Barcelona recently hosted the annual meeting of the DigiMedfor project, a two-day event that brought the various partners involved in the project. DigiMedfor experts gathered to discuss the technical details of the progress made and provide an in-depth overview of how the project is advancing, sharing ideas and suggestions to tackle future challenges in a dynamic and proactive environment.
Updates on the activities carried out in all Work Packages (WP) were presented, collecting comments from all participants and suggestions for possible new interactions.
During the meeting, there was also an excursion to the DigiMedfor project pilot site near Barcelona, where participants had the opportunity to visit the study area and some of the ecosystem services cataloged in the project.
Thanks to the active participation of all the partners involved, the meeting proved to be a great success, allowing for a review of the results achieved and enthusiastic planning of future phases.
More details on the event and more in-depth information regarding the project can be found by visiting the official project website
Sintetic: the results obtained in the first year of the project were presented
Last May 14th, one year after the start of the “Sintetic” project (identification of the single piece for forestry production, protection and management), the first meeting was held with the presentation of the results obtained to date and the next steps to be taken follow have been planned. The event, organized by two of the project partners, the Transylvanian University of Brașov and ASFOR, took place in Brasov, Romania, and ended on 16 May. Detailed information can be found by downloading the brochure below
10 e Lode: a workshop to present the project will be held on May 31st in Bologna
IV Edition of the International Advanced School in Agricultural Meteorology “Agricultural Meteorology for managing the risk of extreme events”
Work in progress” at the Ponte Vecchio in Florence
The Second Edition of the International Advanced School in Agricultural Meteorology
Wood in Sport Equipment – Heritage, present, perspective: a new book on wood in sports have been published
Awarded the Gaetano Castro prize for degree thesis on wood
3rd edition of the International Conference on Fire Behavior and Risk – ICFBR2022
The third edition of the International Conference on Fire Behavior and Risk – ICFBR2022 will be held in Alghero from 3 to 6 May.
The event, organized by the CNR Institute for BioEconomy (CNR IBE) and by the Department of Agriculture of the University of Sassari (UNISS), in collaboration with EARSeL (European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories) and CMCC Foundation (EuroMediterranean Center on Climate Change), represents an important meeting point for researchers, students, experts in fighting forest fires and rural, political decision makers and society on the multiple aspects related to the prevention, prediction, behavior and management of fires and their impacts.
Conference convenors, Pierpaolo Duce for CNR IBE and Donatella Spano for UNISS, will present the Conference program (https: //www.icfbr2022.it/programma/) and will introduce the institutional session which includes the greetings of the Councilor for the Defense of the Environment Gianni Lampis, of Sinda co of the city of Alghero hosting the event, Mario Conoci, and the Rector of the University of Sassari Gavino Mariotti. Giorgio Matteucci, Director of the CNR IBE, Alessandra Stefani, general director of the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies, Renzo Motta, President of the Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology, Stefano Marsella for the Central Directorate for Prevention and the Technical Safety of the National Fire Brigade, and Giovanna Tortorella for the Managing Authority of the European program INTERREG Italy France Maritime.
The Conference will make use of the contribution of international experts of the highest scientific prestige, who will speak as keynote speakers: Prof. Marta Yebra, of the Australian National University, Dr. Alexandra Syphard, of Sage Insurance Holdings, Dr. Juli Pausas, of the Centro de Investigación sobre Desertificación of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Prof. Ana Miranda , of the University of Aveiro (Portugal), and Dr. Alan Ager of the USDA Forest Service.
During the three days of work, the results obtained in various European projects will be illustrated, the point will be made on the development of analysis and modeling tools for the assessment of fire behavior, approaches and options for sustainable forest management will be discussed and proposed in report on fire prevention, and a session will be offered to the problem of fires in the urban-rural interface.
ICFBR2022 also dedicates a special session to the scientific works of the EARSeL association, coordinated by one of the leading experts on Mediterranean fires, prof. Emilio Chuvieco, of the University of Alcalà, Spain.
The Conference is the most important communication event of the INTERREG Italy-France Maritime (2014-2020) MED-Star projects, coordinated by the General Directorate of Civil Protection of the Sardinia Region, and INTERMED, coordinated by the Collectivité de Corse.
The Conference is also sponsored by the Regions involved in the MED-Star project (Sardinia, Tuscany, Liguria, the Collectivity of Corsica, and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur) as well as by MIPAAF (Ministry of Agricultural Policies, Food and Forestry), SISEF (Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology) and EURAF (European Federation of Agroforestry).
“This conference is an extraordinary opportunity for our scientific community and for stakeholders” – says Donatella Spano – “to contribute to the growth of knowledge and the development of tools to prevent and control a phenomenon that on a global level often has consequences of catastrophic proportions, with a very high social, economic and environmental impact, also as a result of the extreme conditions due to current and future climate changes. “
” The results brought to the conference “- declares Pierpaolo Duce -” derive from a set of important projects cross-border which have seen for the Mediterranean area the involvement and comparison not only of researchers but also of operators and of all levels of territorial governance, with the aim of contributing together to improve the current management models and make the territories more resistant and resilient to fires”
The event is attended, in presence and in live streaming, by over 300 researchers and experts in the sector, from sixteen European countries, including France, Greece, Portugal and Spain, in addition to Italy, and 9 Non-European countries (North Africa, USA, Canada, Brazil, Australia, Russia and the Middle East) united by the phenomenon of forest fires and the struggle the risks of climate change.
MED-Star is a strategic project funded under the Italy-France Maritime 2014-2020 cross-border cooperation program and aimed at the prevention, forecasting and joint management of risks deriving from fires. The project involves sixteen different partners between public bodies and research institutions from different territories: Sardinia; Corsica; Liguria; Tuscany; Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Region (PACA).
INTERMED is a simple project, funded under the Italy-France Maritime Cross-border Cooperation Program 2014-2020, with the aim of reducing the vulnerability to fires in the areas of urban-rural interface, that is the areas where infrastructures or human activities are in contact with wooded areas.
The venue for those who will attend is the Hotel Carlos V at the Lungomare Valencia in Alghero. For more information https://www.icfbr2022.it/
Final conference of the Sheep To Ship LIFE project
The final event will be held on June 10th with a Zoom conference of the Sheep To Ship LIFE project. The event, which will start at 09.30, is totally free and a simultaneous translation service will be provided in Italian and English.
Press release
The SheepToShip Life project comes to an end after five years of work. The precise and ambitious goal has been achieved: to demonstrate how dairy sheep farming can be more sustainable from a climate and environmental point of view and, at the same time, more efficient and profitable. In spite of the collective imagination linked to idyllic landscapes made of sheep, green pastures and blue skies, the project has quantified how, in reality, the sheep dairy sector of Sardinia, with about 3 million head and over 10 thousand active companies , contributes over 5% of the greenhouse gas emissions of Italian agriculture. On the other hand, the margins for improvement highlighted by the project are wide, thanks to specific actions to mitigate climate change, especially if accompanied by the enhancement of the important eco-systemic services offered, to which Sardinian sheep farms are structurally suited. It starts with a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in ten years and, on a regional scale, systematizing the eco-innovation strategies set out in the Environmental Action Plan developed by SheepToShip LIFE, the climate neutrality of sheep systems Sardinia could be easily reached by 2050. The project, carried out in the period 2016-2021 thanks to funding from the “Climate Action” sub-program of the LIFE program “Environment and climate change” of the European Union, was coordinated by the CNR IBE of Sassari and saw the participation of the University of Sassari, with the Departments of Agriculture and Economic and Business Sciences, the Agris and Laore regional agencies, and the Department of Environmental Defense of the Sardinia Region. The reflections on the legacy that the project leaves to the Sardinia Region and the Mediterranean sheep sector, more generally, will be discussed next Thursday 10 June in the final event entitled “Sheep may safely graze, and they can help us in the challenge of climatic change”. The conference, of a popular nature, will be accessible online at the link https://zoom.us/j/97241413137 and will allow to deepen, with both national and European industry experts, the role and opportunities that the sheep sector can play and seize in the framework of the next National Strategic Program for Rural Development and within the European strategy “From Farm to Fork” .