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Third cycle doctoral study programme Information society is well embedded into the relevant economic environment, particularly due to well established participation of key stakeholders into the life of the programme as well as participation of the higher education institution representatives in the processes and bodies of of key stakeholders. The doctoral students are well supported by the faculty and suport staff, through inclusion of students into the work of research groups and activities of different reserach projects through their supervisors and co-supervisors. Students have at their disposal also state-of-the-art equipment to perform research as well as participate in innovative learning and teaching 16 approaches. Students are well supported also in terms of their ability to participate and present their work at the annual research conference the institution is organizing. However, the study programme does suffer from certain serious problems. The key ones are (1) the problem of inadequate performance of the quality assurance system that does not allow the institution to develop the programme in accordance with the programme selfevaluation results; (2) the problem of its implementatio, which allow demonstrates a sharp move from originally acredited field (social sciences) to the fields of natural sciences, mathematics and statistics, information and communication technologies and engineering. This is clearly reflected also by the institution's promotion of the programme, which is misleading to future students.