Social Impact Award
Ja the video has been published as Dr. Estela Rivas and Dr. Jan Gonzalo collect the social impact award for the Threshold project
La Caixa social research
The project on housing and data science of the UNESCO Housing Chair and the Sees: lab group receives one of the 13 grants from La Caixa
https://housing.urv.cat/en/dasiho/
Local Housing Plan of the City of Tarragona
The UNESCO Housing Chair participates in the drafting of the Local Housing Plan of the City of Tarragona.
Awards
The Diari of Tarragona He has been awarded for his informative work on mediation
Extraordinary doctoral award
Dr. Rosa Maria Garcia Teruel received on November 14th the extraordinary doctoral award in Law for her doctoral thesis “The replacement of the rent for renovation works in urban leases”. The extraordinary doctoral award recognizes the best doctoral dissertation in each area of knowledge. The book including the research from her PhD might be found at: https://www.tirant.com/editorial/libro/la-sustitucion-de-la-renta-por-la-rehabilitacion-o-reforma-de-la-vivienda-en-los-arrendamientos-urbanos-rosa-maria-garcia-teruel-9788413134123
Jury of the ADR Awards
On September 20, the jury of the ADR Awards, of which Emma López Solé is part, met to evaluate the candidates received in the 2019 edition of the ADR Awards of the Department of Justice of the Generalitat of Catalonia.
http://justicia.gencat.cat/ca/detalls/Noticia/valoracio-premis-adr
Award
The Threshold: promoting protection of the right to housing – Homelessnes prevention in the context of evictions”, a research project promoted by the UNESCO Housing Chair, has been awarded a prize from the Social Council URV due to its social impact. This social impact award recognizes, under the category of social sciences and humanities, those research projects that are expected to improve the society. The proposal was submitted by Sergio Nasarre, Estela Rivas and Juan Luis Gonzalo, thanks also to the collaboration of Marc Solé, Ariadna González, Héctor Herrero, Isidre Monreal, Neus Sabaté, Javier Coca and Jordi de Andrés.
ADR Justice Awards 2018
On January the 21th, at the commemoration ceremony of the European Mediation Day, chaired by the Justice Consellera, Ester Capella, the ADR Justice Awards 2018 were awarded for research projects and practical initiatives in the field of mediation and other means of conflict resolution. Our student Ramon Nadal was one of the winners for his work on the use of mediation in environmental conflicts
Acknowledgement to the partners for the 5 years of the Chair
The UNESCO Chair of Housing has acknowledged its partners having accompanied it during this time and has symbolized it with a piece designed by the artist Antonio Gómez, which includes the logo of the Chair, together with that of the Rovira University and Virgili and the one of UNESCO in a context of iron, cement and stone of Tarragona.
Lurdes Quintero Gallego, student of the postgraduate in mediation of the UNESCO Housing Chairwins the II CEPAC Award
Lurdes Quintero Gallego, alumni of the URV’s Foundation and UNESCO Housing Chair postgraduate program in mediation, has been awarded the II CEPAC Award for final year and postgraduate projects about human towers (castells), with her project “Mediation castellera”.
