Invitation
🔥 The Call for Abstracts for X-Fire 2025 – 1st International Workshop on Extreme Wildfire Events is now officially open!
X-Fire 2025 aims to shape the scientific and operational agenda on extreme wildfire events. By bringing together leading experts across disciplines, the workshop offers a unique opportunity to share insights, build collaborations, and inform future research and practice.
📍 X-Fire 2025 will take place in Nicosia, Cyprus, from 23 to 25 September 2025, hosted by CERIDES – Excellence in Innovation and Technology under the COST Action NERO (CA22164).
Submission Guidelines
📖 We welcome oral or poster contributions related, but not limited, to the following themes:
A. Modeling of extreme wildfire events: Wildland fire behavior dynamics, Data Assimilation, Innovations in simulation and visualization techniques.
B. Observing extreme wildfire events: Remote sensing of extreme wildland fire behavior, Field campaigns, Innovations in sensor technology and data processing.
C. Drivers, trends, and future projections of extreme wildfire events: Environmental drivers and predictive methods, Climatologies and trends, Future projections.
⏳ Submission Deadline: 30 May 2025 June 10 2025, 23:59 CEST (Brussels time)
Important Dates
⚠️ Abstract Submission Opens: 15 April 2025.
⚠️ Abstract Submission Closes: 30 May 2025. June 10 2025
⚠️ Notification of Abstract Acceptance: Second half of June 2025.
Financial Support
💰 Limited financial support will be available for eligible participants, based on COST Annotated Rules.
Organizing Committee
- Workshop Host and Local Organizers: Georgios Boustras, Cleo Varianou Mikellidou, Pierantonios Papazoglou, Klelia Vasileiou
- Workshop Organizing Committee: Theodore M. Giannaros, Akli Benali, Nieves Fernandez Anez, Roman Bercak, Georgios Papavasileiou, Giacomo Sbaragli, Fabio Silva, Nuria Prat-Guitart, Ljiljana Seric, Renata Martins Pacheco
📄 Key Documents & Links
🔗 Call for Abstracts Announcement (PDF)
🔗 Abstract Submission Template (Word)
🔗 Abstract Submission Form (Google Form)
