Currents projects

FIREPRIME - European Program for Wildfire-Prepared Communities

Coordinator: Elsa Pastor

Funding organisation: European Commission, DG ECHO (European Civil Protection Authority)

Researchers: Eulàlia Planas, Pascale Vacca, Simona Dossi, Alba Àgueda, Xavier Franch, Marc Oriol, Lídia López

Entities: CERTEC-Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (COO), Pau Costa Foundation (PCF), Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU)

Period:  February 2024 – January 2026

VERA - Vulnerable elements and risk assessment

Principal Investigator : Alba Àgueda

Funding organisation: European Commission

Researchers: Eulàlia Planas, Elsa Pastor, Pascale Vacca, Simona Dossi

Entities: Meteogrid (COO), CERTEC-Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Association for the Development of Industrial Aerodynamics (ADAI - Portugal), Universidade de Aveiro, Protecció Civil, Vost.PT, Entente pour la fôret Méditerranéenne (EPLFM)

Period:  February 2024 – January 2026

PROSAFE - Smart Integration of Process Systems Engineering & Machine Learning for Improved Process Safety in Process Industries

Principal Investigator:  Eulàlia Planas

Funding organisation: European Commission

Researchers: Elsa Pastor, Alba Àgueda

Entities: Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU, COO), CERTEC-Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), NOVOTEC, Koç Üniversitesi, KAIROS, RISKTEC, Port de Barcelona, Columbia Engineering, Imperial College London

Period: January 2024 - December 2027

WUITIPS - Wildland-Urban-Interface Fire Touristic Infrastructures Protection

Coordinator: Elsa Pastor

Funding organisations: European Commission, DG ECHO (European Civil Protection Authority)

Researchers: Eulàlia Planas, Pascale Vacca, Simona Dossi, Alba Àgueda, Ronan Paugam

Entities: CERTEC-Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (COO), Efectis France (ERFR), Lunds Universitet (ULUND), Diputació de Girona (DDGI), Entente pour la fôret Méditerranéenne (EPLFM)

Period: February 2023 – January 2025

VR4Fire - Herramienta de realidad virtual para el entrenamiento de la población y los servicios de emergencia en caso de incendio a partir de volúmenes 3D reales y simulaciones CFD

Coordinators: Eulàlia Planas and Montserrat Pardas

Funding organisations: Spanish State Research Agency

Researchers: Elsa Pastor, Pascale Vacca, Alba Àgueda, Ronan Paugam

Entities:  CERTEC-UPC, VIRVIG-UPC, GPI-IEDAI-UPC 

Period: December 2022 – November 2024

Closing Gaps in Measurements, Modeling and Understanding

Coordinator: Russell Parsons (RMRS Fire Science Laboratory , USDA Forest Service)

Funding organisations: Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, DoD, USA

Principal Researchers UPC: Eulàlia Planas

Researchers: Elsa Pastor, Alba Àgueda, Ronan Paugam

Entities: RMRS Fire Science Laboratory, Missoula, MT; USFS PNW Research Station; Los Alamos National Laboratory; University of Montana; Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV; National Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA, Avignon, France); CERTEC-Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain); Colorado State University.

Period: April 2020 - December 2024