3rd European Symposium on Fire Safety Science

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Pascal BOULET1, Bart MERCI2 and Patrick VAN HEES31Université de Lorraine, CNRS, LEMTA, France2Ghent University, Department of Fluid Mechanics, Heat and Combustion, Ghent, Belgium3Lund University, Division of Fire Safety Engineering, Lund, Swedenpascal.boulet@univ-lorraine.frEDITORIALThis special issue is based on the papers selected for presentation during the 3rd ESFSS (European Symposium on Fire Safety Science), held in Nancy (France) from 12 to 14 September 2018. Following the conference held in Cyprus (2015), the 3rd ESFSS was the third edition of a series of symposia organized in Europe, with the participation and support of the International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS). The aim was to gather researchers from within Europe and beyond to have exchanges and discussions about fire safety science. In this frame, a workshop Agenda 2030 for a Fire Safe World was also organized by IAFSS on the afternoon of Tuesday, September 11, prior to the symposium, with the aim to discuss the definition of a Fire Safety Mission and the identification of specific topics for fire science research.Around 120 contributions have been received during the conference preparation, involving both submissions for oral and poster presentation. A selection, based on two peer-reviews of full papers, finally conducted to the acceptance of 35 contributions for oral presentation and 55 for poster presentation, plus 11 posters in a special session dedicated to work-in-progress.The conference was attended by 140 scientists, coming not only from Europe but from around the world, namely from Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Portugal, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, USA.List of Symposium chair and Scientific committee are available in this PDF.