Training Strategy
PyroLife trains the new generation of interdisciplinary experts in holistic fire management, acknowledging that knowledge transfer from southern Europe (and worldwide) to temperate Europe can support the new generation of experts and that fire risk planning, communication and management can learn from cross-risk lessons including temperate European expertise in water management. In doing so, this project combines how the North solves community problems with the fire knowledge of the European South.
PyroLife provides an excellent and innovative PhD curriculum with training benefitting the applicant through a balanced training programme:
Training through research: the Individual Research Projects will train 15 experts in a wide range of disciplines including fire science, climate science, soil science and hydrology, economy, landscape planning and design, governance, emergency management, transdisciplinary science and risk communication.
Training through education is achieved through a combination of network-wide activities (i.e. workshops, conferences) and local training.
PyroLife Training Goals
Excellence
Our unique integrated training programme provides our 15 ESRs the in-depth, interdisciplinary, integrated and transferable knowledge and skills required to successfully complete their research projects and maximize their future employability. Complementary local training additionally targets a range of transferable skills.Network-wide training
Network-wide training includes in-depth interdisciplinary and intersectoral events, workshops focusing on dealing with knowns and unknowns, online risk communication training, webinars, and dissemination events. Complementary local training additionally targets a range of transferable skills.Integrated fire management & the value of innovation through exchange
- PyroLife research methodology is based on integrated fire management and the value of innovation through exchange, adoption and adaption.
- Fire research and management faces major challenges, but the good news is that the way forward to resolve these scientific bottlenecks lie within Europe and with its international partners.
- Integrated fire management includes social, economic, cultural and eco-logical values in each step of the management cycle (prevention, prepared-ness, response, mitigation and recuperation)
- This approach aims at maximising the benefits of fire in all the phases of the management cycle to go beyond the prevention and suppression dominance and create resilient landscapes.
- Integrated fire management requires science-based decision making that can be reached with the cooperation and collaboration of multidisciplinary teams that include the different type of actors that are involved in a territory.