Awareness Raising > Working Group Meeting
The European Soil Bureau Network established a Working Group on "Soil Awareness and Education". Members of the Group may be found in the Activities of the European Soil Bureau.
The main objective of the working group : “To establish an action plan for the development of measures / programmes / initiatives to raise awareness of the importance of soil across European society (i.e. policy makers, general public, universities, schools, industry, etc.)”
European Network on Soil Awareness Conference, Aberdeen, 19 September 2013
The European Network on Soil Awareness held its meeting at the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen from 19-20 September 2013. The conference was open to both soil specialists with a specific interest in raising awareness of soils as well as other interest groups whose role involves an understanding of specific aspects of soil, for example, planners, education, local authorities and special interest groups. The speakers presentations are available online.
Soil awareness in Europe
- Our most precious resource? (3.5 MB), Anne Glover (Chief Scientific Adviser to the President of the European Commission)
- Activities of the EC/JRC towards soil awareness (1 MB), Arwyn Jones (Soil action, Joint Research Centre, European Commission)
Soil awareness around the world
- Global Soil Partnership – a global drive for soil awareness? (2 MB), Ronald Vargas (Land and Water Division, FAO)
- Progress on Pillar 2 of the Global Soil Partnership – education and awareness (1 MB), Helaina Black (Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils, Global Soil Partnership, FAO)
- Soil awareness at the Global Soil Week 2012 – Experience of a special session (2.2 MB), Francesca Bampa, Luca Montanarella (JRC/EC) and Gabriele Broll (German Soil Association)
- Soil awareness at the Global Soil Week 2013 and beyond (630 KB), Ivonne Lobos Alva (Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies)
- The World Soil Museum – an update (1.86 MB), Thomas Caspari (International Soil Reference and Information Centre, the Netherlands)
Activities to raise soil awareness in different European countries
- Summer of Soil in Sweden (7 MB), Pieter Ploeg (Sweden)
- Activities to raise soil awareness in Lower Austria and the SONDAR project (1.4 MB), Christian Steiner (European Land and Soil Alliance, Government Lower Austria)
- Crossing borders for soil awareness – Results of the SONDAR project in the Danube region (5.9 MB), Beata Houskova (Soil Science and Conservation Research Institute, Slovak Republic)
- Engagement with stakeholders in Scotland (3.2 MB), Willie Towers (James Hutton Institute, Scotland)
- The earth beneath your feet (1.7 MB), Pier Francesco Campi (Regione Emilia-Romagna, Italy)
First Meeting , Ispra 26 - 27 May 2009
Find attached the minutes of this First Meeting done in Ispra at 26 - 27 May 2009.
Presentations during the meeting
- A. Jones: Public Awareness and Educational Initiatives for Soil in the JRC
- R. Creamer: Soil Awareness & Education: A review from Ireland
- G. Broll: Soil Awareness and Education (Germany)
- O. Düwel: Experiences made in the context of trying to bring the “Soil Resource” into public’s and children's mind and ongoing activities
- S. Hallett: Soil-Net.com A soils educational resource
- B. Housková: SOIL focus - SLOVAKIA
- F. Lobnic: Model for Integrating classroom based Education and E-Learning (Slovenia)
- E. Micheli: Soil Awareness and Education Activities related to the mandate of the WG(Hungary)
- W. Towers Soil awareness and education: some approaches in Scotland
- P.Zdruli: Soil Awareness and Education (Italy)
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