Dr. Héctor Simón participated in the Round Table “Access to housing: an impregnable frontier?”, organized by the Tarragona association iMAGInada. The event took place on Saturday, August 9, 2025.
More information at: https://www.laimaginada.cat/La_iMAGInada_2025_-_Programa.pdf
Dr. Philippa Hugues participates in the Congress organized by the AESOP (Association of European Schools of Planning) 2025 “Planning a Transformative Action in Age of Planetary Crisis”, which takes place at the Technical University of Istanbul.
More information at: https://aesop-planning.eu/activities/events/annual-congress/congress-istanbul-2025
Dr. Gemma Caballé Fabra and Dr. Philippa Hugues are participating in the international conference of the European Network for Housing Research “Grand Paris 2025: Affordable Housing in Greening Cities”, which will be held in the city of Paris from 1 to 4 July 2025.
More information at: https://premc.org/enhrgrandparis2025/
Dr. Blanca Deusdad and Dr. Núria Lambea participated in the 9th International Colloquium of the Medical Anthropology Research Center of the URV “Aging and health: challenges and opportunities for aging societies”, which took place at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili from June 3 to 5, 2025.
More information about the project at: https://www.antropologia.urv.cat/ca/agenda/262/ix-coloquio-internacional-del-medical-anthropology-research-center-marc
On Thursday, May 29, the “Conference on Hidden Homelessness in Tarragona” took place with the aim of highlighting the problem of homelessness, especially hidden homelessness, in the city of Tarragona. Data on this phenomenon was presented and, within the framework of the Liquid Housing project led by the UNESCO Chair in Housing, proposals for measures and policies to help combat it were put forward. The new Local Plan to Address Homelessness in Tarragona and its main lines of action were also presented. Finally, discussions were held with different agents involved in the sector on whether the proposed policies have a place, currently or in the future, in the city.
More information about the project at: https://housing.urv.cat/liquid-housing/
Dr. Gemma Caballé participated in the round table of the Congress “The role of Technical Architecture in the construction of the future”, organized by the Official College of Technical Architecture of Tarragona (COATT) and Women Evolution. The event took place on Friday, May 23, 2025 at the Palau de Congressos de Tarragona.
More information about the conference at: https://womenevolution.es/congreso-we-tarragona-23-de-mayo-2025/
Dr. Héctor Simón participated in the round table “MASC and condominiums” of the “II CEMCAF Conference”, organized by the Mediation Center of Property Managers’ Associations of Catalonia. The event took place in Barcelona on May 23, 2025.
More information about the conference at: https://cemcaf.consellcaf.cat/formacio.asp
Dr. Héctor Simón participated in the international conference “Mortgage enforcement and foreclosure” with the presentation “Recent Developments in Europe”. The event took place on Friday, April 11, 2025 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Barcelona.
More information about the conference at: https://www.ub.edu/creditimmobiliariub/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/20250411-Programa-Conference.pdf
The URV’s Catalonia campus hosted the conference “Aging, Housing and Robots”, an interdisciplinary initiative organized by the UNESCO Housing Chair. The event, which brought together around fifty academics and professionals from the social, legal and technological sectors, addressed the major challenges posed by the aging population in relation to housing and new technologies. The event took place on Thursday, 10 April 2025.
A summary of the conference can be found at: https://diaridigital.urv.cat/vellesa-habitatge-robots-jornada/
