European Mission Soil Week 2023

EU Mission Soil Week banner - a little girl with her my mum in the background in the agri field

The first annual event of the EU Mission ‘A Soil Deal for Europe’, the European Mission Soil Week 2023 took place on the 21-23 November 2023. It gathered over 300 in person participants and over 600 online participants. The event hosted 92 speakers in more than 20 different sessions.

The European Mission Soil Week is an annual event designed as a major European gathering that brings together the European soil community. This year’s edition was co-organised as a joint event between the European Commission, Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI), the EU funded project PREPSOIL, and the Joint Research Centre - EU Soil Observatory (EUSO).

Researchers, policymakers, farmers, foresters, spatial planners, landowners and managers, businesses and organisations, as well as the general interested public, met to discuss the challenges for healthy soils. This event was an occasion to communicate and disseminate solutions based on the latest research results and innovation.

The conference was locally hosted by INIA-CSIC at the central facilities of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid, Spain, under the Spanish Presidency of the EU Council.

Discover more details about the European Mission Soil Week 2023 (Programme, speakers, sessions, catalogue of Mission Soil projects) in the Electronic Project Catalogue.

Recordings of sessions

Access the plenary session replay of your choice by selecting the session below.

Day 1 (21 November)

Morning session (Welcome and opening ; Setting the scene for the Mission Soil)
Late morning session (The Mission Soil in a nutshell)
Afternoon session (Reporting from breakout sessions ; Launch of the international research consortium on soil carbon ; Mission Soil photo competition award ceremony)

Day 2 (22 November)

Morning session (Social, economic, and cultural transformations for soil health ; PREPSOIL project: supporting the Mission Soil)
Afternoon session (Reporting from breakout sessions ; The Mission's regional and local dimension ; Mission Manifesto and Mission Ambassadors)

Day 3 (23 November)

Morning session (The EU Soil Observatory ; Assessing soil health at different scales across Europe)
Late morning session (Soil monitoring and indicators)
Afternoon session (Outcomes of the EUSO Working Groups (WG) ; Closing ceremony)