About – Strategic Integration of Operational and Legal Frameworks for Enhanced Resilience and Management of Mediterranean Wildfires

Wildfires are worsening in the Mediterranean due to longer fire seasons, and mega-fires. A key challenge is ensuring that wildfire management uses science-based innovations.
SIMMER invites scientists, practitioners, and decision-makers to collaborate, share best practices to improve fire management. This includes understanding wildfire behaviour, trends, and climate change impacts to better manage landscapes, ecosystems, and response effectiveness.
SIMMER will implement pilot activities in five countries involving civil protection, nature protection organizations, local authorities, and volunteers.
The project will use ecosystem-based methods like prescribed burning and grazing, Artificial Intelligence, remote sensing, for risk assessment and early warning, drones for burn severity mapping, and community-based post-fire assessment.