MOU signed in Coimbra 2014 with ADAI and the BNHCRC
European and Australian researchers will work closely on the latest fire science through an agreement signed in Portugal last month.
The Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC and the Portugal-based Association for the Development of the Industrial Aerodynamics (ADAI) have agreed to share staff and information in research, management, and policy.
The two organisations signed a Memorandum of Understanding at the 7th International Conference on Forest Fire Research in Coimbra in November. The Australian Ambassador to Portugal attended the function.
The agreement states that the CRC and ADAI “…share common interests and that there will be mutual benefit from close collaboration and joint ventures in training, research, program development, and the exchange of students and staff.
ADAI was also a partner with the Bushfire CRC though an MOU. The latest MOU will build on those initial links and extend into a range of fire research fields.
(Photo, above: CEO Dr Richard Thornton with Her Excellency Anne Plunkett, Australian Ambassador to Portugal, and Prof Domingos Viegas of ADAI, University of Coimbra.)