ISIG’s trip to central Portugal took place last week as part of FirEUrisk, the European Commission-funded project for fire risk prevention research. On Friday, at the Comissão de Coordenação e Desenvolvimento Regional do Centro, I. P. we presented to local end users two tools developed by ISIG, the ReSVI (Relative Social Vulnerability Index) and the Citizen/Scientist Networks, both designed to engage local communities and their stakeholders in all phases of fire assessment, prevention, response and recovery. The presentations were given as part of the PS3 demonstration event coordinated by Associação para o Desenvolvimento da Aerodinâmica Industrial (ADAI) and GMV. On Saturday, together with ADAI, we visited the village of Aveleira, a small but highly conscious community surrounded by huge forests affected by the great fires of 2017. In a focus group with local residents and Bombeiros we began to develop solutions to improve community resilience and engage other actors at different administrative levels. It was an amazing opportunity for us, for our research, and for the FirEUrisk project!
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