NFSN is a Nordic platform aiming at being a meeting point for professionals from industry, municipalities (including the fire service and other local government professionals), research institutes and universities. The origin of the network are the Nordic Fire and Safety Days, held biannually in the Øresund Region.
The success of the NFSD has been used as a model for expanding the collaboration to a broader network as presented in the project The Nordic Fire and Safety Network Focus on Energy (NFSNergy), which was funded in 2020 by Nordic Energy Research.
Besides organizing the Nordic Fire and Safety Days, the network will organize the exchange of PhD students and researchers. The focus is safety of buildings and energy infrastructures. Furthermore, NFSN will run summer schools, webinars and teaching for professionals, as well as supporting research collaborations. The project will bring together multidisciplinary teams working on important energy-related initiatives promoting:
- the fire safety of new bioenergy systems,
- energy storage systems in green buildings,
- improved digitalization through Building Information Models in construction and
- the fire safety of new energy carriers in green transport systems.