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Basic information
  • Course: “Introduction to cooperative housing based on transferring rights of use”.
  • Access to the course (coming soon).
  • Launch date: September 2025.
  • Organised by: Socialprise Classroom from the Universitat de València in collaboration with Sostre Cívic.
  • Funded by: Labour and Social Economics Ministry.
  • “Funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU”.
  • Languages: Valencian, Spanish.

UV, Empresocial, Sostre Cívic, Ministerio de Trabajo y Economía Social

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Lecturers

María Pilar Alguacil Marí

María Pilar Alguacil Marí

Course director. Lecturer in Financial and Tax Law at the UV.

Antonia Sajardo

Antonia Sajardo Moreno

Professor of Applied Economics at the UV.

Eva Ortigosa

Eva Ortigosa

Member of the Sostre Cívic Management Board.

Amaia Belastegui

Amaia Belastegui

Sostre Cívic Project Technician.

Cristina R. Grau López

Cristina R. Grau López

Practising lawyer and member of the Il·lustre Col·legi d'Advocats de Barcelona.

David Guàrdia

David Guàrdia

Sostre Cívic Co-director.

1st Module. What is cooperative housing based on transferring rights of use?

Description

Introduction to cooperative housing based on transferring rights of use: differences with private cooperative housing; area within the Social Economics sector; networks and associationism; models and types. Senior, junior and intergenerational variants. Model benefits.

Programme

Unit 1. Introduction to the concept of cooperative housing based on transferring rights of use.

Unit 2. Constitutive and structural characteristics of cooperative housing based on transferring rights of use.

Lecturer

Antonia Sajardo, professor of Applied Economics at the Universitat de València.

Content

Unit 1. Video + Text

Unit 2. Video+ Text

Language

Video: audio in Spanish with Valencian subtitles

Duration

5 hours

2nd Module. Managing cooperative groups

Description

The goal of this module is to introduce students to the reality of managing this type of housing model, from economic managing to human relations.

Programme

Unit 1. Stages of a cooperative housing project. From inspiration to action. Project and promotion economics.

Unit 2. Managing human relations. Tackling matters of cohabitation.

Lecturers

Eva Ortigosa, Sostre Cívic (U1). Amaia Belastegui, Sostre Cívic (U2).

Content

Unit 1. Video + Text

Unit 2. Video + Text

Language

Video: audio in Spanish with Valencian subtitles.

Text: Spanish and Valencian.

Duration

5 hours

3rd Module. Cooperatives creation and its laws

Description

Introduction to cooperative housing laws, indicating the regulating laws framework in the State and the different autonomous communities, as well as the necessary proceedings to create cooperatives.

Programme

Unit 1. Regulating framework for cooperative housing based on transferring rights of use.

Unit 2. Creating cooperative housing based on transferring rights of use. Proceedings. Regulations.

Unit 3. Legal ruling: rights and duties of cooperatives and their members. Economic ruling.

Lecturer

Cristina R. Grau López. Practising lawyer and member of the Il·lustre Col·legi d'Advocats de Barcelona.

Content

Cristina R. Grau López. Advocada en exercici i membre de l'Il·lustre Col·legi d'Advocats de Barcelona.

Content

Unit 1. Video + Text

Unit 2. Video + Text

Unit 3. Video + Text

Language

Video: audio in Spanish with Valencian subtitles

Text: Spanish and Valencian.

Duration

7 hours

4th Module. Fiscal laws

Description

Tax treatment of housing cooperatives based on transferring rights of use and specific rules.

Programme

Unit 1. Housing cooperatives based on transferring rights of use as protected and/or especially protected cooperatives.

Unit 2. Corporation tax specialties. Applying rules for house renting companies.

Unit 3. Indirect tax: treatment of Value-Added Tax and Stamp Duty Land Tax.

Unit 4. Tax benefits in local taxation.

Lecturer

María Pilar Alguacil Marí, lecturer in Financial and Tax Law at the Universitat de València.

Content

Unit 1. Video + Text

Unit 2. Video + Text

Unit 3. Video + Text

Unit 4. Video + Text

Language

Video: audio in Spanish with Valencian subtitles.

Text: Spanish and Valencian

Duration

9 hours

5th Module. Financing

Description

Introduction to the economic and financial sector of housing cooperatives based on transferring rights of use projects. Attending to public grants, private funds and other forms of funding for these projects.

Programme

Unit 1. Economic management and funding housing cooperatives based on transferring rights of use projects.

Unit 2. Subsidies and public grants.

Unit 3. Bank funding (public and private).

Unit 4. Other forms of funding (voluntary social capital and equity contribution).

Lecturer

David Guàrdia, Sostre Cívic

Content

Unit 1. Vídeo 

Unit 2. Vídeo

Unit 3. Vídeo

Unit 4. Vídeo

Language

Video: audio in Spanish with Spanish subtitles

Duration

7 hours

 

6th Module. Experiences

Description

Presenting different case studies of housing cooperatives based on transferring rights of use through experiences from promoters.

Programme

Unit 1. General context

Unit 2. Housing cooperatives based on transferring rights of use in the countryside. El Turrós Project. Mireia Font and Anna Montané, associates.

Unit 3. Housing cooperatives based on transferring rights of use for the elderly. Can70 Project. Elionor Sellés, associate.

Unit 4. Housing cooperatives based on transferring rights of use in inclusive communities. Sant Andreu Project. Pepa de la Rocha, associate from Ca l’ordit

Lecturer

Eva Ortigosa, Sostre Cívic

Content

Unit 1. Vídeo 

Unit 2. Vídeo

Unit 3. Vídeo

Unit 4. Vídeo

Texts

Language

Video: audio in Spanish with Valencian subtitles. Texts: Spanish and Valencian

Duration

7 hours