16 February 2024
The Biosphere Reserve Institute (BRI) is a scientific institution of the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (HNEE), recently designated as a Category 2 Institute under the auspices of UNESCO (C2C) at the 42nd session of UNESCO's General Conference. The BRI was established in 2019 to promote education, research and training focused on UNESCO's MAB Programme and the World Network of Biosphere Reserves as a tool for its implementation.
As part of its strategy to promote networking among UNESCO Category II Centres, the UNESCOMED Centre has participated in the "International Workshop on Research in UNESCO European Biosphere Reserves", held ...
24 November 2023
The event marked the first meeting of the Thematic Networks after the official launch of the Mediterranean Biosphere Reserves Thematic Network MedMaB last June
20 November 2023
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 ...
14 November 2023
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 ...
3 November 2023
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 ...
11 October 2023
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 ...