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MEFISTO Project at DG ECHO Annual forest fire meeting

The project MEFISTO was invited to present the main results of the project during the last 'Annual forest fire meeting' organised by the DG ECHO in Brussels on May 15-16th, 2019. The project coordinator, Enrico Marchi (University of Florence), attended the meeting and explained the work carried out by the MEFISTO project and also on the launching of the EUFORFIRE network. 

We hope that the interest shown in the meeting for our results can be materialized and implemented in the future.

MEFISTO Final Conference Programme now available

Almost everything is ready to gather the partners of MEFISTO project next 14^th December to carry out their Final Conference. Check here the programme with the schedule of the meeting.

The event will take place at the Tuscan Forest fire fighters training Center in La Pineta di Tocchi, very close to Siena, on December 14th, 2018, and will report on the main results obtained and actions promoted by this project.

MEFISTO project announces its Final Conference

After 18 months of work, and just six months to finish, the MEFISTO project begins preparations for its final conference next December in Italy.

Specifically, the event will take place at the Tuscan Forest fire fighters training Center in La Pineta di Tocchi, very close to Siena, on December 14th, 2018, and will report on the main results obtained and actions promoted by this project.

Completed successfully the pilot course of EUROPEAN FOREST FIRE OFFICER (EUFO)

Completed successfully the pilot course of EUROPEAN FOREST FIRE OFFICER (EUFO), held between May 22 and 25 in Valabre, (France), at the ECASC (Training Center of the French Civil Defense).

This course aims to form a figure capable of efficiently supporting and developing international collaboration in the fight against forest fires.

The fourth technical meeting was also held in which the MEFISTO project partners monitored this pilot course and analyzed its results, reviewing and planning the rest of the project's pending tasks. 

The MEFISTO project is presented at the Italian National Forestry Congress

The 11^th Congress of the Italian Society of Forestry and Forest Ecology (SISEF) was held in Rome from 10th to 13th October, where the MEFISTO project was presented through a scientific communication in poster format, which was presented by one of its co-authors, Andrea Laschi: PhD at the University of Florence (UNIFI), the Project Coordinator.