FAO promotes an integrated approach to landscape fire management centered on five elements (also known as the 5Rs): Review and analysis, Risk Reduction, Readiness, Response, and Recovery, directed to meet the priority actions of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. Given the long-term experience of FAO and its key partners in integrated fire management and from the international fire community, FAO and UNEP are co-developing a Global Fire Management Hub. This was announced by FAO Senior Management at the XV World Forestry Congress and welcomed by FAO Members during the 26th session of the Committee on Forestry (https://www.fao.org/3/nk728en/nk728en.pdf, para 20). It was then launched by FAO and UNEP during the 8th International Wildland Fire Conference (IWFC-8) in Portugal in May 2023.

Following this FAO organized the Global Fire Management Hub 1st Technical Workshop (14 – 16 November 2023, FAO Headquarters - Rome) and RFMC, as a planned part of the Hub, was invited to take online an active participation on the workshop.

Fire-Hub-Report-First Workshop Dec 2023.pdf

This training brought together relevant representatives of park management authorities in the four protected areas in Shar/Šara Mountains and Korab Massif area in order to provide them knoledge in using the early warning sisstems especialy MKFFIS (Macedonian Forest Fire Information System). The RFMC has designed and organised the training jointly with the Crisis Management Center (CMC) of the Republic of N. Macedonia.

This training was an activity of the project Capacity-building activities for Fire Resilient Protected Areas: Shar/Šara Mountains and Korab Massif Area within the framework of the ExB Project Nr 1102151 (“Strengthening Responses to Security Risks from Climate Change in South-Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia”). 

Agenda_Training on fire early warning in the Shar_Šara Mountains and Korab Massif.pdf

The training was organized as an activity of the project Capacity-building activities for Fire Resilient Protected Areas: Shar/Šara Mountains and Korab Massif Area within the framework of the ExB Project Nr 1102151 (“Strengthening Responses to Security Risks from Climate Change in South-Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia”). The RFMC was the main organizer of the training providing the expert knowledge, equipment and hand tools for the theoretical and field training.

At the training participated more than 40 employees in the four protected areas of Korab-Koritnik, Mavrovo, Shar Mountains and Sharri/Šara as well as representatives from the municipalities of Dibër, Gostivar and Tetovo.

AGENDA-Training on wildfire risk reduction and landscape fire management in the Shar_Šara Mountains and Korab Massif area.pdf

Exercise 9-10 October 2023 Mavrovo.mp4

The 8th International Wildland Fire Conference was held in Porto, Portugal, 16 to 19 May 2023 under the moto of the Conference “Towards the Development of an International Landscape Fire Governance Framework”.

At the Conference were over 1500 delegates from more than 70 countries represented by government officials, representatives of twelve regions of the Global Wildland Fire Network, international organizations, as well as by professionals from civil society.

GWFN-SE Europe and Caucasus-Presentation-RFMC.pdf

The Climate Change and Security Cross-regional Workshop “Wildfire Management for Enhancing Climate Resilience and Security” was organized jointly by the OSCE Secretariat, the RFMC and GFMC in November / December 2022 and held from 5 to 6 December 2022 in Skopje, Macedonia.
Countries invited to attend the workshop included Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia from the Western Balkan region, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia from the region of South Caucasus and Mongolia. The workshop brought together climate change and emergency management experts from the South Caucasus and the South-Eastern Europe regions as well as from Mongolia to raise awareness and strengthen capacities on wildfire management and climate resilience and their implications for security; to enable an exchange of experiences and best practices among participants on these issues; and to identify opportunities for further co-operation on wildfire management to enhance climate resilience and climate adaptation.

Agenda_Cross-Regional Workshop.pdf

The workshop was organized by OSCE in partnership with the Berlin-based think-tank adelphi within the framework of the project Strengthening responses to security risks from climate change in South-Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia (#1102151) and in close collaboration with the OSCE Mission to Skopje. The workshop builds on the results of the local consultation meetings that have been conducted as part of the project site visit that have been conducted to Macedonia in April 2022.

The workshop brought together a diverse group of stakeholders from the four protected areas of Korab-Koritnik, Mavrovo, Shar Mountains and Sharri/Šara to:

• discuss a shared vision for a joint co-operation/adaptation strategy to reduce the climate-related security risks in the area;
• identify and develop project ideas for joint risk reduction measures for inclusion in the implementation plan in synergy with other local, regional and international initiatives;
• explore co-operation formats among the park management authorities and other relevant stakeholders

The General Directorate of Forestry Turkey, Silva Mediterranea (the Committee on Mediterranean Forestry Questions - Silva Mediterranea under FAO) and FOREST EUROPE have been organized a joint workshop in order to support capacity building to prevent and control wildfires as well as to share the best practices while establishing cooperation and strong partnerships.

The main objectives of the workshop were:

• Strengthen international/regional cooperation and coordination. Building capacity in prevention, preparedness and response among networks;
• Development of fire-resistant and fire-resilient forest landscapes. Best practices on prevention, adaptation and post-fire management;
• Use and exchange of technological developments and innovative approach.

Agenda of the Joint Workshop.pdf

 Climate Change and Landscape Fire Management-Skopje-6-7 February-2020.pdf

 Agenda Consultation Workshop.pdf

 European Hub for Civil Protection_Project_Overview.pdf

 Joint Meetings_ UNISDR WFAG, ILC and Brazilian Conference Committee for 7th IWFC _ GFMC.pdf

 Agenda

The annual meeting of Directors of Centres of the EUR-OPA Major Hazards Agreement has been held on Wednesday 30 November to 1 December, 2016 at the Council of Europe office in Paris.
The main items of the meeting were Evaluation of the 2016 activities of the centers and Discussion of the projects for 2017. The GFMC was presented by RFMC and the project: Enhancing the national interagency and international cross-boundary dialogue and inter-operability in fire management in Southeast Europe and Eastern Europe (Leader: GFMC; Partners: ECILS, TESEC, ECPFE).
The representative of RFMC has presented the activities of the project, carried out in 2016 year.

 Agenda

The Regional Consultation on Cross-boundary Cooperation in Fire Management was held at 11 November 2016 in Skopje, under sponsorship of the Council of Europe (CoE), Secretariat of the Euro-Mediterranean Major Hazards Agreement (EUR-OPA) and in organization of the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) and the Regional Fire Monitoring Center (RFMC). The Ministry of agriculture, forestry and water economy of the Republic of Macedonia was host of this Regional Consultation.

 CoE-RFMC-GFMC-Regional-Fire-Mgmt-Consultation-2016-Concept

 CoE-RFMC-GFMC-Regional-Fire-Mgmt-Consultation-2016-Agenda

 CoE-RFMC-GFMC-Regional-Fire-Mgmt-Consultation-2016-Background

 CoE-RFMC-GFMC-Regional-Fire-Mgmt-Consultation-2016-Recommendations

The National Round Table on Fire Management, Republic of Macedonia, was held at 09 November 2016 in Skopje, under sponsorship of the Council of Europe (CoE), Secretariat of the Euro-Mediterranean Major Hazards Agreement (EUR-OPA) and in organization of the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) and the Regional Fire Monitoring Center (RFMC). The Ministry of agriculture, forestry and water economy of the Republic of Macedonia was host of the National Round Table.

 CoE-RFMC-GFMC-Macedonia-Fire-Mgmt-Round-Table-2016-Agenda

 CoE-RFMC-GFMC-Macedonia-Fire-Mgmt-Round-Table-2016-Concept

 CoE-RFMC-GFMC-National-RT-Fire-Mgmt-2016-Recommendations

The First International Fire Management Week was organized and hosted by the Forest, Rangeland and Watershed Management Organization (FRWO), Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. The first part – the National Round Table on Fire Management – was led through the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC), Secretariat of the Global Wildland Fire Network (GWFN) (Freiburg, Germany), the Regional Central Asia Fire Management Resource Center (RCAFMRC), Secretariat of the UNISDR Regional Central Asia Wildland Fire Network (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia), and the Regional Fire Monitoring Center (RFMC), Secretariat of the UNISDR Regional South East Europe / Caucasus Wildland Fire Network (Skopje, Republic of Macedonia). The First International Fire Management Week was supported by the voluntary framework of the International Wildfire Preparedness Mechanisms (IWPM), which is offering capacity building and cross-boundary cooperation in fire management through exchange of expertise and application of voluntary standards in fire management. The IWPM is a contribution for the implementation of the UNISDR Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030.

The second part of the First International Fire Management Week provided on on-site field assessment of the fire and fire management situation in the most fire-endangered forest of the country. It was followed-up by a concluding consultation between the host country and the GFMC / GWFN.

 Agenda.doc

In the organization of the Ministry of security and UN the third conference of the Platform for disaster risk reduction of Bosnia and Herzegovina was held on 02.12.2015 year in Sarajevo. All relevant institutions on the entities level in BiH participated on the conference. The main topic of the conference was forest fires in BiH especially were discussed recommendations of the Sendai framework in regards of forest fires.

The Regional Fire Monitoring Center was invited to prepare presentation on the topic: Forest fires with accent of the early warning.

 AGENDA KONFERENCIJE.pdf

The 6th International Wildland Fire Conference was held in Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea, 12 to 16 October 2015. The conference, held for the first time in Asia, was hosted by the Korea Forest Service and Gangwon Province, and held under the auspices of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

At the Conference were over 3500 delegates from 73 countries represented by government officials, representatives of twelve regions of the Global Wildland Fire Network, international organizations, as well as by professionals from civil society.

www.wildfire2015.kr

http://www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/korea-2015.html

Forest disaster management has been highly recommended as a way of effective mitigation to prevent severe socioeconomic and environmental impacts in the long-term.

Apprehending the forest characteristics of regionally close Asian States, it is necessary to find practical solutions on the forest fire step by step. When a lot of people implement the projects and activities on forest fires, the experience of ROK and cooperation with international parties will be a great help.

Regarding forest fire management (FFM), Korea Forest Research Institute (KFRI) is running a short-term training course for FFM based on their successful history with technical improvement and investment. Moreover, ROK has been a chairing country of Asia Forest Fire Network since 2013, suggested in the 4th International Wildland Fire Conference in Spain, 2007. From 12 to 16 October 2015, Republic of Korea hosted the 6th International Wildland Fire Conference (IWFC) entitled “Fire of the Past, Fire in Future,” which provide the participants with the optimal opportunities for experiencing the advanced forest fire management and meeting prominent experts in the field.

In this context, AFoCo Landmark Program and KFRI jointly develop the advanced forest fire management program for officials in a technical position. The aim of the Training of Trainers (TOT) on Forest Fire Management was to enhance their capacity which also substance by composing a communication network among AFoCo Member Countries for FFM.

At the course have participated 20 trainees and 8 invited trainers. One of the trainers was the Head of the Regional Fire Monitoring Center Prof. Nikola Nikolov. Two (2) technical-level government officials in the field of forest fire management were invited from respective AFoCo Member Countries excluding ROK.

The participants of the course have also attended the 6th International Wildland Fire Conference. During the Conference, there was the Regional Session, where each AFoCo Member Country (one of 2 delegates from each country) had an oral presentation for nation-wide current status on FFM.

The 8-day TOT course was consisted of 1) 2-day lectures, 2) 2-day practices and 3) 3-day participation in the IWFC2015, from 07 to 14 October in the Republic of Korea. The lectures were organized at Korea Forest Research Institute (KFRI) in Seoul.

 Schedule of the training.pdf

The International Conference and Workshop were organized by: National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine (NULESU), Kyiv, Ukraine; Global Fire Monitoring Center, Freiburg, Germany; Regional Eastern European Fire Monitoring Center, Kyiv, Ukraine and Institute of Environmentally Safe Technologies of NULESU, Odessa, Ukraine.
The main aim was to provide an opportunity to discuss the follow-up of the UNECE / FAO Regional Forum with representatives from the Eastern European / Black Sea region. Furthermore, the experience of the OSCE in supporting countries of Eastern Europe, the West Balkans, South Caucasus and Central Asia in enhancing fire management capacities were presented and discussed.

 Program.pdf

The objective of this joint event was twofold. The regional consultation had aim at fostering the regional consultative process and dialogue on climate security risks, adaptation measures for the SEE region and ecological networks in the Dinaric Arc. The main target audience were climate experts, NGOs, academia and research institutions, and national/local authorities dealing with climate change policies.
The Regional Fire Monitoring Center (RFMC) its contribution to this event gave through the presentation: Forest fires in the SEE and Climate Change.

 Agenda_ENVSECSEE 2015 RegionalS consultation.pdf

 List of participants.pdf

The conference “Aerial Firefighting Europe 2015“, organised by the UK-based Tangent Link with the assistance of the Croatian Ministry of Defence and the National Search and Rescue was held from 29 to 30 April 2015 in Zadar, Croatia..
On the European Aerial Firefighting conference preceded by a one day Interoperability Workshop which was held under the auspices of the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC), which functions as the Secretariat for the International Fire Aviation Working Group (IFAWG) and the Wildfire Preparedness Mechanism (IWPM). Key issues were briefed to the Conference delegates by Professor Dr Johann G Goldammer, the Director of the GFMC supported from the floor by Richard Alder, General Manager of the Australian National Aerial Firefighting Centre and Chair of the IFAWG.

www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/course/meeting/2015/meet2015_03.htm

 AFF15 Workshop Agenda.pdf

 AFF2015 Programme.pdf

The 4th International Convention of Environmental Laureates was held from 12 to 15 March 2015 in Freiburg, Germany. The International Convention of Environmental Laureates, which was hosted by the European Environment Foundation, provides a platform for winners of prestigious international environmental prizes and awards to exchange their ideas and experience on helping to shape environmental policy. Laureates include active environmentalists, journalists and human rights activists, scientists, and entrepreneurs. Above all, they are doers, with one thing in common: They have a vision and goals, and they have found ways of implementing them. Every one of them has made a significant contribution in their field towards environmental protection. The Regional Southeast European/Caucasus Wildland Fire Network was represented by Prof. Nikola Nikolov, awarded with Green Star Award 2013.

www.european-environment-foundation.eu/en-en/laureates-convention/past-events/4th-international-conevention-of-environmental-laureates-2015

 ICEL2015_Broshure.pdf

 ICEL2015_Schedule_Panel Presentations.pdf

The training was held in the frame of the OSCE/ENVSEC project “Enhancing National Capacity on Fire Management and Wildfire Disaster Risk Reduction in the South Caucasus” in the Fire Management Training Center, Antalya, Turkey, 15-17 October 2014. The Regional Fire Monitoring Center (RFMC), through the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC), was actively engaged in all phases of the organization of the training. About 60 participants were part of the training as representatives of 11 countries of the Regional Southeast European/Caucasus Wildland Fire Network (Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine and Kosovo) and OSCE. The host institution of the training was Turkish General Directorate of Forestry.

Group photos of the firefighter trainers and participants of the training from Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America & GFMC (RFMC and REEFMC) / OSCE staff and photos of the exercise of the Turkish forestry fire fighting capacities. Photos: Kadir A. Coskuner and Nikola Nikolov

From left Prof. Nikola Nikolov, PhD (Head of RFMC) and Mr. Mustafa Ulkudur (Director of International Fire Management Training Centre, Antalya)

 Agenda-Regional Fire Management Training Antalya 2014.pdf

In the period of 27 to 30 June 2014 at GFMC has been held:

1. The Workshop "Fire Management in Protected Areas and Cultural and Natural Heritage Sites"

Meeting of members and partners of the CoE Project “Fire Management in UNESCO World Natural and Cultural Heritage Sites and other Protected Areas”, in preparation of the IUCN World Parks Congress 2014.

2. International Fire Aviation Working Group (IFAWG) Meeting

An internal meeting of IFAWG for the International Fire Aviation Guidelines.

3. Wildland Fire Advisory Group (WFAG) Meeting

A meeting focused on the follow-up of the UNECE/FAO Regional Forum on Cross-boundary Fire Management (Geneva, November 2013).

4. ILC / SKCOC Meeting

A meeting of the members of the International Liaison Committee (ILC) and South Korea Conference Organizing Committee (SKCOC) for the 6th International Wildland Fire Conference.

5. Round Table of Regional Wildland Fire Networks and Centers (Business Meeting)

This informal Round Table was held at the end of the joint meetings and allowed exchange between regional network representatives, with a focus on:
- Establishment of Regional Fire Management Resource Centers
- Inter-regional cooperation.

 Agenda

Environment and Security Initiative Regional Meeting for South Eastern Europe was held from 31 March to 01 April 2014 in Podgorica, Montenegro. In the frame of the Regional Meeting, the session for the ENVSEC National Focal Points of SEE and delegates was held on 31 March. The Roundtable discussion with regional cooperation initiatives, programmes and partners and discussion by working groups was held next day. The working groups discussed for four topics: 1 “ENVSEC added value for SEE”; 2 “Reviewing environment and security priorities in SEE”, 3 “Further positioning ENVSEC in SEE” and 4 “Mapping potential partnerships and donor cooperation in SEE”.

 Agenda - ENVSEC Regional Meeting for SEE 2014

The Forum was organized by The UNECE/FAO Forestry and Timber Section and the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC),Germany, supported by the German Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Food and Consumer Protection, the Secretariat of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR), the Council of Europe through its Euro-Mediterranean Major Hazards Agreement (EUR-OPA) and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)

The main aim of the Forum was to elaborate recommendations to UNECE member states to build resilience of nations and communities within the UNECE region to wildfire emergencies and disasters by enhancing national and collective regional fire management capability through international cooperation.

Also, on 27 November was organized a Preparatory meeting of the UNECE/FAO Team of Specialists for the Forum: Business meeting of the UNECE / FAO Team of Specialists on Forest Fire.

 UNECE FAO-Crossboundary Fire Forum Conclusions Final

 UNECE FAO Fire Forum Agenda

 UNECE FAO Fire Forum Agenda ToS Meeting

 UNECE Fire Forum 2013 Outline

The International Congress on Forest Fire and Climate Change: Challenges for Fire Management in Natural and Cultural Landscapes of Eurasia was held at 11-12 November in Novosibirsk, Russia. This international event bring together prestigious experts from all over the world, representatives of emergency services, forest managers and land management authorities, government and non-government organizations participating in forest protection and responsible for development of new strategies in forest fire management. They discussed the issues of wildland fire management in Russia and throughout the Eurasian region and their impact and significance towards climate change. One of the aims of the congress was to stimulate a cross boundary exchange of fire management experience and to contribute to the decision making process in this area on an international level.

The Congress was organized in partnership with the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) in the frame of the bilateral Russian-German Cooperation in Sustainable Forest Management.

Also, in the same time with the Congress, the first International Exhibition for Forest Fire Fighting and Protection was held 11-13 November 2013 at Novosibirsk Expocenter (Novosibirsk, Russia), within the bounds of the project Forest Fire Fighting Technologies. Ecology. Climate – 2013.

http://firesib.ru/

A select group of outstanding individuals and organisations from around the world, who have confronted environmental emergencies ranging from the Fukushima nuclear disaster and Hurricane Sandy, to forest fires and climate change, were honoured on 2 September 2013 as recipients of the third Green Star Awards.


The biennial Green Star Awards are a joint initiative between the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Green Cross International and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).


This year’s winners are:

• Kenya Red Cross Society
• Joint award: Prof Nikola Nikolov (Macedonia), Mr Sundar Prasad Sharma (Nepal), Prof Sergiy Zibtsev (Ukraine)
• Mayor of Katsurao Village, Mr Masahide Matsumo (Japan)
• New York City Hurricane Sandy Debris Removal Task Force
• Joint award: World Wildlife Fund and the American Red Cross
• Sir David Attenborough

From left: Prof Sergiy Zibtsev (Ukraine), Mr Sundar Prasad Sharma (Nepal), Prof. Johann G. Goldammer (GFMC-Germany) and Prof. Nikola Nikolov (Macedonia)

The winners with: the President Mikhail Gorbachev; Alexander Likhotal Green Cross- Presiden, Rashid Khalikov OCHA Geneva– Director; Wendy Cue UNEP-Chief of Section and Jean Michel Cousteau.

http://www.gcint.org/press-release/green-star-awards-presented-environmental-emergency-heroes#overlay-context=media/n/press

http://www.gcint.org/green-star-awards

In the frame of the UNDP project “Emergency Coordination Support to Municipality of Strumica” the “Forest fire coordination simulation exercise” was held at 16.05.2013 in Cham Chiflik municipality of Strumica, Republic of Macedonia. It was joint activity between: Municipality of Strumica, UNDP of in Skopje, Directorate for protection and rescue from Skopje, Red Cross-Strumica and NGO “Planetum”-Strumica. In the exercise were engage more than 70 participants from the above mentioned institutions and organizations. For each part of the scenario of the exercise there was evaluators and on the end joint analyzes of the exercise was done.

 Link: http://www.time.mk/cluster/a334a2efde/takticno-pokazna-vezba-za-pozar-vo-strumica.html

This conference and exhibition brought together international government procurement and operational officers, civil organizations, international manufacturers, operators and service providers to discuss and debate the latest techniques, technologies and platforms available to tackle the specific and persistent threat of wildfires.

 AFF 2013 Programme

 Presentation

This symposium was hosted by the Korea Forest Research Institute (KFRI) and co-sponsored by the Korea Forest Service (KFS) and the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC), with inputs of the UNECE/FAO Team of Specialists on Forest Fire and the UNISDR Regional Southeast Europe and Eurasia Wildland Fire Networks.

BACKGROUND
A global assessment of recent large fires suggests the application of more balanced and comprehensive forest fire management approaches that better integrate fire-related considerations into natural resource management strategies at the landscape scale. Lessons from the catastrophic fires remind also that fire suppression should be considered as one of the several fire fields such as fire prevention, safe fire use, forest fire preparedness, suppression, and restoration of damaged area. And simple and clear jurisdiction is needed for avoiding and decreasing the unwanted fire effects. This symposium may wish to discuss how to enhance the integration of fire management to broader sustainable forest-use, how to establish long-term strategy for forest fire policy and organization and how to achieve the goal of simple and clear jurisdiction.

OBJECTIVES
The objectives of the symposium include: － To discuss global and national level issues and concerns of forest fire paradigms and management, especially future forest fire strategy considering global change － To share knowledge and experiences in building enhanced forest fire capacity and inter-agency cooperation in fire management, in order to develop effective forest fire mitigation and response.

 Agenda Korea Fire Policy Strategy Symposium 2013

 Korea Fire Policy Strategy Symposium 2013

As a result of the large number of forest fires, their social, economic and impact of the health of the population of the South East European region, from 10 to 11 October 2012, in Belgrade- SERBIA was held ”International Seminar on Forest Fires Management – Experiences and Lessons Learned”.
On the Seminar attended representatives from eight countries of the region and large number of representatives of national and international institutions and organisations including Global Fire Monitoring Center (Freiburg) and Regional Fire Monitoring Center (Skopje).

 Agenda 10-11 October - Belgrade 2012

In the South Caucasus the extent of damage of the wildfires is attributed to the limited capacity in fire management of agencies dealing with fire prevention and response. To assist countries in addressing these issues in 2009-2011 OSCE in partnership with the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) initiated and implemented two phases of the ENVSEC-funded project – „Enhancing National Capacity of Fire Management and Wildfire Disaster Risk Reduction in the South Caucasus“.
In the frame of the project, with the participation of the Regional Fire Monitoring Center (RFMC) and experts from the the UNISDR Regional SE Europe / Caucasus Wildland Fire Network, regional training courses were organized in Borjomi,Georgia (2009) and Antalya, Turkey (2010). The last one was organized in Gabala, Azerbaijan,24-26 September 2012. Also, Local and Second National Round Table on Fire Management was held in Gabala (26 September) and Baku (27 September).

 Agenda 24-26.09.2012- Gabala 2012

 Agenda 27.09.2012 - Baku 2012

Traditionally, Joint Meetings of the UNISDR Wildland Fire Advisory Group (WFAG), International LiaisonCommittee (ILC) for the 6th International Wildland Fire Conference, and theInternational Fire Aviation Working Group (IFAWG) were organized by the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC), Freiburg, Germany from 29 June to 3 July 2012. The meetings were organized in cooperation with and supported by theUN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), Forestry and Timber Section,Euro-Mediterranean Major Hazards Agreement (EUR-OPA), Council of Europe, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), United Nations University (UNU) and Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC). Around 40 representatives of international institutions and organizations from all of the world took participations of the meetings.

 RFMC-Presentation - Freiburg 2012

 Agenda 29.06.2012 - Freiburg 2012

The 1st International Conference on Wildfire in Natural Resources Landswasorganized from 26 to 27 October in Gorgan-Iran with participation of more than 200 participants from Iran and nine other countries. The Regional Southeast European/Caucasus Wildland Network and Regional Fire Monitoring Center (RFMC) were presented bay Prof. Nikola Nikolov, Prof. ErtugrulBilgili and PhD. IoanninsMitsopoulus.

 Presentation by Nikolov and Mitsopoulos - Iran 2011

 Agenda 26.10.2011 - Iran 2011

Following the conclusions and recommendations of the OSCE-led Environmental Assessment Mission to fire affected territories inand around the Nagorno-Karabakh region from September 2006, many activities in terms of forest fire protection were conducted. One of them is the Enhancing National Capacity on Fire Management and Wildfire Disaster Risk Reduction in the South Caucasus ENVSEC Initiative project.

In collaboration between:the Environment and Security Initiative (ENVSEC), Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC), Ministry of emergency situations of Republic of Armenia (MESRA) and Regional Fire Monitoring Center of the Regional Southeast European/Caucasus WildlanFire Network (RFMC-RSE/CWFN), an Training on Enhancing National Capacity on Fire Management and Wildfire Disaster Risk Reduction in the South Caucasus ENVSEC Initiative project (September 12-13, 2011, Kapan, Armenia) and FOREST FIRE MANAGEMENTConference and National Round Table, September 14th, 2011Yerevan, Armenia, were organized.

 Agenda 14.09.2011 - Armenia 2011

The 5th International Wildland Fire Conference was held in Sun City-South Africa, 9-13 May 2011 with title: “Living with Fire – Addressing Global Change through Integrated Fire Management”.Close to 500 wildfire experts from 61 countries participated on the 5th International Wildfire Conference.

The conference produced the document following mammoth regional discussions in which the delegates pledged to work together in taking steps to control the growing phenomenon of wildfire in their communities and across the world.

The Regional Fire Monitoring Center of the Regional Southeast Europe / Caucasus Wildland Fire Network (RFMC-RSE/CWFN) was part of the Conference and there were four delegates from the regional network: Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine. They had an active role in the work of the Conference (with separate presentations in the frame of the Regional Session V), and the overview of the regional activities was given through the Regional poster, as well.

More: http://www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/southafrica-2011.html
         http://www.wildfire2011.org/news.php

 Agenda Regional Session V - Afrika 2011

As a result of the previous activities of the Regional Southeast European/Caucasus Wildland Fire Netvork, an Multilateral Advanced Regional Seminar in Wildland Fire Management was conducted in Antalya, Turkey, 1-3 March 2010. The host of the event was the General Directorate of Forestry (OrmanGenelMüdürlügü, Ankara) but also in cooperation with and co-sponsored by Environment and Security Initiative (ENVSEC), the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) / United Nations University (UNU), Faculty of Forestry, KaradenizTeknikÜniversitesi, (Trabzon, Turkey), the UNISDR Regional Southeast Europe Wildland Fire Network and the UNECE / FAO Team of Specialists on Forest Fire.

About 30 participants from the region and adjoining countries have taken participation of the meeting: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Georgia, Macedonia, Russian Federation and Turkey.

 Advanced Seminar in Wildland Fire Management - Antalya 2010