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 […]
Second stage of the EGIF program in Chile
On January 15, 2023, the Pau Costa Foundation team that will participate in the second stage of the EGIF (Wildfire Management Team) program between CONAF (National Forestry Corporation, Chile) and the Foundation, left Madrid for Santiago de Chile. During the next three months, Juan Caamaño, coordinator of the EGIF program, Jorge García, instructor, Jonathan Troncho, […]
FIRE-ADAPT kicks off
On January 25th and 26th, 15 European and 9 Latin American organizations held the first virtual meeting of “FIRE-ADAPT” to take the first steps and define the initial actions of the project. “FIRE-ADAPT” will investigate the benefits of fire in nature and society by integrating diverse areas of knowledge, from both the academic and operational […]
Agreement between URIF International and PCF
On November 1st, 2022, Pau Costa Foundation and URIF International signed a MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) to foster cooperation in matters such as leadership in wildland fire management; organization of workshops, symposia and training sessions; educational and professional development, and networking; exchange of knowledge and experiences; dissemination of wildland information through publications, media and social […]
ResAlliance kicks off
The ResAlliance project (Landscape resilience knowledge alliance for agriculture and forestry in the Mediterranean basin) held its kick-off meeting from December 12th throught the 14th at The European Forest Institute (EFI) premises at Sant Pau Hospital in Barcelona. This first meeting served to introduce ResAlliance partners; overview the project and establish common ground regarding the […]
Training in management and use of technical fire
During October, the Foundation coordinated and participated in two courses onprescribed burning: From October 2nd to 7nd, we coordinated an international course on the management and use of the technical fire, organized by the Institute for Public Security of Catalonia (ISPC) with the support of the Fire Department of the Generalitat de Catalunya. The course […]
