AFAN aims at creating a European wildfire expert knowledge-sharing network focused on fire risk analysis (or assessment) and risk reduction.

The initiative has the sub-objective to scale up existing regional and national and international knowledge and capacities, transfer them with the mission of shared mutual learning and create the basis of an operational network based on trust and support to generate an overall improvement of the European wildfire emergency response capacities and coordination.

The target participants are European civil protection experts and organizations, fire and rescue services, regional public agencies, volunteer organisations responsible of wildfire risk management, existing networks national or international, fire training centres, forestry agencies, researchers and related SMEs and EU funded projects.