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More than 300 people visualize the webinar on the Accelerathon – CILIFO

16.06.2020. The Finnova Foundation, as a beneficiary of the Iberian Centre for Research and the Fight against Forest Fires (CILIFO) organized a webinar on Monday, 15 June 2020 (from 10:00h to 12:00h CEST) on the Accelerathon – CILIFO in forest fire prevention and extinction and habitat recovery in a burned area.

The webinar of the Accelerathon – CILIFO, an open innovation programme organised by the Startup Europe Accelerator of the Finnova Foundation, was aimed at civil society, entrepreneurs, technological institutes, companies and universities.

The highest number of participants in Zoom was 73 at a time. The event began (first intervention by Juan Sánchez – Junta de Andalucía) with 59 participants and closed with 60 participants. However, the total number of people registered at Zoom for the event was 98 (but not all connected at the same time). In addition, it should be noted that the event was broadcast on the Facebook page of @CILIFO.UE and has 248 views. However, it is estimated that a total of 346 people accessed the webinar (98 registered by Zoom, plus the 248 reproductions by Facebook).

Objective of the webinar: to inform about the CILIFO project and the progress of the project, as well as the work developed by each beneficiary; to promote networking and open innovation through the «Firefighting Open Innovation Lab – CILIFO» incubator. The project’s accelerator makes it possible to locate innovative solutions to common challenges that can attract Community funds through open calls, such as the LIFE environment programme.

Guests at the webinar: among the speakers who took part in the webinar were beneficiaries of the CILIFO project; companies and external projects; and expert staff in the Accelerathon methodology of the Finnova Foundation (see agenda).

One of the objectives of this online event was to publicize the work carried out on forest fires by the beneficiaries of the project themselves. In this sense, representatives of the following members of the partnership took part:

B1-CMAOT (Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Sustainable Development. Junta de Andalucía)
B2-AMAYA (Environment and Water Agency. Government of Andalusia)
B3-CSIC-EBD (Spanish National Research Council. Doñana Biological Station)
B4-ONCE (ONCE Foundation for Cooperation and Social Inclusion of People with Disabilities)
B5-INIA (National Institute of Agricultural and Food Research and Technology)
B6-UCA (University of Cadiz)
B7-UCO (University of Cordoba)
B9-AMAL (Community of Intermunicipal do Algarve)
B11-LOULÉ (Municipality of Loulé)
B14-FINNOVA (Fundacion Delegacion Fundacion Finnova)
B15-U. ÉVORA (University of Évora)

In addition, other invited entities presented their experiences in forest fire prevention, extinction and restoration:

Avila Provincial Council
GESPLAN S.A.
Polytechnic University of Valencia
Canarian Foundation for Reforestation (FORESTA)
Tragsa
Partnership Forum on Forests and Climate Change

ACCELERATHON-CILIFO

Accelerathon-CILIFO challenges: to meet the challenge 13 and 15 of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDAs) to innovate urgent action to combat climate change and its effects. As well as protecting, restoring and promoting the sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably managing forests, combating desertification, halting and reversing land degradation and halting the loss of biodiversity.

The challenges ahead:

  • Prevention of forest fires.
  • Extinguishing forest fires.
  • Habitat restoration after forest fires

 

These challenges aim to identify innovative solutions, as well as to attract companies, public or private entities, start-ups or entrepreneurs who define their environmental challenges in terms of forest fire prevention and recovery.

The aim of this initiative is to promote innovative challenges and be able to apply them to the real world of forest fire prevention, extinction and recovery through European funding. Furthermore, thanks to this tool, the CILIFO project and the progress of the project developed by the beneficiaries in the territory of the cross-border region of Alentejo-Algarve-Andalusia are given visibility.

Who is the Accelerathon-CILIFO aimed at? Accelerathon is an open innovation competition in which entrepreneurs, universities, technological institutes, business associations, town halls, industrial estates, SMEs and entities in general (public and private) from all over the world can participate, provided that they are committed to the above-mentioned challenges.

It is a team competition with training, since the competition of the different teams is carried out with e-learning tools and with the LIFE methodology. We work together to obtain optimal solutions. Participating users can take a training course on EU funding.

Duration and prizes: the Accelerathon-CILIFO programme will last approximately two weeks (from 17 June, when registration closes, to 26 June, when the final is scheduled). As a prize, a European Acceleration ticket will be awarded to access EU funds, to go international or to co-draft a European project on the CILIFO theme.

CONTACT US:

Beatriz Martínez Muñoz (European Projects and Communication Technician at Finnova)

beatriz.martinez@finnova.eu

+34 605 52 10 84

José Manuel Requena Benítez (International Project Manager at Finnova)

jrequena@finnova.eu

+34 639 99 15 27

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Researcher Nuno Guiomar’s interview on forest fires to Observador

16.06.2020. Nuno Guiomar, researcher of MED – Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development and member of the project CILIFO – Iberian Centre for Research and Fight against Forest Fires, financed by the programme INTERREG España-Portugal, is the interviewee of the Radio Observador.

The interview, which was part of the Som Ambiente programme, focused on demystifying the causes of the ignition of fires, the effect of aerial means on the meteorological situations that determine major events. Nuno Guiomar considers that it is this small number of occurrences that explains the annual variability of the burnt area, and the residual effect of the forest composition on the behaviour of fire in extreme weather situations. In this sense, it sought to clarify that efforts should be directed towards the management of forest fuels, which accumulate at the scale of forest stands and landscape, and that this accumulation is motivated by the convergence of different processes associated with the decrease in the intensity of land use.

The interview: https://observador.pt/programas/som-ambiente/fogos-florestais-mitos-e-verdades/ 

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Webinar – Accelerathon information session – CILIFO: prevention, extinction and habitat recovery after forest fires

 The Centro Ibérico para la Investigación y Lucha contra Incendios Forestales (CILIFO) invites civil society, entrepreneurs, technological institutes, companies and universities to participate in the webinar on the Accelerathon – CILIFO, an open innovation programme organised by the Startup Europe Accelerator of the Finnova Foundation, a beneficiary of the CILIFO project.

Check out the webinar here!

WEBINAR OBJECTIVE

Inform about the CILIFO project and the progress of the project, as well as the work developed by each beneficiary; promote «networking» and open innovation through the «Firefighting Open Innovation Lab – CILIFO» incubator/accelerator, which allows the capture of innovative solutions to common challenges that can attract Community funds through current open calls, such as the LIFE environment programme; or promote the CILIFO community to work on common challenges.

CHALLENGES OF THE ACCELERATHON

The aim is to meet the challenge 13 and 15 of the UN SPOs to innovate in taking urgent action to combat climate change and its effects, as well as to protect, restore and promote the sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.

The challenges ahead:

  • Prevention of forest fires.
  • Extinguishing forest fires.
  • Habitat restoration after forest fires

These challenges aim to identify innovative solutions, in addition to attracting companies, public or private entities, start-ups or entrepreneurs who define their environmental challenges in terms of forest fire prevention and recovery.

The aim of this initiative is to promote innovative challenges and be able to apply them to the real world of forest fire prevention, extinction and recovery through European funding. Furthermore, thanks to this tool, the CILIFO project and the progress of the project developed by the beneficiaries in the territory of the cross-border region of Alentejo-Algarve-Andalusia are given visibility.

 ACCELERATHON – CILIFO

Who is it aimed at?

Accelerathon is an innovation competition in which entrepreneurs, universities, technological institutes, business associations, city councils, industrial parks, SMEs and entities in general (public and private) from all over the world can participate, on the condition that they are committed to the challenges of the above mentioned.

 A team competition with training

The competition of the different teams will be done with e-learning tools and with the LIFE methodology, a joint work will be done to obtain optimal solutions. Participating users will be able to take a training course on EU funding.

Duration and prizes

The Accelerathon-CILIFO program will last approximately two weeks (from June 17th, when registration closes, to June 26th, when the final will take place). As a prize, a European acceleration ticket will be awarded to access Community funds, to go international or to co-draft a European project on the CILIFO theme.

CONTACT:

Beatriz Martínez Muñoz (European Projects and Communication Technician at Finnova)

beatriz.martinez@finnova.eu

+34 605 52 10 84

José Manuel Requena Benítez (International Project Manager at Finnova)

jrequena@finnova.eu

+34 639 99 15 27

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CILIFO CELEBRATES PORTUGAL’S DAY

10.06.2020. Portugal Day is celebrated every year on 10 June. The Iberian Centre for Research and Fight against Forest Fires (CILIFO) celebrates it by betting on a cross-border cooperation area of the Euroregion Alentejo-Algarve-Andalusia with the promotion of measures in the prevention and extinction of forest fires in the cooperation area.

With a duration of three years (2019 to 2021), CILIFO aims, through the results of its activities, to become a permanent centre for the promotion and development of training, awareness, development and innovation, and interregional cooperation in the fight against forest fires.

Its objectives are:

  1. To strengthen and unite cooperation, working procedures and training between the Forest Fire Prevention and Extinction mechanisms in the area of cooperation.
  2. To promote the creation of lasting and quality employment in the area; to reduce the economic cost of fires by creating a rural economy linked to the landscape.
  3. To improve the response capacity to forest fires of the administrations and authorities involved in fighting them in the three participating regions.

CILIFO is being developed thanks to the collaboration of a public-private partnership made up of public research bodies, non-profit-making public interest entities, and public administrations, all with the common objective of fighting forest fires.

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Fundación ONCE, beneficiary of the CILIFO project, organizes an online conference to raise awareness about diversity in forest fires

08.06.2020. Fundación ONCE, a beneficiary of the CILIFO project, organises an online conference to raise social awareness of diversity in forest fires. The initiative is part of the European project CILIFO, (Iberian Centre for Research and the Fight against Forest Fires), led by the Andalusian Regional Government.

Its aim is to provide information on the realities and needs of vulnerable groups, including people with disabilities, to help reduce the risks they face in an emergency.

This meeting is aimed at agents involved in emergency management, as well as organizations and individuals who live or enjoy the forest environment, especially in Portugal.

The conference is free and will be online, on Wednesday 17 June at 10.00 am from Spain and 9.00 am from Portugal. The talk will be given in Spanish. The subtitles and materials presented will be in Portuguese.

Program

10:00 – 10:20. Welcome

  • Lourdes González Perea, coordinator of CILIFO Fundación ONCE
  • Juan Sánchez Ruiz, technical director of the CILIFO project
  • Ana Lourido, University of Évora

10:20 – 10:40. The forest environment

  • Antonio Maldonado Morales, forest fire prevention and social participation technician,
  • Regional Government of Andalusia

10:40 – 10:50. The importance of preparation

  • Víctor Salgado González, ONCE Foundation technician

10:50- 11:30. Attention to diversity

  • Lourdes González Perea, coordinator of CILIFO Fundación ONCE
  • Natalí González Villariny, ONCE Foundation Technician

11:30-11:45. Questions and farewell

To participate in the awareness day, you must fill out the form available here:  https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/a0b45560090f43b18309019dccdf988c

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CILIFO launches, through the Finnova Foundation, an Accelerathon on prevention and fighting of forest fires, and the post-fire recovery of affected habitats within the Euroregion Alentejo-Algarve-Andalucía

  • This Accelerathon will be introduced during a webinar celebrated next 15thJune 2020.
  • Winners will receive a European acceleration ticket in order to get access to EU funds, internationalize or attract an investment of up to €2 million for a pilot project.

05.06.2020. Finnova Foundation has organised, as a partner of the Iberian Centre for Research and Forest Firefighting (CILIFO by its acronym in Spanish), an Accelerathon on prevention and fighting of forest fires, and the post-fire recovery of burnt areas.

This initiative aims to rise a series of innovative challenges in order to employ them in real life for the prevention and fighting of forest fires, and the post-fire recovery of affected areas, using for that purpose EU funds. Additionally, this tool will give visibility to the CILIFO Project and to the activity of cross-border beneficiaries from the Euroregion Alentejo-Algarve-Andalucía.

Accelerathon-CILIFO encourages networking and open innovation through its incubation programme Firefighting Open Innovation Lab – CILIFO. CILIFO’s accelerator would bring in innovative solutions to common challenges that could receive Community funds applying for open calls of the LIFE programme on Environment, among other EU programmes.

The Accelerathon-CILIFO will be introduced by Finnova Foundation during a webinar on Zoom that will take place on Monday, 15th June 2020, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. (CEST). We will disclose more information concerning the speakers that will participate in the webinar and how to attend very soon.

Participate in the Accelerathon-CILIFO here.

WHAT IS ACCELERATHON?

Accelerathon is an acceleration programme for innovative projects powered by Finnova Foundation. Finnova’s methodology aims to find solutions and funding for projects through an applied, online open innovation system. Its objective is to bind together all the actors from the innovative ecosystem related to environment, a domain in which the European Commission is currently working.

In order to accomplish that purpose, there will be training, mentors, a jury and some very special prizes. One of them is that the winner will have the possibility to present its project to an EU open call, such as the LIFE programme, and receive up to €2 million for its project for a period of three years.

ACCELERATHON’S GOAL AND CHALLENGE

The aim is to contribute to the achievement of the SDGs 13 and 15 of the United Nations through innovation on the adoption of urgent measures in order to combat climate change and its impacts, and protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.

The challenges presented are:

  1. Prevention of forest fires.
  2. Fighting of forest fires.
  3. Recovery of habitats after forest fires.

The purpose of these challenges is to identify innovative solutions, and attract enterprises, public and private entities, startups and entrepreneurs, so they can define their own environmental challenges concerning the prevention and fighting of forest fires, and the post-fire recovery of affected areas.

ACCELERATHON – CILIFO

Who is it for?

Accelerathon is an innovation competition for entrepreneurs, universities, institutes of technology, business associations, municipalities, industrial parks, SMEs, and public and private entities from all over the world. The only condition is to be engaged with the above-mentioned challenges.

Team competition and training

During the competition, the different teams will be able to make use of e-learning tools and apply the LIFE methodology. A joint work will be developed in order to achieve optimal solutions. Participants will be offered to enrol in a training session on EU funding.

Duration and awards

The Accelerathon-CILIFO programme will be held during approximately two weeks, from 17th June (deadline for registration) until 26th June (final round). The prize will be a European acceleration ticket that will provide access to Community funds, to internationalization or to the co-drafting of a European project related to CILIFO’s themes.

Download the Accelerathon-CILIFO roadmap here.

CONTACT:

Beatriz Martínez Muñoz (EU Project and Communications Officer at Finnova)

beatriz.martinez@finnova.eu

+34 605 52 10 84

 

José Manuel Requena Benítez (International Project Manager at Finnova)

jrequena@finnova.eu

+34 639 99 15 27

 

 

 

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CILIFO CELEBRATES WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY

05.06.2020. World Environment Day is the most important date in the official United Nations calendar for promoting environmental action. «Since 1974, 5 June has become a global public platform that brings together governments, businesses, celebrities and citizens around a pressing environmental issue,» according to the Wold Environment Day website.

The Iberian Centre for Research and Fight against Forest Fires (CILIFO) joins the celebration of this day that this year revolves around biodiversity – a matter of both urgent and existential concern.

«Recent events, such as the unprecedented forest fires in Brazil, California and Australia, the locust invasion in the Horn of Africa and now the COVID-19 pandemic, demonstrate the inextricable relationship between humans and the networks of life in which we live. Nature is sending us a message» (Wold Environment Day).

The CILIFO project focuses on the fight against forest fires and their consequences for the adaptation and mitigation of climate change; within a framework of cross-border cooperation for the prevention of risks and the improvement of the management of natural resources in Spain and Portugal in the area of the Euroregion Alentejo – Algarve – Andalusia.

With a duration of three years (2019 to 2021), it aims, through the results expected from its activities, to establish itself as a permanent centre for the promotion and development of training, awareness, development and innovation, and interregional cooperation in the fight against forest fires.

About World Environment Day: World Environment Day is, above all, a global platform to inspire positive change, and is based on the precept that global change requires a global community. The Day encourages people to think about how they consume; businesses to develop greener models; farmers and manufacturers to produce more sustainably; governments to safeguard wilderness; educators to inspire students to live in harmony with the Earth; and young people to become bold stewards of a green future. It requires all of us (Wold Environment Day).

The Host: Each year a different host country hosts the official celebrations of World Environment Day. The host for 2020 is Colombia, with the support of Germany (Wold Enviroment Day)v

Video: Biodiversidad y salud ¿Cómo nos protege la naturaleza?

For more information: https://www.un.org/es/observances/environment-day

Contact: Beatriz Martinez (EU Project Manager at Fundación Finnova) beatria.martinez@finnova.eu

 

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The 15th edition of the EU Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) will take place in Brussels from 22 to 26 June 2020

29.05.2020. The EU’s Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) 2020 will take place in Brussels from 22 to 26 June 2020. It is the largest event dedicated to renewable energy and energy efficiency in Europe.

This year, participants will enjoy an interactive online event experience. Highlights include: a three-day political conference including a high-level opening session; the EUSEW Awards; networking activities and side events for participants; the Energy Days, digital events taking place across Europe. For the first time, a European Youth Energy Day will also be organised on 22 June.

During the EUSEW, a total of 30 digital sessions will bring together key players in the energy sector to discuss issues related to this year’s theme: «Beyond the crisis: clean energy for green recovery and growth»; and share good practices and discuss the way forward for a sustainable future for all.

Registration will open next week!

THE ENERGY DAYS

Energy Days are digital activities and events organised by local public and private organisations across Europe to promote clean energy and energy efficiency. They are a key component of the EU’s Sustainable Energy Week. You can apply for an Energy Day taking into account that:

  • takes place in May or June 2020.
  • is held in a region of the European Union.
  • is non-profit / has no admission fees.
  • aims to attract a minimum of 10 people (citizens and/or interested in energy)

Deadline: There is no deadline for registration.

More information about the Energy Days: https://www.eusew.eu/about-energy-days

Contact: beatriz.martinez@finnova.eu

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Call for Technology and Innovation Platforms 2020

29.05.2020. The call for early processing for the year 2020 for the granting of aid to Technology and Innovation Platforms, within the State Programme for Research, Development and Innovation Geared to the Challenges of Society (within the framework of the State Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation 2017-2020), has been approved. The objective of this call is the creation and consolidation of Technology and Innovation Platforms.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES TO BE FUNDED:

The Technology and Innovation Platforms carry out activities to promote and stimulate R&D&I, they are structures for exchange and communication between the different agents in the Spanish science-technology and innovation system that promote the improvement of the technological capacity and competitiveness of the national productive sector, carrying out activities of knowledge exchange, planning and dissemination. The Technology and Innovation Platforms are key structures for the promotion of public-private collaboration and the detection of new demands. The activities that are financed are:

a) Organization of the Platform’s Annual Assembly.
b) Dissemination activities or thematic conferences related to the activity of the Platform.
c) Preparation of documents related to the Platform’s activity.
d) Elaboration of prospective studies and early demand studies.
e) Actions in the field of Challenges in collaboration with other Platforms.
f) Actions aimed at promoting technological cooperation and advice on the preparation of R&D&I projects.
g) Promotion of participation in R&D&I internationalisation activities.

BENEFICIARIES:

In accordance with the provisions of Article 5 of the resolution of the call, public research bodies, public universities, state-level Technology Centres and Technology Innovation Support Centres, other public and private non-profit R&D&I centres, companies and sectorial business associations may be beneficiaries of the aid.

Type of funding: Grant

Budget: 4.000.000 €

Deadline: June 2, 2020 – June 16, 2020

More information: http://www.ciencia.gob.es/portal/site/MICINN/menuitem.dbc68b34d11ccbd5d52ffeb801432ea0/?vgnextoid=a17304aad8ac1710VgnVCM1000001d04140aRCRD

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Forest protection, biodiversity and artificial intelligence: what challenges ahead?

29.05.2020. Forest Protection, Biodiversity and Artificial Intelligence: What Challenges Ahead? is an event that will consist of a debate on future challenges regarding forest protection in the European Union and globally; as well as the use of artificial intelligence to counteract biodiversity loss and improve environmental sustainability (#Tech4Forests).

The speakers and details of the event will be announced in the coming days. Due to the Covid-19 outbreak, this event will be streamed.

ABOUT THE DEBATE

As recognized by both the UN and the European Commission, forests are rapidly disappearing as a result of deforestation and degradation. Furthermore, global deforestation and forest degradation also negatively affects many objectives, both of Europe and of the international community; and in several other important aspects of life on Earth, such as ensuring peace and good governance or promoting the rule of law as highlighted in the objectives of the UN Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development.

#Tech4Forests: The issue of forest protection continues to be a crucial feature of the global public debate on climate change, as forests are not only an important aspect of the fight to protect the climate, but also a decisive aspect of the success of the actions being taken by European and international institutions.

When: 24 June 2020

Time: 6 p.m.

Where: online

The audience will be able to ask questions during the discussion and afterward in the question and answer round.

Registration: https://bit.ly/2yIBnmZ