Soil Mission collaborations
LIVINGSOILL project
The LivingSoiLL “Healthy Soil to Permanent Crops Living Labs”, is a Horizon Europe project that is funded by the European Commission within the framework of the EU MISSION ‘A Soil Deal for Europe’. The Soil Mission aims to lead the transition to healthy soil via sustainable soil management.
The project aims to establish 5 Living Labs (LLs) in: Portugal, France, Spain, Italy, and Poland. They will focus on permanent crops (vineyards, olive groves, chestnuts, hazelnuts, and apple orchards), comprising at least 50 demonstration sites and 10 lighthouses, and with the active participation of more than 2000 local actors.
These LLs will improve soil health and ecosystem services through co-creating, co
implementing, and co-testing (digital) solutions.
The project will promote active precipitation in more than 2000 local actors in combating soil
degradation through the co-creation and co-development of solutions for permanent crops.
SOILWISE project
More than ever, soil health is an issue which needs attention. Recent assessments state that 60-70% of European soils can be considered unhealthy. The Soil Deal for Europe aims to have 75% of European Union (EU) soils healthy or significantly improved by 2030. Reaching such an ambition requires access to reliable, harmonised soil data, from existing and new data sources. Data and knowledge needs to be collected at local, national and EU levels to allow informed decision-making at all scales to support the Soil Health Law and the EU Soil Strategy.
SoilWise will provide an integrated and actionable access point to scattered and heterogeneous soil data and knowledge in Europe, making them FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable). This should improve trust, willingness, and ability to share and re-use soil data and knowledge. In three project development cycles, co-creation and co-validation by multi-stakeholder groups are the centre of project activities.
The SoilWise catalogue and community are designed to be a starting point and common ground for countries, the European Commission and other stakeholders to jointly guide soil and related spatial policy. An overall aim is to support informed decision-making towards the 2030 goals of the Green Deal, achieve healthy soils in 2050 and ensure broad use of the project by land managers, policy, research and industry.