Soils for Europe in the framework of the Soils for Europe (SOLO) project

Renew Europe, University of Coimbra and PAN Europe, in the framework of the Horizon Project 'SOLO - Soils for Europe', would like to invite you to the hybrid event 'Soils for Europe'.

Where: Online

When: 30 April 2025 from 14:00 to 16:00 CET

Language: English

Programme:

Moderation: Carlos Guerra and Kristine De Schamphelaere 

14:00 - Welcome:

• Martin Hojsík, Vice-President of the European Parliament

14:05 - Introduction: A Soil Monitoring and Resilience Law for the EU: common ground for soils

• Kristine De Schamphelaere, PAN Europe, Soils for Europe
• Carlos Guerra, University of Coimbra, Soils for Europe

14.15: Soil health indicators and monitoring - relevant scientific findings from EJP SOIL

• Rajasekaran Murugan, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Boku University, Vienna

14.25: From monitoring to steering soil functioning

• Paul Bodelier, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen

14.35: Soil Health, Pesticides & Soil Ecological Engineering

• Marcel van der Heijden, Agroscope and University of Zurich

14.45: Land Managers and Soils: from care to agency

• Teresa Pinto-Correia, University of Évora

14.55: Working on soil health in Flemish Fields

• Joeri Dewelde, farmer, Hoeve Begijns agro, Belgium

15.05: Living Labs for Soil Health

• Wim De Kinderen, ENoLL (European Network of Living Labs) - SOILL

15.15: Institutional level planning towards a model for co-constructing a soil monitoring system in anticipation for the ESML in Portugal

• André Daniel Silva Trindade, Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DGADR)

15.30: Questions and informal discussion

15.50: Closing remarks by organisers

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