3rd Call for Projects for Forest Fire Research

FCT has opened applications for the 3rd edition of the Call for Scientific Research and Technological Development Projects in the field of Forest Fire Prevention and Fighting. Applications can be submitted until February 20, 2020.

This Call aims to promote scientific research and innovation, strengthen scientific and technical skills, as well as the production of new knowledge, and in this edition the following themes and areas will be prioritized:

• Governance of forest resources, including fuel management in rural areas, integration and mechanisms for communicating the risk of fires, as well as the consideration of attitudes and behaviors;
• Valuing biomass in rural areas as a factor in boosting the local economy and the participation of the population;
• Models for organizing and managing forest areas in terms of protection, conservation, silvopastoralism, recreation, leisure and production, integrating territorial, social and economic components;
• Models of planning and preventive forestry and of restoration and post-fire management, at different temporal and spatial scales.

The Call has a financial envelope of 5 million euros, with a maximum funding limit of 300,000 euros per project.

In the first two editions of the Call, held in 2017 and 2018, 37 research projects were funded in various scientific areas, for a total amount of 10 million euros. The projects were presented at the meeting "Rural Fires: Better management based on scientific evidence", held on November 27, jointly organized by the FCT, ForestWISE - Collaborative Laboratory for Integrated Forest and Fire Management and the Agency for Integrated Rural Fire Management (AGIF), and are brought together in a brochure produced by the FCT.

For more information see the Call page.