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On 13th and 27th of September (Mondays) at 1300 in Forest Educational Centre of Sekocin Las (as a part of Centre of Excelence "PROFOREST") a seminars took place. On September 13, M.Sc. Daniel Nagy who represented Fire Ecology Research Group from Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (c/o Freiburg University in Germany) and Fire Global Monitoring Centre, present a paper about: "Wildland Fire Simulation by the help of Farsite" On September 27, two reports by one German and one Russian researcher were presented: 1. Dr Peter Lex, Schutzgemeinschaft Deutscher Wälder and Deutscher Forstverein, Germany: "German forest administration experiences after large forest fires in 1975".(presentation in German). "Forest fires effects and methods of losses estimation". 2. M. Sc. Natalia Trofimova, Forest Research Institute in Krasnojarsk, Russia "Estimation of environmental pollution by smoke emissions from forest fires using of satellite data". For more information, please contact with dr Barbara Ubysz from Independent Forest Fire Prevention Laboratory ( phone: 022 71 50 424, e-mail: b.ubysz@ibles.waw.pl).