The pilot action in Mértola aims to enhance the resilience of agroforestry systems to climate change through wildfire prevention and control measures. Activities promote biodiversity, natural regeneration, and sustainable forest management that reduces erosion and strengthens socio-economic opportunities linked to forest use.
This pilot promotes social innovation to reactivate the management of abandoned forests in the province of Soria, combining community engagement and digital marketing strategies with remote sensing tools. The initiative seeks to reconnect absentee forest owners with their land, encourage adaptive management, and provide a replicable model to combat forest abandonment in depopulated areas.
The pilot action in Toledo province focuses on restoring dehesas affected by seca and drought through the application of integrated phytotherapeutic and silvicultural treatments. The goal is to enhance the resilience of holm oak and cork oak stands to climate change, reduce fire risk and biodiversity loss, and generate medium-term environmental and productive benefits linked to livestock farming.
In the Region of Murcia, two pilot actions will be carried out: one in Cehegín (Natura 2000 area) and another in Moratalla (burnt area). Measures will be applied in two plots, one that has been previously managed and another that has not, in order to compare the impact of the project’s measures under both types of management.
The SocialForest consortium has developed research that is already being applied in different pilot sites across regions of Spain, France and Portugal
This toolbox will contain the tools that will allow the implementation of the pilot projects in the three pilot territories. The city of Cartagena, located in the Region of Murcia in Spain, will develop a Rural Transition Lab in the Oeste Region of its territory, a rural and marginalized region of the territory of the community. The pilot project will focus on the definition of new agricultural economic models based on the optimization and preservation of local resources (endogenous species, water recovery by PV panel systems). The Intermunicipal Community of Ave, located in the Norte Region of Portugal, will develop a second Rural Transition Lab. Its pilot project will be implemented in the municipality of Póvoa de Lanhoso and will support the use of endogenous species and local know-how for the development of urbanized areas in order to optimize water use. The Syndicat mixte Est Creuse Développement, located in the Nouvelle Aquitaine region of France, will develop the third Rural Transition Lab at the level of its two communities of municipalities Creuse Confluence and Marche et Combrailles in Aquitaine. The pilot project will address the challenges of preserving endogenous biodiversity and landscapes and the challenges of runoff and soil erosion through the implementation of a sustainable management system for agricultural hedgerows. This toolbox will contain the method used for the territorial dialogue and the GIS tool (common solution): TOOLS for the implementation of the strategy of the RURAL TRANSITION LABS
Joint development and implementation by the B9-CIM-TTM and the B12-CD Aude, under the coordination of the B10-IPB, of a pilot demonstration of the impact of different types and densities of forest vegetation on their protection against fires, including the monitoring and evaluation of their impact and transferability. This pilot will be tested in the territory of Terras de Tras-os-Montes (PT) and Aude (FR) as an innovative tool for the prevention and management of forest fires.
Joint development and implementation by B2-JCyL, B6-DipOurense, B7-UVigo, B11-CNPF NA and B13-SudCharente, under the coordination of BP-DXDM, of a pilot demonstration of the effectiveness of preventive planning and rapid intervention for the improvement of forest fire prevention and management, including monitoring and evaluation of their impact and transferability. This pilot will be tested in ES (Galicia, Castilla y León) and FR (Sud Charente).
