Delivery of a copy courtesy of “The threshold” experience

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Dr. Sergio Nasarre and Dr. Estela Rivas delivered a copy courtesy of “El Llindar”, a simulation experience to raise awareness about homelessness, to Mrs. Aurora Vinyes Espasa, Social Integration Tutor at the Francesc Vidal i Barraquer Institute, in gratitude for her collaboration in making this experience a reality. More information about the acquisition of “The threshold” experience may be found at https://llindar.cat/en/

https://www.vidalibarraquer.net/index.php/noticies/593-regal-unesco-urv

“The Threshold” in Tarragona Radio

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On December 10, Dr. Jan Gonzalo (co-author of the simulation experience) and Ms. Núria Lambea, researcher of the Housing Chair, had the opportunity to talk about homelessness and “The Threshold” in Tarragona Ràdio, being the latter a gamified activity intended to raise awareness of the homelessness and residential exclusion issues among students over 15 years of age. More information about this gamified experience, as well as on the documentary “The Threshold” is available at https://llindar.cat/en/

Training session on commercial premises in condominiums

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Dr. Héctor Simón provided a training session at the College of Property Administrators of Tarragona about the most common problems commercial premises face in condominiums, especially as regards flues, use of the facade for labels and limitations of the use of the property. The training session took place at the College’s headquarters on 12 December 2019 and brought together about fifty members.

50 housing solutions in Europe

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Prof. Dr. Sergio Nasarre participated on December 11 in the presentation of the best 50 housing solutions in Europe, an initiative promoted by the Housing Solutions Platform.

https://www.housing-solutions-platform.org/hsp-knowledge.

https://housing.urv.cat/50-soluciones-al-sinhogarismo-y-a-la-exclusion-residencial/

Presentat l’informe “50 solucions al sensellarisme i a l’exclusió residencial”

 

Partner

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The Chair has a new partner: the Association of Surveyors, Technical Architects and Building Engineers of Tarragona.

Monitoring committee

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On November 29, the Monitoring committee of the Chair was held with the parnerts and the Advisory Council.

Publication

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Dr. Estela Rivas Nieto has published the chapter “Retos Tributarios del crowdfunding”, to the monograph Comercio internacional y economía col·laborativa en la era digital. Aspectos tributarios y empresariales of the editorial Thomson Reuters Aranzadi.

 

ENHR Coordination Committee meeting

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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

International research partner

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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

The Threshold

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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.