Open Innovation Challenge: Selected Solutions

Accelerating Post-Wildfire Natural Restoration

• Country: Portugal
• Innovation type: Training and Education,

Autonomous drones and tailor-made soil amendments for rapid post-wildfire restoration and land rehabilitation, leveraging precision seeding and ecological monitoring to restore ecosystems, habitats, and biodiversity efficiently.

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ADA Wildfire – Action Plan

• Tested in: Norway-Sweden,
• Country: Norway
• Innovation type: Forecasting and Decision Support,

A SaaS platform combinign maps, drawing tools, icons and datasets to handle wildfires. Giving the users immediate situational understanding and the ability to put in the right measures in the right place.

AI-Enabled Early Fire Detection

• Country: Chile
• Innovation type: Management Before, During and After Extreme Wildfire Events ,

Firecatch is a comprehensive and high-tech web tool designed to detect and geolocate wildfires in earlty stages, leveraging AI, lookout cameras, and cloud computing to provide and manage precise alerts.

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ALERTWest AI Wildfire Detection System

• Country: USA
• Innovation type: Monitoring,

Monitor real-time population mobility using cellphone data to assess evacuation plan compliance and restricted access. Utilize the system to enhance prevention plan design.

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Autonomous Fire Safety Through Advanced Intelligence

• Country: Sweden
• Innovation type: Management Before, During and After Extreme Wildfire Events ,

The modular structure of Digiversum allows you to try it out on a small scale and expand seamlessly with more units as your needs grow. Boost efficiency, strengthen planning and improve preparedness with the most cost-effective fire safety network in the universe.

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Axon Protocol – Forest Dynamic Digital Identity

• Country: Germany
• Innovation type: Engagement and Empowerment, Management Before, During and After Extreme Wildfire Events , Monitoring, Policy and Governance,

Axon's simple software facilitates forest restoration projects in unlocking captial to enhance forest resilience.

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Demonstration of the Eco-Guardian System

• Country: USA

The FireRein / Caylym Eco-Guardian System solution will demonstrate the modular 1000l bio-degradable Guardian tote system filled with the Eco-Gel™ fire suppression hydrogel for enhanced aerial wildfire control.

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Early forest fire detection and prediction system

• Tested in: Nouvelle Aquitaine- France,
• Country: Turkey
• Innovation type: Monitoring,

Providing hybrid solutions, hardware and AI cloud computing, to detect high risk zones before the disaster, detecting the smoke in an early stage through edge adn cloud computing.

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EmberEye – Early Wildfire Detection

• Tested in: Greece,
• Country: UK
• Innovation type: Forecasting and Decision Support, Monitoring,

EmberEye provides ultra-early wildfire detection, enabling rapid response and effective decision-making from first responders. A novel risk model informs the placement of robust infrared detectors near areas of high ignition risk.

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ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICE-LEARNING PROJECTS to FACE FOREST FIRES

• Country: Spain

Our inititative aims to involve citizens in the problem of forest fires, transferring knowledge and civic values to the youth population through innovative educational methodologies, as the development of Service-Learning projects

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Extreme wildfire prevention using ForestSIM

• Tested in: Portugal,
• Country: Portugal
• Innovation type: Engagement and Empowerment,

Our solution aims to gather knowledge on wildfire prevention from landowners with certified forests, 2BForest technicians and FIRE-RES partners to improved the content of ForestSIM - a WebGIS-based forest management platform.

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FIRE CHASER

• Country: France
• Innovation type: Risk Communication and Awareness,

Fire Chaser is a French association specializing in social media for emergency forest management. We assess real-time information during wildfires and work with firefighters, camping and cities' crisis centers.