The Fire Ecology and Management Foundation Pau Costa Alcubierre (FPC) was born in January 2011, after a year of preparation, and with the ambition to be an information platform on forest fire management, as well as an instrument to divulge and investigate in fire ecology.
The history of institutions related to forest fires and the specialists in forest fires (research centres, extinction services, society in general, etc.) has evolved in the last years. Many of these people and institutions have come into contact this last decade, exchanging knowledge and experiences in conferences, congresses, master classes and training courses. These exchanges would converge many times in common needs: the need for agility in the communications among the forest fire community, the needs of exchanges among the different institutions and at different levels to improve the management of forest fires, and to capitalize on the accumulated experience. In order to cover these needs in the field of forest fires, experts from Spain and other countries recommended the creation of common platform, which has now become a reality: the Fire Ecology and Management Foundation Pau Costa Alcubierre.
Objectives of the FPC
The objectives are the research in the field of forest fire ecology, the creation of knowledge, tools and techniques for the management of forest fires, and the dissemination of this knowledge to the technical world through training and dissemination instruments.
International projection
Although the Foundation has been established in Catalonia, a land of recurring wild land fires, it wants to be projected to the entire country, and internationally as well. The Foundation has collaborators from different European countries, with a long history in forest fires, including Portugal, France, Germany, Italy, and Sweden. The scope of the Foundation has therefore an international perspective, aiming to reach also countries which have no access to this fire information and knowledge, including developing countries. This involves establishing links with various organizations, both governmental and private, to make the Foundation known and expand its influence.
Target groups
The objective of Pau Costa Foundation is to reach three major groups around the wildfire community: the social world, the operative world and the academic world. Linking these three worlds is part of the task and objective of the Pau Costa Foundation.
