involving applicants and experts - professional scientists from around the world; d) transparency (program rules, lists of participants, procedure of program realization – all this is available to public and kept in open sources of information); publicity (original scientific studies submitted by an project applicant are made public and archived in printed and electronic issues); transparency (mechanisms of summing up of program results are based on standard rules and can be freely monitored by all the interested persons directly during the implementation of a program); e) guarantee of the IASHE concerning the objective correspondence of acquired competences to the assigned doctoral qualifications; f) organizational support for doctoral qualifications, documental formalization and legalization from the side of the IASHE.
Doctoral programs are not a direct analogue of the traditional academic university doctoral programs, where such programs act as a period (stage) of an educational process.
Doctoral programs are the fundamental innovation in the field of development, evaluation and status fixation of the level of professional qualification and achievements of scientists - researchers.
Legality of doctoral programs is defined by their principal innovativeness, objectivity and professionalism of realization as well as the absence of purpose to substitute or to make a direct analogue to the academic doctoral programs of universities.
International status of doctoral programs is determined by their cosmopolitanism (cross-borderness) and potential for wide international distribution with no limits of local jurisdictions of certain states.
First of all doctoral programs involve their unconditional acceptance (liberation from the destructive formalism and bureaucracy) in an international scientific community. Significance, scope and quality of doctoral programs are determined by the primary importance of creative initiatives in the process of their implementation as well as scientific self-expression and determination of an applicant, peer assessment of original studies by representatives of the international scientific community - professional scientists - experts from different countries.
Doctoral programs have all objective reasons for their all-round acceptance in the international educational (academic) environment due to the following circumstances: a) doctoral programs are innovative projects that do not have any analogues in the international scientific and educational environment; b) doctoral programs are not similar to the standard academic (educational) doctoral programs of universities; c) doctoral programs are implemented in a different area of ??intellectual activity (original scientific studies - generation of ideas and creation of new knowledge) than the standard (academic) doctoral programs of universities (analogous educational process - acquisition of knowledge and skills).
Recognition of doctoral programs in an international educational (academic) environment is not connected with personal opinions of individual functionaries. It is based on the following factors: objectivity of factually executed scientific research; success of the original research; transparency of information concerning the procedure of realization of doctoral programs; promulgation of results of the applicant’s scientific studies; professional discussion and peer-assessment of studies by specialists from different countries and international professional expert team.
Doctoral programs certainly contain heavy educational load and require a competitor to acquire specialized knowledge and skills, much deeper than the equivalent knowledge and skills, traditionally obtained by interested persons in a standard educational process of a similar level. Such conclusion can be made (all other things being equal) because: a) doctoral programs promote and encourage purposefulness, courage and activity of researchers; b) doctoral programs encourage creativity of researchers; c) doctoral programs emphasize the priority of such research result as an innovation - the author’s contribution to the development of science; d) doctoral programs create conditions for the scientific process to become free of excessive formalism, bureaucracy, bias and corruption in any form.
The recognition of doctoral programs in the educational environment is based not only on their educational and creative (scientific) content, but on the following circumstances also: a) scientist, able to think independently, is able to share an active, innovative approach to the perception of reality with his students; b) a scientist, whose scientific views were formed in the context of interaction with the international scientific community and through discussions with the representatives of different scientific schools, has a significant load of balanced, diversified and objective educational material to offer to his students; c) a scientist, accustomed to opposition from the side of his colleagues and to defending his position in professional discussions, not only has excellent oratorical skills, but is also able to cultivate an active approach to the formation of personal opinions and protection of them among his students; d) a scientist capable of a critical attitude towards knowledge, will continually improve it; his students will be given additional new approaches to understanding educational materials; e) a teacher with independent way of thinking, an active lifestyle and original way of presentation of educational material, will always be interesting to students and will be an example for them.
6.19. Organizational composition of scientific community and its consolidation.
Conditions for active international communication of scientists and also the institutionalization of their communities in the format of scientific analysts federations of various levels (national, continental, world federation) are created within the GISAP project (including doctoral programs). Through such organizational organization, scientists are consolidated to form internal hierarchies and controls bodies. They have an opportunity to present joint initiatives, implement collective programs and statutory functions of federations, and also - collectively defend their rights and legitimate interests.
Perhaps there is no better form of approbation of theoretical studies than intensive discussion of their details with colleagues from other countries. Another great benefit in matters of identifying flaws and obvious benefits of the discussed studies can be brought by professional discussions, followed by critical opposing. Finally, in conditions of competitive opposition of specialized studies (within the framework of the research analytics championships), opponents are able to reveal the tiniest errors in scientific works of others. An additional element of the validation of a scientific study is a factor of its joint evaluation by members of the international scientific community and experts from different countries. In addition, another important step in the approbation of the research is the wide promulgation of it, which (in the case of its publication in a specialized journal of the IASHE) is carried out after the professional evaluation of the work.
6.21. Practical implementation.
One of the most difficult problems of modern science is the factor of considerable distance between theoretical science and practical implementation of its products in social practice. IASHE is consistently implementing a whole range of programs (international scientific congresses, publication and dissemination of scientific bulletins-recommendations, foundation of the innovations exchange, taking orders for the resolution of scientific problems, programs of copyright protection for scientists, etc.) aimed on the creation of conditions for an active familiarization of members of the general public and the business environment with scientific researches and their results.
6.22. Doctoral qualifications, their hierarchy and cumulative conversion
The outcome of the doctoral program may be: a) if the yearly results of participation in the GISAP project correspond to minimum acceptable requirements – an acquisition of a certain doctoral qualification (from a list of qualifications stated by this Provision) relevant to the scale of achievements of an applicant in research analytics championships during the same year; b) if the yearly applicant’s results of participation in the GISAP project do not meet the minimum acceptable requirements - the doctoral program in the reporting year is passed with no results.
The IASHE establishes a strict hierarchy of qualifications that can be acquired by an applicant following the results of participation in research analytics championships in the reporting year (or as a result of cumulative conversion of two or more lower-level qualifications into one high-level qualification).
Minimum parameters of compliance of an applicant’s GISAP project participation results in the reporting year to one or another doctoral qualification, as well as parameters of cumulative conversion of two or more low-level qualifications into one high-level qualification are stated by the present Provision and are open and available to anyone interested.
System hierarchy of scientific-analytical (creative) doctoral qualifications is determined by the anticipated scale of achievements of applicants in research analytics championships of the reporting year (corresponding to each doctor's qualification within the system of qualifications). System hierarchy of scientific-analytical (creative) doctoral qualifications is determined and formed by the relevant hierarchy of competencies, reasonably imputed to effective researchers - depending on the size and nature of participation and achievements of participants of research analytics championships of the GISAP project.
The structure of systematic hierarchy of scientific-analytical (creative) doctoral qualifications provides an objective and accurate qualification assessment of results of applicants’ participation in research analytics championships.
The mechanism of accumulative conversion of two or more low-level qualifications into one high-level qualification provides an objective assessment of stability of the applicant’s consistently high results during several years of participation in the GISAP project, as well as the multiplicity of already acquired doctoral qualifications.