Program Overview

Specialization Course on Fire Behaviour

General Objectives of the Course

The Specialization Course on Fire Behaviour aims to equip SGIFR agents responsible for risk identification, strategy definition, procedures, and organization for preparation, prevention, suppression, and rescue with the best knowledge and skills in real-time and anticipatory analysis of fire behavior. This is achieved through the use of decision support tools, enabling the adoption of the most appropriate decisions based on intensity, severity, potential expansion, suppression capacities, and protection needs, as well as the identification and proposal of continuous improvements.

Admission Requirements

• Elements with a first degree.
• Candidates should check the admission requirements available, in addition to the information provided here.

Mode of Study

• B-learning

Teaching / Evaluation Language

• Portuguese

Examination Regulations, Assessment, and Grading

• 60% from the questions raised and 40% from the works provided, being both evaluated in a range between 0 and 20 values.

Learning Objectives and Intended Skills

The program contents aim to achieve the following learning objectives:

• Knowing how to describe fire behavior
• Understanding the influence of environmental variables on fire behavior
• Identifying fuel typologies based on size, shape, and phenological state
• Ability to acquire and process input data for fire behavior prediction systems
• Predicting and anticipating fire behavior
• Knowing how to identify potential situations of fire interaction, long-distance spotting, and extreme fire behavior
• Relating fire behavior to strategies, tactics, and techniques, and defining the necessary and appropriate resources for fire suppression and protection actions, based on fire behavior, critical situations, and suppression and/or protection capacities and priorities
• Identifying performance indicators and criteria
• Identifying short, medium, and long-term intervention priorities

Qualification Requirements and Regulations

• Rules of creation and operation of non-degree courses at the University of Coimbra

Graduation Requirements

• 60% from the questions raised and 40% from the works provided, being both evaluated in a range between 0 and 20 values.

Study Programme

• Comportamento do Fogo

Academic Year

• Change year

Course Type

• Non Degree Course

Qualification Awarded

• Duration: 1 Trimester(s)
• ECTS Credits: 3.0

Applications

• Call for Applications

Documents

• University of Coimbra regulations and documents apply.