University residence La Inmaculada - Madrid

Rules and internal rules

La Inmaculada Residence Hall is a University Centre which serves the University Community, provides students with accommodation and promotes the scientific, social and cultural education of its residents by projecting its activity, which is adapted to the demands of modern life.

It serves university students, facilitates a way of life during their university studies and participates in their integral education, by placing at their disposal more than mere accommodation.

It is a forum or atmosphere which promotes and develops the practice of human and civic values such as tolerance, responsibility, solidarity and autonomy, encourages the education of healthy habits of peaceful co-existence and develops participation in cultural activities, promoting athletic and academic activities, as well as free, officially recognised and accredited elective courses.

1. La Inmaculada University Residence Hall is promoted and managed by the Pere Tarrés Foundation, a not-for-profit social action entity, which aims to promote leisure education, volunteering, improved social action and strengthened associations.
   
   
2. Principles that guide our actions:
   • Individuals are ends in themselves
   • All cultural, training and social actions have an educational dimension
   • Values education favours individuals’ integral growth
   • Free time education is a fundamental pillar of individuals’ integral education
   • We support the concept of social action as an option for both more disadvantaged groups as well as those which collaborate with us.
3. General Objectives:
   • To create a family atmosphere, based on values we consider universal.
   • To cover residents’ accommodation and dietary needs, as well as their personal and human needs.
   • To offer a warm atmosphere to facilitate residents’ integration in a new social medium.
   • To endow students with the necessary means to develop their studies successfully.
   • To help residents in their academic and personal decisions by offering appropriate support in each case.
   • To provide students with both a place to rest, study, form relationships and participate in recreational activities, as well as a friendly and helpful environment.
   • To encourage compliance with the Residence Hall’s Internal Rules as a model of respect and peaceful co-existence, while being sensitive to the concrete conditions of each individual.
   • To disseminate among residents the different cultural and leisure activities offered by the Community of Madrid.
   • To sum up, we aim to attain an appropriate atmosphere in which residents live together freely, responsibly and constructively
4. Supervising the Residence Hall is a director who assumes responsibility for the Residence Hall’s activities and operation.
   
5. An Advisory Council in which students who have been elected by residents also collaborate with the Residence Hall Management in order to provide information on problems which arise and the solutions to them.
   
6. Before the start of each academic year, the University Residence Hall prepares a report on the activities which took place during the previous academic year and the study plan for the coming year, to be approved by the Foundation’s Board of Directors.
   
7. The Pere Tarrés Foundation supervises and is directly responsible for the quality of the services provided by the Residence Hall and those which it promotes.

The Residence Hall’s Internal Rules

1. The Residence Hall’s Management guarantees residents the following rights:
   • Rest and silence.
   • Privacy.
   • Private correspondence and telephone conversations.
   • Free expression of their opinions within the framework of the Constitution.
   • Respect and dignified treatment.
   • Religious freedom
2. Residents are directly responsible for the consequences of their actions.
3. The Management is responsible for assigning rooms and may effect changes for reasons in the general interest.
4. The installation and use of electrical appliances in rooms, such as fridges, microwaves, heaters and televisions, is not permitted. The use of candles or any other appliance or object which produces flames or smoke is also forbidden. Forbidden appliances or objects which bother neighbouring residents shall be removed from rooms. Animals are not allowed in rooms.
   Any changes in rooms must be duly authorised in writing by the Management.
5. The Residence Hall must be kept tidy and clean, both as regards rooms as well as communal spaces. To achieve this, there is a place on each floor with cleaning products which are at the disposal of residents. Residents must leave their rooms tidy and ready for the cleaning service.
6. No objects are permitted outside windows or on room balconies.
7. No food may be stored in rooms for hygiene reasons.
8. Any damage to rooms or repairs which may be necessary must be reported in writing.
9. There is a self-service coin-operated laundry at the disposal of residents.
10. Residents must leave their rooms free and remove all their personal belongings from them at the end of the academic year. Any other arrangement must be approved by the Management.
11. The Management is not responsible for objects or money which may be lost on the premises. We recommend that residents not leave their belongings in communal spaces.
12. Without prejudice to criminal liability, entering the rooms of other residents when they are absent is strictly forbidden.
13. Visitors may not enter rooms without the express permission of the Management.
14. Hazing is expressly forbidden, as is the consumption or possession of alcohol or any type of drugs or narcotics in the Residence Hall. The above shall be sanctioned as serious misconduct by expulsion from the centre.

Respect for freedom

1. Student who stay outside the premises overnight must report this in advance and in writing. Should this be impossible, students must inform the Management by telephone from the place where they are.
2. The Residence Hall’s installations and services are at the disposal of all residents. No resident or group of residents may monopolise them or prevent them from being used by those who have a right to their use. The use of installations and services must be reconciled with other residents’ rights to study, work and rest in them.
3. There are authorised smoking areas in the Residence Hall: the TV rooms and the garden, and ashtrays must be used at all times. Smoking is not allowed outside specially designated areas.
4. Residents must be appropriately dressed in communal areas in order to respect others.
5. Students may not meet in rooms after midnight. Silence must be scrupulously respected as of that time in all Residence Hall areas, especially in rooms, corridors, staircases and living rooms. Any type of behaviour or loud conversation which may bother other residents must be avoided in these places and in the study room. 
6. The Management reserves the right to admit residents, as well as the right to expel residents who do not respect the Residence Hall rules.

Our hours

1. The Residence Hall has a night porter at the reception desk after 1:00 a.m. to attend to arriving residents.

Dining hall

Agenda

In accordance with the university academic year, the Residence Hall shall be closed during the Christmas and Easter holidays and the month of August.

Residence who must remain in the University Residence Hall for extraordinary reasons after the 30th of June or before the 1st of October must submit a request to that effect one month in advance.