s part of the Mediterranean: Shared Heritage course in the Bachelor's Degree in Humanities and Cultural Studies, taught by lecturer Blanca Reguant, third-year students took part in a Model United Nations simulation. Focusing on the topic “Protecting Mediterranean cultural heritage at high risk from rising sea levels”, each student acted as a delegate of a country responsible for this heritage, defending their position from political, cultural, economic, and social perspectives. Together, they worked towards international cooperation solutions to mitigate the effects of this challenge. 

“This learning methodology is common in the English-speaking world and prepares students for the field of international relations. It engages them and makes them active participants in major global debates, as well as in the different perspectives within the international arena,” explains lecturer Reguant. Over the three sessions, the students made opening speeches, position speeches, question and answer sessions, negotiation spaces and finally reached agreements and drafted a resolution that they voted on together, always following the United Nations protocol and playing the role of representatives of the delegation they had chosen.

The activity was conducted entirely in English, in a seminar-workshop format, with the help of guest lecturer Gemma Roig, an ESADE graduate in International Relations and an expert in the organisation and implementation of Model United Nations, who led the three final sessions of the simulation.