Mata do Buçaco Foundation and ForestWISE unite for fuel management
Mata Nacional do Bussaco and CoLAB ForestWISE – Collaborative Laboratory for Integrated Forest and Fire Management are joining forces to guarantee the mission of preserving the heritage of this National Monument, through the REACT-GesCoMB – Fuel Management in Mata Nacional do Bussaco project. The integrated management of the Bussaco National Forest requires particular attention, involving […]
TransForm project coordinators meet to discuss the agenda’s ambitions and challenges
The coordinators of the 28 projects included in transForm, together with the leaders of the six work packages (WP)/pillars on which the Agenda is organised, met on 1 February in Leirosa, Figueira da Foz, in a workshop organised by CoLAB ForestWISE and Altri Florestal. This workshop aimed to strengthen collaboration and synergies between the participants […]
Partners of the transForm Agenda woody biomass valorisation project meet to discover the biomass park management model in Penacova
On the 23rd of January, a meeting was held to present the management model of biomass parks of the City of Penacova. Integrated in the project “Regional networks for the valorisation of woody biomass”, of the transForm Agenda, the meeting was promoted by the Coimbra Region Intermunicipal Community (CIM-RC) and held at the facilities of […]
Centre Region joins European project to fight climate change
The Centre Region is one of the participants in the European project RESIST – Regions for climate change resilience through Innovation, Science and Technology, which involves the participation of 56 entities (from 15 countries) and a total investment of 26 million euros (more than 5.6 million euros for Portugal). The European project RESIST, whose launch […]
The Forest and Fire in the pandemic times
A reflexion promoted by CoLAB ForestWISE now in a book “Forest and Fire in pandemic times” is the first book published exclusively by CoLAB ForestWISE, which counts with the contribution of 62 specialists and individualities from multiple sectors of our society. The book is a compilation of 54 texts resulting from the Virtual Forum organized […]
1st Workshop Innovative Systems to Support Team Management in Rural Fires
One of the activities proposed by FIRE-RES intends to improve the firefighters’ monitoring system developed by INESC TEC, considering an upgrade of the devices that monitor physiological and environmental data and tank vehicles (environmental data) in real time, in a digital support interface that analyses the fire line (ForestWISE). In order to achieve these goals, […]
Challenges of integrated fire management discussed at the first FIRE-RES Community of Wildfire Innovation workshop
In the Living Labs creation context, FIRE-RES provides the implementation of strategies and actions, applied both at local and regional level and extended for use as instruments of governance on a global scale and under the most diverse conditions. In order to ensure the participation of all stakeholders, FIRE-RES proposed the creation of Communities of […]
28 projects will transform the forest value chain
The transForm Agenda is born from the growing need to foster cooperation between actors in the forest sector to bring about structural transformations in value chains to respond to the current societal challenges, such as digitalisation, climate transition and carbon neutrality. Under component C5 of the Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP), related to Capitalisation and […]
SMEs share perspectives about agroforestry bioeconomy and circular economy
The “INBEC for the future” ended today in Bragança, where more than 70 people contributed to levere project ideas on different key themes for business competitiveness and territorial development. In this initiative, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) through the Interreg V-A Spain-Portugal (POCTEP) 2014-2020 programme and by the Spanish foundation Cesefor, supported […]