Solutions for Fire Resilient Territories in Europe / Part 1
Tracks
Infante Room
| Tuesday, May 16, 2023 |
| 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM |
| Workshop |
Details
The focus of the Workshop is on communicating innovations in i) integrated fire management, ii) technical innovations, iii) stakeholder engagement and risk communication strategies, as well as iv) policy coherence and risk management; and demonstrating its application to bridge the gap between science and practice.
We propose two blocks each with specific themes and moments of interaction with the audience. In order, to facilitate audience interaction, a mobile APP (Mentimeter) will be used during the Workshop.
Target audience : The Workshop brings together knowledge and experience in methodologies, systems, actions, and tools across wildfire resilient landscape themes to communicate recent findings and accelerate the transfer of knowledge and best practices to stakeholders, policymakers, and multi-forest actors; Additionally, empowering the WFRM community to address current and future wildfire challenges.
1st part – structure
The first part “FIRE-RES presentation & Innovative solutions” (75'), builds on FIRE-RES activities towards scientifically sounds methods implemented across eleven Living Labs, in collaboration with local and national actors, as a solid tool to create resilience in systems, landscapes and communities.
The FIRE-RES coordination team will briefly present a global perspective on the FIRE-RES Project and the relevance of landscape planning (who we are? what we want?) as well the characterization of Living Labs, where 34 innovation actions (IAs) are implemented, replicated, and validated. Followed by several communications exploring FIRE-RES solutions through IAs, targeting “what we have” and “where we are” in integrated fire management, fire risk governance, as well technical innovations.
This part ends encompassing demonstrations of wearable and environmental devices during the coffee break.
PART 1 .
OPENING SESSION
16.30 – 16.45
Carlos Fonseca (FWISE), Antoni Trasobares (CTFC)
FIRE-RES innovative solutions
16.45 – 18.00
Brigite Botequim (ForestWISE), Pau Brunet (CTFC)
FIRE-RES project presentation & landscape planning [15’]
Antoni Trasobares (CTFC), FIRE-RES coordination
Estimation of fire impact on Wildland-Urban Interface [10’]
Anthony Graziani (CNR)
Fire-smart spatial and urban planning [10’]
Marta Serra (CTFC)
Air pollution impacts – wearable & environmental devices [15’]
Mar Viana (CSIC) & Duarte Dias (INESC TEC)
Integrative system to support EWE decision-making [10’]
Adrian Cardil (Tecnosylva)
Open Innovation Campaign [10’]
Siebe Briers (EFI)
Q&A [10’]
COFFEE BREAK
18.00 – 18.15
Including wearable & environmental sensors demonstration (CSIC & INESC TEC)
PART 2
STAKEHOLDERS' ENGAGEMENT AND POLICY NEEDS
18.15 – 19.35
Brigite Botequim (ForestWISE), Pau Brunet (CTFC)
FIRE-RES. Engaging communities [15’]
Brigite Botequim (ForestWISE), FIRE-RES: Community of Wildfire Innovation
Conceição Colaço (CEABN), FIRE-RES: Fire Education Platform
FIRELOGUE. Cross-sector dialogue at EU level [15’]
Claudia Berchtold (Fraunhofer INT): How to engage stakeholders and policy needs?
Eduard Plana (CTFC): Policies from a WFRM perspective (?)
ResAlliance: a Mediterranean knowledge exchange network on landscape resilience [15’]
Eduard Mauri (EFI), ResAlliance: ResAlliance introduction
Gavriil Xanthopoulos (DEMETER): ResAlliance stakeholder engagement
Common discussion [35’]
Eduard Plana (CTFC)
Claudia Berchtold (Fraunhofer INT)
Gavriil Xanthopoulos (DEMETER)
CLOSING SESSION
19.35 – 19.45
Antoni Trasobares (CTFC), Pau Brunet (CTFC),
Brigite Botequim (ForestWISE), Sandra Valente (ForestWISE)
Speaker
Brigite Botequim
Senior Researcher
Colab ForestWISE
Chair
Biography
Ph.D. in Forestry and Natural Resources by the School of Agriculture (2015, ISA, ULisboa), MSc in Statistics and Information Management - GIS, Demographic and Environmental (ISEGI, ULisboa, 2008), BSc in Forest Engineering (ESACB, 2002). Since 2021, Senior researcher at ForestWISE (Collaborative Laboratory for Integrated Forest and Fire Management) - Campus UTAD (Vila Real) with the aim of building a cohesive approach to overcome rural fires under current challenges (e.g., climate change, multiple demands, collaborative needs, participatory concerns) faced by all actors involved in forest ecosystem management planning. She is currently deputy coordinator of the FIRE-RES Project (2021-2025) “Innovative technologies and socio-ecological and economic solutions for fire-resistant territories in Europe”, funded by the H2020 of the European Union, at ForestWISE and co-leads the Portuguese Living Lab.
Previously, 6-years assistant researcher and member of the FORCHANGE research line at the Forest Research Centre (CEF) in ISA. Moreover, she has 7-years of professional experience at non-profit organizations, state agencies, as well as national consultancy in the field of fire management planning of Mediterranean species; combined with research experience since 2008 as member integrated at CEF. Over the past 15-years, she has made substantial contributions to the development of tools to support the design of wildfire resilient landscapes, and to assess ecosystem services from a practical-methodological perspective to drive forest management decisions. Furthermore, these findings were actively discussed with forest actors in several workshops, with the aim of developing sustainable management strategies and enhancing resilient landscapes.
Pau Brunet
Ctfc
Chair
Biography
Dr. Brunet-Navarro is the deputy coordinator of the H2020 project FIRE-RES (Innovative technologies & socio-ecological-economic solutions for fire resilient territories in Europe) at the Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC) since 2022. He belongs to the Bioeconomy, health, and governance group of CTFC where, besides coordinating FIRE-RES, he rises financing from competitive calls. His main expertise and research interest lies in harvested wood products carbon accounting, wood-based construction, and circular bioeconomy.
PhD in Bioscience Engineering (KU Leuven, BE), MSc in Nature and Forest Conservation (WUR, NL) and MSc in European Forestry (UEF, FI) with a background (BSc) on Forest Engineering (UdL, ES). Previously, he coordinated European projects at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (2017-2022). He was a Marie Curie Early-Stage Researcher at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Germany (2013-2017). He also enjoyed secondments and other experiences in different institutions such as the Technical University of Munich (Germany), INRAE (France), or SLU (Sweden) among others.
Antoni Trasobares
Director - coordinator FIRE-RES
Centre de Ciència i Tecnologia Forestal de Catalunya
Speaker
Biography
PhD in Forest Science and Economics, MSc Forestry, BSc Agricultural Engineering. His expertise lies in research, technology transfer and applied projects in forest management, circular bioeconomy, and the environment in general.
Director of CTFC since 2016, promotes the development of research excellence and strategic transfer of project results such as the Bioeconomy Strategy 2030 for Catalonia.
General Director of Natural Resources and Biodiversity (2013-2016) of the Department of Agriculture, Government of Catalonia, when he was in charge of forest fires prevention in the region (increasing CAP resources on fire prevention for the period 2014-2020; implementing various restoration projects such as the 12.000 ha forest fire in la Jonquera, 2012), promoted the Bioeconomy concept in the Catalan forest sector, through measures such as the Strategy for the energetic use of forest biomass, New management and mobilization model for the public forests, and New regulation for using local timber in the construction and rehabilitation of public buildings.
Previously, he developed models and strategies to adapt forest management to climate change in the FP7 MOTIVE and FP6 EFORWOOD projects. Consultant at Foreco Technologies SL (2004-2009), specialized in forest and environmental resources management planning, with direct relation to clients and end-users.
Anthony Graziani
CNR, FIRE-RES
Speaker
Biography
Post-doctoral fellow at the CNRS since 2021, graduated from the University of Valenciennes with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering since 2018.
He joined the fire department of the University of Corsica as a Research Engineer on the INTERMED/MedSTAR project to perform numerical simulations of burning of ornamental vegetation at field scale using the NIST’s code Wildland-Urban-Interfaces Fire Dynamic Simulator and develop numerical scenarios of fires at WUI.
In 2021, he continued as a post-doctoral fellow at the CNRS attached to the fire department of the University of Corsica, to performed numerical simulations of experiments conducted on the EXPLORII platform during the French-American project SHESE to validate the capability of the code to reproduce scenarios involving houses.
Anthony is now working on the European project FIRE-RES where he is in charge of modelling real fire scenarios including forest with complex vegetation distribution, complex terrain, high variable wind and summer dry weather.
Adrian Cardil
senior researcher
Tecnosylva
Speaker
Biography
Dr. Adrián Cardil received a PhD in Forest Engineering from the University of Lleida in 2015 (PhD Extraordinary Award) where he works as an associate professor.
Dr. Cardil was internationally awarded with the 2022 Early Career Research Award (International Association of Wildland Fire) and for the best Ph.D. thesis on wildfires (Pau Costa Foundation, 2017).
The scientific impact of the research can be scored by the large number of articles published in SCI journals as well as the quality and the number of times these articles have been cited.
His scientific work has produced 61 SCI publications, 34 of them published in Q1 top journals indexed in the Web of Science.
Dr. Cardil has carried out his research in international research groups abroad, establishing a broad network of international collaborators (237 co-authors only in his peer-review SCI publication list).
He is a prominent fire and forest scientist who has developed: (1) remote sensing methods for forest management (Airborne and GEDI Lidar, hyperspectral imagery from drones and satellites, satellite active fire data); (2) innovative fire behavior models and applications to better estimate the impact of wildfires on human fatalities and the environment; (3) analysis of adverse weather patterns and drivers leading to extreme wildfires in several continents and regions (Amazon, California, Europe).
Marta Serra
Researcher
Ctfc
Speaker
Biography
Graduated in Geography at the University of Barcelona and Master's in Policies and Planning for Cities, Environment and Landscape at Autonomous University of Barcelona.
She is researcher at the Forest Policy and Risk Governance Group of the Bioeconomy, Governance and Health Program at the Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC).
At CTFC she works in research applied projects motivated by relevant practical problems. Her expertise is related to Disaster Risk Management, Climate adaptation strategies, Forest and Land policy, Governance and Planning from a social science perspective.
She has been involved in several EU and regional projects linked to wildfire risk management (but also other hazards as floods or avalanches, among others) touching different specific topics as risk communication, networking, urban and spatial planning and governance.
Siebe Briers
EFI, FIRE-RES
Speaker
Biography
Siebe Briers has a Master of Science in Agro- and Ecosystems engineering (major in forestry) and a postgraduate in Innovative Entrepreneurship from KU Leuven in Belgium.
He works at the Bioregions Facility and Bioeconomy Programme of the European Forest Institute. His background in forestry, on the one hand, and in innovation and entrepreneurship, on the other hand, make him well-placed to support European regions to transition to a forest based circular bioeconomy through open innovation activities such as matchmaking events, pitching days and open innovation challenges.
In the FIRE-RES project, the European Forest Institute is leading a work package on fast-track to innovation and exploitation, where they are recruiting innovators from outside the project to solve wildfire challenges from the project’s living labs through an open innovation campaign. Moreover, the work package aims to support the project’s innovation actions to be exploited, upscaled and replicated.
Mar Viana
IDAEA-CSIC
Speaker
Biography
Dr. Mar Viana is senior researcher at the Institute of Environmental Assessment (IDAEA-CSIC) in Barcelona.
Her research focuses on the characterization, monitoring and assessment of indoor and outdoor air quality, with special
attention to personal exposure and the interpretation of aerosol sources and emission mechanisms.
She is experienced in the application of sensor technologies to understanding environmental impacts and exposure
Assessment.
Duarte Dias
INESC TEC – FIRE-RES Project
Speaker
Biography
Duarte Dias is a Biomedical Engineer at INESC TEC research institute and Assistant to the Coordination of the Centre for Biomedical Engineering (CBER) at INESC TEC.
He has a vast experience in the research and development of wearable health devices, biomedical data acquisition platforms and physiological signal processing systems for different scenarios including first response ones.
He manages and participates in several national and European projects and coordinates a multidisciplinary team of researchers.
He is co-author of 1 patent and more than 15 scientific publications, including one as first author in "Sensors" related to Wearable Health Devices, with almost 600 citations.
Duarte Dias is member of IEEE and IEEE EMBS His interest in entrepreneurship and technology transfer to the market leads him to have a strong connection with national and international companies in the health area and to support the creation of two start-ups at INESC TEC.
