Monday 24th October 2022  - afternoon

Towards healthy soils in the EU

Moderators: Arwyn Jones/Anne Maréchal, European Commission JRC

Scope: Towards healthy soils in the EU

• Welcome and scope (Alessandra Zampieri, European Commission JRC, Director Sustainable Resources) - pdf
• EU Soil Strategy: towards a Soil Health Law (Mirco Barbero, DG ENV)
• Soil Health (Cristine Morgan, Chief Scientific Officer, Soil Health Institute) - pdf
• EU Mission: A Soil Deal for Europe: 100 living labs and lighthouses to lead the transition towards healthy soils by 2030 (Orsolya Frizon-Somogyi, European Commission DG AGRI) - pdf
• Carbon farming in the EU (Valeria Forlin, DG CLIMA) - pdf
• Zero Pollution Monitoring and Outlook Report (Rainer Baritz, European Environment Agency, Jann Martinsohn, European Commission JRC) - pdf - pdf
• Soil and water carbon banks (Martin Kováč, Slovak State Secretary) - pdf
• Outcomes of the conference “The current state of the soil cover of Ukraine under conditions of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation” (Maxim Solokha, NSC ISSAR) - pdf
• EUSO activities update (Arwyn Jones, European Commission JRC) - pdf
• Discussion and Questions from the Audience
• Closing remarks

Tuesday 25th October 2022  -  morning

• Introduction (Cristina Arias-Navarro/Arwyn Jones, EC JRC)
• What’s next for the Mission “A Soil Deal for Europe” (Paola Alejandra Eulalio, DG AGRI) - pdf
• SMS (Katharina Helming, ZALF and Peter Tramberend, Umweltbundesamt) - pdf
• ORCASA (Suzanne Reynders, INRAE)v - pdf
• PREPSOIL (Niels Halberg, Aarhus University) - pdf
• Soil O-live (Antonio Jose Manzaneda Avila, University of Jaen) - pdf
• AI4SoilHealth (Mogens Humlekrog Greve, AU) - pdf
• BENCHMARKS (Rachel Creamer, WUR) - pdf
• EJP SOIL (Claire Chenu, INRAE) - pdf
• SOILS4AFRICA (Bas Kempen, ISRIC) - pdf
• Interactions with EUSO, panel discussion
• Closing remarks

Tuesday 25th October 2022  -  afternoon

Soil Health Districts

Moderators: Anne Maréchal / Elise van Eynde, European Commission JRC
Scope: To explore the usefulness of soil health districts and the potential of living labs in supporting the implementation the EU soil strategy 2030

• Welcome
• Exploring the concept of Soil Health Districts to achieve soil health in the EU (Luca Montanarella/Arwyn Jones, European Commission JRC) - pdf
• US Soil Conservation Districts – origin, vision, objectives and governance (Tim Palmer, National Association of Conservation Districts, USA) - pdf
• Soil Health Living Labs and their role in supporting implementation of EU soil strategy (Paola Alejandra Eulalio, DG AGRI) - pdf
• Living Labs in the PREPSOIL project (Giulia Campodonico, Head of Projects ENoLL) - pdf
• Initiative Sols Vivants (Anne-Sophie Leroy, Earthworm) - pdf
• Living labs/lighthouses in Sweden: Farming in Balance (Lena Holm, Farming in Balance) - pdf
• A soil-based Living Lab integrating the supply chain for Belgium (Marc Rosiers, European landowners’ organization) - pdf
• A country pilot of farmers and stakeholders upscaling soil health implementation on farms (Sophie Gardette, Director, APAD - Association pour la promotion d'une Agriculture Durable) - pdf
• Discussion and Questions from the Audience
• Closing remarks

Wednesday 26th October 2022  - morning

• Introduction (Piotr Wojda, JRC) - pdf
• Soil Pollution Outlook High Level Synthesis Report (Piotr Wojda, JRC) - pdf
• Diffuse and point source Pollution
  • Phosphorus losses and heavy metals diffuse pollution (Panos Panagos, JRC) - pdf
  • Pesticides (Violette Geissen, WUR) - pdf
  • Contaminated sites (Natalia Rodriguez Eugenio, FAO) - pdf
  • Remediation technologies overview and IMPEL Water and Land Remediation Project (Marco Falconi, IMPEL)
• Pecha Kucha Lightning A series of 3-minute-presentations making an impact on the topics of soil pollution, soil remediation or contaminants of emerging concern.
  • Agrochemical remediation of farm soils by combining solarization and ozonation techniques (Fulgencio Contreras López, Agremsoil) - pdf
  • Field-based Analytical Technologies for Petroleum Hydrocarbons Determination in Soils (Markus Hjort, Concawe) - pdf
  • Successful application of nanoscale zero-valent iron for the remediation  m of contaminated soils in mining and industrial sites (Diego Baragano) - pdf
• Emerging Pollutants
  • PFAS (Julie Lions, BRGM) - pdf
  • Watchlist (Diana Vieira, JRC) - pdf
  • Other emerging pollutants (Felipe Yunta, JRC) - pdf
• Conclusions (Piotr Wojda, JRC European Commission)

• Introduction (Marc Van Liedekerke, JRC) - pdf
• Activities of EUSO Data Integration Technical Working Group
  • Subgroup-1: EU-projects data (Christine Le Bas, INRAE) - pdf
  • Subgroup-2: Data for EU Soil Monitoring and Indicators (Antonio Bispo, INRAE) - pdf
  • Subgroup-3: Data from EJP (Maria Fantappie’, CREA) - pdf
  • Subgroup-4: Data from Literature (Calogero Schillaci, JRC) - pdf
  • Subgroup-5: The creation of a hub with EU country soil data (Fenny van Egmond, WUR) - pdf
• Integration of data, information and knowledge from new EU soil-related projects (Marie-Jose Amaral, REA) - pdf
• ESDAC 2.0 (Panos Panagos, JRC) - pdf
• Establishing a soil data exchange partnership (Ester Miglio/Simone Sala, Varda AG) - pdf
• Discussion
• Next steps & Conclusions

• Welcome and soil monitoring in EUSO (Arwyn Jones/Anne Maréchal, JRC) - pdf
• Soil monitoring: a spatial and temporal variability problem (Daniele De Rosa, JRC)- pdf
• Indicators and thresholds for monitoring soil health (Rainer Baritz, European Environment Agency)
• Soil monitoring in EJP Soil (Antonio Bispo, INRAE) - pdf
• Updates on German soil monitoring system (Frank Glante, UBA Germany)
• Monitoring and upscaling soil derived GHG emissions with process-based models (Clemens Scheer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - KIT) - pdf
• Enhanced spatial soil health indicators with the synergy of Earth Observation technologies and artificial intelligence architectures to support national and European policies (Nikiforos Samarinas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - AUTH) - pdf
• Dynamic Soil Properties (Francine Lheritier, USDA-NRCS) - video mp4
• Discussion
• Next steps for the TWG on monitoring

Wednesday 26th October 2022  - afternoon

• Welcome (Luca Montanarella/Cristina Arias-Navarro, JRC)
• Carbon farming in the EU (Valeria Forlin, DG CLIMA) - pdf
• The role of the CAP in promoting carbon farming (Nicola di Virgilio, DG AGRI) - pdf
• CIRCASA legacy to ORCaSa (Jean-François Soussana/Suzanne Reynders, INRAE) - pdf
• Q&A
• EJP Soil: Road4Schemes project (Martin Thorsøe, AU) - pdf
• Carbon payments by Soil Capital (Romain Boulet, Soil Capital) - pdf
• Q&A
• SOC monitoring using LUCAS (Daniele de Rosa, JRC-EUSO) - pdf
• Innovative monitoring technologies (Eric Ceschia / Ahmad Albitar, CNRS CESBIO) - pdf
• KP4SoilCarbon Knowledge Platform Emilie (Vrot/Carla Biscotti, CIRAD/VIZZUALITY) - pdf
• Q&A
• Establishment of the EUSO Soil carbon MRV Technical working group (Cristina Arias-Navarro/Elise Van Eynde, JRC European Commission)
• Closing (Luca Montanarella, JRC European Commission)

• Welcome / brief presentation of the activities of the WG (Panos Panagos/Diana Vieira, JRC) - pdf
• Policy implications of multiple concurrent soil erosion processes in European farmland (P. Borrelli, Roma Tre University, and EUSO WG members) - pdf
• June workshop on “Soil Erosion in the EU”
  • Challenges for sediments (Nejc Bezak, University of Ljubljana) - pdf
  • Challenges in small scale erosion monitoring (M. Biddoccu, CNR Italy) - pdf
  • Challenges in Landslides research (N. Tavoularis, Regional Authority of Attica) - pdf
  • Soil erosion and Climate change (J. Eekhout, CSIC Spain) - pdf
  • Young scientists in soil erosion and soil conservation (D. Evans, Cranfield University) - pdf
  • Summary of the June workshop on “Soil Erosion in the EU” (Panos Panagos/Diana Vieira, JRC) - pdf
• Launch of two initiatives of the WG: a) Sediments database b) estimating costs of sediment removal
  • EUSEDcollab: new opportunities presented by a collaborative database of monitored sediment yields from across the research community (F. Matthews, KULeuven/JRC) - pdf
  • Can we evaluate the cost of off-site erosion? Insights from Normandy - France (E. Patault, ALTEREO) - pdf
  • Cost of soil erosion for Luxembourg: focus on sediment management (G. Fourvel, Luxembourg Environment Agency) - pdf
  • Costs and management of sediments removal in reservoirs (C. Auel, Münster University of Applied Sciences) - pdf
  • Renewal of membership, next steps & conclusions

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