Thesis

On June 19, Maridalia Rodríguez Padilla defended at the University of Barcelona (UB) her PhD thesis with the title “Foreign investment through the real estate trust to mitigate the housing deficit in the Dominican Republic”. Its directors were Dr. Georgina Garriga Suau and Dr. Sergio Nasarre Aznar. It has been evaluated by the professors Dr. Jordi Bonet Pérez (University of Barcelona), Dr. Estela Rivas Nieto (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) and Dr. Emmanuel Cedeño Brea (OMG Institute).
The PhD thesis promote the design of a legal framework that encourages the development of the Dominican real estate market through the real estate trust with foreign participation, in its different forms of sale, rent, lease with option to purchase and other forms of tenure. With the objective of reducing the housing deficiency that affects the Dominican Republic.

Press

“Los jóvenes, entre la espada y la pared”, Sra. Gemma Caballé, Diari de Tarragona, 03/07/2019

Journal of the UNESCO Housing Chair

The 11 issue of the journal Housing has been published. https://housing.urv.cat/en/cover/research/newsletter

Meeting

On the 24th and 25th of June, took place in Berlin the next meeting with the German Government for the preparation of a European mapping of the housing situation in the 28 member countries of the European Union with the participation of several of them. Prof. Sergio Nasarre moderated one of the sessions, as a member of the Advisory Board.

Press

“Mas allá de la pensión”, Dr. Héctor Simón, Diari de Tarragona, 25/06/2019

Lecture

Prof. Nasarre was invited to give the lecture “How to overcome the pendulum and inefficient legislation in urban housing leases: solutions in comparative law” to the College of Notaries of Catalonia on 20/06/2019, in its cycle of conferences “New private law perspectives for the notary after the Spanish Constitution of 1978”.

Program Ambassadors

The UNESCO Chair of Housing of the URV as a model of success.

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I CONGRESS ON THE RIGHT TO PERSONAL AUTONOMY

On October 21 and 22, 2019 the I Congress on the Right to Personal Autonomy will be held at the International Convention Center of Barcelona (CCIB), within the framework of the development of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities , organized by the Spanish Confederation of Persons with Physical and Organic Disabilities (COCEMFE).

People with disabilities and the phenomenon of aging and chronicity are the background curtain of different debate panels, from the individual and community point of view. Our colleague Andrés Labella will moderate the table on the City as a space for life and coexistence.

For more information, inscription and presentation of posters, you can consult the following link: https://www.autonomiapersonal.org/

Round table

The Dra. Angeles Galiana has been a moderator of the round table of the Third Session of the International Congress of Researchers in Immigration and Asylum. IX Day of Immigration. “Challenges in immigration and asylum in the European Union: European, international, national and comparative perspective”, June 13, 2019, Faculty of Law, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona.

http://www.dret-privat.urv.cat/media/upload/domain_90/arxius/congressos/2019/Asilo.pdf