UNESCO Housing Chair URV
Budget
€25 — €0
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
3
1.5 FTE
EU Grants
€165,313
Mission & Goals
The UNESCO Housing Chair of Rovira i Virgili University was created by the University’s Governing Council on the 11th of July 2013. It is the result of the research and projects on housing that the legal area had been working on since 1996 and which were backed by the Research Group on Access to Housing. The Chair’s objective is to establish a stable platform for research, teaching and the transfer of knowledge on housing from an inter-disciplinary and international point of view. It is the first UNESCO Housing Chair in the world.
EU Legislative Interests
Housing law and policy, Consumer protection in the field of housing. I (Prof. Dr. Sergio Nasarre-Aznar) have personally been engaged in many EU-funded research projects and tenders in the past, but never requested to register our Chair in you register. Now, I have been called as expert at a PETI seminar (“Suspension of procedures for evictions and squatting based on Petitions 1535/2020, 1124/2021, 0503/2022 and 0112/2023” on 18 March 2025). In the invitation e-mail of 24-2-2025 it was stated that: "Please note that the participation of interest representatives invited as active guests (e.g. speakers) in a hearing shall be conditional upon prior registration of the interest representative concerned in the Transparency Register pursuant to the inter-institutional agreement on a mandatory Transparency Register (OJ L 207, 11.6.2021, p. 1) and in accordance with the Bureau decision of 12 June 2023 on rules governing the participation of interest representatives in events held on Parliament’s premises. If you accept this invitation, you should register here: https://transparency-register.europa.eu/index_en". And that is why. In addition, I have been invited to an additional seminar at EU Parliament in April.
Communication Activities
All our activities of research, teaching and transfer of knowledge in the field of housing law and policy are listed in our webpage. See especially: https://housing.urv.cat/en/cover/presentation/memoria/
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
The full list of current (and previous) members of the Chair is directly available here: https://housing.urv.cat/en/cover/presentation/researchers/ . We are all academics. In relation to our links to UNESCO, we are a declared UNESCO Chair with reference number 2016ES1184. Complete list of UNESCO Housing Chairs may be found here (https://www.unesco.org/sites/default/files/medias/fichiers/2026/01/List%20of%20UNESCO%20Chairs%20and%20UNITWIN%20Networks%2012%20January%202026.pdf). Search by "housing" and we are the single one in the world. All our activities are listed in our webpage: https://housing.urv.cat/en/
Organisation Members
See here: https://housing.urv.cat/en/ ; especially here: https://housing.urv.cat/en/cover/presentation/researchers/
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.