EduFire Toolkit
EduFire Toolkit was an educational project coordinated by the Pau Costa Foundation, within the framework of the European Commision’s Erasmus+ programme. Currently, all climate change forecasts predict an increase in drought and average temperatures across Europe with a consequent expansion of the fire season, promoting changes in vegetation, loss of biodiversity, decreasing the quality of […]
MeFiTu
The Mediterranean Forest, the Fire and You (MeFiTu), is an environmental awareness project on the ecology of forest fires aimed at primary school students to educate, communicate and raise awareness about the role the fire in the Mediterranean ecosystem and our relationship with it. This project works to reorient the social perception of fire, learning […]
NEMAUSUS
The NEMAUSUS project (Network of European Multihazard cApacities hUb of Scientifics Understanding and Sharing) will provide preliminary settings of a European Centre of Expertise (CoE) dedicated to forest and wildfires. This Centre will rely on an existing French civil protection base in Nîmes-Garons (France) as the main entity of a system gathering knowledge related to this topic within the Union, […]
Firelogue
The overarching objective of the FireLogue project is to create a network and a platform for the discussion on the future of European WFRM, engaging the entirety of the WFRM community. Focusing on supporting the Innovation Actions funded under H2020 call, FIRELOGUE integrates actors and findings into cross-sectoral WFRM recommendations for a 2030 roadmap. FIRELOGUE […]
PyroLife
The Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions, part of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme, selected to fund this research Innovative Training Network on Integrated Fire Management (IFM). PyroLife supported 15 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) to carry out interdisciplinary research projects within an international netwrok of experts in wildfires. The projects aimed to advance IFM with a […]
The Big Silence
Promoters of the documentary ‘El Gran Silenci. Horta de Sant Joan’ The events that happened in the fire of Horta de Sant Joan in July 2009 in some way represented a before and after in the world of the extinction of forest fires, both here and elsewhere. Among others, he highlighted the need for a […]
Silabh Beagh (Ireland)
Pau Costa Foundation develops a Wildfire Management Plan at landscape scale commissioned by Monaghan County Council, under the project framework CANN Interreg, in the protected area of Sliabh beagh (Border between the North of Ireland and the Republic of Ireland). The plan allows stakeholders to improve their understanding of fire risk and landscape management (necessary to alter fire behavior in the […]
Gender & Fire
The Pau Costa Foundation promotes a new working group to make visible and contribute solutions to gender inequality present in the sector of fires. Whether from personal experience or from the reality we see every day, we are aware that women in the world of emergencies are still very stigmatized. We find that many similarities are shared with other sectors (the glass roof, family […]
IOPES
(Indoor-Outdoor Positioning for Emergency Staff) The IOPES is a two-year project co-funded by the European Commission, Directorate-General Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (ECHO), under the call UCPM-2019-PP-AG. The 2019 Call for Proposal (Preparedness projects) focused on strengthening preparedness for responding to multi-sector emergencies, including health, CBRN, environment and marine pollution in Europe and its Neighbourhoods. IOPES […]
SAFERS
This project aims to involve all stakeholders who act around the key phases of the emergency management cycle, including citizens as well as emergency practitioners. SAFERS analyses social media posts andintegrates the crowdsourced data to enhance the capabilities of delineation and forecasting models. An intelligent Chatbot will allow citizens to provide geolocated real-time information about […]
