INVITATION
The Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation (FCAPP) is pleased to invite you to the Webinar:
“Amoris Laetitia and family formation at the age of higher education: Does adequate housing play a role?”
Organized together with the FCAPP Barcelona Chapter
7th October 2026, 18.00 PM to 19.30 PM Rome time (CET)
Concept: The problem of student accommodation at the level of Universities and of Graduate schools causes increasing concerns for young people and society at large. The Barcelona and the Madrid Chapters of the FCAPP are carrying out studies on the issue with quite relevant and interesting results that will be presented at the Webinar. On the occasion of the “Summit on the Family” that has been convened at the Vatican in October 2026, we would like to discuss the progress made by the Barcelona and Madrid Chapters studies. We wish also to link it to the issue of family formation of young people. We are seeing in advanced modern societies both a trend of an increasing number of years spent in the educational system, and a trend of growing age for people to form a family. Are those trends related? And/or could they fruitfully interact enabling both more investment in education and more opportunities for family formation? This would imply however that facilities and resources would be provided for young people to form families also in their 20’s (rather than only later), i.e. when they attend graduate schools or specialization courses. Is this feasible? How much would it cost? Would the welfare system be able to extend its reach towards education, the young couples, etc.? What kind of partnerships between public and private resources should be mobilized? We would like to discuss the set of issues above asking social scientists, educators, psychologists and experts in Catholic Social Teaching to contribute. We would also like to review the experience of Colleges and educational systems, which have been and are able to provide accommodation for married students, pointing out challenges and positive outcomes.
Welcome: Paolo Garonna, President FCAPP and Marcel Alsinella, Coordinator of the FCAPP Barcelona Chapter
Introduction:
– Eudald Vendrell, Coordinator of the project on housing for the FCAPP Barcelona Chapter
– Fernando Olalla Merlo, Representative of the FCAPP Madrid Chapter,which isalso conducting a study on housing related issues
Discussants:
- Fr. Albert Alejo, Professor at the Gregorian University on the experience of student accommodation at Pontifical Universities and other Catholic educational institutions
- Vincenzo Bassi, President, Federation of Catholic Family Associations in Europe
- Marta Bertolaso, Professor, University Campus Biomedico, Roma
- Donatella Marazziti, Psychiatrist, University of Pisa
- Valentina Rotondi, Professor at SUPSI, University of Lugano and Oxford University, Scientific Committee of “the Economy of Francesco”
Please find below the zoom link to connect to the Webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86745175949
ID riunione: 867 4517 5949