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GEOSAFE workshop ‘Stochastic mapping of bushfires’

On 29 & 30 January 2018 ITC hosted a workshop in the framework of the GEOSAFE project ‘Stochastic mapping of bushfires’. Twenty participants from universities and institutions abroad and from University Twente, Faculty ITC gathered for two days of presentations and discussions, enabling projects partners to fulfil the requirements of the project and meeting researchers with new and interesting ideas.

As part of the project, several ITC researchers have visited (and will visit) Australia for one month, and in the case of PhD candidates nine months, with the aim to research and contribute to limiting the consequences of wildfires in the EU and Australia, burning every year thousands of square miles of forests and other regions, and causing significant economic and ecological losses, and often, human casualties.

The project is running from May 2016 to April 2020, is coordinated by FSEG University of Greenwich, and funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE).

An overview of the workshop can be found on http://geosafe.lessonsonfire.eu/2018/02/07/summary-of-the-workshop-on-stochastic-mapping-of-bushfires-29-30-january-2018/.

The format of the workshop was organized such that contributions were given from different parts of the world, i.e. from within the consortium as well as from outside.