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 UNESCO's MAB Program, the MedMaB Network, the potential of UNESCO Biosphere Reserves as tools for integrated landscape management, and some of the most relevant methods of participatory socio-environmental research, students participated in a role-play activity entitled "Development strategies in biosphere reserves", learning to outline a consensual sectoral action plan for a Mediterranean biosphere reserve and to experience the complexity involved in this type of social consensus processes in territorial planning and management.