FIRE-RES

What’s up in the Living Labs? 🌍 Yesterday, CoLAB ForestWISE launched the 1st Innovation Day Series FIRE-RES with a field visit to Castelo de Paiva, diving into best practices in forest fire management and sustainable resilience strategies. 👀 The FIRE-RES Innovation Day Series is a multi-country event designed to foster collaboration & innovation in wildfire management. By uniting stakeholders across sectors, it promotes integrated strategies to reduce wildfire risks. Participants explored the Portuguese Living Lab and discovered impactful solutions for building forest resilience, with insightful discussions on ecosystem service certification by 2BForest and Associação Florestal Entre Douro e Vouga - AFEDV. 🎉 Next Up: Today's Matchmaking Event, including: 🔹 Presentations of innovative solutions 🔹 Pitches from the Open Innovation Challenge winners 🔹 Interactive networking at themed Workstations 🔗 Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/d_aVuGwA

FIRE-RES goes to… Tuscany! 🔥 Last week, the Preventive Forest Fire Fighting workshop by the C.N.R. Istitute of Bioeconomy - I.B.E in collaboration with D.R.E.Am. Italia - Progetti europei and the Regione Toscana was a success! This event brought together experts, forestry professionals, and international partners to explore cutting-edge strategies in #ForestFirePrevention and management. It included an exciting hands-on demonstration with light mechanization - that's one of the preventive silviculture operations explored by Innovation Action 2.2. Read more here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eEQqHwG3

Attention researchers! 👀 We’re inviting you to take part in the creation of a public database of well-documented prescribed burns from around the world. Have insights from a site where prescribed burns have been conducted? Your knowledge can make a difference! By sharing your experiences, you’ll help create a go-to resource for understanding prescribed fire impacts—from fuels and vegetation to soil health, wildlife, and air quality. 💡 Who Should Participate? Researchers and site managers with data on prescribed burns, especially those with research already conducted or in progress at their sites. ➡️ What’s In It For You? This open-access database will facilitate meta-analyses and collaborations, bringing together diverse perspectives on fire management. ⏱️ Time to Complete: 15-20 minutes Ready to contribute? https://lnkd.in/gYzHRQeA

FIRE-RES goes to...Madrid! 🌍Yesterday we engaged a high-level audience in Real Academia de Ingeniería for a seminar dedicated to forest fires in Spain. It was a great opportunity to present the different aspects of integrated forest fire management and understand the gaps in the prevention, response and restoration chain ➡️ a key step for a critical analysis of the Spanish forest fires framework. Insightful contributions came from Antoni Trasobares, Francisco Castro Rego, Marc Castellnou, Joaquim Ramírez and Miriam Piqué. An intense exchange to promote a new programme to mitigate wildfires in the Iberian Peninsula!

Building Resilience through Innovation: key insights from the FIRE-RES Project Meeting 🌍 Over three days, experts from across Europe gathered in Bordeaux & Mimizan to discuss innovative solutions for wildfire management. From cutting-edge technologies like AI and drones to groundbreaking financial models for forest restoration, the event highlighted new ways to build fire-resilient landscapes. 💡 Some key themes emerged across the discussions 💰 Financing wildfire resilience with innovative models 📡 Using innovation and advanced tech for better fire prevention & control 🌱 Sustainable forest management & lessons from Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Here's a recap: https://lnkd.in/esbQKTrz

And just like that…our project meeting in Bordeaux is over already! 💨 A short but precious time to take stock of all our progress and gather in person before the FIRE-RES Final Conference in fall 2025 🗓️ This last day was all about internal updates and leaving the floor to the precious recommendations of our Advisory Board members. Time is never enough, but we certainly made the most of these three days: discovering the local Living Lab Nouvelle-Aquitaine and its protagonists 🤝 checking in on the latest developments with our #InnovationActions and #LivingLabs and building together the roadmap for our final 12 months! 🎯 A special thanks go to the local organising team Institut Européen de la Forêt Cultivée (IEFC), in collaboration with the overall coordination team Centre de Ciència i Tecnologia Forestal de Catalunya, and to all the actors from the region who took the time to share their knowledge with us. Stay tuned for the next steps!

🌳 We’re at the end of an insightful and action-packed day exploring wildfire management and forest industry in the South-West of France! 🔹 We began with an in-depth look at the wood industry and its role in regional development with the GROUPE FP BOIS sawmill 🪵 🔹 Next, we dove into the economic and environmental challenges of managing forested areas near urban environments, with a stop at the Mimizan Golf Club and insights from Marie-France Delest (COMMUNE DE MIMIZAN)  💡After the speech from Xavier Fortinon (Département des Landes), the afternoon was all about action! We witnessed live demonstrations from SDIS teams on wildfire operational techniques like water pumping, bulldozer use, and fire hose manoeuvres 🧯 We also saw cutting-edge tech like GIS mapping, drones, and LIDAR in action, as well as essential forest management tools such as scrub clearance and DFCI trail maintenance 🚒 A huge thank you to all participants and our hosts for sharing their expertise, despite the storm! Service Départemental d'Incendie et de Secours de la Gironde - SDIS 33, SDIS 47, SDIS 64, INRAE, DFCI Aquitaine 👏

👀 What a day! This morning, the consortium of FIRE-RES gathered in Bordeaux for an agenda fully dedicated to discovering the specificities of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, home to one of our Living Labs 🔎 We also learned how our #InnovationActions progressed in the last months and discussed together strategies and best practices to financially support the creation of resilient landscapes against EWEs 🖼️ Not only is it a crucial moment for us to take stock of the project’s developments before diving into our final year of activities – but we wanted to broaden the scope of the conversation by inviting the public to join our event 🤝 The result was an insightful combination of voices and experiences from across Europe and beyond, aligned with a common mission: improving our territories’ resilience through integrated wildfire management. François Gros, Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Préfecture de la région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, préfecture de la Gironde, Institut Européen de la Forêt Cultivée (IEFC), Christophe Orazio, Centre de Ciència i Tecnologia Forestal de Catalunya, Eric DUVERGER, Service Départemental d'Incendie et de Secours de la Gironde - SDIS 33, Marc VERMEULEN, Canada’s Forests | Les forêts du Canada, NRCan Science, Canada’s Forests | Les forêts du Canada, INRAE, Pau Brunet Navarro, Corbera Jordi, NIBIO Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Gianni Picchi, C.N.R. Istitute of Bioeconomy - I.B.E , @Virginie Tihay-Felicelli, CNRS, Andres Weintraub, Instituto Sistemas Complejos de Ingeniería, Palaiologos Palaiologou, UAegean Research and Innovation, Claudia Rosas, PhD, Mitiga Solutions, Sergio Pirone, The International Emergency Management Society (TIEMS), Joaquin Ramirez Cisneros, Technosylva, Óscar Souto, Airbus GeoTech, Nicolas Faivre, European Research Executive Agency (REA), CNPF - Centre national de la propriété forestière, Guillaume Bouffard, GROUPAMA FORETS ASSURANCES, Pierre Macé, DFCI Aquitaine, Blue Forest

Let's talk about FIRE-RESults 💡 This LiDAR technology that C.N.R. Istitute of Bioeconomy - I.B.E is using to study the fuel load and biomass for fire prevention will feed one of our #InnovationActions, fully dedicated to novel management practices. 🖼️ How do we leverage holistic approaches to generate EWE-resistant landscapes? Outcomes will include management strategies for forests, guidelines for converting forests to woody crops 🪵 identifying areas where these changes can help prevent wildfires, as well as a method to reduce forest fuel 🍂 detailing the costs and best practices for doing this across different environments. Saty tuned and discover more here: https://lnkd.in/e9Mxz539

  FIRE-RES agenda 📅  Join us for the Forestry Speed Dating webinar series, organised in collaboration with EFI Bioregions Facility! It will focus on cutting-edge strategies for managing wildfire risks and enhancing integrated fire management with a specific focus on Extreme Wildfire Events (EWE). This first session will host HoZe Solutions GmbH, Mosaico and Trigan 🚀 👉 Date: 23 October 2024, 15:00 CEST 🔗 Registration: https://lnkd.in/ejzwdWGR