Categoría: CILIFO

10.12.2019. The CILIFO project, financed by the ERDF funds through the Interreg VA Spain-Portugal POCTEP cross-border cooperation program (2014-2020), will participate, represented by the main beneficiary (Junta de Andalucía, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Sustainable Development) and the Finnova Foundation at the United Nations Climate Change Conference.

On the occasion of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (https://www.ifema.es/en/cop25) and within the framework of the CILIFO project, the Finnova Foundation will organize in Madrid on December 11 from 15:00 to 16:30 at the IFEMA’s Mare Nostrum Space (Av. Capital de España, 7, 28042, Madrid, Spain) a round table entitled “Cooperation and governance for innovation in prevention, firefighting and restoration of burned spaces”.

The CILIFO project will be presented at this round table, as a case study regarding the need for international partnership methodologies. CILIFO is a pilot project for cross-border cooperation between Spain and Portugal in the EU. With a budget of 25 million euros, it is the project with a largest budget in the field of fires financed by the INTERREG VA Spain-Portugal POCTEP cross-border cooperation program (2014-2020). CILIFO is a center for promoting, training and cooperating in the innovation when preventing and fighting forest fires. Latin America is a region that suffers from dramatic forest fires in the Amazon, so Chile, as a country affected by the scourge of fires will share its experiences with its mayors and business representatives.

The COP25 will host the official launch of the Firefighting Open Innovation Lab, an accelerator-incubator of business innovations ―startups, scaleups― in the fight against forest fires and the mitigation and adaptation to climate change. The Firefighting Open Innovation Lab is an accelerator managed by the Finnova Foundation, based in Seville and with the aim of promoting a network of incubators ―in a public-private partnership― at a global level for fighting forest fires and mitigating and adapting to climate change. In addition, the European Union’s financial tools for innovation and fire-fighting, such as Horizon Europe and the LIFE programs, will be discussed.

The closing ceremony will be carried out by a representative of the Startup Europe Awards (SEUA), and the Firefighting Cop25 Global Awards will be launched, in the framework of the SEUA (startupeuropeawards.eu) ―Open Innovation methodology within the European Commission’s Startup Europe. This call will identify disruptive innovations and is managed by the Belgian entity Startup Europe Accelerator.

Technical meetings of the CILIFO project working groups in Castro Marim, Portugal.

Seville, 15 November 2019.

On November 13, the 15 members of the CILIFO project consortium participated in the joint quarterly meeting of the project working groups in the Portuguese city of Castro Marim. CILIFO aims, through the expected results of its activities, to establish itself as a permanent center for the promotion and development of training, awareness-raising, research, and cooperation in forest fighting. All partners participated actively in the infrastructure, training, awareness-raising, research, coordination, and communication working groups. During the day, all partners presented the technical advances of the project, highlighting the launch of the CILIFO website and the website “Firefighting Open Innovation Lab” along with their social media in the communication part.

The CILIFO project is an ideal framework to keep betting on combating forest fires, inviting the general public, professionals, the scientific world and entrepreneurs to participate in this important work.

CILIFO addresses the inclusive management of emergencies at the 3^rd International Congress on Technology and Tourism for Diversity.

The ONCE Foundation, as part of CILIFO, held a Co-Design workshop within the framework of the 3^rd International Congress on Technology and Tourism for Diversity, held in Malaga on October 24.

The aim was to know the opinion of users with different profiles (people with disabilities and elderly people) on the elements that an emergency management application should contain so that it is accessible to all people and meets all their needs.

Also, as part of the Congress, the round table on Comprehensive Disaster Management was held with the participation of Juan Antonio Ruso, Deputy Director of Forest Fires and Environmental Emergencies of the Andalusia Environment Agency and coordinator of the CILIFO project.

The panel discussed various aspects of emergency management from a disability and accessibility perspective. Experts like Andrés Balcázar, Director of Disability Care in the Mexican National Human Rights Commission; Parul Sharma, expert consultant in emergency management in the Indian Ministry of Social Justice; and Jesús Fernández Lozano, professor at the Department of Systems Engineering and Automatics at the University of Malaga, participated in the panel. The panel was coordinated by Lourdes González, coordinator of the activity carried out by the ONCE Foundation in the CILIFO project.

This event of work and exchange of experiences and advances in the knowledge of this subject took place on October 11 2019 in the “Sala de Grados” of the Library of the University Campus of Rabanales in the University of Cordoba.

The seminar had an international focus with the collaboration of the Project Leader of the line of research in economics and forest fires, and operational risks in the action of extinguishing the “Human Dimension Program, RMRS USDA Forest Service”, Dr. Dave Calkin.

The program of the presentations was completed by the contributions of Prof. Dr. Francisco Rodríguez y Silva, responsible and director of the Forest Fire Laboratory of the University of Córdoba. The program of the Seminar-Workshop was as follows:

The round table incorporated interesting reflections on the application of the scientific advances recently developed and currently evolving by the Wildfire Risk Team of the Human Dimension Program and the Forest Fire Laboratory of the University of Cordoba, in the territorial geography of the Interreg-Poctep “CILIFO”. The definition of the “delineable operational perimeters” (PODs), the potential control lines (PCLs) and the spatialized determination of the extinction difficulty index, were presented as novel tools for the production of thematic maps aimed at better understanding the options of extinction and reduction of uncertainty in decision-making aimed at control and forest fire suppression. The presentations are being integrated into a digital publication that will be located in the downloads and blog section of the website of the Forest Fire Laboratory of the University of Cordoba (LABIF-UCO): www.franciscorodriguezysilva.com