Descripción del proyecto
Todo listo para formar a nuevos expertos en incendios
El Foro Mundial para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (WWF) ha avisado a Europa de que las consecuencias del cambio climático (olas de calor y sequías) ya están dando como resultado unos incendios más fuertes y que se extienden más rápido. Desde 2017 hasta 2018, los grandes incendios avivados por vientos huracanados dejaron 225 muertos en tres Estados miembros: Grecia, Portugal y España. El proyecto PyroLife, financiado con fondos europeos, formará a una nueva generación de expertos en la gestión integrada de incendios. Al reunir el conocimiento de diferentes países, disciplinas y prácticas científicas, el proyecto proporcionará a quince investigadores noveles los conocimientos y las habilidades interdisciplinarios, integrados, transferibles y detallados necesarios para completar su investigación y maximizar la empleabilidad futura. Se trata del primer programa de formación doctoral amplio e integrado sobre la gestión de incendios forestales a nivel mundial.
Objetivo
2018 was a glimpse of the future: deadly mega-fires in Mediterranean and numerous wildfires in temperate and boreal regions. Traditional mono-disciplinary attitudes cannot solve this challenge: there is a critical need to change management paradigms from fire resistance to landscape resilience: Living with Fire. PyroLife trains the new generation of interdisciplinary experts in holistic integrated fire management, through knowledge transfer between South and NW Europe and application of lessons learned in prevention of floods and other risks. Our unique integrated training program, crucially developed with industry, provides 15 ESRs the in-depth, interdisciplinary, integrated and transferable knowledge and skills required to complete their research and maximize future employability. Individual projects target risk quantification (fire danger, vulnerability, (mega)fire behavior, environmental and economic impacts), risk reduction (fire resilient home, garden and landscape design, prevention and governance), and risk communication (stimulating stakeholder and community resilience and preparedness). PyroLife is original for its inter- and transdisciplinary, intersectoral, cross-risk, and cross-climate approach to training doctoral students and tackling wildfire challenges, connecting 21 diverse partners. The project structures doctoral training by being the first large and integrated doctoral training program on wildfires globally, being a leading example for training of our future leaders. With an exemplary gender balance and diversity in industry and academia, PyroLife combines excellent research and supervision to make an impact on society and economy, through broad dissemination and communication. With the Commission’s Nov 2018 call for integrated fire management to ‘tackle the global EU wildfire problem’, the timeliness of PyroLife cannot be overstated. Funding of PyroLife provides the diverse fire experts Europe urgently needs in academia and practice.
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MSCA-ITN - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN)Coordinador
6708 PB Wageningen
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