In order to enhance linkages with existing projects and initiatives, diminish overlaps, increase collaborative work and deliver a higher contribution to the #MissionSoil, LOESS gets inspiration and resources from related projects:
Preparatory action
Living lab support structure
Carbon farming
Soil biodiversity
Circular economy solutions
Business dimension
R&I supporting mission objectives and knowledge management
Living labs and lighthouses
Monitoring
Soil Literacy
Global Union of Soil Scientists
Multi-actors approach on solutions tested in pilot areas
Over the recent months, LOESS has expanded its network of synergies by establishing new collaborations with LOESS-related and soil projects. Here comes a quick glance at our synergistic efforts:
NBS EduWORLD is a Horizon Europe project funded by the European Union (Grant Agreement N. 101060525) aimed at nurturing an NBS-literate society by supporting a just transition to a sustainable future. To do this, NBS EduWORLD creates an NBS community facilitating synergies between NBS professionals and education providers, ensuring free and easy access to NBS knowledge and resources for all.
The vision of NBS Academy is to set up an international Community of Practice on NBS education for both teachers and teacher training providers, activating the collective creativity of its members towards creating, testing, and validating innovative, highly accessible, and transferable ITE and CPD programs on NBS education.
Soil Health Monitoring and Information Systems for Sustainable Soil Management in the Mediterranean Region.
GOV4ALL (Governance and business models for living labs: Rural regeneration hubs for tackling soil health challenges in the Mediterranean region) is a Soil Mission project funded by the EU. Coordinated by SAE Innova, it will deploy a bottom-up participatory approach that will lead to the creation of five agro-innovation hubs across France, Greece, and Spain. This project will connect farmers, scientists, NGOs, policymakers, and the public towards a vision of an agricultural system that generates income for rural communities while protecting natural resources, focusing on soil regeneration.
ECHO is a Research and Innovation Action co-funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe programme and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). It aims to engage citizens in protecting and restoring soils by enhancing their knowledge and skills.
The project will create ECHOREPO, a long-term open access repository directly linked to the EU Soil Observatory. It will provide valuable information about soil health across the EU, supporting sustainable land use and conservation decisions.
UPSURGE’s main objective is to build the EU Regenerative Urban Lighthouse, a reference framework offering support on implementing NBS in cities. The Lighthouse will provide a knowledge-based framework created from real-life tested NBS practices in various innovative EU cities.
SOILS4MED addresses the low soil and land health in the Mediterranean Region (MR), focusing on improving sustainable soil management. It will develop policy-relevant indicator sets and monitoring protocols to generate the first region-wide harmonized soil health dataset for the MR.