CILIFO will participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference

03.12.2019. The CILIFO project, financed by the ERDF funds through the Interreg VA Spain-Portugal POCTEP cross-border cooperation program (2014-2020), will participate, represented by the main beneficiary (Junta de Andalucía, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Sustainable Development) and the Finnova Foundation at the United Nations Climate Change Conference.

On the occasion of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (https://www.ifema.es/en/cop25) and within the framework of the CILIFO project, the Finnova Foundation will organize in Madrid on December 11 from 15:00 to 16:30 at the IFEMA’s Mare Nostrum Space (Av. Capital de España, 7, 28042, Madrid, Spain) a round table entitled “Cooperation and governance for innovation in prevention, firefighting and restoration of burned spaces”.

The CILIFO project will be presented at this round table, as a case study regarding the need for international partnership methodologies. CILIFO is a pilot project for cross-border cooperation between Spain and Portugal in the EU. With a budget of 25 million euros, it is the project with a largest budget in the field of fires financed by the INTERREG VA Spain-Portugal POCTEP cross-border cooperation program (2014-2020). CILIFO is a center for promoting, training and cooperating in the innovation when preventing and fighting forest fires. Latin America is a region that suffers from dramatic forest fires in the Amazon, so Chile, as a country affected by the scourge of fires will share its experiences with its mayors and business representatives.

The COP25 will host the official launch of the Firefighting Open Innovation Lab, an accelerator-incubator of business innovations ―startups, scaleups― in the fight against forest fires and the mitigation and adaptation to climate change. The Firefighting Open Innovation Lab is an accelerator managed by the Finnova Foundation, based in Seville and with the aim of promoting a network of incubators ―in a public-private partnership― at a global level for fighting forest fires and mitigating and adapting to climate change. In addition, the European Union’s financial tools for innovation and fire-fighting, such as Horizon Europe and the LIFE programs, will be discussed.

The closing ceremony will be carried out by a representative of the Startup Europe Awards (SEUA), and the Firefighting Cop25 Global Awards will be launched, in the framework of the SEUA (startupeuropeawards.eu) ―Open Innovation methodology within the European Commission’s Startup Europe. This call will identify disruptive innovations and is managed by the Belgian entity Startup Europe Accelerator.

CILIFO participates in the European Week for Waste Reduction

19.10.2019. The CILIFO project, financed by the ERDF funds through the Interreg VA Spain-Portugal POCTEP Cross-border Cooperation Program (2014-2020), was presented by the Finnova Foundation, beneficiary of the project, it the European Week for Waste Reduction, at the headquarters of the Committee of the Regions of the European Union.

On the occasion of the European Week for Waste Reduction (https://www.ewwr.eu/en) and within the framework of the CILIFO project, the Finnova Foundation organized at the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) in Brussels, on October 19th, a round table to analyze the challenges posed by waste and innovation linked to circular economy in the forest waste sector, as a means of enhancing the local economy and preventing forest fires. The CILIFO project contributes to climate change adaptation and mitigation. For this reason, CILIFO works on the good management of forest waste and its valorization that help to find innovative solutions that promote the adaptation and mitigation of climate change.

The round table was entitled “Green Deal: circular economy and climate change. Interreg CILIFO case study”. During the conference, professionals in the field of renewable energy and resource management took part, as well as others in the field of circular economy in order to highlight the importance of support from local governments in achieving a more sustainable development. The presentation of CILIFO was given by the CEO of the Finnova Foundation, Juan Manuel Revuelta, who stressed that it is the European fire-fighting project with the largest budget financed by the community initiative Interreg.

The incubator Firefighting Innovation Lab CILIFO (http://innovation.cilifo.eu) was also presented, highlighting the opportunities of this initiative within the CILIFO project. This accelerator aims to prioritize, among other things, the generation of new ideas aimed at reusing the waste resulting from fires.