This week several members of the chair met with students of the URV’s MBA in order to assist them in their research into housing cooperative buildings with services, an alternative method to satisfy the need for housing that, having a strong social component, includes communal services and encourages interaction among users.
The first edition of the journal Fórum Jurídic Digital [Digital Legal Forum] of the Tarragona Bar Association (ICAT) included the publication of the article “Participacions preferents, els defectes d’informació de les entitats de crèdit“ [Preferred stock, the lack of information from credit entities], by the pre-doctoral researcher Rosa Maria Garcia Teruel. This article was also declared the best final Law Degree dissertation in the New Researchers Competition of the Faculty of Legal Sciences of the URV.
Link to the journal.
Rovira i Virgili University, together with the National University of Galway, FEANTSA and the Human European Consultancy, will coordinate the first official study of the European Commission for the promotion of the right to housing in Member States and the consequences of evictions. The proposal presented was the winner of the open competition announced by the European Commission’s Directorate General for Work, Social Affairs and Inclusion, being awarded a grant of one million Euros. The study’s aim is to study the social, economic and financial causes of the crisis, its current reality, its consequences and the solutions put forward by each Member State.
Dr. Sergio Nasarre, Full Professor of Civil Law at Rovira i Virgili University and head of that University’s research group on housing, is a member of the project’s coordinating committee, also overseeing the work emanating from countries in Southern Europe, which have been hardest hit by the crisis. He will author the official report for Spain.
On the coming 19th of February the Housing Chair of Rovira i Virgili University will be officially presented.
Meeting today with Raül Robert, President of Sostre Cívic, in order to carry out joint projects with the URV’s Housing Chair. http://www.sostrecivic.org/es
