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More than 100 people attend the third CILIFO webinar as part of #EUGreenWeek2020

21.10.2020. European Green Week (#EUGreenWeek), organised by the European Commission, focuses this year on nature and biodiversity. The Finnova Foundation, the entity which will benefit from the INTERREG-CILIFO project, prepared a localised event to form part of a week which will act as a milestone on the way to the Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity, in collaboration with the University of Cadiz, which is also part of the CILIFO project partnership.

Last Monday, 19 October 2020, the Iberian Centre for Research and Fight Against Forest Fires (CILIFO) held the third event of the CILIFO Project within the framework of #EUGreenWeek – it has planned another in Córdoba, on European Union funding for innovative projects to fight forest fires and protect biodiversity. The event was partially focused on the applications of unmanned aerial vehicles for the extinction and prevention of forest fires.

The highest number of visitors at Zoom was 60, however, the total number of people registered at Zoom for the event was 107 (but not all were connected at the same time).

During the session on Community financial sources for projects with innovative solutions in the prevention and extinction of forest fires and the protection of biodiversity, public entities intervened, such as the Directorate General of European Funds of the Ministry of Finance of the Government of Spain or the Agency for the Environment and Water of Andalusia (AMAYA) – Government of Andalusia. In addition, several initiatives were presented, such as the implementation of drones with thermal cameras to control the dead zones of the fires; or materials that hydrate and when thrown into the fire manage to extinguish a fire by themselves and at the same time increase the percentage of reforestation of the area after the fire has passed.

Below you can read some of the statements of the speakers who participated in the third CILIFO webinar in the framework of #EUGreenWeek:

Adrián Vecino Varela, technical advisor to the Ministry of Finance – Directorate General of European Funds.

“So far we have obtained these data with the aid we have received: 546,430 hectares are receiving conservation aid; 320,142.50 square metres of space in urban areas have been created or rehabilitated; 14,604.39 tonnes more of waste recycling capacity; more than 1.5 million people have benefited from protection against forest fires; and more than 1.5 million people have benefited from flood prevention measures”.

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Inmaculada Vázquez, from the Andalusian Environment and Water Agency (AMAYA) – Andalusian Regional Government.

“Among the objectives that CILIFO has, we can highlight the strengthening and pooling of cooperation, working procedures and training in the prevention and extinction of forest fires, promoting innovation to prevent large forest fires and improving the response capacity to forest fires on the part of the administrations and authorities involved in fighting them in the three participating regions”.

“In order to give continuity to CILIFO, a new application called FIREPOCTEP has been submitted under the same heading, with the aim of strengthening cross-border systems for preventing and extinguishing forest fires and improving resources for generating rural employment, acting in the development, protection and promotion of the natural heritage, researching and innovating in the environmental field and improving the institutional capacity of administrations and the public sector”.

Luis Carlos Barbero González, Professor of Petrology and Geochemistry and Director of the Department of Earth Sciences – Campus of International Excellence CEI-MAR of the University of Cadiz

On the realistic application of the drones on the ground in fire crisis situations: “the thermal cameras guided the firefighters very reliably to manage the fires by guiding them through the smoke, they should be used in fires that are not very large and in which the economic resources are rather high, in addition the monitoring and control tasks that the drones would have during rainy conditions should be improved”.

Lourdes González, technical coordinator of the CILIFO project at the ONCE Foundation and technology and accessibility expert at the ONCE Foundation

“Through training and the employability of people with disabilities, getting involved in a project in which we promote universal accessibility, in which people with disabilities have no physical barriers to communication and technology. In addition, they carry out training so that if a professional meets a person with a disability he or she can evacuate them in the correct way, communicate with them, etc. And from November (2020), a 15-hour course will begin on what to do when interacting with someone with a disability”.

Juan Viesca, Director of European Funds at the Finnova Foundation.

“The European Commission announced a new programme with 750,000 million euros to replace the crisis and propose new solutions, within which there is the REACT UE programme, a programme that could complement the structural funds with 50,000 million euros. In addition, there is a specific call for the fight and prevention of forest fires as part of the Green Deal call for innovative proposals that ends in January 21, which is a very good opportunity for the speakers at this webinar to be financed by this type of programme”.

Alberto Navarro, Director of Projects, Human Resources and Training at the Finnova Foundation.

Alberto presented two E-learning platforms available within the CILIFO Project to the attendees, with innovations such as gamification processes, encouraging interaction through the website with the students, with mini-games and as the course progresses: “a city is created, comparing the construction of a city with the training that is gradually taking place in each of the students”.

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Yolanda Marín, European Projects Technician at the Finnova Foundation

“Within the Firefighting Open Innovation Lab – CILIFO accelerator, we offer a working space, pilot tests, European funding, European projects, partner search and legal advice. In addition, work is currently underway on a catalogue to include an article by each company on how to fight forest fires and to provide information on companies if interested”.

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José María Gómez, Chief Financial Officer of Drone Hopper

“Our mission is to develop all the aeronautical platforms and aircraft so that we can consolidate ourselves as a reference in this field and, above all, we want to solve the problem of fire and fire-fighting. Our solution is to offer our services to work 24/7 and try to minimize risks regarding fire fighting”.

CILIFO_EUGW_Drone_Hopper.pdf

Jacobus Benedik, representative of Scodev

“Scodev’s idea is a device by which conventional aircraft could assist in fire-fighting, allowing a common aircraft to collect water from the sea, a river or a lake at a height of 50 feet and pour it over the affected area up to 5 times per hour. This method will expand the resources of any municipality in using fire-fighting tools.

Pedro Ruíz, Director of Innovation at Integrasys SA

“We developed an application for tracking (positioning) and communication when facing fire, combining several technologies, such as the new European satellite positioning system Galileo. We are also mixing new communication technologies to ensure that we always have communication at all times and in adverse situations”.  Thanks to these features, firefighters will be able to face the fire as well informed and positioned as possible, which is certainly a great approach.

Leonardo Rico Fernández, General Manager of Lluvia Sólida.

“Lluvia Sólida” is a technology that retains water up to 400 times its weight in water, and we place it at the root, thanks to this the plant will remain hydrated for weeks without the need for water or rain, after which it returns to its original granulated state and is rehydrated with the next watering or rain, reducing the frequency of watering. As far as fire fighting is concerned, what we do is throw the already hydrated granulate at a prudent distance from the fire, creating a stream of solid water, leaving the fire to go out by itself, and after these fires it is reforested with solid water again and can be saved in around 70% to 80% of the reforested areas”.

Alberto López Casillas technician from the Department of European Affairs, Energy and Tourism of Ávila Provincial Council.

“The aim of the GEFRECON project is to reduce the risk of forest fires in the POCTEP territory by developing and implementing joint plans to raise awareness among other types of actors, so that this type of case can be managed jointly and damage can be minimised. The first of these tools is a GIS (Geographical Information System) in which a landowner or municipality can select an area in which they intend to analyse the potential for use of biomass and the cost of extracting this biomass and taking it to a transformation centre”.

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Lola Bordás Marketing Director at the Finnova Foundation.

The StartUp Europe Awards (SEUA) are a very useful open innovation tool to promote the exchange of experiences, add value to the business ecosystem and help start-ups to grow and position themselves in the market. The Finnova Foundation – the beneficiary of the CILIFO Project – supported by the Committee of the Regions and the European Commission, specifically by the Directorate General for Communication and New Technologies (DG CONNECT), has already celebrated and successfully launched several editions of these awards; and is organising the 2nd Edition Firefighitng StartUp Europe Awards (SEUA-CILIFO). “The StartUp Europe Awards, from 2016 onwards, is an initiative promoted by the European Commission and implemented by Finnova, supporting entrepreneurship across Europe. The award is a fast-track ticket for the winning project. “Within the Firefighting StartUp Europe Awards (SEUA-CILIFO) “We encourage and support all those projects that have to do with the prevention, action and regeneration of forest fires”.

The final ceremony of the Firefighting StartUp Europe Awards will be held within the framework of the European Week for Waste Reduction (EWWR), on Monday 23 November 2020:

www.f6s.com/startupeuropeawards 

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Gilson Batista da Silva, representative of Uffire

“In Uffire we have an extinguishing backpack that feeds back the smoke from the fires, eliminating the oxygen through air expulsion. Right now we are already working on the third prototype of the product, making it more and more powerful. The rucksack, which weighs 9 kg and has an autonomy of 5 hours, can do the same thing as 10-ton fire-fighting equipment, which is a very advantageous ratio for the Uffire product”.

CILIFO_EUGEW_PitchUFFire.pdf

 

CONTACT:

Beatriz Martínez Muñoz
European projects and communication officer at the Finnova Foundation
Beatriz.martinez@finnova.eu

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The seventh edition of the Ateneo Startup Europe Accelerator Awards will be presented in #EUGreenWeek

Brussels, 21.10.2020 – Once again, and for the seventh consecutive year, the ‘Ateneo Club de Innovación y Empresa’, thanks to the collaboration with the ‘Fundación Finnova’, the sponsorship of “Caixa Popular” and with the media support of the European Union and Valencia Activa, presents the ‘Ateneo StartUp Europe Accelerator 2020’ award, which will allow a young entrepreneur to promote his or her company in the heart of Europe, and access opportunities for financing, networking, mobility, international communication, and much more!

The StartUp Europe Accelerator 2020 is the first Spanish accelerator developed in the European Union. Its aim is to provide tools to young Spanish people, with a technology-based project in the field of ICT, tourism, renewable energy, water, health or the environment, to learn how to use the resources provided by the EU.

The Ateneo Mercantil of Valencia, through its collaboration agreement with the Finnova Foundation and the organisational coordination work carried out by the Ateneo Club de Innovación y Empresa, a committee belonging to the Ateneo Mercantil of Valencia, will be holding a presentation ceremony of the award this Thursday 22 October at 4.30 pm in the Salón Sorolla, both In-person and online by Zoom.

During the event, a seminar will be held in which various speakers from all over Spain will talk about the “Challenges of industrial ecodesign, rice straw and the circular economy” and where the Finnova Foundation will present the second edition of the Accelerathon Rice Straw.

The Accelerathon is an open innovation programme promoted by the Finnova Foundation within the framework of the European Commission’s Startup Europe Awards, which encourages public-private partnerships and the application of a multidisciplinary approach to the challenges set out in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDAs). This methodology of the Finnova Foundation combines the Hackaton with the principle of acceleration aims to find solutions and European funding through an online system of applied open innovation that brings together different actors in the innovation ecosystem. To this end, a competition is established by teams which are trained to present projects to European Union programmes. The Accelerathon is oriented towards the European Commission’s LIFE Programme and other programmes that support innovation in order to obtain real funding to implement the projects.

During the Accelerathon programme, participants receive training in EU programmes through the Eu Training Platform, the assistance of specialised mentors and the winners are eligible for a Startup Europe Accelerator European Ticket, as well as participation in the Startup Europe Awards.

Startup Europe is an initiative of the European Commission to connect high-tech startups, scaleups, investors, accelerators, corporate networks, universities and media.

The President of the Ateneo Mercantil of Valencia, Carmen De Rosa Torner, will be in charge of opening the event. Afterwards, Juan Manuel Revuelta, CEO of Finnova, will speak, followed by the Vice President of the Ateneo Mercantil of Valencia and head of the Ateneo Club de Innovación y Empresa, Ignacio Carrau, who will briefly explain the European Accelerator Awards, their history, content and development details with the deadline and form of project presentation.

The event will be closed by Vicente Gomar, member of the Ateneo Club de Innovación y Empresa, who will thank the speakers and participants, on behalf of the Ateneo Club de Innovación y Empresa and the Ateneo Mercantil of Valencia, by delegation of its President, making a new mention to the expected success of the European Accelerator Award, encouraging the entrepreneurial ecosystem to participate.

European Green Week 2020:

EU Green Week 2020 will take place from 19 to 22 October 2020 and will focus on nature and biodiversity. Following the adoption of a new EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 in May, Green Week will emphasise the contribution that biodiversity can make to society and the economy, and the role it can play in supporting and stimulating global recovery from the pandemic, creating jobs and sustainable development. European Green Week is an event convened by the European Commission’s Directorate-General.

Accelerathon:

Accelerathon is an innovative project acceleration programme promoted by the Finnova Foundation. This methodology of the Finnova Foundation aims to find solutions and funding, through an applied open innovation online system that brings together the innovative ecosystem in the environmental sector, in which the European Commission works in the framework of the LIFE programme.

This will involve training, mentoring, judging and very special prizes including the possibility of the winning project being eligible for validation under the LIFE programme: a project of up to 2 million over three years.

Ateneo Mercantil of Valencia:

The Ateneo Mercantil of Valencia is a cultural institution founded on 23 March 1879 by Estanislao García Monfort. The institution was born to “attend to the cultural and training needs, in his profession, of the employees of the trade”. In its 139 years of life, it has consolidated itself as one of the reference institutions of the Valencian civil society, in cultural, commercial and leisure matters.

Finnova Foundation:

European Foundation for the Financing of Innovation. Based in Brussels, Madrid, Catalonia, the Basque Country, Valencia, Andalusia and the Canary Islands, its objectives are to promote public-private cooperation through innovation to address social challenges such as employment, training, entrepreneurship, the United Nations’ ODS, water, waste, firefighting, the circular economy, etc. 

 

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The City Council of Fuerteventura presents “Fuerteventura SOS Water RESCUE” in the #EURegionsWeek

Brussels, 19.10.2020 – On 20th October 2020, the Finnova Foundation and the Fuerteventura City Council will present a unique event in the Canary Islands: “Fuerteventura SOS Water RESCUE”. The webinar will take place between 10:00 and 13:00 and is part of the European Commission’s Week of Regions and Cities.

In October 2019, the Fuerteventura Island City Council, through its Department of the Environment, The Fight against Climate Change, The Circular Economy and R+D+I directed by Marlene Figueroa, launched a strategic study aimed at defining the circular economy on the island, within the framework of the commitments of the United Nations Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development Goals. The objective of this strategy was to diagnose and plan the different actions that would be carried out in the short, medium and long term and that would be committed to this cause of a European and global magnitude: an economic system that would generate new green jobs, both public and private, together with a renewable energy policy that would guarantee an efficient use and management of our environment, our resources and our waste.

Access to quality water is essential for health and human development. On the island of Fuerteventura almost all of the water consumed comes from desalination plants. Of this amount, more than 50% of the liquid is lost when it leaves the plants, which has a significant impact on the environment, energy and economy. For this reason, the treatment of wastewater as well as the system for supplying drinking water must play a fundamental role in mitigating climate change and in optimal human development. At the same time, improving waste management to achieve a fully circular economy remains another priority for the EU. All of the above is in line with SDGs 6, 7 and 13. Fuerteventura S.O.S Water Rescue aims to be an international showcase for the circular water economy.

Fuerteventura has been obtaining drinking water from seawater for over 40 years, using a unique method, water desalination stations. The Island City Council considers it necessary to implement new policies aimed at the circular economy, not only focusing on extraction, manufacture, use and disposal. It is necessary to close the cycle by reducing waste and/or extending its useful life.

European Week of Regions and Cities 2020

The European Week of Regions and Cities (#EURegionsWeek) is an event held in Brussels every year (this year from 12 to 15 October) that is mainly focused on regional policy. It is a communications and networking platform where regions and cities from all over Europe come together through different political representatives, officials, experts or academics.

This year the main themes will be: Green Europe; Cohesion and cooperation; Empowering citizens.

There is the option of organising parallel events in digital form related to the themes covered in #EURegionsWeek between 5 and 9 October, 12 and 16 October, or 19 to 22 October 2020

https://cor.europa.eu/es/events/Pages/European-week-of-regions-and-cities-EWRC.aspx

Startup Europe Accelerathon:

Accelerathon is a programme for accelerating innovative projects promoted by the Finnova Foundation. This methodology of the Finnova Foundation aims to find solutions and funding, through an applied open innovation online system that brings together the innovative ecosystem in the environmental sector, in which the European Commission works in the framework of the LIFE programme.

This will involve training, mentoring, jury work and very special prizes including the possibility of the winning project being eligible for validation under the LIFE programme: a project of up to ?2 million over three years

http://accelerathon.eu/

The Fuerteventura City Council:

 The Fuerteventura City Council is the governmental and administrative form, typical of the Canary Islands, which has two main functions. On the one hand, it provides services and exercises powers specific to the Autonomous Community and, on the other, it is the local body which governs the island. The Regional Ministry for the Environment, the Fight against Climate Change, The Circular Economy and R&D&I has launched a strategic study aimed at defining the circular economy on the island, within the framework of the United Nations Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development Goals.

http://www.cabildofuer.es

Finnova Foundation:

European Foundation for the financing of Innovation. Based in Brussels, Madrid, Catalonia, the Basque Country, Valencia, Andalusia and the Canary Islands, its objectives are to promote public-private cooperation through innovation to address social challenges such as employment, training, entrepreneurship, the United Nations’ ODS, water, waste, fire fighting, the circular economy, etc.

http://finnova.eu/

Webinar registration:

https://eu.jotform.com/form/202721961627355

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Prevention of forest fires and protection of biodiversity: the main topics of the second side event of the CILIFO Project in the #EUGreenWeek

01.10.2020. Organised by the European Commission, the EU Green Week (#EUGreenWeek) will focus this year on Nature and Biodiversity. Finnova Foundation, one of the beneficiaries of the INTERREG-CILIFO Project, has organised a side event in order to take part of a week that will set a milestone towards the Conferences of the Parties (COP 15) to the Convention on Biological Biodiversity.

On Monday, 28 September 2020, the Iberian Centre for Research and Forest Firefighting (CILIFO) has held the second side event for the CILIFO Project in the framework of the #EUGreenWeek in collaboration with GoHub, the open innovation hub of Global Omnium.

The person charged of the opening of the event was Juan Sánchez Ruiz, director of the Regional Operational Centre (INFOCA) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Sustainable Development (Regional Government of Andalusia). He emphasized the importance of the reinforcement of infrastructures jointly used for fighting against forest fires.

In this second event of CILIFO during the EU Green Week, the vice-president of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and Member of the European Parliament, César Luena, participated talking about the project that is going to be submitted to the European Commission to combat forest fires and preserve biodiversity. Among the measures, Luena talked about the post-fire recovery of the affected areas, the protection of freshwater ecosystems —such as restoring rivers—, the regulation of waters in order to avoid ecological disaster, the legal protection of soils, a specific plan for desertification and a European forest policy. His aim is to create a joint action plan for fighting against climate change and biodiversity.

In the first part of the event about prevention, extinction of forest fires and protection of biodiversity, Ana Lourido from the academic domain (University of Ébora) gave her insight about research and combating forest fires. ‘We have an opportunity to make a qualitative and quantitative leap in the fight against forest fires in order to progress in research.’ Afterwards, Javier Madrigal Olmo, senior scientist of the forest fire lab at the Forest Research Center of INIA spoke about the vulnerability face to forest fires and how science and technology can help prevention. As for Javier Cañas Andreu, director of Innovation Projects at EIT Climate-KIC, pointed that the increase of temperatures, the low rate of rain and the subsequent droughts are some of the causes of forest fires in Andalusia.

The topic of the second part of the event was funding and entrepreneurship. María Gil Cabrera¸ director of GoHub Andalucía, and Juan Viesca, EU Funds director de at Finnova Foundation, talked about financing at the European Union and innovative projects in the forest fire sector. It is worth highlighting that the European Green Deal call is now open for fighting against climate change and making Europe climatically neutral by 2050. Adrián Noheda, director of CILIFO’s Firefighting Open Innovation Lab, and David Páez Rodríguez, director de Business Development at the Technological Corporation of Andalusia, spoke about the opportunities for entrepreneurship at protected forest areas.

The event closed with the intervention of Alejandro García Hernández, deputy director of COR, from the INFOCA Plan (Directorate General for Environmental Management and Protected Areas of the Regional Government of Andalusia), who presented the project FIREPOCTEP. On the other hand, Gustavo Viera Ruiz from GESPLAN talked about the success cases on forest fire management.

COMMON CHALLENGES – SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGs)

The aim is to address the SDGs 6, 13 and 15 of the UN in order to innovate in the adoption of urgent measures to combat climate change and its effects, as well as to protect, restore and promote the sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, fight against desertification, stop and invert the degradation of soils and stop the biodiversity loss. In addition, the availability and sustainable management of water needs to be guaranteed for fighting climate change.

CONTACT:

Beatriz Martínez Muñoz
European Project Officer and Communication Officer at Finnova Foundation
Beatriz.martinez@finnova.eu

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More than 150 people at CILIFO’s first side event in the framework of the #EUGreenWeek

29.09.2020. La Semana Verde Europea (#EUGreenWeek), organizada por la Comisión Europea, se centra este año en la naturaleza y la biodiversidad. La Fundación Finnova, junto con el Ayuntamiento de Vilamarxant (Valencia), ha preparado un evento off-site para formar parte de una semana que marcará un hito en el camino hacia la Conferencia de las Partes (COP15) del Convenio sobre la Diversidad Biológica.

El evento realizado en línea el viernes 25 de septiembre de 2020, fue un seminario sobre  la financiación de la Unión Europea para proyectos innovadores para combatir los incendios forestales y proteger la biodiversidad.

El mayor número de  participantes en Zoom fue de 34 ; sin embargo , el número total de personas registradas en Zoom para el evento fue de 56  (pero no todas se conectaron al mismo tiempo). Además, cabe destacar que el evento se retransmitió en la página de Facebook de @ CILIFO.UE y tuvo 112 visitas. Sin embargo, se estima que un total de  169 personas accedieron al webinar  (56 registradas por Zoom, más  112 reproducciones  en Facebook).Uno de los principales objetivos de este evento fue abordar los ODS 13 y 15 de la ONU para innovar en la toma de acciones urgentes para combatir el cambio climático y sus efectos, así como para proteger, restaurar y promover el uso sostenible de los ecosistemas terrestres , gestionar los bosques de forma sostenible. , combatir la desertificación, detener y revertir la degradación de la tierra y detener la pérdida de biodiversidad.

Francisco Senra, del Área de Análisis y Gestión del Conocimiento – Subdirección de Incendios Forestales y Otras Emergencias Ambientales – Agencia Andaluza del Agua y del Medio Ambiente (AMAYA) de la Junta de Andalucía (Plan Infoca), fue el encargado de inaugurar las jornadas y presentó el Proyecto CILIFO. Posteriormente, Xavi Jorge Cerdá, concejal de Innovación del Ayuntamiento de Vilamarxant (Valencia), intervino como representante del municipio que se presentó como antena del Laboratorio de Innovación Abierta Contra Incendios-CILIFO.

Los panelistas que completaron el bloque de lucha contra incendios forestales y protección de la biodiversidad y la naturaleza fueron el director general de Prevención de Incendios Forestales de la Consejería de Agricultura, Desarrollo Rural, Emergencia Climática y Transición Ecológica – Generalitat Valenciana (GVA), Diego Marín Fabra; la investigadora del Grupo de Incendios Forestales del Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria (INIA / iuFOR), Mercedes Guijarro; el gerente de la Fundación Andanatura para el Desarrollo Socioeconómico Sostenible, Julio Campos Vidiella, quien habló sobre desarrollo sostenible y emprendimiento en el medio rural y natural.

Luego fue el turno de la CMO de la Fundación Finnova, Lola Bordás, quien presentó la aceleradora / incubadora del proyecto Firefighting Open Innovation Lab-CILIFO; y el director de proyectos y responsable de recursos humanos y formación de la Fundación Finnova, Alberto Navarro, habló sobre formación y juventud en CILIFO. Como ejemplos de casos de buenas prácticas, Juan Sebastiá Porstalé de WildFire Security explicado el sistema SAVAIF; y el CEO de Lluvia Sólida, Ing. Leonardo Rico Fernández, habló sobre la lucha contra incendios con Lluvia Sólida.

El director de Proyectos de Innovación de EIT Climate-KIC, Javier Cañas Andreu, y el director de Fondos Europeos de la Fundación Finnova, Juan Viesca, hablaron sobre la financiación de la Unión Europea para proyectos innovadores en el sector del fuego.

La jornada finalizó con la presentación de la 2ª edición de los CILIFO – Firefighting StartUp Europe Awards (SEUA – CILIFO) 2020, una iniciativa impulsada por la Comisión Europea, apoyada por el Comité de las Regiones y el Parlamento Europeo; e implementado por Finnova Foundation en colaboración con StartUp Europe.

La Fundación Finnova forma parte de la asociación pública-privada que integra el Proyecto CILIFO, financiado en un 75% por el Programa de Cooperación Transfronteriza España – Portugal – POCTEP de Interreg VA (2014-2020), y  será el organismo responsable de unir dos territorios a priori alejados pero que tienen muchos retos en común . CILIFO actúa para fortalecer y unir la cooperación, los procedimientos de trabajo y la formación entre los mecanismos de Prevención y Extinción de Incendios Forestales en el área de cooperación de la Eurorregión Alentejo – Algarve – Andalucía y está liderado por la  Junta de Andalucía .

2ª EDICIÓN DE CILIFO – PREMIOS DE EUROPA STARTUP DE LUCHA CONTRA INCENDIOS (SEUA – CILIFO) 2020

Premios StartUp Europe ( www.startupeuropeawards.eu ) es una iniciativa promovida por la Comisión Europea, apoyada por el Comité de las Regiones y el Parlamento Europeo; e implementado por la Fundación Finnova ( www.Finnova.eu ) en colaboración con StartUp Europe.

StartUp Europe Awards (SEUA) es una herramienta de innovación abierta que permite a las empresas identificar nuevas empresas con talento, capaces de resolver los desafíos actuales en múltiples áreas. En este sentido, la misión de Finnova con esta iniciativa es ayudar a las start-ups y scale-ups a ser más eficientes, inteligentes y exitosas.

Además, SEUA pretende incidir en el proceso de scale-up, por lo que propone una nueva estrategia de innovación a través del cual los nuevos emprendedores van más allá de sus límites y desarrollan la cooperación con organizaciones o profesionales externos.

Se trata de una herramienta de innovación abierta para identificar start-ups innovadoras con potencial, capaces de resolver los retos actuales en el ámbito de la gestión de incendios forestales. El objetivo es localizar aquellos que ofrecen productos, servicios o metodologías que abordan las tres fases en la lucha contra incendios 1) Prevención 2) Acción 3) Regeneración. Deben proporcionar una mejora en la eficiencia de los recursos en la extinción de incendios; herramientas tecnológicas; conciencia social; comportamiento del fuego; patrones espaciales y temporales de fuego; meteorología de incendios y clasificación de peligro de incendios; técnicas de extinción de incendios; detección terrestre, aérea y espacial;restauracion; etc.

El objetivo es identificar y apoyar a estos emprendedores y conseguir que estas buenas ideas se implementen en beneficio de la sociedad en su conjunto generando una asociación pública-privada que conduzca a la redacción de proyectos y así acceso a fondos de la Unión Europea.

Grupo destinatario : emprendedores y start-ups con ideas / proyectos relacionados con la lucha contra los incendios forestales en las 3 áreas de actuación del proyecto CILIFO: Prevención, Acción y Regeneración.

La primera edición de estos premios se celebró en la COP25 de diciembre de 2019. Allí, la CEO de la start-up Drone Hopper, Ana Pérez, presentó su proyecto dedicado al diseño, fabricación y comercialización de drones de alta capacidad, destinado a la lucha contra el fuego y la protección del medio ambiente. Esta empresa fue ganadora del premio principal en la categoría Firefighting-Climate Change de la SEUA 2019 y forma parte del programa StartUp Europe Accelerator de la Fundación Finnova, gracias al cual recibo ayuda y mentoría para presentar su proyecto, pudiendo así obtener 50.000 € del programa SME Instrument (que lo acredita como uno de los proyectos más innovadores a nivel europeo).

La segunda edición de los premios Firefighting StartUp Europe Awards se lanzó el viernes 25 de septiembre y la ceremonia final está prevista para tener lugar durante la  Semana Europea para la Reducción de Residuos (EWWR ) en noviembre de 2020, en una iniciativa que tiene como objetivo promover e implementar recursos sostenibles. y acciones de sensibilización sobre la gestión de residuos durante una semana y para fomentar acciones sostenibles para reducir los residuos en Europa.

Próximamente se comunicará más información sobre estos premios.

CONTACTO
Beatriz Martínez Muñoz
Responsable de Comunicación y Proyectos Europeos de la Fundación
Finnova beatriz.martinez@finnova.eu

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