Fireadapt

Project

FIRE-ADAPT is a project funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Staff Exchanges 2021 scheme within the Horizon Europe funding programme from the European Union (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-SE).

Project number: 101086416.

Duration

1 January 2023 to 31 December 2026

Project coordinator

Núria Prat, Fundación Pau Costa, Spain

Scientific coordinator

Imma Oliveras, botAnique et Modélisation de l’Architecture des Plantes et des végétations, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France

Overall objective

Quantify, monitor, and evaluate the impact of Integrated Fire Management (IFM) on carbon dynamics, biodiversity and cultural ecosystem services in different tropical and subtropical regions with altered fire regimes.

Specific objectives

  1. Development of a knowledge-sharing FIRE-ADAPT international network, gathering a key group of researchers, wildfire management agencies, and non-profit organisations.
  2. Provide scientific evidence on the needs and potential impacts of IFM on the societal and ecological dynamics of tropical and subtropical regions.
  3. Sharing and integrating approaches and knowledge among scientists, practitioners and the wider society to evaluate IFM.
  4. Develop shared methodologies to plan and execute IFM practices and monitor its effectiveness in the maintenance of ecosystem services, human wellbeing and wildfire risk reduction.
  5. Enhance scientists’ early career perspectives.

Study hubs

Single or multiple regions within a country where FIRE-ADAPT activities, secondments, networking meetings and inter-sectorial and interdisciplinary exchanges occur. There are six Study Hubs: Spain, Mexico, Brazil, France, Argentina, and Italy.

More information about each study hub here.

Secondments

Stays of FIRE-ADAPT researchers and practitioners at partner organisations for training, knowledge-exchange, networking and contributing to resources that FIRE-ADAPT is committed to produce.

Work packages

The project´s methodology is based on a joint work across the work packages. A work package is a group of FIRE-ADAPT participants that share expertise and advance scientific and/or technical knowledge on a specific topic.

Area of expertise that integrates methods addressed to quantify carbon losses and gains in fire-prone ecosystems of tropical and subtropical regions, as a result of integrated fire management activities, and associated to live and dead vegetation pools, such as grasses, woody debris, litter, and organic soil, which act as fuel for fire. 

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Area of expertise that addresses the effects of integrated fire management and wildfires on biodiversity and the ecosystem, in tropical and subtropical regions. Particularly, it aims at identifying efficient methods to monitor biodiversity and particular fire regimes that promote biodiversity in different biomes, and better fire management practices to benefit biodiversity and human live.

Leaders:

Area of expertise that focuses on the formulation, promotion, and implementation of integrated fire management (IFM) practices and/or public policies through enabling an intercultural and participatory vision based on the interaction of actors and sectors, and the experiences acquired throughout the project that is shared across two main themes: building IFM collaborative and intercultural partnerships, and cultural knowledge and perceptions about landscape fires.

Leaders:

Area of expertise that studies the effectiveness of integrated fire management in providing ecosystem services and mitigating wildfire risk using modelling and remote sensing approaches.

Co-leaders:

Area of expertise that merges expertise around cross-cutting themes which are relevant for research and knowledge integration between the natural, social and Earth system sciences, between sectors (academic and non-academic) and between FIRE-ADAPT partners with various audiences, including broader academic, policy and citizen communities, and the general public.

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Area that coordinates the dissemination, communication, outreach and exploitation actions to ensure the impact of FIRE-ADAPT.

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Area that provides support to the consortium for an efficient implementation of the project; to communicate with the EU and provide the appropriate reporting; and to ensure the best possible implementation of the project by taking into account data management, and ethics.

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