Social Impact – Page 7 – Housing Chair URV

Conference G.K. Chesterton

22 December 2023/in Conferences, News, Social Impact/by Càtedra UNESCO d'Habitatge URV

Last Monday, December 18, the Chair organized a conference on the economic theory of G.K. Chesterton, who proposes a widely distributed property as an alternative to capitalism and socialism: “The influence of G. K. Chesterton, today”. The Conference had the participation of the Excellency. and Rvdm. Mr. Joan Planellas, Archbishop of Tarragona, Dra. Sílvia Coll-Vinent, president of the CEDGKC, Prof. Dr. Sergio Nasarre, founder and first director of the UNESCO Housing Chair and Dr. Josep Pallarès, Rector Mg. from the Rovira i Virgili University.

More information at: https://diaridigital.urv.cat/una-jornada-debat-limpacte-i-la-rellevancia-del-distributisme-la-teoria-economica-de-g-k-chesterton/?fbclid=IwAR1Wpmof3k7YztGvUR1kfgYh8zgZpKuMQRBCZg-dIl6PmSXwnwUkkgUaEhI

Presentation of “El Llindar” experience

6 November 2023/in News, Research, Social Impact/by Càtedra UNESCO d'Habitatge URV

Radio Vilafranca echoes the presentation of the “El Llindar” experience, an activity designed to raise awareness and reflect on the issue of homelessness, at the Regional Council of Alt Penedès on October 27, 2023. Available at: https:// www.rtvvilafranca.cat/programa/l-informatiu/f/30953-20231102/

More information about “El Llindar” at https://llindar.cat/en

Meeting of Spanish Unesco Chairs

13 October 2023/in News, Social Impact, Speeches/by Càtedra UNESCO d'Habitatge URV

Dr. Héctor Simón attends as a representative of the UNESCO Housing Chair at the “II National Meeting of Unesco Chairs and UNITWIN Networks of Spain”, which will be held in Córdoba on 16 and 17 October 2023.

More information at: https://www.iesalc.unesco.org/evento/encuentro-nacional-de-catedras-unesco-y-redes-unitwin-de-espana/

Review 6th Summer course – Magazine TAG COAATT

10 October 2023/in News, Social Impact, Speeches/by Càtedra UNESCO d'Habitatge URV

Number 97 of the TAG Magazine, edited by the College of Apparatuses, Technical Architects and Building Engineers of Tarragona (COAATT), has published the article “The UNESCO Housing Chair of the Rovira i Virgili University organizes the 6th Summer Course on the State Housing Law” by Dr. Héctor Simón, where the main conclusions of the VIth Summer Course of the Chair, which took place on July 13, 2023 at the COAATT headquarters, are presented.

Available at: https://apatgn.org/documents/10198/47403/TAG_97/e19c2f77-23fd-40f5-b1ca-2f22b995eb52

Second Housing Forum – Guadalajara (Mexico)

4 September 2023/in Conferences, News, Social Impact/by Càtedra UNESCO d'Habitatge URV

Dr. Núria Lambea and Dr. Maria Paula Rodríguez participated on Thursday August 31 and Friday September 1 in the Second Housing Forum 2023 “For a walkable city”, organized by the Municipal Government of Guadalajara (Mexico). His interventions have analyzed the models of social housing and housing cooperatives in Europe.