Project description
Towards climate-smart and sustainable soil management
Societies depend on soil. Fertile and productive soil is the foundation of our existence and the prerequisite for a stable supply of food, fibre, animal feed, timber and other biomasses. Soil sustains biodiversity and contributes to the provision of a wide range of ecosystem services, and as the largest store of carbon on land, it is also in the nexus of global climate challenges. Soil is part of the solution to realising the SDGs. The threat of global warming makes climate-smart sustainable agricultural soil management crucial. The EU-funded EJP SOIL project will create an enabling environment to enhance the contribution of agricultural soils to key societal challenges such as climate change adaptation and mitigation, sustainable agricultural production, ecosystem services provision as well as prevention and restoration of land and soil degradation. The project brings together a group of 26 leading European research institutes and universities in 24 countries. More information is available at www.ejpsoil.org.
Objective
The main objective of EJP SOIL is to create an enabling environment to enhance the contribution of agricultural soils to key societal challenges such as climate change adaptation and mitigation, sustainable agricultural production, ecosystem services provision and prevention and restoration of land and soil degradation.
The EJP SOIL will build a sustainable European integrated research community on agricultural soils and will develop and deploy a roadmap on climate-smart sustainable agricultural soil management.
The EJP SOIL roadmap is based on a knowledge framework with 4 interacting components. Knowledge development is set out in project calls with internal and external partners. Knowledge sharing & transfer is framed in capacity building for young scientists, enhancing general public awareness and fostering societal understanding and appreciation of agricultural soil management and its contribution to society. Knowledge harmonization, storage & organization supports harmonised soil information and reporting practices. Knowledge application deals with ways to overcome barriers for adoption of novel practices in a European context, co-developing adequate tools and providing evidence-based recommendations for EU policies.
EJP SOIL activities in interaction with stakeholders, MSs and DG AGRI will pursue the long-term goal of promoting farmers as stewards of land and soil resources and support policy development and deployment, in particular the CAP and Climate policies. The EJP SOIL addresses 6 expected impacts with targeted activities in response to societal, scientific, policy and operational challenges. A first annual workplan based on the roadmap is provided as part of the proposal.
The EJP Soil consortium unites a unique group of 26 leading European research institutes and universities in 24 countries. The consortium has developed this proposal in close collaboration with its programme owners and has secured over 40M€ in co-funding and 10M€ for external calls over 5 years.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringecosystem-based managementclimate change adaptation
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencessoil sciencesedaphology
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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Funding Scheme
COFUND-EJP - COFUND (European Joint Programme)Coordinator
75007 Paris
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75116 Paris
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91120 Palaiseau
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6708 PB Wageningen
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1018 DC Amsterdam
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1030 Wien
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1131 Wien
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1220 Wien
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1180 Wien
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1012 Wien
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1090 Wien
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9820 Merelbeke
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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5030 Gembloux
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165 00 Praha
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16106 Praha 6
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8000 Aarhus C
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51014 Tartu
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48309 Jogeva Alevik
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00790 Helsinki
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38116 Braunschweig
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52428 Julich
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2462 Martonvasar
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R93 Carlow
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00184 Roma
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20124 Milano
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90133 Palermo
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07100 Sassari
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00196 Roma
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00144 Roma
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00185 Roma
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1586 RIGA
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LT-58344 KEDAINIU R
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1430 Aas
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24 100 Pulawy
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2780 157 Oeiras
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951 41 Luzianky
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1000 Ljubljana
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1000 Ljubljana
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2000 Maribor
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28006 Madrid
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750 07 Uppsala
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3003 Bern
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06000 Ankara
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BT9 5PX Belfast
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