Currently, more than 60% of the EU’s soils are considered to be in an unhealthy state. The newly developed Soil Health Dashboard within the European Union Soil Observatory (EUSO) shows the location and estimates the extent of unhealthy soils in the European Union (EU), as well as the degradation processes behind them.
The EUSO is a stepping-stone in achieving healthy soils ambition by 2050, by identifying the most pressing drivers of soil degradation, but also by helping Member States identifying areas under higher pressure. Aligned with the European Commission’s proposal for a Soil Monitoring and Resilience Law, the EUSO’s dashboard represents a first step towards the assessment of soil health in the EU, but also the progress of soil-related EU policies.
In this context, the EUSO convened its 3rd Stakeholder Forum, an annual event organised by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) whose purpose is to actively engage and exchange with the soil community, from policy makers and scientists to local actors, civil society representatives and citizens. The 3rd Stakeholders Forum was an opportunity for anyone interested in soils to update and exchange on various themes including latest developments in soil policy, state of soil science, new and ongoing soil research projects as well as methods to assess soil health in the EU and beyond.
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The 3rd EUSO Stakeholders Forum took place in two parts:
15-17 November 2023:
EUSO Working Groups Meetings (online).
Technical Working Groups meeting, 15-17 November 2023 (online meeting). The EUSO Technical Working Groups (TWG) meet to discuss technical advances on the following topics: soil pollution, soil data sharing, soil monitoring, soil erosion, soil carbon and soil biodiversity. Download the final Agenda (9.11.23)
21-23 November 2023:European Soil Mission Week (physical presence - Soil Mission Week).The European Soil Mission Week, Madrid - Spain, 21-23 November 2023 (in-person meeting). This event was organised by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI) in the context of the Horizon Europe Mission ‘A Soil Deal for Europe’ (Mission Soil) together with the JRC’s EUSO and the EU funded project PREPSOIL; the outcomes of the TWG sessions of the week before were presented and discussed.
Index | Recorded Sessions | European Soil Mission Week 2023Recordings of EUSO participation | | | |
| Panos Panagos - The EUSO Soil Erosion Working Group  (pdf)P. Borrelli, University Tre Roma - SOIL O-LIVE, AI4SoilHealth (pdf)
- Francis Matthews - EUSEDcollab: Project round-up and future intentions (pdf)
- Panos Panagos - The costs of sediments removal (pdf)
- Diana Vieira & Soil team - Call for collaboration, Field soil erosion data in EU (pdf)
- Matthias Vanmaercke - Modelling gully erosion at regional to global scales: recent advancements, pathways & pitfalls (pdf)
- Arthur Nicolaus Fendrich - Mapping cover crops, From regional to parcel scale: a high-resolution map of cover crops across Europe combining satellite data with statistical surveys (pdf)
- Anita Bernatek-Jakiel - A piping erosion susceptibility map of Europe – preliminary results (pdf)
- Panos Panagos - Soil Erosion WG - Final (pdf)
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| - Opening - Highlights and Roadmap (pdf)
- Christian Holzleitner - Carbon Removal Certification (pdf)
- Claire Chenu - Design of a high-resolution and dynamic Soil Organic Carbon monitoring system for Agricultural Land (pdf)
- Emanuele Lugato, Mirco Migliavacca, Daniele De Rosa, Panos Panagos - Carbon Removal on Land (CRL): Data and methodologies (pdf)
- Daniele De Rosa - Assessing Soil Organic Carbon Changes in European Croplands and Grasslands (pdf)
- Gerard Heuvelink - International review of current MRV initiatives for soil carbon stock change assessment and associated methodologies (pdf)
- Greet Ruysschaert - Towards a framework for the design of harmonized, context-specific MRV systems for carbon farming (pdf)
- Maria Julia Yague - Soil Organic Carbon Monitoring System for SOC prediction (pdf)
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| - Pia Kotschik, Silvia Pieper - The upcoming European Soil Monitoring Law: An effective instrument for the protection of terrestrial ecosystems? (pdf)
Sergejus Ustinov - Global Soil Partnership and its soil indicators in the assessment of soil pollution and sustainable soil management (pdf)- NICOLE Network - EU Soil Monitoring Law from an industry perspective (pdf)
- Elise Van Eynde, Diana Vieira, Felipe Yunta, Piotr Wojda - Soil Pollution Indicators at EUSO Soil dashboard (pdf)
- Thomas Schmid - The use of remote sensing in soil pollution: Monitoring of the mercury mining site Almadén implementing remote sensing technologies (pdf)
Slovak Environment Agency - The state of the management of contaminated sites in Slovakia and its public awareness - Vera Silva - Mixtures of pesticide residues are omnipresent in the environment - the first results from the SPRINT field campaign (pdf)
- Technical Working Group on Soil Pollution: Discussion (pdf)
- Anna Ladenberger, GEMAS, Alecos Demetriades, FOREGS - The FOREGS and GEMAS continental-scale geochemical SOIL mapping projects in Europe (pdf)
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| - Francisco Sanz, Alba Peiro - Ibercivis Foundation - Choosing active engagement in soil health: the role of Citizen Science (pdf)
- David. A. Robinson, Audric Vigier, Chris Feeney, Bridget A., Emmett, Panos Panagos, Russell Lawley, Wayne Shelley, Timo Bruere, Patrick Bell2 - SOil funDamentals (SOD), benchmarking & UKSO (pdf)
- Mel Woods - The GROW Observatory (pdf)
- Tanja Mimmo - Project ECHO: Engaging citizens in soil science (pdf)
Ziss. E; Friesl-Hanl. W; Götzinger. S; Noller. C; Puschenreiter. M; Watzinger A; Hood-Nowotny. R - Heavy Metal City-Zen (pdf)- Vitalii Lebed - Military soil degradation of agricultural land in Ukraine (pdf)
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| - Integration of relevant EU-wide data in EUSO/ESDAC
C. Ballabio, JRC -European Commission - The Data Harmonisation WG and special focus on Soil Mission outputs
Panos Ilias, Tomáš ŘeznÍk, Fenny van Egmond - The Soil-Wise project – An open-access knowledge and data
repository to safeguard soils (pdf)
- Integration of relevant EU-wide data in EUSO/ESDAC
- Antonio J Manzaneda - WG Soil data integration. SOIL O-LIVE PROJECT (pdf)
- Hui Xu, ILVO - The Roadmap for Data Distribution (pdf)
- Maria Fantappiè, Giovanni L’Abate, Andrea Lachi, Fenny van Egmond, Paul van Genuchten, Stefania Morrone - EJPSOIL – WP6 current advancements in harmonising soil information and soil data exchange (pdf)
- Claudio Zucca, Sergio Saia - Prima Project, SOILS4MED and SHARInG-MeD (pdf)
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| - Soil biodiversity Technical Working Group (pdf)
- Marcel van der Heijden - Soil Biodiversity and Soil Health in Agroecosystems (pdf)
- Maëva Labouyrie - Patterns in soil microbial diversity across Europe (pdf)
- Julia Köninger - The distribution of soil eukaryotes across Europe (pdf)
- Olesya Dulya - Distribution of antibiotic biosynthesis and resistance genes across Europe (pdf)
- Maria J. I. Biones - Integrating Soil biodiversity to Ecosystem services (pdf)
- BIOservisES Project - Raul Zornoza Belmonte (University of Cartagena) - Linking Soil Biodiversity and Ecosystem functions and services in different land uses (pdf)
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