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SOIL:OurInvisibleAlly - Facilitating implementation of EU soil legislation in Alpine municipalities, thus seizing transnational knowledge, mutual learning & concrete, cross-sectoral implementation on local level
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SOIL:OurInvisibleAlly - Facilitating implementation of EU soil legislation in Alpine municipalities, thus seizing transnational knowledge, mutual learning & concrete, cross-sectoral implementation on local level

SOIL:OurInvisibleAlly - Facilitating implementation of EU soil legislation in Alpine municipalities, thus seizing transnational knowledge, mutual learning & concrete, cross-sectoral implementation on local level
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Status
Active
Project leader
doc. dr. Primož Simončič
Department
Department of Forest Ecology
Partners
Slovenian Forestry Institute (SI, lead partner), Foundation Art and Nature gGmbH (DE), Agricultural Institute of Slovenia (SI), Salzburg Institute for Regional Planning and Housing (AT), Climate Alliance Tyrol (AT), National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (FR), University of Torino (IT), County Administration Landsberg a. Lech (DE), Autonomous Region of Aosta Valley (IT), Consulting for Naturland (Association for Organic Agriculture) (DE), Slovenia Forest Service (SI), Orobie Valtellinesi Parc (IT)

 

Akronym: SOIL:OurInvisibleAlly

Project number: ASP0500310

Project duration: 1.9.2024 - 31.8.2027

Budget: overall 2.849.646 €

Co-financing: 75 % European Commission: European Regional Development Fund, Interreg Alpine Space Programme

Partnership: 12 partners from 5 states

Lead partner: Slovenian Forestry Institute

 

Project overall objective

SOIL will enhance the uptake of sustainable soil management (SSM) in the Alps at municipal & regional level to boost its local anchoring & implementation. It will streamline existing knowledge & apply practical actions at 10+ pilot sites to protect soil & operationalise the resilience of Alpine soils to climate change impacts. The do-how will strengthen the transnational policy networks (AC-SPWG, EUSALP AG2/6/7/8, EU Soil monit. & resil. directive) to embed & replicate soil knowledge leading to a new SSM culture & long-term transformation.

 

Project work plan

WP1 Adapting best soil practice & relevant data

WP2 Joint soil case-studies for Do-How

WP3 Spreading & embedding a new SSM culture

 

Project results:

R1: The project will provide a collection of best-practice examples, blueprints for soil-literacy workshops and vivid, easy-to-grasp representations of SSM focusing on Alpine Space. Together with the workshops it will make SSM not just easy to understand, but also easy to implement & apply. Municipalities and educational centres will include the workshops /collection into their programmes and apply the knowledge into their own procedures, supporting a paradigm shift towards SSM being the new normal.

R2: Municipalities will integrate and emphasize the importance of soil, its protection and SSM; in coordination with different sectors and their planning instruments & guidelines, anchoring SSM in Page 72 of 78 Result 2 spatial planning will generate long-term impact. The PPship guarantees close connection to relevant decision-makers & municipalities. Forest management planners will include soil protection into their 10-year-forest plans anchoring living & healthy soil as fundamental basis for sust. forests, SSM, and CR.

 

Soil:OurInvisibleAlly project team on kick-off meeting in Ljubljana (10. & 11. October 2024)