CAPACITY BUILDING FOR EDUCATION AND APPLIED RESEARCH IN MEDITERRANEAN UNESCO’S BIOSPHERE RESERVES
EduBioMed aims at strengthening, ameliorating and upgrading academic activity at four Moroccan and Lebanese Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the context of Mediterranean Biosphere Reserves (BRs), in collaboration and through networking with Biosphere Reserves’ (BR) stakeholders (citizens, visitors, managers and technicians), public administrations and EU Partners.
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Michel Batisse Award for Biosphere Reserve Management_Deadline January 31, 2021
UNESCO prizes and MAB awards UNESCO and its Man and the Biosphere (MAB) programme afford recognition to outstanding contributions in the management or preservation of the environment; honour successful management of biosphere reserves in line with recommendations of the Seville Strategy; and foster access for young scientists, especially women, to advanced research facilities through respective […]
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Season’s Greetings
EduBioMed project partners wish you all Happy and Safe Holiday’s season! Hoping that next year will be a better one, we are continuing to carry out our activities. Stay tuned!
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Regional Integration of Biosphere Reserves: Insights from the Field Trip in the Biosphere Reserve of the Arganeraie
In the framework of the EduBioMed project, a field trip has been realized in the Biosphere Reserve of the Arganeraie in Morocco (BRA), guided by Mr. Said Boujrouf, Professor of Geography at the University Cadi Ayyad of Marrakesh and his three students, Hala Idrassen, Salma El Ghiouan and Hajar El Yazidi. The expedition took place […]
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Tourism and Biosphere Reserves: discover the experience and the work of the Association for Protection of Jabal Moussa
“As time goes by and country management falls apart, I realize that Biosphere Reserves are the greatest invention. More relevant today than 50 years ago…” Pierre Doumet, Co-Founder and President of the Association for the Protection of Jabal Moussa The Association for the Protection of Jabal Moussa (APJM), partner in the EduBioMed project, is also […]
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From Lebanon to Morocco: The EduBioMed Mobility Experience of Maya Kouzaiha, Master Student in Environmental Sciences
Having chosen the study of forest fires including fire prevention techniques and awareness-raising among Biosphere Reserves’ communities, Maya (Université Saint Joseph de Beyrouth, Lebanon) moved from Lebanon to Morocco for two months, from February 16th to May 21st 2020. She benefited from an EduBioMed scholarship offered to students and research staff interested in Mediterranean Biosphere […]
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EduBioMed celebrated the Erasmus Days talking about mobility
On October 15, 2020 on the occasion of the Erasmus days, EduBioMed project was showcased in the webinar Mediterranean Mobility Matters. Organised by UNIMED in the framework of the Erasmus Days initiative, the focus of the webinar was the Mobility and in particular the Mobilty South-South, a scheme that in EduBioMed is taking place. If […]
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EduBioMed project participates in the #ErasmusDays 2020: October 15, 2020
On October 15, 2020 the Project EduBioMed will participate in a Webinar titled Mediterranean Mobility Matters, organised by UNIMED – Mediterranean Universities Union and involving EduBioMed and DIRE-MED projects partners. The webinar is organised under the umbrella of the Erasmus Days and will focus on the University Mobility as an important topic at regional and […]
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EdubioMed Students Mobilities – Testimonials, Research Projects, and Experiences
Testimonials from students who engaged in the EduBioMed project are shared in a video documentary made by the University Mohammed V of Rabat, Morocco (UM5). By choosing the Intercontinental Biosphere Reserve of Mediterranean (RBIM, Morocco-Spain) as a case study for their Master thesis research, several students from Morocco and Lebanon share their studies from different […]
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Transdisciplinary Research for Pathways to Sustainability – Open call: deadline October 31, 2020
Concerning the topic of sustainability, the EduBioMed team wants to inform you that the Belmont Forum has launched a collaborative research networking call on the theme: Transdisciplinary Research for Pathways to Sustainability. The goal of this CRA is to provide a science base for achieving sustainability goals. The CRA will support 1-2 years of collaborative […]
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How to protect plant species of conservation interest in cities?
Green spaces inside cities form a new type of nature created from ‘scratch’ or irreversibly changed by people. This new nature in the city is novel because all its components are ‘artificially’ co-occurring; the soil, the water, the nutrients, and plant species which never existed together grow side by side in the city. Yet, this […]
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Biosphere Reserves, Nature and Social Changes: an Interview with Magda Bou Dagher Kharrat
On September 1st, 2020 Magda Bou Dagher Kharrat, Professor at Faculty of Science, Saint Joseph’s University, co-founder and President of JOUZOUR LOUBNAN NGO, has accompanied the French President, Mr. Emmanuel Macron, in Jaj Nature Reserve to plant a cedar tree on the occasion of Lebanon centenary. She agreed to share her thoughts with the EduBioMed […]
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Second Edu-BioMed Newsletter available! Where are We & What is Next?
The second newsletter of the project Edu-BioMed has been published. It is accessible here. This year, the international COVID-19 health emergency has put everybody in difficult situations and our project too has met difficulties in implementing some activities. Events and mobilities are only postponed and we have moved on with further activities of the project. Check out the […]
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A conversation with the Director of MAB France, Mrs Catherine Cibien
Very often, talking about « projects » means using technical terms and very specific language understandable only to insiders/professionals. Sometimes these aspects make it difficult for a wider community of people to clearly understand what a project really does and why it is important. We asked Mrs. Catherine Cibien, Director of MAB France, to help us clarify […]
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From Lebanon to France: The EduBioMed Mobility Experience of Marie-Claire Andraos, Master student in Environmental Sciences and Management
Having chosen the feasibility study of the creation of a Biosphere Reserve in Jezzine (South Lebanon), Marie-Claire has moved from Lebanon to France, in Castanet-Tolosan in the INRA Campus to do her internship with the MAB France for one month from February 24th to March 22nd. She benefited from an EduBioMed scholarship offered to students […]
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World Environment Day: a message from Prof. Marti Boada
“The World Environment Day is an opportunity for a serious reflection on the historic moment we are living. A moment of several emergencies, pandemic and climatic. A moment of concern, at local and global level, for the human and environmental destiny. This year, the World Environment Day, is dedicated to the biodiversity and its important […]
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Free Webinar: COVID-19 & Climate Change // 30 April 2020
The current COVID-19 health crisis has created grave uncertainties across the world. In response, governments have brought in unprecedent measures to curb the spread of the virus and mitigate the economic fallout. Whilst COVID-19 has seemingly put environmental diplomacy on hold with the postponement of COP26 and the 15th Biodiversity COP, what does the current […]
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Edu-BioMed Winter School : postponed
Upon careful consideration of the Coronavirus concerns, the Winter School of the project Edu-BioMed, scheduled for 8-12 March 2020, will be postponed to a new date to be defined. We will communicate the new plan in the next few weeks. Stay tuned!
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First Edu-BioMed Newsletter available! One Year at a glance
The first newsletter of the project Edu-BioMed has been published. It is accessible here. One year has already passed from the project Kick-Off Meeting! Discover right now the activities that took place in the framework of the project since then and the opportunities this project renders possible. If you don’t want to miss the next […]
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Edu-BioMed Winter School / 8-12 March 2020
The Autonomous University of Barcelona, in collaboration with the University of Aix-Marseille, the Montseny Biosphere Reserve (Spain) and the Mont Ventoux Biosphere Reserve (France) as part of the Edu-BioMed project, organises an interdisciplinary training in the fields of Biosphere Reserve management, research and education. This winter school entitled “In Mediterranean Biosphere Reserves: From Theory to […]
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Scholarships Opportunities in the Framework of the EduBioMed Project
“Cooperation between universities and Biosphere Reserves’ actors should be the most developed possible. This would allow both students and university teachers to not only be “knowledge provider” but also “boosters” of those Biosphere Reserves, leading to positive and lasting impacts” said Mr Afker AbdelAziz in an interview realized in the framework of the EduBioMed project. […]
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Interview of Mr. Afker AbdelAziz, Manager of the Arganeraie Biosphere Reserve (RBA) Morocco
(Rome, 21 October 2019) To further understand what the project Edu-BioMed aims at achieving, and the importance of cooperation between higher education programmes and Biosphere Reserves (BR) management, UNIMED – partner of the project Edu-BioMed, has interviewed Mr. Afker Abdel Aziz, partnership officer in the Regional Directorate of Water and Forests and the fight against […]
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First Student Mobility Event: Insights of the Field Visit to the Jabal Moussa Biosphere Reserve
(Rome, 11 October 2019) The first student mobility event of the Edu-BioMed project took place last September in the Jabal Moussa UNESCO Biosphere Reserve (BR), in Kesrouan District, Lebanon. On this occasion, students of the American University of Beirut accompanied by architect Mr. Nicolas Fayad of the Department of Architecture and Design, Mr. Moustapha Itani […]
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Jabal Moussa Biosphere Reserve: a Reservoir of Unique Species & Partner in the EduBioMed Project
(Rome, 15 July 2019) Located in Kesrouan District (Lebanon) and overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, the Jabal Moussa Biosphere Reserve (BR), partner of Edu-BioMed project, entered the UNESCO Network of Biosphere Reserves under the Man and Biosphere (MAB) program in 2009, within which it “addresses human livelihood improvement and nature conservation through combining natural sciences with […]
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Biosphere Reserves, Mediterranean Dialogue and Natural Richness: Thematic Workshop // Bzommar, Lebanon, 29th April – 2nd May
(Rome, 14 May 2019) – “We seek to establish a real dialogue within the Mediterranean area, between countries that have both a natural richness and a cultural resemblance,” declared Mr. Pierre Doumet, President of the Association for the Protection of the Jabal Moussa Biosphere Reserve, on the occasion of the first thematic workshop of the Erasmus […]
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Meeting at the Biosphere Reserve Jabal Moussa to talk about education and applied research on Mediterranean UNESCO’s biosphere reserves
(Rome, 22 March 2019) From the 28th of April to the 3rd of May, the partners of the EduBioMed Project will meet for thematic workshops in Jabal Moussa, Lebanon. This will be an occasion to both discuss the project’s activities and state of play, but also to discover two lebanese Biosphere Reserves. EduBioMed is a project […]
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Biosphere Reserves & Destinations as motors for sustainability
(Rome, 8 February 2019) Destinations, such as biospheres, who balance the economic, socio-cultural and environmental dimensions of their biodiversity areas, are granted a biosphere seal by the Responsible Tourism Institute (RTI). This sustainability certification is at the heart of the Biosphere Destination Community, which is of particular importance to the Edu-BioMed project. Indeed, balancing such […]
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