Prof. Dr. Sergio Nasarre participated in the ENHR Coordination Committee meeting that took place last week in Nicosia. Among other things, the venue and development of the ENHR 2020 Conference were discussed (08-11-2019). ENHR is the largest network of expert housing researchers in Europe. https://www.enhr.net
The Housing Chair of the URV will be one of the of the Department of Civil Law at the University of Malta in the project entitled ‘Systematising Smart Contracts within Classical Contract Law Theory’. The Department of Civil Law, of which a PhD graduate of the Housing Chair, Kurt Xerri, forms part, has been awarded a Research Excellence Grant of EUR 60k from the Research Grant Committee of the University of Malta, towards the end of conducting research on the legal effects of computer protocols containing partially or fully self-executing, self-enforcing agreements. This will be done over a two-year period from January 2020 to 2021. As a partner, the URV will be involved in all the various stages of the project.
https://www.um.edu.mt/newspoint/news/features/2019/10/universityofmaltaresearchfundawards
On the website https://llindar.cat/en/ you will find information about homelessness, the documentary “The Threshold” and the gamified experience ” The Threshold”. The website is in catalan, spanish and english.
Dr. Héctor Simón has been appointed coordinator of the Southern European Housing Working Group of the European Network for Housing Research, which brings together more than 800 researchers and 100 European institutions and aims to be a platform to encourage research in housing from an interdisciplinary perspective. The group addresses a variety of issues related to housing policies in Southern European countries and meets with an annual frequency. More information is available at https://www.enhr.net/southern.php.
5/11/2019: the Parliament of Malta unanimously approved the Private Residential Leases Act, a new law that will come into force on the 1st January 2020 and that will regularise the liberalised private rented sector in Malta. The new law will make it obligatory for every lessor to register the rental agreement with the Housing Authority and it has also fixed a minimum contractual duration of one year, with the lessor being further bound to notify the lessee about any eventual renewal or termination of the agreement at least three months before its expiration. The Private Residential Leases Act is the product of a research team co-ordinated by Kurt Xerri, a PhD graduate of the UNESCO Housing Chair, who is currently serving as an advisor to the Parliamentary Secretary for Social Accommodation, the Hon. Roderick Galdes.
Este jueves 31 de octubre en La Pedrera la Càtedra UNESCO d’Habitatge de la URV organiza el evento “La vivienda en 360º” que se centra en la problemática del acceso y en la de la pérdida de la vivienda. Además de las tres sesiones con expertos, se proyectará el documental “El umbral” y se mostrará la experiencia “El llindar”, destinados a la sensibilización sobre la problemática de la exclusión residencial y del sinhogarismo.
Puede hallarse más información sobre ambos en https://llindar.cat
El programa completo está disponible en https://housing.urv.cat/la-pedrera-habitatge-360/
The UNESCO Housing Chair has presented “The Threshold simulation experience to raise awareness about Homelessness” European Research Night of the URV on the 27th of September in Tarragona.
On the 24th and 25th of June, took place in Berlin the next meeting with the German Government for the preparation of a European mapping of the housing situation in the 28 member countries of the European Union with the participation of several of them. Prof. Sergio Nasarre moderated one of the sessions, as a member of the Advisory Board.
Second Session; 12/06/2019
