At the beginning of December has begun the implementation of the NBSOIL project, funded by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe Programme. The project focuses on developing a holistic approach to land and soil management. The consortium coordinated by the Polish Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation (IUNG) consists of sixteen partners. The project is being carried out at the Łukasiewicz Research Network – Institute of Aviation in the Remote Sensing Department. The NBSoil consortium will impact and make a decisive contribution to the soil health mission by integrating NBS knowledge and advice into soil management, providing soil health living lab moderators, making soil monitoring and mapping technology user-friendly and inclusive, and embedding soil care into all areas of management and land-related decision-making processes.
Project description:
NBSOIL (Nature-Based Solutions for Soil Management) is a four-year project the main objective is to design an attractive blended learning programme to enable Soil Advisors to implement a holistic vision of soil health through Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) and collaborate effectively across different temporal and spatial scales.
Activities planned under the project include:
- Creating a knowledge base on soil monitoring ,
- Creation of a training plan and training for over 300 soil advisors throughout Europe,
- Creation of an online portal containing soil health assessment tools based, among others, on geoinformation data,
- Creation of a ‘marketplace’ platform,
- Creation of soil policy documents,
- Dissemination of the project results.
Approximately 300 participants from 8 countries (PL, AT, CH, UK, FR, NL, IT, ES) are expected to complete the full 2 years of training offered in 6 languages (English, Polish, German, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish). The 2 years training programme will provide an immersive, interactive, flexible learning experience, through an introductory Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) followed by four advanced modules on:
- Soil and Nature-Based Solutions,
- Facylitacja Living Labs,
- Digital tools for Soil Health monitoring,
- Improving soil related decision -in business and policy,
and a Final Project.
Project coordinator: Marcin Spiralski, M.A.
Tel.: (+ 48) 572967600
E-mail: Marcin.Spiralski@ilot.lukasiewicz.gov.pl
Project duration: 01.12.2022 – 30.11.2026
Funding institution: European Commission
Programme name: Horizon Europe
Consortium:
INSTITUTE OF SOIL SCIENCE AND PLANT CULTIVATION STATE RESEARCH INSTITUTION (IUNG-PIB), UNIVERSITAET FUER BODENKULTUR WIEN (BOKU), ASOCIACION BC3 BASQUE CENTRE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE – KLIMA ALDAKETA IKERGAI (BC3), AGRISAT IBERIA SL, REVOLVE, CENTRUM DORADZTWA ROLNICZEGO W BRWINOWIE (CDR), CARBONE FERTILE CENTRE NATIONAL D AGROECOLOGIE (CNA), INSTITUTO TECNICO AGRONOMICO PROVINCIAL SA (ITAP), LANDESKAMMER FUER LAND UND FORTWIRTSCHAFT IN STEIERMARK (CAFS), ALCHEMIA-NOVA GMBH (ALCN), ŁUKASIEWICZ RESEARCH NETWORK – INSTITUTE OF AVIATION (Ł-ILOT), UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TORINO (UNITO), STICHTING AERES GROEP (AERES), UICN, UNION INTERNATIONALE POUR LA CONSERVATION DE LA NATURE ET DE SES RESSOURCES (IUCN), FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FUR BIOLOGISCHEN LANDBAU STIFTUNG (FIBL), THE SOIL ASSOCIATION LIMITED (SA).
