OFIDIA (Operational FIre Danger preventIon plAtform) Kick-off meeting

The OFIDIA Kick-off meeting gathers in Lecce all the member institutions of the consortium and the stakeholders. The two-day discussion focus on operative topics of the project and it aims to plan the steps to be made in order to achieve the expected results of OFIDIA – Operational FIre Danger preventIon platform, and to communicate them in an effective, comprehensive and exhaustive way to the stakeholders and to the public opinion.

The main objective of the project is to build a cross-border operational fire danger prevention infrastructure that advances the ability of regional stakeholders across the area of the programme to detect and fight forest wildfires through more effective patrolling, environmental monitoring, weather modeling, fire danger forecasting and automated access to related historical data.
More specific goals of the project are to:

  • improve the operational capability of forecasting, preventing and fighting forest wildfires in the cross-board area
  • enhance the cross-border cooperation concerning fire danger protection
  • encourage cross-border knowledge sharing among research institutions and stakeholders
  • advance the sustainable life quality and economic prosperity in the area.

To achieve these goals there is an effective consortium including 2 research institutions, the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) and the University of Ioannina, along with three stakeholders: the Decentralized Administration of Epirus-Western Macedonia, Forest Directorate, the Province of Lecce and the Province of Bari.

More info about the OFIDIA (Operational FIre Danger preventIon plAtform) project are available here

When and Where

Lecce, Italy - Lecce, Italy -

20 Jan 2014 21 Jan 2014



Contacts Division Organized by
  • CMCC - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change

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