Council of Ministers Resolution 159/2017 of October 21 established the creation of an R&D Program for preventing and fighting forest fires, with the aim of strengthening the development of R&D activities aimed at encouraging and strengthening scientific and technological skills and capabilities, as well as ensuring the appropriation and incorporation of scientific knowledge into decision support in operational systems and facilitating the production of new knowledge aimed at solving concrete and real problems.
The R&D Program includes three Calls, held annually from the end of 2017.
Through this Call , FCT supported scientific research and technological development projects in the field of preventing and fighting forest fires, centered on the development of research activities in the following areas:
- Governance of forest resources;
- Fire management and extreme fire behavior;
- Attitudes and behavior towards fire prevention, firefighting and land management, including its collaborative aspect;
- Management models and preventive forestry;
- Meteorology, forecasting and risk management, including ignition detection and early warning optimization and the development of intelligent observation and decision support systems, including advanced remote sensing and artificial intelligence technologies;
- Emergency sensing, information and communications systems and their integration into decision-making processes;
- Management and valorization of biomass in rural areas;
- Models for organizing and managing forest areas, in terms of protection, conservation, silvopastoralism, recreation, leisure and production;
- Occupational health and safety for combat technicians;
- Post-fire restoration and forest management at different temporal and spatial scales.
Results
FCT has published a brochure presenting the 56selected projects, which is available in digital format.
Indicators
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56
projects
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15 M€
Investment
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State
Finished
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