Akronym: Wildfire CE
Project number: CE0200934
Project duration: 1.6.2024 - 31.5.2027
Budget: overall 2,25 million €, for the Slovenian Forestry Institute 211.680 €
Cofinancing: 80 % European Commission: European Regional Development Fund, Interreg Central Europe Programme
Partnership: 9 partners, from 5 states
Lead partner: Saxon State Ministry for Regional Development
Project overall objective
To enable border regions, the communities and landscapes within them, to prepare, respond & adapt to the increasing wildfire risk resulting from climate change. It will broaden cross-border & crosssector implementation of risk management through raising awareness with policy-makers, land managers, communities, infrastructure providers and emergency responders. Through improved and harmonised forecasting and fire risk mapping across borders it will reduce the exposure to wildfire risk.
Project work plan
WP1: Identifying Wildfire Risk in Central European Border Areas
WP2: Testing Cross-Border Wildfire Risk Management Portal in Pilot Sites
WP3: Implementation of Cross-Border Fire Risk Management in Pilot Regions and Transfer to Other Regions
Project results
R1: Strategy for the Application of Spatial and Weather Data for Assessing Wildfire Risk will increase the capacity of regional actors to make informed decisions for wildfire prevention, adaptation and response and it will raise awareness among policy makers of the need to address the issue of wildfire risk at the inter-regional/inter-territorial level.
R2: Pilot Action will raise awareness of regional /local planning authorities, communities, fire services and infrastructure providers to the risks posed by wildfires to communities, the environment and infrastructure and how the risk transcends political boundaries. OT2.2 Wildfire Platform will provide the solution and enhance the knowledge and capability to make informed decisions related to the spatial and temporal risks associated with wildfire
R3: The early integration of stakeholders and their continual involvement in the activities leading to the production of OT3.1 will lead to the following results; Raised awareness of the risks among communities and policy-makers and interdependencies between territories and regions, an increased capacity of regional actors to make informed decisions for prevention, adaptation and response, change behaviour by increasing coordination between regional actors and across borders Policy, Fire and Land-managers and an enhanced knowledge of wildfire risks and approaches to reducing, mitigating and avoiding those risks.
R4: Strategy for transfer is aimed at raising awareness of policy-makers, sectoral agencies and infrastructure providers of the need to plan spatially and across borders to address wildfire risk. It will improve their knowledge of how to achieve this by detailing how regions outside of the project area can replicate the deliverables and outputs of the project.
R5: Strategy for transfer is aimed at raising awareness of policy-makers, sectoral agencies and infrastructure providers of the need to plan spatially and across borders to address wildfire risk. It will improve their knowledge of how to achieve this by detailing how regions outside of the project area can replicate the deliverables and outputs of the project.
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