3rd Wildfire Risk Management Clustering Event
Innovating with wildfire risk management – A new strategy for Europe Final Wildfire Risk Management (WFRM) Project Clustering Event 2025
20-21 May, 2025
Brussels, Belgium
On Site
Scope
The new context of wildfire risk in Europe is challenging current risk management programmes and policies to effectively prevent and respond to extreme events such as megafires. Adapting to more damaging fires, longer fire seasons and more fire-prone areas has demanded a rethinking of our strategy. Shifting the focus from suppression to prevention is one step forward, nevertheless European member states need an integrated strategy for wildfire risk management which is tailored to their specific context. Such strategy implies looking at the issue from multiple angles to ensure that wildfire risks are reduced in a way that people and housing safety, economic growth, well-being, carbon sinks, biodiversity and ecosystem services are maintained or increased.
Objectives
As a final output, the event aims to propose concrete recommendations to improve wildfire risk governance in EU member states as well as hands-on solutions for the practitioners involved in all the phases of wildfire risk management.
This event will introduce a proposal for an integrated wildfire risk management strategy for Europe, developed over the last three years by the EU project FirEUrisk
It is also the opportunity to learn how the latest scientific breakthroughs and new technologies, developed by EU Innovation Action projects (IAs) (SILVANUS, FIRE-RES, TREEADS), fit within the overall strategy framework.
Purpose
The event is a unique opportunity for policymakers to acquire first-hand knowledge on the latest advances in wildfire risk preparedness, detection, response and prevention and to experience new tools, technologies and innovations which are being used for training, management or decision-making purposes. This includes mobile applications, virtual reality, demonstration of drones and robots.
Secondly, the event will showcase how the integrated risk strategy translates into different wildfire contexts across Europe, looking in particular at the integration of wildfire risk management priorities with forestry and land management, rural and urban development, climate and energy policy objectives.