ERDN was taking part in the kick-off meeting of a new Horizon Europe SOILSCAPE project in Orleans (France) conducted by AFES – Association Française pour l’Etude du Sol. Barbara Wielczko was presenting our organisation and other members of ERDN team in this project: Katarzyna Gizińska, Cezary Klimkowski and Paweł Chmieliński. ERDN is responsible for WP5 – „Assess the impacts and ensure sustainability of the actions”.

 

SOILSCAPE CONSORTIUM TEAM

The main goal of the project is to promote soil preservation across Europe and beyond. SoilScape objectives include understanding human-soil relations, building a network of more than 120 relevant actors in 8 countries, onboarding at least 320 individuals from society, providing 1,850,000€ as financal support to multi-actor platforms, schools, artists and institutions, distributing 375,000€ as awards, organising a soil festival, 80 soil literacy certifications to inspiring initiatives and reaching international scale through UNESCO and Coalition of Action for Soil Mission.