Extreme wildfire events (EWE) are becoming a major environmental, economic and social threat in Southern Europe and increasingly gaining importance elsewhere in Europe. As the limits of fire suppression-centered strategies become evident, practitioners, researchers and policymakers increasingly recognise the need to develop novel approaches that shift emphasis to the root causes and impacts of EWE, moving towards preventive landscape and community management for greater resilience. FIRE-RES integrates existing research, technology, civil protection, policy and governance spheres related to wildfires to innovate processes, methods and tools to effectively promote the implementation of a more holistic fire management approach and support the transition towards more resilient landscapes and communities to EWE. To achieve this, FIRE-RES will, first, generate new knowledge on sustainable integrated fire management models that help to define what type of possible future scenarios (including climate change and general policies) should be promoted across EU territories. Second, it will identify and demonstrate innovations at the technological, social, health/safety, administrative, ecological and economic levels to define how and across which possible paths the future scenarios may be achieved in the EU. These innovations will be implemented in different regional contexts, and upscaled at the national and EU levels using an open innovation hub, promoting capacity building and partnership brokerage between public and private actors. Third, it will raise societal awareness and engagement on wildfire risk prevention, preparedness and response by leveraging existing national and cross-border networks at supranational levels. FIRE-RES is a transdisciplinary, multi-actor consortium, formed by researchers, wildfire agencies, technological companies, industry and civil society from 13 countries, linking to broader networks in science and disaster reduction management.

EYSET proposal involves 8 organizations from EU and Western Balkans Countries, ES, IT, BE, AL, XK, ME, BA with different and complementary profiles and experience according to the objectives fixed and activities proposed.The EYSET proposal target groups will be:-youth organizations -youth workers -stakeholders identified as public and private organizations that actively work for young people with and without disabilities social and labour inclusion, such as youth councils, youth platforms, chambers of commerce, associations, SMEs, public organizations supporting youth empowerment, etc., at local, regional national, EU/WB and extra EU levelNº of youth organizations involved in project activities minimum 139, youth workers minimum 24, young people minimum 122, minimum 49 stakeholders.GO: Empowering youth organizations making them able to contribute to young people and young people with disabilities social inclusion and fast track integration into the labour market.SO1: to enhance the suitable environment to raise the capacity of organizations working with young people with/without disabilities outside formal learning to support fast track integration of young people into the labour market, making them able to be social entrepreneurs in the tourism value chain, R1 Capacity building for youth organizationsSO2: to foster the development of youth work, improving its quality providing innovative methods, tools and material to support the empowerment of youth workers making them able to support young people in being social entrepreneurs in the tourism value chain, R2 Toolkit for youth workersSO3: to enhance cooperation across EU and WB countries, through joint initiatives promoting youth employability and the awareness of the importance of the creation of useful and proper tools to foster the social and labour inclusion of young people without and with disabilities exploiting social entrepreneurship in the tourism value chain. R3 Policy Recommendations

FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) states that although rural areas at world level presents different features and socio-economic situation according to their political, economic and social background, they present some peculiarities at global level. These includes lower levels of income, brain drain (especially of young people between 18 and 30 years old), low presence of high skill employment opportunities and low use/access of ICTs.The project aims to respond to these challenges, fostering the creation of a new professional profile: innovation advisor for cultural heritage’s promotion in rural areas through a training path direct to 27 youth workers of rural areas including e-learning and mobility activities (job shadowing and training course).Project activities will have a positive indirect impact on rural areas of youth workers participating in the project, since it will foster the presence of initiatives to promote activities in rural areas focused on youth work, promotion of rural heritage and ICT as means to boost economic growth in rural areas.

According to the Charter of the European Geoparks Network adopted in Greece the 5th June of 2000, a European Geopark “is a territory which includes a particular geological heritage and a sustainable territorial development strategy supported by a European programme to promote development. […]”.These territories have been labelled regarding their geological, cultural and ecological heritage - since the early 2000s this Label knows a growing success among European countries, particularly in the West (France, Germany, Italy, Spain). In 2013, 54 European Geoparks received the precious label. This international recognition by UNESCO attracts Southern countries to implement development strategies in line with the recommendations of good-practices management oriented by international organizations. Indeed, UNESCO takes into account a plurality of selective criteria such as a remarkable heritage (geology, archaeology, biodiversity, cultural), citizen participation, sustainable regional economic development plan, heritage and socio-economic values for local populations, etc. to proceed to the inscription process. It is based on an integrated and sustainable management & conservation strategy of natural and cultural heritage from an interdisciplinary approach (Humanities and Life & Earth Sciences) in consultation with local stakeholders (local communities, universities and civil society). Currently, there is no “Geopark methodology” adapted to the South. Thus, the GEOPARK project aims to study potential and compared areas (EU/Africa) with remarkable geological, ecological, social and cultural heritage. One located in Central Catalunia (Spain) and the other in the Zat Valley (Morocco) - Marrakech. Endowed with varied skills in Humanities and Life and Earth Sciences, GEOPARK project partners (public, private) propose to study biodiversity, geology, prehistory, social aspects, heritage, tourism as a geopark based on empirical surveys, field collecting data and shared experience.