Community
We foster participation and give visibility to the wildfire community.
We give our community visibility and support
The Pau Costa Foundation wants to generate participation and give the wildfire community visibility. Particularly, to the members of the Foundation, through the opportunities we offer them. To this end, in 2023 we have continued to facilitate the participation of our community in events, training and awareness-raising actions at the local, national and international levels. Likewise, we have given our community visibility in our dissemination channels, and through their participation in the media.
The Foundation also wants to support and give visibility to vulnerable and minority groups in the field of wildfires. Particularly, in 2023, we have continued giving support and visibility to women who work in the field of wildfires.
Opportunities for PCF members
We facilitate the participation of our members in national and international courses, conferences, awareness-raising activities and events in general. Thus, we enhance their professional career and, in turn, they help us spread the Foundation’s narrative and represent us in different forums.
Participation of two PCF members in the final test of the RESPOND-A project
Spain
13-16/02/2023
The PCF offers two of its members to participate as end-users in the final RESPOND-A pilot in Valencia.
Participants: Pedro Buldón and Aleix Ríos
Candidates to give a talk on wildfires in the context of climate change at the Barcelona Science Fair
Spain
11/06/2023
Opportunity to give a talk at the Science Fair in Barcelona.
Participants: Vacant
Candidates to give a talk in the University of Málaga’s summer course
Spain
6-7/07/2023
Opportunity to give a presentation at the summer course “21st Century’s Uncontrollable Wildfires”, organized by the University of Malaga (UMA).
Participants: Vacant
Candidates to deliver a presentation in a summer course on wildfires
Spain
11/07/2023
The PCF is looking for a candidate to give a presentation on forest fires for the Summer Courses organized by the UPV/EHU.
Participants: Cristina Montiel
Candidates to be part of the Advisory Board of the “Red Roses” project
Europe
12/07/2023
Opportunity to represent the PCF on the Advisory Board of the “Red Roses” cross-border project, coordinated by the French Red Cross.
Participants: Vacant
Candidates to participate as stakeholders in the COVALEX project
Spain
2023
The Pau Costa Foundation offers the opportunity to participate in a DG-ECHO (European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations) project, COVALEX, coordinated by the University of A Coruña.
Participants: Aleix Ríos
Candidate for training of scientific spokespersons
Online
2023
A training opportunity for a female researcher to improve her communication skills to the general public. The training is offered by CREAF.
Participants: Vacant
Workshop: “Post-Disaster Strategies for a Resilient Recovery“
Online
20/09/2023 – 10/10/2023
The PCF offers the opportunity to participate in the virtual workshop “Post Disaster Strategies for a Resilient Recovery”, organized by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), through the Spanish Cooperation Training Center in Antigua Guatemala, together with the General Directorate of Civil Protection and Emergencies (DGPCyE) of Spain.
Participants: Vacant
“Camins de vida”: transhumance, territory and heritage
Spain
9/09/2023-1/10/2023
Opportunity offered to walk alongside the shepherd and his flock on some of the sections of the path (Camí de Marina), and participate in the activities organized around transhumance.
Participants: Several PCF members
MeFiTu trainers pool
Spain
2023
Participation in the MeFiTu workshops to be trained and thus be able to carry out “MeFiTu” together with the PCF’s Education team.
Participants: Several PCF members
32ème Rencontres du Réseau de l’Emploi Intégré du Feu
France
5-7/11/2023
Participation in the annual French meeting “32ème Rencontres du Réseau de l’Emploi Intégré du Feu.”
Participants: Vacant
Bringing the the wildfire community together
On March 29 and 30, we held in Madrid the “Forum for debate and action proposals for the management of large wildfires in Spain” to which we invited representatives from different sectors of the wildfire community. We have participants from 15 autonomous communities and sectors such as research, public administration, private companies, NGOs, suppression services, territory management, and communications. Work was carried out on different thematic axes that were the seed of the future “Declaration on the management of large wildfires in Spain”. Read more here.
Caffè Sospeso
Series of online interviews (in Spanish) with members of the Foundation. The objective of these interviews, live and later available on the PCF’s YouTube channel, is to make visible the work carried out by our members and to highlight their activity in the field of wildfires. This way, we give social projection to the different professional sectors in this field.
Gender and Fire
The Pau Costa Foundation has established a working group to make visible and provide solutions to gender inequality and the shortage of women in the wildfire sector. This is a group made up of members of the Foundation who periodically share information, reflections and debate on issues that subsequently lead to a communicative action or project to be developed.
We are aware that giving visibility to women who work in the field of wildfires worldwide is a first step to value their work, and to serve as an example to future generations of women.
In 2023, during the week of March 8, we promote our 2021 Women in Wildfires Map to engage more women working in the field of wildfires. In this map we collect the testimony of women who work in different sectors of wildfires, to learn first-hand about the work they do, their experiences, and their vision of the role and presence of women in a strongly masculinized environment. In addition, we carried out an awareness campaign on social media to showcase, through comic cartoons, typical situations that women encounter in the wildfire sector.
