Open Innovation Challenge: Selected Solutions

Rainmaker

• Country: Finland
• Innovation type: Engagement and Empowerment, Management Before, During and After Extreme Wildfire Events ,

The system utilizes Rainmakers to create targeted rain barriers to enhance wildfire control, efficiency and safety for firefighters.

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Raised-relief maps

• Tested in: Sardinia- Italy,
• Country: Portugal
• Innovation type: Engagement and Empowerment, Risk Communication and Awareness, Training and Education,

Deploy raised-relief maps and participative cartography for better knowledge, engagement and awareness of communities and professionals in fire-prone landscapes

Real-time fuel moisture mapping for the EU

• Country: Spain
• Innovation type: Monitoring,

A real-time web application for pan-European live and dead fuel moisture content and fire weather at 500m resolution. Will be updated automatically every day. Data will also be available for download.

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School Scientific Congress Sierra de las Nieves

• Country: Spain

This is a pedagogical innovation propsal aimed at schools in the Sierra de las Nieves National Park. The students of the centers participating in the MADRE project carry out different research about the connection of agricultural and livestock activities with the conservation of this natural space.

SILVA4BOS

• Tested in: Germany-The Netherlands,
• Country: Germany
• Innovation type: Monitoring,

SILVA (Latin: Forest) - Search and Identification of Looming wildfires by automatically operated unmanned Vehicles from the Air - is dedicated to the earliest possible wildfire detection using highly automated and cost-effective long-range drones.

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Silvanet

• Country: Germany
• Innovation type: Management Before, During and After Extreme Wildfire Events , Monitoring, Training and Education,

Silvanet provides a large-scale sensor network infrastructure with solar-powered and AI-enabled gas sensors detecting wildfires as early as the smoldering phase

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Smoke Meter

• Tested in: Catalonia-Spain,
• Country: Spain
• Innovation type: Forecasting and Decision Support,

Smoke Meter is a mobile application that calculates and collects data on smoke plumes during wildfire events.

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Socioecological Fire Resistance via Forest Associations

• Country: Spain
• Innovation type: Engagement and Empowerment,

Application of social innovation methodologies to raise awareness of forest management and co-create an association of forest owners capable of improving socio-ecological resilience to forest fires in Mediterranean environments.

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SuperNanogel

• Country: Norway

SuperNanogel, a plant-based material, prevents wildfires by being fire-retardant, retaining moisture on vegetation, and mitigating lightning discharge. Additionally, it nourishes and regenerates the land through unique fertilizer properties.

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Swarm Heavy-Duty Drones for Firefighting

• Country: Spain

Collaborative approach to firefighting of forest fires using heavy-duty autonomous drones 24/7 with no human lives at risk. At low price.

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TEP – The Emergency Program

• Tested in: Chile,
• Country: Spain
• Innovation type: Management Before, During and After Extreme Wildfire Events , Training and Education,

TEP is the first global training program on wildfires that brings together, in one place, the knowledge, experience, and lessons learned from more than 40 active experts worldwide to tackle future extreme wildfire challenges.

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Train decision making in XR

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

Fynd CORE allows simple and affordable customization of experiences, training, immersive learning and operational uses in AR and VR. Build and customize your own scenarios - and use them to train decision making.

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