In the contest of WP5 the project coordinator Rachel Creamer (WUR) together with the project manager Rogier Schulte (WUR) and Lilian O'Sullivan (TEAGASC/WUR) conducted an interactive challenge workshop in Bruxelles co-organised with our Stakeholder Steering Committee member Annette Schneegans (DG-AGRI) posing the main question "How can we incentivise and reward the sustainable management of land in [...]
Our Pillar 3 Leader Arwyn Jones and our Task 3.3 leader David Wall (TEAGASC) attended the Eionet NRC Soil meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark organised by EEA colleagues and especially our Stakeholder Steering Committee member Rainer Baritz the 23rd-24th of January 2018. Arwyn Jones gave an overview of the LANDMARK project activities until month 33 and [...]
Our WP4 leader Jan Staes (UA) attended the PEGASUS H2020 project Final conference Delivering environmental and social benefits from agriculture and forestry in a changing policy context on the 7th of February 2018. More info here http://pegasus.ieep.eu/blog/posts/pegasus-final-conference-delivering-environmental-and-social-benefits-from-agriculture-and-forestry-in-a-changing-policy-context
On the 17–21st of June 2018 there will be the III Ecology of Soil Microorganisms conference 2018 - Digging deeper in Hall of Culture, Helsinki, Finland. Our project coordinator and Pillar 2 leader Rachel Creamer (WUR) and our partner Taru Sanden (AGES) will be giving oral presentations. See https://www.lyyti.fi/p/ESM2018_9358/en/program Topics of discussion will be: carbon and nutrient cycling, decomposition, interactions of organisms, [...]
The Landmark team actively participated at the EGU general assembly on the week of the -13th April 2018 in Vienna, Austria. Our project coordinator Prof Rachel Creamer (WUR) convened a LANDMARK Biodiversity session on “Soil biota driven functions and ecosystem services in agricultural systems of Europe” The AGES partner Taru Sanden together with Francesca Bampa (WUR) organised a LANDMARK short [...]
During the 2017 EU Agricultural Outlook conference Rachel Creamer (WUR) had the opportunity to join the discussion on the future of agriculture in Europe and the challenges which lie ahead from a LANDMARK perspective. The conference took place in Bruxelles, Belgium on the 18th of December 2017. More info https://ec.europa.eu/info/events/2017-eu-agricultural-outlook-conference_en and agenda here.
Our JSI colleagues Prof Marko Debeljak and Dr Aneta Trajanov presentied at the #BES2017 British Ecological Society Annual Meeting in Ghent, BELGIUM from 11th to 14th of December 2017. Programme info here
On the 04-05th of December 2017 our colleague Cristina Menta (UNIPARMA) participated and gave a presentation at the Annual Congress on Soil Sciences - Awareness on Innovations in Soil Science and Soil Management Challenges in Madrid, Spain. Cristina is also part of the Organizing Committee. More info on http://soilscience.conferenceseries.com/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=MailDirect&utm_campaign=Soil+Science+2017 Follow on twitter at https://twitter.com/SoilScience2017 .
LANDMARK session, 6th December 2017, Bruxelles, Belgium Organised by LANDMARK consortium Theme Soil management, monitoring and understanding the supply and demand of soil functions at a European scale [ programme below] Date Wednesday 6th December 2017 10:00 to 12:00 Venue IBGE/BIM, Havenlaan 86c, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium In the contest of the World Soil Day [...]
The LANDMARK Roundtable 8 will be hosted by Talke Heidkroß & Kirsten Madena (CALS) and will take place in Oldenburg, GERMANY next 2nd to 4th of April 2019.
