Under the title "Mediterranean Biosphere Reserves as living laboratories for applied research and integrated landscape management. MedMaB Thematic Network: UNESCO Mediterranean Network of Biosphere Reserves", students of the course on analysis and management of natural landscapes discussed and reflected for a whole afternoon on integrated landscape management and participatory socio-environmental research methods in Biosphere Reserves.

With the aim of promoting training related to Mediterranean Biosphere Reserves and to consistently impart theoretical, methodological, and practical knowledge and skills in biosphere reserve management, Dr. Mari-Carmen Romera, coordinator of the UNESCOMED Center, taught in the International Master SAES of ICTA-UAB.

After learning about ...

Roser Maneja and Mari Carmen Romera have presented the UNESCOMED Center and the MedMaB Thematic Network, supported by the Abertis Foundation, at the 2nd Congress of the IberoMAB Network, as one of its inspiring success stories. The Congress brings together the network of MaB committees and biosphere reserves of Iberoamerica and the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal.

Under the slogan "Celebrating life", this meeting is being held in the Trifinio Fraternidad Transboundary Biosphere Reserve, in Copán Ruinas (Honduras).

During this 2nd Congress of the IberoMaB Network, constituted by the representatives of the MaB Committees and Focal Points, the managers and directors ...

From the UNESCOMED Center for Mediterranean Biosphere Reserves and the Abertis Foundation, we want to celebrate the second International Day of Biosphere Reserves, established by UNESCO with the aim of calling the attention of the world population on the approach to sustainable development, and the outstanding and exemplary role that the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Program and the World Network of Biosphere Reserves can play on it.

With this video, we also want to celebrate that 2023 has been the year in which UNESCO has officially recognized the MedMaB Network as a UNESCO Thematic Network, undoubtedly the result of ...

As has occurred since 2015, the UNESCOMED Center hosted the students of the Interdisciplinary Studies in Environmental, Economic, and Social Sustainability Master (SAES) of the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) for the inauguration of the academic year on October 6th.

The students were welcomed to Castell de Castellet, headquarters of the UNESCOMED Center, by Georgina Flame, director of the Abertis Foundation, Roser Maneja, scientific coordinator of the UNESCOMED Center and research deputy director of the Forestry Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC), Mari Carmen Romera, technical coordinator of the UNESCOMED Center ...

The European Forest Institute’s Young Leadership Programme, Mediterranean 2023 (YLPMED 2023), organised in partnership with the Union for the Mediterranean, aims to provide an in-depth understanding of the complex interplay between land abandonment, Mediterranean forests, and cultural landscapes. The programme offers an overview of the key drivers and impacts of land abandonment on Mediterranean forest and cultural landscapes and explore the potential opportunities for sustainable entrepreneurship and biodiversity conservation.

The 2023 edition focuses on the challenges and opportunities related to forest and land abandonment in the Mediterranean region. This theme holds significant importance as it balances environmental conservation, economic development ...

The Forest Bioeconomy research group (BIOFOR) of the Forest Science and Technology Center of Catalonia (CTFC) has met at Castellet Castle, headquarters of the UNESCOMED Center. The group has the double goal of advancing the design and implementation of transformative models of the bioeconomy and of resilient landscapes to the effects of climate change as well as promoting knowledge transfer at the Mediterranean scale through UNESCOMED and the MedMaB network.

The BIOFOR research group was recognized by the Department of Research and Universities of the Generalitat de Catalunya with the program of Support to Research Groups (SGR), which aims to ...