On the 14th of November the results of Landmark Pillar 3 will be presented at the European Regional Workshop of The Climakers in Bruxelles, Belgium.

The Climakers is an international alliance of farmers, designed to drive the climate change agenda. In addition to 6 farmer’s organizations, there are also 3 private sector associations involved (International Seed Federation, Fertilizer Association and CropLife) This particular workshop will focus on creating a unified message to deliver at COP25 on the topic of farmer’s roles in combating climate change.

LAND MANAGEMENT IN THE ERA OF THE NEW CAP

LANDMARK: Strategic Research for Strategic Plans

23^rd October 2019

Lord Jenkins, Charlemagne Building, 170, rue de la Loi- 1049, Bruxelles, Belgium

During the final conference we presented:

1. The Soil Navigator DSS  public online Decision Support  System
2. A monitoring scheme for soil functions
3. 11 soil policy options

For info please contact info.landmark@wur.nl

The LANDMARK consortium wish to thank all the 77 participants of the final conference, the 14 Stakeholder Steering committee members and the 473 stakeholders that collaborated with us through the workshops.

Thank you!

The Pillar 1 leader Prof Christian Bugge Henriksen (UCPH) will join the 5th Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture in Bali from the 8th to the 10th of October and will present the work on the Soil Navigator DSS.

For more information see https://globalcsaconference.org/cool-innovation-corner/

The 6th European Network on Soil Awareness meeting will take place in a farm close to Amsterdam the 19 and 20th of September 2019 in collaboration with EC JRC, Summer of Soil, European Soil Partnership.

More info here https://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/networkcooperations/european-network-soil-awareness

Next 18th of September 2019  Francesca Bampa (WUR) will give a presentation  on the Synergies between H2020 projects and EIP AGRI Operational Groups at the EIP AGRI OG PRATI-CO Final Conference “PARMIGIANO REGGIANO: Agro-tecnica impronta CARBONIO ORGANICO” at TECNOPOLO, REGGIO EMILIA, Italy.

Agenda https://www.pedologia.net/userfiles/FileAllegato/files/PRATI_CO_Conv_finale_RE_18092019_009_mail.pdf 

More info https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/en/find-connect/projects/pratico-parmigiano-reggiano-agrotecnica-impronta

Next Wednesday, the 18th September 2019 , from 2.45 to 4.15 PM our partner Sylvain Sturel (APCA) will present the outcomes of LANDMARK in Tech & Bio, a fair devoted to organic and alternative farming techniques. This event takes place every two year in an agricultural school located close to Valence in the Drôme department (South of France). It is visited by about 20,000 farmers and farm advisers + some researchers and policy makers, mainly from France but also from other European countries.

More info Tech & Bio

On the 18th of September 2019 Francesca Bampa (WUR) will present the Landmark Project during the first session of Remtech Europe in Ferrara, Italy.

Presentations of session 1 “Regulatory Framework” in Remtech Europe.

An article about the Regulatory Framework session 1 of Remtech Europe 2019 has been published on Linkedin.

More info http://www.remtechexpo.com/index.php/it/programmi-congressuali/programmi-ufficiali/remtech-europe

The LandCare Research New Zealand meeting will be held on the 3rd of September to discuss Land Resource Circle project and Landmark project.

Info at www.wur.eu/wageningensoilconference2019    |    PDF 1st CIRCULAR    | PDF Save the date    |    Contact email     |    Twitter @WageningenSoil

Monday 26th August 2019

11.00 – 16.00

Speakers corner, Impulse building, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

This is a side event organized by  iSQAPER & LANDMARK H2020 projects happening the Monday before the start of the  Wageningen Soil Conference ( 27th- 30th of August 2019).

For info on registration and agenda please click here.

David Wall (TEAGASC) hold a talk about Landmark at the 12th of August 2019 at the GGAA-7 conference in Brazil.

Dr David Wall (TEAGASC) will give a keynote to speak about the Soil Navigator use in farms, possible trade-off on Low Carbon Initiatives related to biodiversity, water use or nutrient management at the  7^th International Greenhouse Gas and Animal Agriculture Conference  to be held in Iguassu Falls, Brazil, from 4^th to 10^th August 2019.

More info http://www.ggaa2019.org/

The H2020 LIASON project (http://liaison2020.eu/) represented by Dr. Varga Eszter from NARIC Research Institute of Agricultural Economics interviewed a member of the LANDMARK project about exploring the design and implementation of interactive innovation projects. LANDMARK has been selected as one of the good examples about experiences and lessons learnt.

At the end of May 2019 and during the month of June 2019 our partner Talke HeidkroB (CALS) will test the Soil Navigator beta version with German farmers and farmer advisors.

If you are interested in testing the Soil Navigator please write to info.landmark@wur.nl

In the month of May 2019 The UCPH team (Christian, Luke, Lisa and Ghaley) released for testing the Soil Navigator beta version with farmers and farmer advisors at VKST, Patriotisk and SEGES in Denmark.

If you are interested in testing the Soil Navigator please write to info.landmark@wur.nl

Between the 15th of May 2019 and 12th of June 2019 David Wall (TEAGASC) will test the Soil Navigator beta version with Irish farmers and farmer advisors.

If you are interested in testing the Soil Navigator please write to info.landmark@wur.nl

La chambre d’ ágriculture APCA et la chambre Régionale d’Agriculture Nouvelle Aquitaine participent à le projet  LANDMARK H2020 portant sur les fonctions des sols. Le project se termine fin 2019  et une de ses productions est un outil d’évaluation des fonctions des sols SOIL NAVIGATOR à destination des agriculteurs et de leurs conseillers.

Le premier test pour la France sera  vendredi le 24 mai 2019 à l’INRA de Lusignan site des Verrines avec un petit groupe de conseillers  potentiellement intéressés par cet outil. Le test se deroulera sur la matinée  9 h 30 – 13 h.

Cet outil sous web est à l’échelle de la parcelle et pourrait constituer un outil d’animation avec un groupe d’agriculteurs qui s’interrogent sur l’amélioration de la qualité des sols au travers de leurs fonctions.

Intéressés a tester le Soil Navigator? Ecrivez nous a info.landmark@wur.nl

Laboratory Skills Course in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

13-17th May 2019 Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

This will include training in soil quality parameters such as labile C, microresp – respiration, extracellular enzyme activity, nematode and enchytraied extraction and basics of identification. Earthworm sampling and identification.

Registration is closed.

Fee: *Reduced fee of 500 euros and full price registration is 1000 euros.

*The reduced fee applies to BSc and MSc students, PhD candidates, staff of public (national) institutes and organizations based in ODA-listed countries

More info https://www.wur.nl/en/activity/Laboratory-Skills-Course-in-Soil-Biology-and-Biochemistry.htm

Contact Rachel Creamer (rachel.creamer@wur.nl).

In collaboration with the Soil Biology Laboratory Skills course:

ISRIC Spring School

20th to 24th May 2019

which provides an excellent introduction to soil classification or digital soil mapping.

More info  https://www.isric.org/utilise/capacity-building/springschool/general

In the week from 13th to 17th of May 2019 the AGES team (Taru Sanden and Heide Spiegel) tested the Soil Navigator beta version with Austrian farmers and farmer advisors in Absdorf and in AGES, Vienna.

If you are interested in testing the Soil Navigator please write to info.landmark@wur.nl

Our partner Michiel Rutgers (RIVM) performed beta testing of the Soil Navigator in The Netherlands with four neighbour farms.

Furthermore, Michiel gave a presentation and demonstrated the Soil Navigator past 14th of May 2019 to the green circles Farm Frites / Fritesketen for sustainable farming:  https://www.groenecirkels.nl/nl/groenecirkels.htm

The scientific project administrator Francesca Bampa (WUR) participated at the  COMMON FORUM Springtime meeting  past May 8-10, 2019 at the Ministry of the Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development, 4, Place de l’Europe, L-1499 Luxembourg hosted by Ministère du Développement durable et des Infrastructures.

A presentation about Landmark outcomes has been given at the 5th meeting of the Working Group “Soil as a Resource” on May 8, 2019.

The core topic of exchanges sessions for the 9 and 10th of May are scheduled with:

• Background concentrations/values
• How to strengthen European soil policy
• Effectiveness in soil protection – how to measure success

More info https://www.commonforum.eu/meetings.asp

Prof Rachel Creamer (WUR) will give a keynote on “How can we assess the multi-functionality of our soils in a changing climate? From measurement to policy perspectives” the 25th of April 2019 at the Final Conference of the DFG Research Unit 1695 Regional Climate Change “Agricultural Land Use and Feedbacks in a Changing Climate”  in Stuttgart, Germany.

More info can be found here and conference programme.

The event is organised by

The Landmark team will actively participate at the EGU general assembly on the week of the 7th -12th April 2019 in Vienna, Austria.

Our AGES partner Taru Sanden  will convene a session honouring Lily Pereg (1964-2019) together with Brigitta Toth and Karen Vancampenhout, Eric C. Brevik and  Bahar S. Razavi

Building Inter- and Transdisciplinary Bridges in Soil Science: Honoring Lily Pereg 1964–2019

The session is dedicated to the work of Professor Lily Pereg who was the initiator of this session and President of Soil System Sciences Division at EGU until she died tragically and unexpectedly earlier this year.

More info https://www.egu2019.eu/

This session is an outcome of the 2018 EGU LANDMARK short course  Meet the experts in land and soil functions: from primary productivity to biodiversity  you can read the outcomes here http://landmarkproject.eu/meeting/egu-2018/

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.

The next plenary meeting of the SoilCare project will be held in Almeria, Spain, and will be hosted by the University of Almeria.

The dates for the upcoming meeting are Tuesday, April 2^nd – Friday April 5^th 2019.

Our colleague Lilian O’Sullivan (TEAGASC) will give an update talk on the work of LANDMARK focussing on the parts of these projects that are most relevant for SoilCare.

From the ground up

How soil biology can help us to make the most of our land

Thursday 21st March 2019 from 16.00 to 18.00

 Auditorium, building number 362, Generaal Foulkesweg 1, 362, 6703 BG Wageningen, The Netherlands

Prof Rachel Creamer‘s Inaugural lecture upon taking up the position of Professor of Soil Biology at Wageningen University & Research.

LIVE broadcast https://www.wur.nl/en/activity/Inauguration-Prof.-dr.-Rachel-Creamer.htm

On the 13th of March 2019 our scientific administrator Dr Francesca Bampa (WUR) will present insights from the LANDMARKproject during the first day of the INSPIRATION Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network Technical workshop on “Integrating sustainability into agricultural practice: Assessment methods, technology appraisal, management concepts“. in Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Programme here available http://www.inspirationitn.eu/InspirationMarch2019.pdf

The BonaRes status seminar took place from 19-21.02.2019 in Leipzig. More than 200 participants from the eleven collaborative projects presented their latest research results.

Our coordinator Prof Rachel Creamer  (WUR) on Tuesday the 20th of February 2019 gave a keynote lecture on Evaluating Soil Functions – How can we support sustainable farm management 

In recent years, sustainable food production has risen to the top of the EU policy agenda. Europe’s land is now expected to provide multiple ecosystem services (soil functions) for society. These include: i) food production, ii) carbon storage, iii) the provision of clean water, iv) habitats for biodiversity and v) nutrient cycling. However, we must balance the demand for these soil functions (by society), with the intrinsic capacity of the soil to supply, under different landscapes, climates and management systems. All soils are capable of delivering these five soil functions individually, but our management defines the capacity of the soil to deliver multiple functions at once. Every day, farmers make decisions on how they manage their land and soil. At the same time, national and European policy makers make long-term decisions on how to manage their soil resources at larger scales. Therefore, the contemporary challenge for researchers and stakeholders is to link the decision making on land management across scales, so that the practicalities of how farmers make decisions is reflected in policy formation. This presentation will try to respond to this challenge through research conducted in the LANDMARK project

The programme of the BonaRes status seminar can be found at https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=45598

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  12 to 14th of January 2019.

Arwyn Jones gave an overview of the LANDMARK project activities until month 46.

More info on:  file:///C:/Users/bampa002/Downloads/1%20Day%201%20NRC%20Soil%20Meeting%202019%20-%20Baritz.pdf 

Our JSI partner Aneta Trajanov will present the work done Predicting mineralizable nitrogen in temperate grassland soils from soil properties using data mining models during the  British Ecological Society  Annual Meeting in Birmingham, UK, 17-20 December 2018.

More info here https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/events/bes2018/

Prof Rogier Schulte gave a presentation about Landmark at the Kick-off meeting for Best4Soil H2020 project. For more information read here.

On the 8^th of November 2018 Francesca Bampa gave a presentation on Landmark at the Research Support European league of Life Science Universities (ELLS) network members in Wageningen University, The Netherlands.

For more information see here.

The LANDMARK Roundtable 8 will be hosted by  Christian Bugge Henriksen & Ghaley Bhim Bahadur (UCPH ) and will take place in COPENHAGEN, DENMARK on 10-12^th October 2018.

The APCA & JSI team will evaluate for the first time in APCA office, Paris, France the soil navigator on the 2nd of October 2018

The LANDMARK team will attend the RECARE Final Policy conference next 27th of September 2018 in Bruxelles, Belgium.

More info https://www.recare-project.eu/8-news/162-recare-final-policy-conference

The LANDMARK team will attend the launch of the EASAC policy report on “Opportunities for soil sustainability in Europe” at European Academies Science Advisory Council – EASAC

More info https://www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-of-the-easac-policy-report-on-opportunities-for-soil-sustainability-in-europe-registration-49979151989

The AGES & JSI team will evaluate for the first time in Austria the Soil Navigator on the 26th of September 2018 as part of the Austrian Soil Science Society´s annual excursion

Participants can sign up here https://oebg.boku.ac.at/veranstaltungen/archiv/jaehrliche-exkursion-der-oebg.html

The 2nd Project Review meeting has been held on the 6th of September 2018 in Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

The LANDMARK project team will participate with a interactive augmented reality workshop to the 21st World Congress of Soil Science – Soil Science beyond food and fuel held this year in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 12-17th of August 2018.

On the Friday 17th of august at 10.30 am look for our Inter-Divisional session part of Division1 on Functional Land Management – managing soils from ped to planet in room Oceania VI to X, 2nd level

Conveners: Rogier Schulte (WUR) and Erika Micheli (Szent Istvan University)

Agenda

– Integrating land use planning and water governance in Brazil by Prof. Victoria Ballester (University of São Paolo)

– Interactive Augmented Reality Workshop for Matching Supply and Demand for Soil Functions moderated by Prof. Rogier Schulte (Wageningen University and Research)

Is the world big enough? We are witnessing a rapid increase in the global demands on how we use the land of our planet. The FAO estimates that we require a 60% increase in food production by 2050 to achieve food security. The Paris Climate Agreement assigns high expectations on soils to sequester carbon to limit global warming to well below 2ºC. The Sustainable Development Goals aim for the sustainable management of water for all, for a halt to the decline of biodiversity and for the sustainable management of waste from our cities. The questions that are now emerging at the top of the policy agenda are: is it possible to meet all these demands simultaneously in a context of a declining resource base? And, if so, how should we manage our land accordingly?

Soil science has produced a wealth of knowledge at a range of spatial scales, from laboratory studies to global assessments, on the relationships between soil properties, soil management and soil processes. The urgent need to address the global pressure on land resources now requires us to harness this knowledge and put it to use to manage soils from ped to planet. Functional Land Management is a policy framework that allows soils to meet the demands for soil-based ecosystem services at multiple scales, for example from the provision of clean water at local scale to the provision of food at regional scale and the mitigation of climate change at global scale.

But who decides on how the world’s land is managed? Governments chart agricultural and environmental policies for the long terms management of land, while at the same time, millions of farmers decide on a daily basis how they manage their fields. How can we connect these decision makers to ensure coherence? How can we ensure that international policies translate into soils that work better to meet humankind’s expectations while sustaining their capacity to deliver ecosystem services into the future? And vice-versa: how can we encourage farmers’ decision making to align to the grand challenges?

In this Interdivisional Session of the IUSS Congress, we will use the concept of Functional Land Management to explore how to connect decision making on soil management across spatial scales, through a combination of key-note lectures (one for each spatial scale), contributed presentations and an interactive workshop in which participants are challenged to manage a virtual agricultural catchment. Imagine a scenario where you do not have to wait to see the trade-offs and synergies of land management in real time, or a scenario where all actors with a role in sustainable land management can work to find solutions together. In one of the first of its kind, participate in an augmented reality workshop that showcases the potential of emerging technologies with a view to increasing our scope to make rapid assessments of sustainability in relation to spatial landscape optimisation exercises. Workshop outcomes will include an assessment of local, regional and global policy instruments, recommendations for further policy formation.

More info www.21wcss.org .

Looking forward meeting you,

the LANDMARK project team ( Rogier, Victoria, Erika, Lilian, Adam)

The WP1 leader Sylvain Sturel (APCA) will present the LANDMARK activities at the Conseil d’Administration de l’ÁPCA next 5th of July 2018.

Our colleague Apostolos Georgoulas (UA) participated at the Provision of public goods by EU agriculture and forestry: the way ahead and the future of the CAP – PROVIDE H2020 – Final conference next 27th of June 2018 at Fondation Universitaire, Rue d’Egmont 11, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium.

More info eventi.unibo.it/provideconference-bruxelles-2018-en

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, priming, climate/environmental change, microbial diversity and functions in all ecosystems, and particularly in the arctic and peatlands.

Especially:
1. Ecology of microbial taxa
2. Interactions of microorganisms with other organisms
3. Involvement of microorganisms in ecosystem functions
4. Microbes in the changing environment
5. Applied microbial ecology
6. Environmental microbiome and human health
7. Modeling of microbial ecosystem services
8. New methodological approaches
9. Tea bag index
10. Sustainable soil use and quality indicators

More info here  www.luke.fi/esm2018

In the contest of the  19th Open Conference of the IFIP WG 8.3 on Decision Support Systems the LANDMARK team of JSI: Marko Debeljak, Aneta Trajanov and Vladimir  Kuzmanovski plus Francesca Bampa (WUR)  will participate with posters describing the job conducted under WP3/Pillar 1 soil navigator and task1.2 stakeholder consultations.

• Poster 1: Aneta Trajanov, Taru Sanden, Vladimir Kuzmanovski, Heide Spiegel, Nicolas Saby, Marko Debeljak: Validation of decision support models using data mining: A case study on primary productivity in agricultural fields in France
• Poster 2: Francesca Bampa, Rachel Creamer, Aneta Trajanov, Marko Debeljak: Structuring empirical European knowledge on soil and land management using multi-criteria decision analysis

The conference will be on the 13-15 of June 2018 in  Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

More info here http://ifip2018dss.ijs.si/

Laboratory Skills Course in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

4th-8th June 2018 Wageningen University and Research

This will include training in soil quality parameters such as labile C, microresp – respiration, extracellular enzyme activity, nematode and enchytraied extraction and basics of identification. Earthworm sampling and identification.

The course reached the maximum number of registrations, thank you for your interest.

For information, you can contact Rachel Creamer (rachel.creamer@wur.nl).

Fee: *Reduced fee of 500 euros and full price registration is 1000 euros.

*The reduced fee applies to BSc and MSc students, PhD candidates, staff of public (national) institutes and organizations based in ODA-listed countries

Flyer available here Laboratory Skills Course in Soil Biology and Biochemistry_WUR_SOQ_2018_flyer

Past 30th -31st of May 2018 our colleague Antonio Delgado (US) participated at the EIP-AGRI Workshop: Connecting innovative projects: Water & Agriculture held in Almeria, Spain.

This workshop is organised by the European Commission Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development and the EIP-AGRI Service Point with support of the Andalusian Regional Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development and the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food and Environment.

More info here  and programme here

The LANDMARK Roundtable 7 will be hosted by  Heide Spiegel & Taru Sandén  (AGES ) and will take place in VIENNA, AUSTRIA on 22-24^th May 2018.

The field trip will take place at Alfred Grand‘s farm in Absdorf, our Steering Committee member.

on the 22nd of May. The participants will work on the three LANDMARK outcomes; the soil navigator, the soil functions monitoring schema and the science-policy interface on Functional  Land Management.

In the contest of the EU AgriResearch Conference – Innovating for the future of farming and rural communities on the 3rd of May 2018  during the parallel session Smart resource management in farming moderated by our Stakeholder Steering Committee member Annette Schneegans our scientific administrator Francesca Bampa (WUR) gave a presentation on “Improving soil and soil functions” .

The Session has ben recorded and is available here.

In the 2nd of may 2018 our Stakeholder Steering Committee member Alfred Grand, a farmer from Austria,  was in a panel discussion on “How do EU R&I activities deliver for society? What needs to be improved?”

More info here .

The Pillar 3/ WP4 team met past  23rd and 24th of April 2018 in WUR, Wageningen, The Netherlands in order to work on Task4.1, Task 4.2 and Task 4.3.

Sneak pic of the BBN discussion.

Alexandre Berndt shared his experiences about LANDMARK at a meeting related to Sustainable Livestock in Latin America and Caribe in Turrialba, Costa Rica.

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 course  Meet the experts in land and soil functions: from primary productivity to biodiversity where  six keynote speakers gave the following presentations:

• Functional Land Management by Rachel Creamer (WUR)
• Primary Productivity by Taru Sanden (AGES)
• Water purification and regulation by Brigitta Toth ( Hungarian Academy of Sciences ISAAC CAR, University of Pannonia)
• The power of SOM by Karen van Kampenhaut (UL)
• Nutrient Cycling by Noeleen McDonald (TEAGASC)
• Soil Biodiversity by Lily Pereg ( University of New England, Australia)

Following the 6 fire talks the participants together with the speakers engaged in a fruitful discussion on:

1. Future sessions on Land and soil functions in 2019.
   • The outcomes of this discussion are the  Wageningen Soil Conference 2019 and the EGU 2019 session Bridging between soil biologists, chemists and physicists – in understanding soil structure, function and ecosystem services 
2. Soil-related networks of experts
   • As outcomes of this session we are engaging with: the European Network of Soil Awareness (ENSA), the  https://500womenscientists.org/ and especially Franciska De Vries soil scientist list 
3. Innovative Msc course/Summer School on Land and Soil Functions
   • The outcomes of this discussion are the NEW format of the  Wageningen Soil Conference 2019 that will foresee afternoon Masterclasses for conference participants and especially your researchers such as PostDocs or PhDs.

Francesca Bampa gave also a presentation on Opportunities and challenges for science-policy-processes regarding SDGs at the short course on “How to get involved in global efforts to sustain soil and land” (http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/session/28964) that took place on Wednesday, 11th April 2018  The course has been organised by early-career scientists  interested to interweave the scientific passion at EGU more with policy-related goals with the upcoming review of SDG 15 and especially 15.3 this year

More info www.egu2018.eu

Our partner Arwyn Jones (EC JRC) participated past 20th and 21st of March 2018 at the Fifth European Soil Partnership Plenary Meeting .

The report of the plenary can be found here.

Past 20th of March 2018 Francesca Bampa (WUR) participated in a series of seminars organised by the JSI partners involving the TRUE H2020 project coordinator and many Slovenian stakeholders around the topic discussion of legumes management.

On the 22nd of March 2018 all the group participated at the TOMRES H2020 meting.

During the second session of Science Bites Slovenia on the 13th of March 2018 Francesca Bampa (WUR) gave a presentation about “The hidden treasure beneath our feet” in Ziferblat, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Facebook pic 

Science Bites webpage, facebook and twitter

During the event Interactive innovation in action – Multi-Actor projects learning from each other organised by DG AGRI and REA our coordinator Rachel Creamer (WUR )past 8th of March 2018 gave a presentation in Bruxelles about LANDMARK as a multi-actor project and described our links with EIP AGRI Operational Groups.

More info here.

Past 8th of March 2018 Sylvain Sturel and Nathalie Galiri from APCA were invited to present the LANDMARK project to the groupe Eau Sol du CGAAER, a working group on soil and water within the French Ministry of Agriculture.

On the 27th of February 2018 our project coordinator Pillar 2 leader Rachel Creamer (WUR) and our Pillar 3 leader Arwyn Jones (JRC) will participate at the interactive workshop for EU stakeholders  “How to value ecosystem services provided from soil biota in arable land through the CAP?” organized by SOILMAN project.

The meeting will be at the Representation of Lower Saxony to the European Union, Rue Montoyer 61, B-1000 Brussels

More info https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/en/event/how-value-ecosystem-services-provided-soil-biota

On the 27th of February 2018 our project coordinator Pillar 2 leader Rachel Creamer (WUR) and our Pillar 3 leader Arwyn Jones (JRC) will participate at meeting on ” MEETING ON THE FEASIBILITY OF MEASURING SOIL ORGANIC CARBON AT FARM–SCALE LEVEL IN THE EU” organized by European Commission DG ENV in Brussels, Belgium.

On the 22nd of February 2018 in Brussels, Belgium our colleague Francesca Bampa (WUR) presented at the 10th EIP-AGRI meeting of the permanent Subgroup on Innovation for agricultural productivity and sustainability the work done within LANDMARK activities in cooperation with EIP-AGRI. Presentation available here .

During the meeting Francesca will give a presentation on our LANDMARK H2020 Thematic Network on-going experience at connecting Operational Groups.

The final report can be found here and more info https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/en/event/10th-meeting-permanent-subgroup-innovation

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  

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 especially a presentation about Pillar 2 – Monitoring Soil Quality on Soil Functions and the open access paper  GAP ASSESSMENT IN CURRENT SOIL MONITORING NETWORKS ACROSS EUROPE FOR MEASURING SOIL FUNCTIONS

More info on: https://forum.eionet.europa.eu/nrc-soil/library/nrc-soil-workshops/nrc-soil-meeting-copenhagen-23-24-january-2018

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 a modernised and simplified CAP? “.

Participants came from the European Commission DG-AGRI, DG-ENV and DG-CLIMA.

Info:

• Sneak preview here https://twitter.com/RogierSchulte/status/951389112300384256 
• Landmark Paper FUNCTIONAL LAND MANAGEMENT: BRIDGING THE THINK-DO-GAP
• Landmark Paper THE IMPACT OF POLICY INSTRUMENTS ON SOIL MULTIFUNCTIONALITY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
• WP1 Harvesting Stakeholder Knowledge

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

LANDMARK session, 6th December 2017, Bruxelles, Belgium

In the contest of the World Soil Day 2017  the INSPIRATION H2020  consortium organized in collaboration with the DG Environment service contract Soils4EU a FINAL CONFERENCE in Bruxelles, Belgium on the 04-06th of December 2017.

During those three days we had the opportunity to learn and discuss about:

• Research challenges for the future – what do policy-makers, end-users of research and scientists need and want
• Boundaries of research and knowledge – demands from society
• State-of-the-art projects in Europe on sustainable soil and land management
• Meet with like-minded European stakeholders and research funders”
• Match-making sessions support policy and funding institutions interested in co-funding research collaborations.

During the 4th and 5th of December our LANDMARK colleagues participated actively at the discussions: Arwyn Jones (JRC), Rachel Creamer (WUR) , Jan Staes (UA), Jeroen van Leeuwen (WUR) Francesca Bampa (WUR).

On the 6th of December from 10.00 to 12.00 we organized the LANDMARK parallel session “Soil management, monitoring and understanding the supply and demand of soil functions at a European scale” where we had the occasion to discuss with the stakeholders the state-of-the art knowledge and EU research needs in the contest of the LANDMARK past 30 months activities.

The session has been chaired by Prof Rachel Creamer (Wageningen University & Research):

10.00 – 10.20         Introducing LANDMARK H2020 by the project coordinator Prof Rachel Creamer (Wageningen University & Research)

10.20 – 10.40        Stakeholder engagement: harvesting existing knowledge on soil quality and soil functions (WP1) by Dr Francesca Bampa (Wageningen University & Research)

10.40 – 11.00          Monitoring soil quality and functions (Pillar2) by  Dr Jeroen van Leeuwen (Wageningen University & Research)

11.00 – 11.20           EU policy tools for optimizing soil functions and Functional Land Management (Pillar3 & WP4) by  Dr Jan Staes ( Antwerp University)

11.20 – 11.30 LANDMARK Strategic Research Agenda (WP1) by Prof Rachel Creamer (Wageningen University & Research)

11.20 – 12.00         Discussion and conclusions

The summary of the Landmark presentations can be downloaded here in the INSPIRATION conference webpage.

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 .

The European Commission co-organized with the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) a two-day event for Societal Challenge 2 on Food Agriculture and Biotechnology flagship initiative (FAB) in China.

On 28/11/2017, FAB info Days in Shenzhen  hold with presentations on policy context, implementation and Societal Challenge 2 Work Programme for years 2018-19. In addition, the afternoon session was reserved for sharing of experience from the ongoing FAB-flagged projects, with presentations by coordinators of some key projects.

On 29/11/2017, FAB Task Force, meeting with EU and CN authorities where issues on implementation and any achieved results have been discussed.

From the LANDMARK consortium Lilian O’Sullivan (TEAGASC/WUR) attended the meeting and gave a presentation on LANDMARK activities.

The colleagues from SZIU met with INRA team in Orleans, France past  27th to 29th of November 2017 to discuss and work on WP2 Data collection, harmonisation and creation of the DataWareHouse.

The Research Executive Agency (REA), the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) and the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI) of the European Commission are co-organising an Info Week on Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 2  (SC2) ‘Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy’, which will take place in Brussels on 14-17 November 2017.

Our colleague Jim Codd (CIRCA) from the LANDMARK Secretariat  and Jan Staes (UA) our WP4 Functional Land Management leader participated at the Infoweek and specifically at:

• Societal Challenge 2 Info Day on the new Horizon 2020 Work Programme for 2018-2020
• Bioeconomy policy day and the Bioeconomy Manifesto
• Interactive Workshop “The Bioeconomy Manifesto as a Collaborative Tool for Facilitating Innovation and Growth for a Stronger European Bioeconomy” -satellite Event organised by the European Commission and the European Bioeconomy Stakeholders Panel.

Further information on the event can be found under the link:  https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/news/horizon-2020-societal-challenge-2-infoweek-including-high-level-policy-events

The LANDMARK Roundtable 6 was hosted by Prof Cristina Menta (UNIPARMA) and her colleagues Prof. Giovanna Visioli, Dr Fabio Gatti and Dr Beatrice Bonati and took place in the S. Elisabetta Congress Centre, University of Parma campus, Parco Area delle Scienze 181, Parma, Italy on the 23rd-25th of October 2017.

In this occasion, LANDMARK welcomed for the third time the Stakeholder Steering Committee members that assessed and steered the activities done so far by the Consortium.

On Day 1 the colleagues of  the  Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma organized with the help of  Emilia-Romagna region colleagues a field visit at:

• Burini farm, Bibbiano (RE)
• Scalabrini farm (RE) – www.fattoriascalabrini.it

The group visited the permanent grasslands for Parmesan production and with the help of soil pits, detailed collected information on soil analysis  ( chemical, physical and thanks to UNIPR microbiological)  and the presence of the farmers, the group tested for the first time the soil navigator.

The two farms are involved in  EIP-AGRI Operational Groups projects, worth to mention the OG PRATI_CO coordinated by Carla Scotti (ITER) that helped on the day and presented the project at the Consortium.

More info here http://www.unipr.it/notizie/23-25-ottobre-convegno-progetto-landmark-sulla-gestione-del-suolo-alluniversita-di-parma.

Photo group here and in the field here.

A special thanks for the field organisation to:

Dr. Staffilani Francesca Emilia-Romagna Region
Dr. Paola Tarocco Emilia-Romagna Region
Dr. Carla Scotti ITER
Dr. Ciro Gardi EFSA
Dr. Fabio Gatti UNIPR
Dr. Carlos Lozano Fondon UNIPR
Dr Mariachiara Rosace UNIPR
Dr. Sara Remelli UNIPR
Mr. Umberto Beltrami Consorzio Parmigiano Reggiano La Culla
Mr. Ugo Scalabrini Scalabrini farm
Mr. Carlo Burini Carcarena farm

In the contest of the Estonian presidency of the Council (EU2017EE), the Agriculture and Fisheries Council (AGRIFISH) will organize on the 04-06.10.2017 the Soil for sustainable food production and ecosystem services conference in Talinn Creative Hub, ESTONIA .

More info can be found in the Estonia Presidency page  https://www.eu2017.ee/political-meetings/soil-sustainable-food-production-and-ecosystem-services  or in the EU website https://europa.eu/newsroom/events/soil-sustainable-food-production-and-ecosystem-services_en 

Programme here

For the LANDMARK project Prof Rogier Schulte will be present and will give a presentation on his activities on soil functions and mainly on carbon sequestration and climate regulation soil function in a satellite meeting of the conference on the 4th of October.

The JRC of the European Commission and the European Soil Bureau Network established a Working Group on “Soil Awareness and Education”.  The main objective of the working group is to establish an action plan for the development of measures / programmes / initiatives to raise awareness of the importance of soil across European society (i.e. policy makers, general public, universities, schools, industry, etc.).

The fifth ENSA-JRC meeting was held on the 28-29.09.2017  in Bratislava, SLOVAKIA.  The meeting aimed to bring together people who have a common aim of raising awareness of the importance of soil. The meeting is a forum to exchange best practices and learn about what is happening across Europe. A key aspect will be the implementation of the European Soil Partnership Plan of Action on education and soil awareness (Pillar 2 see the ESP-FAO Implementation Plan 2017-2020
http://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/public_path/u891/2017-ESPPA/20170608_ESP2017-2020_Implementation_Plan_final.pdf ).

For the LANDMARK project Dr Francesca Bampa participated and gave a presentation on the LANDMARK Stakeholder engagement (WP1) and on the Communication and Dissemination Strategy on soil quality and soil functions (WP6).

More info on the meeting  here:  http://www.pedologia.sk/PDF/ENSA17-flyer-Final.pdf

More info on ENSA http://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/networkcooperations/european-network-soil-awareness

The LANDMARK team participated actively to the

Wageningen Soil Conference 2017 – Soil Science in a Changing World

Wageningen University, The Netherlands from 27th to 31st August 2017.

We discussed our LANDMARK novel insights in applied soil science, identified further actions for soil-based solutions that help achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and showed possible narratives on soil-based solutions that are convincing to policy makers and other stakeholders.

• Prof Rachel Creamer (WUR) is inside the Scientific Committee of the conference and chaired the session “Land functions“.
• Dr Taru Sanden (AGES) gave a keynote speech on  “Sweet spots of multifunctionality in arable soils” under the session the session “Land functions”. This is part of WP1 for the Austrian stakeholders engagement, WP2 for the data collection & WP3 work on understanding Primary Productivity soil function within LANDMARK. Abstract is available here.
• Dr David Wall (TEAGASC) gave a keynote speech on “The multi-functionality of grasslands for delivering soil based ecosystem services” under the session the session “Land functions”. This is part of WP3 work within LANDMARK. Abstract is available here.
• Dr Francesca Bampa (WUR) gave an oral presentation on “Land and soil management: structuring empirical knowledge about soil functions using multi criteria decision analysis” under the session “Governance and Policy”. This is part of WP1 for the stakeholders engagement in collaboration with JSI Slovenian colleagues within LANDMARK. Abstract is available here.
• Lilian O’Sullivan (TEAGASC & WUR PhD student) presented her poster on “Functional land management: EU and Brazil intercontinental learning – a comparison of the scales of action and actors in landscape management “under the session “Governance and Policy”. This is part of WP4 & WP5 work within LANDMARK. Abstract is available here.
• Worth to mention the keynote presentation under the session “Governance and Policy”of our SSC member Annette Schneegans (EC DG AGRI) on “Soils in the EU – Agricultural Policy and research working in tandem to spur innovation“. Abstract is available here.

More info http://www.wur.nl/en/Research-Results/Projects-and-programmes/Wageningen-Soil-Conference-2017.htm

Book of abstract available here.

Our colleague Lilian O’Sullivan (TEAGASC) participated at the two days BIO4ECO Interreg Europe Thematic workshop THE ENERGY-FOOD-WATER LAND USE NEXUS: POSSIBLE EQUILIBRIUMS FOR THE LOW CARBON TRANSITION – SMART LAND USE FOR LOW CARBON ECONOMY in Tērvete, Latvia past 13- 15th of July 2017 and gave a presentation on the Functional Land Management concept.

More info here.

Our colleague Dr Michiel Rutgers will participate at the Aqua ConSOil 2017 14th International Conference on  Sustainable Use and Management of Soil, Sediment and Water Resources in Lyon on the 26th – 30th of  June 2017.

Dr Rutgers will give an oral presentation on Tuesday 27th of June 2017 on  “Paving the path with soil functions for developing tools to sustainable soil management ” in Session ” 6a.2 Ecosystems Services based subsurface management”.

More info http://www.aquaconsoil.org/

The LANDMARK team participated actively to the Pedometrics 2017 Conference during the last week of June 2017, in Wageningen, The Netherlands.

• Prof Rachel Creamer (WUR) and Nicolas Saby (INRA) are inside the Scientific Committee of the conference.
• Dr Adam Csorba  postdoc at SZIU,  gave an oral presentation on “Applying the diagnostic approach for the definition of soil functions – a pilot example on carbon sequestration and storage” . This is part of WP2 work within LANDMARK. abstract available here
• Stevanche Nikoloski PhD student at JSI-MPS and TEAGASC Walsh Fellow gave an oral presentation on “Prediction of mineralizable nitrogen (N) in soils using ensembles of regression models“. This is also linked to WP3 work within LANDMARK. Abstract available here.
• Worth to mention the poster on “Mapping Soil Properties for achieving Soil Functions” from Dr Iolanda Simo, former TEAGASC researcher.

More info on http://www.pedometrics2017.org/ and the programme .

Past June 2016 Dr Francesca Bampa participated one of the EIP-AGRI workshops dedicated to ‘Organic is Operational‘ that took place in Hamburg, Germany, on Wednesday 14 and Thursday 15 June 2017 and gave a short presentation about the Landmark project, its innovation, the objectives & methods of the project , the actors involved and the state of play.

More info, report and material about the workshop here . Programme here and list of participants here

If you want to  know more about EIP-AGRI click here.

The 1st LANDMARK project review meeting was held past 8th of June 2018 in APCA office – Bureau Européen de l’Agriculture Française (BEAF), Bruxelles, Belgium.

Our SSC member Harald Mauser (EFI) will represent LANDMARK consortium at the  workshop on “CLIMATE ACTION IN AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY” organized by the European Commission DG CLIMA next  1 JUNE 2017.

For more information and agenda visit https://ec.europa.eu/clima/events/articles/0116_en.

The LANDMARK Roundtable 5 will be hosted by Prof Teodor Rusu (CLUJ-NAPOCA) and will take place in the Campus University of CLUJ-NAPOCA, Romania, in the last week of May 2017.

During the ISRIC Spring School from 15th to 19th of May 2017 in Wageningen Campus, The Netherlands, the students discussed their Functional Land Management ideas with our coordinator Prof Rachel Creamer (WUR) see workshop photo.

The Landmark team will be actively participating at the EGU general assembly next 23-28 April 2017.

• Rachel Creamer (WUR) will convene together with Michiel Rutgers  (RIVM) , Martin Potthoff , Stefan Schrader and Guénola Pérès a session SSS4.11 on the Role of soil biota in soil functioning . More info  here

• Isabelle Gattin (UNILASALLE) will give an oral presentation on ” Habitat and Biodiversity: One out of five essential soil functions for agricultural soils “.

• Rachel Creamer (WUR) will give a presentation on LANDMARK project and participate in a panel discussion at the Session SSS1.6 European Environmental Policies and Sustainability  co- organized by Panos Panagos from the European Commission Joint Research Centre.  More info here

Our JSI colleagues presented at the  #BES2016 British Ecological Society Annual Meeting in Liverpool, UK

Prof Marko Debeljak gave an oral presentation on Qualitative assessment of nutrient cycling in agro-ecosystems at the Agricultural Ecology Diversity & Dynamics session

Dr Aneta Trajanov  gave an oral presentation on Predicting mineralizable nitrogen in grassland soils at the Ecosystem Ecology & Function Biogeochemical Cycles & Plant-Soil Interactions session.

Programme info here

LANDMARK project was represented at the 2nd Global Soil Security Conference by Prof Rachel Creamer (WUR), Dr Francesca Bampa (TEAGASC), Dr Marion Bardy (INRA) and Sebastien Drufin (INRA).

The 2nd Global Soil Security Conference aims to demonstrate that soil, this highly pressurized and crucial resource, is indispensable partner to meet sustainable development goals. The demonstration will be done by linking businesses, practitioners, policymakers and researchers on soil security dimensions through good working practices, business solutions, scientific outcomes and international initiatives that enhance protection and sustainable management of soils. More info here https://gssparisen.wordpress.com/ and conference programme  available here

Prof Creamer gave a keynote oral presentation on the 5th of December  on “Soil and Ecosystem relationships, critical factors to soil“.

Dr Bampa gave a presentation on ” What is your prioritized soil function? Harvesting stakeholders´ knowledge from 5 EU countries .”

Dr Bardy prepared the following poster ” Developing the use of French soil databases: actions of the RMT Sols et Territoires“ and Sebastien Drufin on “From heterogeneous, multi-source data to harmonized datasets: a major challenge for the assessment of soil functions. The LANDMARK project approach “.

The LANDMARK Roundtable 4 is hosted by Dr Johan Six (ETH) and will take place in the quiet town of Feldis, in the easternmost canton of Switzerland, on the 7-10^th of November 2016.

The LANDMARK Consortium organizes the interactive EU stakeholders workshop “Are you getting what you want from land? Policy options for competing demands on soil functions.”

For more info click here

Afin de consulter l’ensemble des acteurs concernés par la multi-fonctionnalité des sols, suite aux ateliers organisés aux niveaux local et régional en 2016, l’APCA organise:

un atelier national multi-acteurs
jeudi 6 octobre 2016
de 13h30 à 17h30

Cet atelier s’articule autour d’un exercice de mise en situation, destiné à faire émerger des réflexions et des propositions concrètes concernant la gestion des fonctions des sols à différents niveaux : exploitations agricoles et forestières, territoires ruraux, programmes et politiques publiques.
Cette rencontre conclura un cycle d’ateliers locaux et régionaux en France et permettra de réunir les idées et propositions des acteurs nationaux français en vue d’un atelier européen à Bruxelles.

Les invitations personnelles suivront au cours du mois d’août 2016 et le programme et une documentation détaillée au cours du mois du septembre 2016.

The European Environmental Agency organized the seminar “Land as a resource: raising awareness and building the knowledge base for European Assessments”.

For the LANDMARK team participated: Arwyn Jones (JRC), Rachel Creamer (WUR) and David Wall (TEAGASC)

LANDMARK consortium together with several other EU and National projects is organizing in the contest of the EUROPEAN Ecosystem Services conference  ” Helping nature to help us” www.esconference2016.eu the Policy Session:

“Who decides ? Making policies on land management work on the farm“

Thursday 22nd September 2016

from 9.00 to 12.30

University of Antwerp, Belgium

To attend please REGISTER here

Die AGES (Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit) ist ein Partner im europäischen Projekt „LANDMARK“.

Am 20.09.2016 findet ein eintägiger Workshop für verschiedene Stakeholder, Interessensgruppen und Landwirte (30-40 Teilnehmer) in Tulln statt. Der Workshop wird in Zusammenarbeit von AGES, BfW, UBA und BOKU organisiert.

Wir laden Sie herzlich ein an unserem Workshop über Bodenfunktionen teilzunehmen!

Ziel des Tages: die Ansichten der beteiligten “Stakeholder” bezüglich ihrer Priorisierung von Bodenfunktionen, ihrer Einstellung zur aktuellen Bodenpolitik bzw. ihre Bedürfnisse zu erfahren sowie ihre Wünsche und sonstigen Fragen zu Bodenfunktionen.

Geplanter Ablauf:

10:15–10:30 Ankunft und Kaffee

10:30–13:00 Was bedeutet Bodenqualität für mich? Welche Bodenfunktionen erfüllt mein Boden?

13:00–14:00 Mittagessen für Teilnehmer des Workshops

14:00-15:30 Outdoor: Wie können Bodenfunktionen anhand eines Bodenprofils erfasst werden?

15:30-16:00 Zusammenfassung, Workshop Evaluierung/Feedback

Wir würden uns sehr freuen Sie als Teilnehmer an unserem Workshop begrüßen zu dürfen!

Bitte geben Sie bis spätestens 5.9.2016bekannt, ob Sie teilnehmen, Kontaktperson ist Heide Spiegel (adelheid.spiegel@ages.at, 050 555 34121). Da unsere Teilnehmeranzahl begrenzt ist, bitten wir Sie um Verständnis, dass die Plätze nach zeitlicher Anmeldung vergeben werden.

In the contest of the FP7 MAESTRA project  our partner Prof Saso Dzeroski (JSI-MPS) organized the Summer school on Mining big and complex data.

More info here.

Description on ec.europa.eu

ESSC organizes the 8th International Conference “Soils – Our Common Future”

The LANDMARK Consortium will meet together with the Stakeholder Steering Committee members next May 2016 in Hungary, hosted by our partner .

During the LANDMARK Roundtable2 in Rouen, APCA and ESITPA in joint collaboration with the Chambre d’Agriculture Seine-Maritime organized a regional multi-stakeholders workshop as shared learning event.

The workshop was held in the Hotel de Region Haute Normandie.

Participants experienced a spatial mapping exercise on possible synergies and conflicts of the five soil functions in a world cafe’ style method.
@Landmark2020 https://twitter.com/Landmark2020/status/667403324644265986?lang=en

The LANDMARK consortium meets in six monthly roundtables in order to align and to meet stakeholder demands across the three LANDMARK spatial scales (local, regional and European).

Roundtable 2 has been hosted by our project partner ESITPA in ROUEN, France 18-20th November 2015, bringing together all the LANDMARK consortium plus the LANDMARK Stakeholder Steering Committee  in order to facilitate the process of continuous shared learning.

@Esitpa https://twitter.com/Esitpa/status/666718665568616449

“MAKING THE MOST OF OUR LAND: MEETING SUPPLY AND DEMAND OF SOIL FUNCTIONS FROM FARM TO EUROPEAN SCALE” was the presentation given by Prof Rogier Schulte, LANDMARK project manager at the Wageningen SOIL conference, in The Netherlands. The concept of Functional land management forms the basis of the LANDMARK Consortium and..
Read more on the Book of abstract http://www.wageningenur.nl/upload_mm/6/c/6/3bb550bd-2b03-4a59-a50e-2cf1157109e8_Final_Book%20of%20Abstracts_WSC%202015.pdf

Skills, Research and Innovation Minister Damien English launched the pan-European LANDMARK project in Castledockrell, County Wexford, Ireland.

Read more on the http://www.farmersjournal.ie/landmark-will-provide-clarity-on-productive-use-of-our-diverse-soils-181427/ and on Teagasc website  http://www.teagasc.ie/news/2015/201505-20.asp

The LANDMARK consortium meets in six monthly roundtables in order to align and to meet stakeholder demands across the three LANDMARK spatial scales (local, regional and European).

Launch and Roundtable 1 have been hosted by the Project coordinator TEAGASC in WEXFORD, Ireland 20-22nd May 2015, bringing together all the LANDMARK consortium for the first time.

Follow us on @Landmark2020 https://twitter.com/Landmark2020/status/601038069643481088 and on www.landmark2020.local

Our colleague Lilian O’Sullivan (TEAGASC ) participated at the BIO4ECO Interreg Europe Thematic workshop The Energy-Food-Water land use nexus: possible equilibriums for the low carbon transition Smart land use for low carbon economy past 13th -15th of June in LATVIA giving an oral presentation on Functional land management.

More info here https://www.interregeurope.eu/bio4eco/events/event/699/thematic-workshop-latvia/

Next 19th of July 2018 Prof Creamer and Prof Schulte (WUR) will give a ZALF Guest lecture on “Functional Land Management: matching supply and demand for soil functions”  at 10.00 am in ZALF Conference Hall 1, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Eberswalder Straße 84, 15374 Müncheberg, Germany.

The lecture will be convened by Prof. Dr. Katharina Helming (ZALF).

More info on the event here and the specific announcement.

The AGES team (Taru Sanden and Heide Spiegel) attended also on behalf of Landmark the Farm Demo Final conference in Bruxelles,Belgium the 21st of May 2019.

More info https://farmdemo.eu/farmdemoconference/1.html