1st EUSO Stakeholders Forum
19 October 2021 - 21 October 2021, online
This three-day event (built on six, focused, half-day sessions) reflected on the challenges facing soil within the various strategies of the Green Deal (e.g. the Soil, Biodiversity and Farm2Fork strategies, Zero Pollution Action Plan) and Horizon Europe’s proposed Mission "A Soil Deal for Europe".
In addition to a high-level panel on recent soil-related policy developments, the meeting established a series of dedicated Working Groups to address burning scientific and policy questions (soil monitoring, citizen engagement and increased soil literacy, soil pollution, erosion, integration of soil data and biodiversity). Participants were encouraged to engage in discussions and indicate their interest to contribute to the Working Groups.
A dedicated Young Soil Researchers Forum took place on 21 October.
The final agenda can be found here: 
(pdf)
(pdf)All presentations during the Forum are found here.
The following pre-Forum information about the sessions was provided:
In this page you can find all presentations given during the 1st EUSO Stakeholders Forum, organised per session. Also minutes of the sessions (if any) are added.
19-20 October 2021:
1st EUSO Stakeholders Forum.
Tuesday 19 October 2021 - morning
Recent EU policy developments in soil
Moderator: Giovanni De Santi, European Commission JRC, Director Sustainable Resources
- Welcome, scope and update on EUSO (Giovanni De Santi, European Commission JRC)
- EU Soil Strategy (Claudia Olazabal, European Commission DG ENV)
- EU Mission: A Soil Deal for Europe: 100 living labs and lighthouses to lead the transition towards healthy soils by 2030 (Nathalie Sauze-Vandevyver, European Commission DG AGRI)
- Zero Pollution Action Plan (Joachim D’Eugenio, European Commission DG ENV)
- EP soil resolution (Martin Hojsík, European Parliament)
- Land Information System for Europe (Andrus Meiner, European Environment Agency)
Tuesday 19 October 2021 - afternoon
Core EUSO Objective: Integrated soil monitoring
Scope: Contribute to development of an integrated monitoring system for the EU
Moderators: Arwyn Jones/Anne Maréchal, EC JRC/EUSO
- Introduction and Scope: Arwyn Jones, EC JRC/EUSO
- Soil monitoring in the Soil Strategy: Mirco Barbero, EC ENV
- Soil monitoring in the Soil Mission: Annette Schnegaans, EC AGRI
- Preliminary outcomes of EJP Soil WP6: Antonio Bispo, INRAE
- Indicators and thresholds for soil indicator set: Rainer Baritz, EEA
- Reflections on the LUCASA project: Andreas Baumgarten, AGES, Austria
- Alpine Soil Information System: Christian Stenier, Alpine Convention Soil Protection WG
- Monitoring of Urban Soils: Przemysław Charzyński, SUITMA Project / Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
- Monitoring soils in semi-natural landscapes: Bridget Emmett, UKCEH
- Monitoring of forest soils: Nicole Wellbrock, ICP Forests/Thünen-Institut, Germany
- Worldsoils carbon mapping project: Zoltan Szantoi, European Space Agency
- Experiences in peatlands: Franziska Tanneberger, Greifswald Mire Centre, Germany
Wednesday 20 October 2021 - morning:
Parallel Session 1a:Soil pollution
Scope: Support to Clean Soil Monitoring & Outlook Report
Moderator: Piotr Wojda, EC JRC/EUSO
- Introduction and Scope: Piotr Wojda, EC JRC - (pdf)
- Zero Pollution Action Plan: Joachim D'Eugenio, EC ENV - (pdf)
- Soil pollution in the EU Soil Strategy: Bavo Peeters, EC ENV - (pdf)
- Zero Pollution Monitoring: Ian Marnane, EEA - (pdf)
- Soil possibilities in the New European Bauhaus: Alessandro RANCATI, EC JRC
- Clean soil outlook, context, structure, inputs watchlist and roadmap: Piotr Wojda, EC JRC - (pdf)
- Diffuse pollution –plastic & pesticides: Nicolas Beriot, Wageningen University & Research, NL - (pdf)
- Diffuse pollution –metals: Panos Panagos, EC JRC - (pdf)
- Contaminated sites: Frank Swartjes, EIONET Soil Pollution Working Group/RIVM, NL - (pdf)
- Common Forum (MS) Dietmar Müller-Grabherr - (pdf)
- NICOLE: Johan de Fraye (Chair) - (pdf)
Wednesday 20 October 2021 - afternoon:
Parallel Session 2a:Soil biodiversity
Scope: What EU should do for protecting soil biodiversity?
Moderator: Alberto Orgiazzi, EC JRC/EUSO
- Introduction and scope: Alberto Orgiazzi - (pdf)
- Soil biodiversity and EU environmental policies: Mirco Barbero, DG ENV - (pdf)
- Soil biodiversity and CAP: Olivier Diana, DG AGRI - (pdf)
- Soil biodiversity and private sector: Matteo Piombino, Corteva Agriscience - (pdf)
- Soil biodiversity and farming: Alfred Grand, Farmer - (pdf)
- How to tell soil biodiversity: Rolf Sommer/Michael Berger, WWF - (pdf)
- Soil biodiversity and IUCN Red List: Sarine Barsoumian, IUCN - (pdf)
- Global Fungal Red List Initiative: Anders Dahlberg, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences - (pdf)
- Soil biodiversity monitoring in France: Antonio Bispo, INRAE - (pdf)
- Global monitoring of soil biodiversity: Carlos Guerra, SoilBON - (pdf)
(14/03/2022) Minutes/Report of the meeting
Wednesday 20 October 2021 - morning:
Parallel Session 1b: Data integration
Scope: how can relevant EU-wide data be integrated in EUSO/ESDAC?
Moderators: Marc Van Liedekerke, Calogero Schillaci, EC JRC/EUSO
- Introduction and Scope: Marc Van Liedekerke, EC JRC/EUSO - (pdf)
- The integration of EU-project results in EUSO: Maria Jose Amaral, REA - (pdf)
- EJP-SOIL as soil data provider to EUSO: Maria Fantappie’, CREA Italy/Fenny Van Egmond, ISRIC Netherlands - (pdf)
- Is there a role for the European Soil Partnership in contributing to EUSO? : Maria Fantappie’, CREA Italy - (pdf)
- EEA perspective on soil data integration and exchang: Rainer Baritz, EEA - (pdf)
- Is there a role for EU national soil data organizations in contributing to EUSO? : Antonio Bispo, INRAE France - (pdf)
(25/11/2021) - (pdf) Minutes/Report of the workshop
(01/12/2021) - (pdf) Definition of work areas + call for membersCall
(14/02/2022) - (pdf) Composition of members according to areas of work
Wednesday 20 October 2021 - afternoon:
Parallel Session 2b: Soil erosion in relation to land degradation, climate change & food security
Scope: What should the EU do to halt soil erosion?
Moderator: Panos Panagos, EC JRC/EUSO
- Introduction and Scope: Panos Panagos, EC JRC/EUSO - (pdf)
- The post-2020 CAP and soil: Mike Mackenzie, EC AGRI - (pdf)
- Land use changes and Carbon fluxes: Julia Pongratz, Univ. Munich, Germany - (pdf)
- Food security and erosion: ChristineAlewell, Univ. Basel, Switzerland - (pdf)
- Land degradation and the importance on Soil conservation: Edoardo Costantini, International Union of Soil Science Societies - (pdf)
- Gap of erosion models and Development of a network to validate models: PasqualeBorrelli, Univ. of Pavia, Italy - (pdf)
- An example of soil erosion monitoring in Flanders: Petra Deproost, Gov. of Flanders - (pdf)
- Chemical innovation to support sustainable agriculture and soil health: Claudio Screpanti, Syngenta - (pdf)
- Carbon sequestration in agricultural soils: Elizabeth Lunik, Rabobank - (pdf)
- Best practices followed by farmers: Sebastian Vogler, Farmer - (pdf)
- Afforestation to reduce land degradation: Rigas Tsakiris, NGO Green Institute - (pdf), (pdf)
(17/11/2021) - (pdf) Minutes of the Session
Thursday 21 October 2021 - afternoon:
Core EUSO Objective: Citizen Engagement - Soil Literacy (with Soil Mission)
Scope: To establish a Community of Practice on Citizen Engagement to support the implementation of the EU Soil Strategy and Soil Mission
Moderators: Arwyn Jones, EC JRC/EUSO & Arianna Pasa, EC AGRI/Soil Mission Secretariat
- Introduction and Scope: Arwyn Jones, EC JRC/EUSO
- Citizen engagement and the new EU Soil Strategy: Mirco Barbero EC ENV
- Introduction to the Citizen Engagement/Education/Communication elements in the Soil Mission: Arianna Pasa, EC AGRI
- Citizen Engagement: how to do it properly? Ângela Guimarães Pereira, EC JRC
- EU Education and youth programmes: Dalibor Mladenka& Marlene Bartes, DG EAC
- The role of soil science in raising awareness - Anna Krzywoszynska (Soil Care Network), Bridget Emmett (CEH, UK), Christine Berrill (IUSS World Soil Congress), Gabrielle Broll (ENSA/University of Osnabruck, Germany)
- Save the Landscape Forum - Soil Europe Group: Francesca Tescari & Mario Catizzone
- Experiences with local authorities: Christian Steiner (Lower Austria/ELSA), Francesco Malucelli (Regione Emilia Romagna, Italy)
- Global Soil Partnership & World Soil Day: Isabelle Verbeke, FAO
- Youth awareness: Šarlote Abatniece, Raivo Kleijsen Laas, Darina Alexandrova (European SchoolStudents); Rebecca Lardeur, Youth4Climate Ambassador
- Farmers and citizen engagement: Alfred Grand, Benedikt Bose
- Soil Biodiversity Massive Online Course: Nelson Ribeiro Jorge, EC JRC
- Soil4Life Manifesto