Project MyRobot

A research project promoted by researchers at the URV and coordinated by Dr. Blanca Deusdad makes a robot seal available to elderly people to improve their quality of life and that of their environment. The first day of fieldwork should allow researchers to relate the residents’ reaction when they come into contact with the robot with the preconceived ideas they have about these devices for companionship and personal assistance.

More information at: https://diaridigital.urv.cat/nuka-arriba-residencies/

 

Publication

Prof. Dr. Sergio Nasarre Aznar has published the report “The challenges of housing in Europe. Special attention to the evolution of the situation in Spain”, Popular Parliamentary Group in the European Parliament, 2025.

The report is available at: https://sergionasarre.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/snasarre-challenges-of-housing-in-europe-2025.pdf

 

Hackathon FP Challenge

Prof. Dr. Sergio Nasarre Aznar and Ms. Marina Pueyo participated in the 3rd edition of the Hackathon FP Challenge Ciutat de Tarragona, an initiative promoted by the Directorate General of Vocational Training of the Generalitat de Catalunya. The event took place on February 25, 2025.

More information at: https://www.vidalibarraquer.net/index.php/noticies/1406-3a-edicio-challenge-fp-tarragona

Publication

Prof. Dr. Sergio Nasarre Aznar and Dr. Maria Paula Rodríguez de Liévano have published the article “Horizontal property vs housing cooperatives in transfer of use: the success of a modern classic as inspiration for new ways of organizing life in common” (Revista Crítica de Derecho Inmobiliario, no. 806/2024).

This work analyzes the keys to the success of the Spanish condominium regime for organizing multi-family housing, in comparison with the modest presence of housing cooperatives in transfer of use, despite the insistence on its popularization through some initiatives provided with public resources.

More information at: https://www.revistacritica.es/rcdi/article/view/10496

 

Publication

Dr. Pablo Ruiz Osuna has published the monograph “The legal personality of intelligent automata” in the Aranzadi publishing house, the result of his doctoral thesis. The work deals with what is possibly the great invention of this century: intelligent automata. The research seeks to determine their legal nature (what are they?) and proposes a basic private legal regime for them, as new citizens and agents in legal-economic traffic.

More information at: https://tienda.aranzadilaley.es/la-personalidad-juridica-de-los-automatas-inteligentes?srsltid=AfmBOopot68QhMFEqv_cm4LSmsRSxArhhLS2KHkYi4TJSfXtNnTbndt8

Publication

Dr. Philippa Hugues, who is a research fellow at the UNESCO Chair in Housing thanks to a Marie Curie fellowship, has published the article “Regional intermediary actors and professionalism in community-led housing: implications of the enabler hub network in England” in the prestigious journal “Housing Studies”.

More information at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02673037.2024.2439455#abstract

Lectures on housing and legal terminology in English

Dr. Phillippa Hugues, postdoctoral researcher and Marie Curie fellow, and Ms. Ashjan Alsane, who is developing her thesis at the Chair on artificial intelligence, have delivered two open sessions in the context of the Comparative Law subject of the Law Degree: the first, on the situation of housing in the UK and Spain and, the second, on legal terminology in English. The sessions took place on 19 November 2024.

Publication

Dr. Joan Andreu Ferrer Guardiola has published the book “El régimen de la vivienda de uso turístico como manifestación de la Nueva Propiedad”, which will be part of the collection “Derecho de la vivienda” by the Tirant lo Blanch publisher, which coordinates the UNESCO Chair in Housing.

The books that are part of the collection can be consulted at: https://editorial.tirant.com/es/colecciones/derecho-de-la-vivienda

Publication

Prof. Dr. Sergio Nasarre Aznar and Dr. Gemma Caballé Fabra participated in the book “Derecho a la vivienda en tiempos de incertidumbre”, directed by Loreto Carmen Mate Satué, Esther Hernández Sainz and María Teresa Alonso Pérez (Aranzadi, 2024).

More information at: https://tienda.aranzadilaley.es/derecho-a-la-vivienda-en-tiempos-de-incertidumbre-1a-ed?srsltid=AfmBOorwjhUfCYlrenSAm5HsbxyHP9KQlsy1k8yP85qjnqZYfL2d0yTJ

The outcome of the CEJFE Project on urban leases in the Catalan Civil Code already available

Centre d’Estudis Jurídics i Formació Especialitzada (CEJFE) funded a project on the analysis of the draft bill introducing urban leases into the sixth book of the Civil Code of Catalonia.

The outcome is available here: https://cejfe.gencat.cat/ca/recerca/cataleg/crono/2024/avantprojecte-llei-contracte-arrendament/