Categoría: CILIFO

03.02.2020. On February 4, 2020, a workshop on Training, Employment and Young Entrepreneurship will be held, organized by the Finnova Foundation in Brussels.

Finnova Foundation, beneficiary of the CILIFO project (Iberian Center for Research and Fight against Forest Fires), organizes tomorrow, February 4, 2020, a day promoted by the organization itself on Training, Employment and Young Entrepreneurship. The event will be held in the LAB Space of the Spanish Embassy in Brussels, with the aim of bringing the programs that support youth employment to new generations.

CILIFO (Iberian Center for Research and Fight against Forest Fires) will be presented as one of the projects of entrepreneurship, self-employment and return of talent, by the Director General of the Finnova Foundation, Juan Manuel Revuelta, being an example of the promotion of the creation of durable and quality employment in the area and the reduction of the economic cost of fires creating a rural economy linked to the landscape. Similarly, the Firefighting Open Innovation Lab will be presented, an accelerator managed by Finnova, based in Seville, which has the vocation to promote a network of incubators, under a regime of public-private partnership, worldwide, to capture innovation and technology that pursues the fight against forest fires and the mitigation and adaptation of climate change.

Currently, youth unemployment has reached more than worrying levels. The European Union and the governments of the different member countries have implemented measures to try to solve the problem through entities such as the European Social Fund and the European Commission.

Finnova Foundation, beneficiary of the CILIFO project, will organize a training action within the framework of the Green Week. This action will deal with the collection of European funds for climate change adaptation and mitigation.

The program of this training action will be published shortly on the CILIFO (Iberian Center for Research and Forest Firefighting) website and in the Firefighting Open Innovation Lab incubator-accelerator. This training action is part of the training programs of the CILIFO project for professionals in the prevention and firefighting sector, in addition to other actors of interest such as entrepreneurs, businesspeople and public administration interested in translating an innovative idea into a real project funded by the European Union. The training will also have a component of knowledge sharing and good practices between public and private entities, and it will favour the development of the open innovation model composed of the so-called quadruple helix (interaction between the four axes composed of academics, public administration, company and people).

The Green Week 2020, organized by the European Union, will focus on nature and biodiversity. All around the world, biodiversity is disappearing as a result of the unsustainability of much of human activities. This loss is closely related to climate change, which is altering the ecosystems that sustain life on Earth, with devastating consequences for the well-being and prosperity of human beings. Although the situation is extremely serious, there is still hope.

During this event, possible ways of change will be explored, and EU policies will be examined, such as the European Green Agreement, that can help protect, restore and manage nature in a sustainable way, leaving room for recovery and prosperity. This year’s Green Week will be a milestone on the road to COP15-CBD (“15th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties of United Nations to the Convention on Biological Diversity”) in Kunming, China, in October 2020, where World leaders will adopt a new 10-year action plan to combat climate change. In this sense, CILIFO, as a project that seeks to adapt and mitigate climate change, will organize a training action focused on raising European funds for the mitigation and adaptation of climate change.

CILIFO is a project approved by the Interreg POCTEP Program (2014-2020) Spain-Portugal, which is part of the Thematic Objective 5 of the Program, focused on promoting adaptation to climate change in all sectors. Within CILIFO there is the Firefighting Open Innovation Lab, accelerator and incubator whose objective is to collect technologies and entrepreneurs in the area of fighting against climate change and, specifically, firefighting.

Finnova Foundation, beneficiary of the CILIFO project, is preparing the candidacy for the participation of CILIFO and its Firefighting Open Innovation Lab in the Green Week. For this, it will count with the collaboration of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Sustainable Development of the Andalusia Regional Government, the main beneficiary of CILIFO.

The Green Week 2020, organized by the European Union, will focus on nature and biodiversity. All around the world, biodiversity is disappearing as a result of the unsustainability of much of human activities. This loss is closely related to climate change, which is altering the ecosystems that sustain life on Earth, with devastating consequences for the well-being and prosperity of human beings. Although the situation is extremely serious, there is still hope.

During this event, possible ways of change will be explored, and EU policies will be examined, such as the European Green Agreement, that can help protect, restore and manage nature in a sustainable way, leaving room for recovery and prosperity. This year’s Green Week will be a milestone on the road to COP15-CBD (“15th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties of United Nations to the Convention on Biological Diversity”) in Kunming, China, in October 2020, where World leaders will adopt a new 10-year action plan to combat climate change. In this sense, CILIFO (Iberian Center for Research and Forest Firefighting), as a project that seeks to adapt and mitigate climate change, will organize a training action focused on raising European funds for the mitigation and adaptation of climate change.

CILIFO is a project approved by the Interreg POCTEP Program (2014-2020) Spain-Portugal, which is part of the Thematic Objective 5 of the Program, focused on promoting adaptation to climate change in all sectors. Within CILIFO there is the Firefighting Open Innovation Lab, accelerator and incubator whose objective is to collect technologies and entrepreneurs in the area of fighting against climate change and, specifically, firefighting.

CILIFO (Iberian Center for Research and Fight against Forest Fires) is a project approved by the Interreg POCTEP Program (2014-2020) Spain-Portugal, which is part of the Thematic Objective 5 of the Program, focused on promoting adaptation to Climate change in all sectors.

01/09/2020. The Andalusian Regional Government Council has approved the formulation of the Andalusian Climate Action Plan, which is part of the «Andalusian Strategy on Climate Change», will be the general planning instrument of the region in the fight against climate change.

The plan will also become the main instrument for the development of the Climate Change Law in the community, a territory especially vulnerable to this phenomenon due to its physical, natural and socioeconomic conditions.

The Andalusian natural environment treasures some of the ecosystems and natural spaces of greater value and fragility of the continent. Its economic model has a high dependence on climatic conditions through agriculture and tourism. Likewise, its population faces the rigor of a climate already characterized by episodes of high temperatures or shortage of water resources.

Adaptation, mitigation, communication and participation programs to combat climate change will depend on the Andalusian Climate Action Plan. The strategic lines of action in the short, medium and long term will be established on it.

Among other contents, the Andalusian Climate Action Plan will analyse and diagnose the current situation, as well as the trend of greenhouse gas emissions and carbon fixations and will mark the development of the Andalusian climate scenarios. It will also establish the scope of the impacts of climate change already determined and those expected in the medium and long term in the autonomous community.

Along with this, it will define measures to promote citizen participation in the fight against climate change, it will strategically assess the needs and draw priority research, development and innovation lines in the field of climate change.

In order to achieve the global objectives of emission reduction, the Emission Mitigation Program for the Ecological Transition will be created, especially aimed at industry, agriculture, livestock, fisheries and aquaculture, but also in sectors such as energy, housing, waste and transport, among others.

Adaptation

For the control and reduction of economic, environmental and social risks, the document contemplates an adaptation program that, among other aspects, will encourage the participation of private sectors in the identification of opportunities and threats because of climate change. Among the sectors established as a priority are water resources, flood prevention, agriculture, livestock, fishing, energy, urban planning, building, mobility and road infrastructure.

Finally, information, training and co-responsibility actions for the participation of society in the fight against climate change will be promoted. In this same section, communication, environmental education, training and knowledge transfer actions regarding mitigation and adaptation to climate change are contemplated, as well as actions of environmental volunteering and tools that provide society public access to information on the subject.

With the adoption of the agreement to formulate the Andalusian Climate Plan, the Andalusian Government meets the deadline established in the first additional provision of the Climate Change Law.

Source (Council of Andalusia):

• News Web Board: https://bit.ly/3awCOTn
• Plan formulation agreement: https://bit.ly/2TWxKCf
• Agreement adopted: https://bit.ly/38xAo5p
• Other documents: https://bit.ly/2TNbsCS

Iberian stories of cohesion. 30 years of Interreg programs in Europe

The CILIFO project will be present at the Iberian Histories Forum on January the 23rd at 12: 00h at the headquarters of the EFE Agency in Madrid. This event will be organized by the agencies EFE and LUSA with the support of the Directorate-General for Regional Policy (DGRegio) of the European Commission, under the name «Iberian Stories. 30 years of the INTERREG Spain-Portugal Cross-Border Cooperation Program (POCTEP) «. The event will address the main achievements of the program and the new challenges demanded by the future of the area.

Source: EFE and LUSA agencies.