Dr. Sergiy Zibtsev, Professor of the Silviculture Department at the Institute of Forestry and Landscape-Park Management participated in the annual reporting conference of the European FIRE-IN project

Sergiy Zibtsev, professor of the Forestry Department, participated in the annual report conference of the European FIRE-IN project, held at the National Security Center, Rome, June 25-27, 2018. The FIRE-IN project is funded by the Horizon 2020 program and aims to improvement of the national and European potential in the field of fire suppression and salvation through the development of innovations and promotion of the implementation of modern decisions in the operational practice of firefighters.

Fires in natural ecosystems are one of the five areas of the project, which is coordinated by the Global Fire Monitoring Center and involves scientists from NULES. During the conference experts and practitioners in firefighting reported on the results of the first year of the project, particularly towards the implementation of modern firefighting technologies. Participants of the conference were presented the experience of NULES of Ukraine in the development and implementation of an innovative fire detection system, safe fire extinguishing in the areas of radioactive contamination and conducting trainings with forest firefighters.

What youu could do, if you have time: Put the FIRE-IN URL into that online publication:  www.fire-in.eu

Sergiy Zibtsev, Head of Regional East European
Fire Monitoring Centre,
professor of the Forestry Department