Entries by Càtedra UNESCO d'Habitatge URV

Research stay at NUI Galway

The UNESCO Housing Chair researcher Dr. Héctor Simón undertook a research stay for six months (from 1 March to 31 August 2018) at the Centre for Housing Law, Rights and Policy Research of the National University of Ireland, Galway (http://www.nuigalway.ie/chlrp/), supervised by Dr. Padraic Kenna, thanks to a grant awarded by the Ministry of Education, Culture […]

Inaugural lecture of the 44th seminar on urban policies and territorial studies at IVAP

Prof. Sergio Nasarre has delivered the inaugural lecture of the 44th Urban Planning and Studies course of the IVAP of Eusko Jaurlaritza-Vasc Government, which information may be found at http://www.ivap.euskadi.eus/r61- vedpre04 / es / contenidos / informacion / evetu / es_3811 / cursos_modulares.html. The conference focused on “The crisis of traditional access to housing. The […]

Participation in the ENHR international Conference 2018 and reelection of the Coordination Committee

Researchers of the UNESCO Housing Chair, Prof. Dr. Sergio Nasarre and Núria Lambea, attended and participated in the European Network for Housing Research (ENHR) International Conference 2018, held in Uppsala from the 26th to the 29th of June. This year’s theme was “More together, more apart: Migration, densification, segregation”. The researchers presented papers on “Legal […]

Research stay at NUI Galway

The UNESCO Housing Chair researcher Núria Lambea undertook a research stay in July and August at the Centre for Housing Law, Rights and Policy Research of the National University of Ireland Galway (http://www.nuigalway.ie/chlrp/), supervised by Dr. Padraic Kenna, in the context of the development of her PhD thesis on models of management of social housing […]

Collaborative housing

Project “Collaborative housing” At first, the collaborative economy had been associated only with positive values. Thus, it allows access to goods and services to consumers with lower purchasing power (for example, to travel or move) (Ranchordás, 2015) and even allows them to invest in goods that were traditionally forbidden through crowdfunding. It has even been […]

Infovivienda

Infovivienda.es is a website promoted by the UNESCO Chair of Housing of the Rovira i Virgili University, which has the objective of making practical and rigorous information available to the public on the different forms of housing (property and mortgage, rent and intermediate tenures) and housing as a human right in the form of Q […]