Extreme wildfire events (EWE) are becoming a major environmental, economic and social threat in Southern Europe and increasingly gaining importance elsewhere in Europe. As the limits of fire suppression-centered strategies become evident, practitioners, researchers and policymakers increasingly recognise the need to develop novel approaches that shift emphasis to the root causes and impacts of EWE, moving towards preventive landscape and community management for greater resilience. FIRE-RES integrates existing research, technology, civil protection, policy and governance spheres related to wildfires to innovate processes, methods and tools to effectively promote the implementation of a more holistic fire management approach and support the transition towards more resilient landscapes and communities to EWE. To achieve this, FIRE-RES will, first, generate new knowledge on sustainable integrated fire management models that help to define what type of possible future scenarios (including climate change and general policies) should be promoted across EU territories. Second, it will identify and demonstrate innovations at the technological, social, health/safety, administrative, ecological and economic levels to define how and across which possible paths the future scenarios may be achieved in the EU. These innovations will be implemented in different regional contexts, and upscaled at the national and EU levels using an open innovation hub, promoting capacity building and partnership brokerage between public and private actors. Third, it will raise societal awareness and engagement on wildfire risk prevention, preparedness and response by leveraging existing national and cross-border networks at supranational levels. FIRE-RES is a transdisciplinary, multi-actor consortium, formed by researchers, wildfire agencies, technological companies, industry and civil society from 13 countries, linking to broader networks in science and disaster reduction management.

RESILIAGE’s mission is to provide novel knowledge and impactful solutions for exploiting Europe´s hidden and unused resource: community resilience. RESILIAGE will enable a step-change in Disaster Risk Management and in the way research and practice deal with variation in aspects of society like culture, risk awareness, inclusion, socio-economic and geographical conditions by co-creating resilient communities through digital tools and soft solutions consolidated in a holistic and systemic approach. RESILIAGE aims to improve understanding of the behaviour and psychological reactions of diverse society groups affected by a natural and man-made disaster and enhance community resilience. Indeed, with the proactive and participatory involvement of all the relevant stakeholders and end users, RESILIAGE will co-shape and develop a set of digital tools and soft solutions to support first responders and public authorities, empower citizens, share more accurate and accessible information prior, during and after a natural and man-made disaster or crisis situation. These will be integrated in a digital platform, the Resource Ecosystem for Community Resilience, and validated through a holistic systemic Disaster Risk Management and multi-hazards approach in five Community Resilience labs and their networks. Results and lessons learned will provide guidelines and policy recommendations to enhance preparedness plans, SENDAI framework and strategies for Climate Change Adaptation.

The number and severity of disasters are increasing in Europe, due to climate change, ageing of industrial facilities and infrastructures, geo-political instability, poor knowledge management for critical activities and the vulnerability of the population exposed (density, age, migration…). To face these challenges, firefighters, rescuers, emergency medical responders and civil protection staff, have to implement effective and affordable solutions to support their operations. The DIREKTION project will establish and implement mechanisms and procedures to enhance knowledge sharing by directing the development of innovative technologies answering the needs of practitioners and policymakers. The steering role of international organisations (CTIF, FEU) and end-users will guarantee useful and practical results. The project starts with the deployment of tools assessing the relevance and interoperability of innovative technologies developed by EU Horizon projects. A structured analysis of needs and gaps and the screening of potential solutions will then be undertaken. The procedures will use the outcomes of projects like FIRE-IN, DRIVER+ / CMINE, MEDEA, the pilot for the Network of European Hubs for Civil Protection and Crisis Management and will follow the taxonomy of the EU security market study to ensure a structured use of results. Based on the capability-driven evaluations and a detailed analysis of the opportunities and constraints for the uptake of innovative solutions, DIREKTION will establish priorities for future research programming and capacity building. Moreover, the project will further establish networking and dissemination opportunities of interest for the DRS community in close collaboration with industry, SMEs & start-ups, research organizations and practitioners, at EU and national levels. DIREKTION will strengthen current practice and future research and innovation planning in disaster resilience.

The HARMONY project aims to advance excellence in standardization by developing harmonized protocols for comprehensive disaster risk management, encompassing Prevention/Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. Its core vision is to create a unified framework that transcends the current siloed approaches, enabling an integrated and coordinated assessment of impacts, risks, and interactions of climate-related and geological hazards across sectors and borders. By leveraging cutting-edge technologies and fostering collaboration among scientists, emergency responders, and policymakers among others, HARMONY seeks to enhance early warning systems, optimize response mechanisms, and support recovery strategies. This will contribute to building a climate-resilient society, capable of addressing the increasing intensity and frequency of disasters while minimizing their socio-economic impacts. By focusing on transnational collaboration, the project integrates novel technologies such as Earth observation, AI-driven predictive models, and GIS-based decision support systems. Large-scale pilot tests will be conducted in Spain-Portugal, Kosovo-North Macedonia, and Bulgaria-Greece, targeting climate-related and geological disasters including wildfires and floods. In addition, the project will build on a cohesive capacity building programme and replication guidelines to support scaling up of the proposed systemic approach across different areas in Europe.

According to the results of the study (EU-SILC 2008, Eurostat. Perceived health in workers aged 15-64 in the EU27), 19% of all deaths produced in the EU-27 are workers in working age.Forestry, scientific and statistical data support that there are high rates of mortality and morbidity in the development of the activity, specifically regarding diseases overexertion and safety risks arising from the prevention own Firefighting.Fire extinguishing is developed in difficult conditions, as the nature of the emergency requires urgent action, jobs are painful and exhausting and almost always develop in an atmosphere of precipitation and nervousness. Prevention work and firefighting require a high demand physical and psychological, which sometimes can lead to an imbalance with the capabilities of workers. It is therefore necessary qualify to properly in each of the skills of his job in order to obtain a quick response, as required for work in this sector.Psychophysical requirements that are required for the performance of tasks, may be incompatible with the skills of workers after a certain age, due to changes characteristic of aging, which are exacerbated or increased by these requirements and cannot be made the work with full guarantees for the safety and health of workers from a certain age. So that there is a mismatch of the physical and psychological demands on performance, it is needed there specific training in accordance with those requirements that are directed at improving the development of the skills of the operator in his job at an early age, from the point of view of health and safetyThe objectives were: Development of a specific training program based in a Serious Game for prevention and firefighting operator that takes into account the activities carried out and that includes the physical and mental requirements necessary, and skills and capabilities to consider in the development of Europe-wide Training Program, in a context of aging population. Develop a report that brings to notice the impact of aging on physical, sensory and motor capacities of prevention and firefighting operator, and its incidence to perform safely the tasks related to prevention and firefighting, because high stress, toxic and dangerous jobs.Forestgame was created on the base of the Moodle and is available for use on mobile devices and PCs. The nature of this work requires a tool that can be used anywhere. Training program: http://moodle.beti.ltIn this project the TP was compiled with the help of training modules that combine the medical, physical, technical and mental conditions that allow workers to gain their skills.The project had 2IO:1.Report: Job Profile Diagram and Training Program For Workers Operators Of Prevention And Extinguishing Forest Fires. After, we had a physiogram specific for The operator prevention and fire fighting including skills and capabilities to consider in developing the Training Program is held at European level. Finally had been developed the European Training Program for the acquisition of the necessary skills, which enable adequate professionalization of prevention and fire fighting operator. 2.Training By Serious Game: Trivial “Forestgame”.While the training program in digital support includes all the necessary training for the development of the tasks of this job, thereby enabling initial training and periodic, the Serious game allowed majoring these workers in specific aspects of greater relevance using an app. By its interactive nature It allows to transport workers your work setting. This app is therefore it is more specific on those aspects of practical training and / or risk.PARTNERSHIP: SGS (Spain), GWU (Malta), BETI (Lithuania), ASEMFO (Spain), ENB (Portugal).This project achieved a unified training program in the whole Europe, to perform with full guarantees of safety and health workplace the activities of extinguishing and fire prevention of forest sector. The program consists of 9 modules and tests with different levels. The program was tested by forestry experts. Based on their evaluations and recommendations, were made different improvements and at the moment, the training is a useful tool that has already begun to be used in the consortium countries.This is multidisciplinary training that integrates medical aspects of physical, technical and mental condition because of the high psychophysical demands of the job. It is achieving the professionalizing the sector across Europe through a training tool available to download by anyone. The training program is easy to distribute and share because it's embedded in an App/website, so results of tests can be analyzed easily by the consortium through Big Data analytics to improve the training over time.http://forestgame.euThe Project results have been published in Open Access platforms:https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/lesson/63439/overviewhttps://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/resource-centre/content/forestgame-project