Firelogue project 3rd Wildfire Risk Management Clustering Event

Key details

Date: May 20-21, 2025

Time: All day

Location: Representation of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia to the EU, Rue Montoyer 47, 1000, Brussels, Belgium.

Event type: In-person

Registration: Join the waiting list.

Key messages

As wildfires become more intense and widespread due to climate change, the European approach must shift from suppression to long-term prevention, integrating policies that consider safety, biodiversity, economic sustainability, and carbon sequestration.

With this in mind, this event will unveil a collaborative strategy developed by five EU-funded research projects –Firelogue, FirEUrisk, FIRE-RES, SILVANUS and TREEADS – that addresses wildfire risk prevention, response, and resilience.

Key highlights 

• Mapping wildfire risk: FIRE-RES’ pan-European Fuel Map Server depict vegetation and other risk characteristic on a European scale while the Geo Catch App involves citizens to support the process of validating fuel characteristics across European ecosystems. Digital Forest Twins by TREEADS also help prevention and recovery planning. FirEUrisk has developed a holistic integrated strategy for assessing the wildfire risk and built geodatasets of all relevant variables for the European territory, including a European fuel map with crown parameters derived from satellite observation.
  
• Fire protection: TREEADS’ innovative materials protect infrastructures and residential buildings.
  
• Fire adaptation: FirEUrisk has developed different climate and socio-economic scenarios to understand future fire regimes in Europe, proposing different adaptation strategies.
  
• Enhanced firefighter training: AR/VR solution developed by SILVANUS facilitates training for first responders through virtual modeling environments and real-life situations and wildfire simulations.
  FirEUrisk has developed a “Handbook with guidelines for fire fighters to face to extreme fires, fires in WUI and fires in high latitudes/altitudes” in English, Portugese, Romanian and Croatian (https://fireurisk.eu/products/).
  
• Insurance and financial incentives: TREEADS and FIRE-RES explore new insurance mechanisms and financial incentives that support different stakeholder groups in reducing wildfire risk. The holistic integrated wildfire risk management assessment strategy developed by FirEUrisk could be used for developing mechanisms and policies for reducing the wildfire risk.
  
• Nature-based solutions and resilient landscapes: FIRE-RES developed the “Fire wine concept” to engage wineries in maintaining fire-resilient territories through a label.
  
• Community engagement: SILVANUS and TREEADS developed fire detection and the collection of incident information based on social sensing while FIRE-RES established fire forums. FirEUrisk developed different focus groups in fire-prone areas to better understand citizens’ perception of risk.
  
• Restoration: Development of innovative seedling mechanisms by the use of drones were developed by SILVANUS and TREEADS.

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