THE IMPORTANCE OF TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS IN THE EUROPEAN AREA OF HIGHER EDUCATION. Josu Ahedo Ruiz (UNIR ) josu.ahedo@unir.net Ignacio Danvila del Valle (UCM ) idanvila@ccee.ucm.es Carlos Estevez Mendoza (UCM ) cestevezm@gmail.com The European Higher Education Area (EHEA) establishes that the students must do a research work while they are finishing the grade studies. The objective of that research work is that all students develop the competences they acquired durinng the years at their University. Each student will be assisted by a professor who will conduct and supervise that work. The use of technological tools involves a training novelty that favors communication between them, and makes director advisory tasks much easier. Therefore, communication becomes quicker and more fluent. Besides, the use of techniques associated to recent technologies facilitates data collection for the empirical side of the work. Likewise, bibliographic queries notably improve using specialized search engines. Then, we consider that the use of technological tools remarkably improves the quality of research, and makes director-student communication easier. The main conclusion of this work is that, when we are facing a new training methodology, the use of new technology-linked tools and methods becomes indispensable. Keywords: European Higher Education Area (EHEA), competences, technological tools, methodology