- The North Macedonian Nature Centre in Pehchevo will host next Tuesday, 22nd November, the hybrid event “Exchange of experiences in firefighting” at 10.30 am (GMT+1).
- The event, organised by Finnova in collaboration with the Municipality of Pehchevo, will be attended by the partners and developers of the European firefighting projects FIPAS, CILIFO and FIREPOCTEP, and members of INFOCA.
- It will be open to everyone, subject to the registration via the following link: https://bit.ly/3XmRux9
Finnova, together with the municipality of Pechevo, will hold next Tuesday, 22nd November, the hybrid event: “Exchange of experiences in firefighting” to promote the analysis of opportunities, disseminate the project and generate the exchange of knowledge, skills and resources that promote good practices in the fight against fires. The event will be one of the strategies that will present the project after six months of work on FIPAS, a forest fire prediction alarm system through Artificial Intelligence, led by Nassat and developed within the framework of EIT Climate-KIC, a European community that supports innovative initiatives that help to combat climate change and mitigate the effects of global warming.
FIPAS has a total budget of 144,500 euros, 80 % funded by the EIT Climate-KIC. During the last six months, the project partners have been working on the progress of a set of solutions to detect the probability of fire danger in real-time, as well as the actions that can be taken to reduce it with Artificial Intelligence as the main tool.
The event will be attended by several relevant actors in the development of this project and it will consist of two blocks. The first, of an institutional nature, will include a representative of each FIPAS partner, who will present the latest advances and main conclusions of the project. The second block, dedicated to the field experience, will include interventions by the Department of Sustainability, Environment and Blue Economy of the Andalusian Regional Government, which will present the European projects Interreg CILIFO, FIREPOCTEP and the INFOCA plan.
Those interested in following the event will be able to do so after registering at the following link: https://bit.ly/3XmRux9
About NASSAT
Nassat is a leading company in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector that addresses particularly complex problems affecting organisations, companies, institutions and communities, inherent to deficiencies in telecommunications infrastructures, in many cases non-existent.
About Finnova
Finnova is the European Foundation for innovation financing. Its objectives are to promote public-private cooperation through its knowledge and experience in European funding instruments, addressing societal challenges such as youth employment, entrepreneurship, the UN SDGs, the circular economy, waste recovery, sustainable tourism and the fight against climate change.
About Social Innovation Lab
Social Innovation Lab, located in Skopje (North Macedonia), dedicates its resources and skills to catalyse innovation to offer novel solutions to social problems, connecting institutions, organisations and collectives to different opportunities or projects.
About Climate-KIC EIT Climate-KIC is the EU’s climate innovation agency working to accelerate the transition to a resilient, carbon-free world through systems transformation. Headquartered in Amsterdam, EIT Climate-KIC operates from 13 centres across Europe and is active in 39 countries. EIT Climate-KIC was established in 2010 and is primarily funded by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), an agency of the European Union. As a Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC), EIT Climate-KIC brings together more than 400 partners from business, academia, public and non-profit sectors to create networks of expertise through which innovative products, services and systems are developed and commercialised for greater societal impact.