This work addresses controllability properties for some systems of partial differential equations in which the main feature is the coupling through nonlocal integral terms. In the first part, we study a nonlinear parabolic-elliptic system arising in mathematical biology and, using recently developed techniques, we show how Carleman estimates can be directly used to handle the nonlocal terms, allowing us to implement well-known strategies for controlling coupled systems and nonlinear problems. In the second part, we investigate fine controllability properties of a 1-d linear nonlocal parabolic-parabolic system. In this case, we will see that the controllability of the model can fail and it will depend on particular choices and combinations of local and nonlocal couplings.
