We bring MeFiTU to the province of Tarragona!
Thanks to a grant from the Diputació de Tarragona (Tarragona Provincial Council) , within the framework of the call for subsidies for non-profit organisations for the development of projects and actions to protect and improve the environment, this year we have been able to hold the MeFiTU environmental education workshop in eight schools in the […]
“Partner webinar series” Gender and Wildfires, with Prof. Christine Eriksen and Prof. Elsa Pastor
Date October 5, 2023 Time 5 p.m. (CEST) The International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF), the Association for Fire Ecology (AFE) and the Pau Costa Foundation (PCF) organize the “Partner Webinar Series”, a monthly series of webinars to bring together diverse voices from the global wildland fire community. Prof. Dr. Christine Eriksen, Institute of Geography, […]
Correos collaborates with the “Ramats de foc” project
Correos, within the framework of its commitment to the care and conservation of our planet, has selected (together with Worldcoo) the “Ramats de Foc” project as a beneficiary entity, in favor of its campaign to reduce the risk of the spread of great wildfires. With this campaign, at a national level, it is expected to […]
Presentation of the “Declaration on the management of great wildfires in Spain”
On June 15, the “Declaration on the management of great wildfires in Spain”, a consensus document among experts from Community of Wildires, was presented simultaneously at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid and in Montserrat (Barcelona). Both presentations were attended by representatives of various sectors of the Fire Community who commented on and assessed […]
“Ramats de Foc” project at Sónar Festival
Sónar Festival, under its commitment to the planet, the environment, and people, has chosen to work with the project “Fire Flocks” on its 30th anniversary. This year, the festival will make a donation to “Fire Flocks”, to promote extensive livestock farming as a way to reduce wildfire risk through grazing herds. During the festival, meat […]
Round-up campaign for “Fire Flocks”
Bonpreu and Esclat supermarkets have selected the “Ramats de Foc” (Fire Flocks) project as a beneficiary entity in their 2023 social calendar. Throughout the month of June, customers of the Bonpreu and Esclat supermarkets will have the opportunity to round up their credit card payments and thus make a donation to the “Fire Flocks” project […]
New Strategic Plan 2023-25
The executive team of the Pau Costa Foundation, with the support of its Board of Trustees and Advisory Council, undertook the mission of drafting the first Strategic Plan of the Pau Costa Foundation (2023-2025) throughout 2022. This process, developed together with partners and collaborators, has made it possible to identify areas of opportunity, key challenges […]
Towards a consensus on the management of great wildfires
The statement will be presented publicly in June 2023. The Pau Costa Foundation has promoted a process of reflection and debate to reach a common position of the Community of Forest Fires at the Spanish level. The Board of Trustees, the Advisory Council and the Executive Team of the Foundation identified more than ninety members […]
PyroLife’s Final Conference
The “PyroLife 2023 Conference: The four axes of diversity of wildfire” (interdisciplinarity, intersectorality, geography, and gender) took place from the 14th to the 16th of March at Can Jaumandreu, at the premises of the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) in Barcelona, Spain. The Pau Costa Foundation (PCF), the UOC, and the Wageningen University & Research (WUR) organised this event aiming […]
Let’s talk about wildfire communication
The Pau Costa Foundation together with Forest Europe, the European Forest Institute (EFI), and the Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC), organized a workshop (“Communicating the important role of Sustainable Forest Management to prevent wildfires”) in Barcelona, from February 7th to 9th, with foresters, researchers, communicators, journalists, and policymakers from different regions of […]
