{"id":23114,"date":"2025-12-22T08:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paucostafoundation.org\/?p=23114"},"modified":"2025-12-22T08:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:52:10","slug":"firelogue-comes-to-an-end-advancing-integrated-wildfire-risk-management-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paucostafoundation.org\/en\/firelogue-comes-to-an-end-advancing-integrated-wildfire-risk-management-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Firelogue comes to an end: advancing integrated wildfire risk management in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After three years of intensive collaboration at the European level, the Horizon Europe project Firelogue<\/a> has officially come to an end. Firelogue was a Coordination and Support Action (CSA) funded by the European Union under the European Green Deal call, with the objective of strengthening cooperation, coherence and impact across EU-funded research and innovation initiatives on WildFire Risk Management (WFRM). The project brought together knowledge from a large portfolio of ongoing and completed EU projects to support a more integrated, science-informed and policy-relevant approach to wildfire risk in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFirelogue had a unique and strategic role: it was not another wildfire project, but a space to connect and make sense of the unprecedented investment Europe has made in wildfire research and innovation,\u201d<\/em> explains N\u00faria Prat, head of Knowledge and Applied Science at PCF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wildfire risk in Europe is increasing in scale, complexity and social impact, driven by climate and land-use changes and growing exposure of people and assets. At the same time, Europe has invested heavily in research, innovation and demonstration projects addressing different dimensions of wildfire risk. However, this knowledge has often remained fragmented across disciplines, sectors and governance levels. Firelogue was designed to bridge this gap by creating structured dialogue among projects, synthesising results, and translating them into coherent guidance for practitioners and policy-makers, with a strong emphasis on integrated WFRM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAltogether, the projects mobilised more than \u20ac80 million in funding \u2014 the largest investment in wildfire R&I in Europe\u2019s history. Firelogue\u2019s mission was to ensure that this collective effort truly added up to more than the sum of its parts,\u201d<\/em> says N\u00faria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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N\u00faria Prat (head of Knowledge and Applied Science, left) and Jordi Vendrell (PCF director, right) at the final event<\/a> of Firelogue in Brussels, on 20 and 21 May 2025.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Over its lifetime, Firelogue delivered a wide range of outputs, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n