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Thursday, 18 December 2025
Share your views! Survey on future-proofing EU Agri-Food through research and innovation
The European Commission, led by DG AGRI, is preparing a new EU Agricultural Research and Innovation (R&I) Strategic Approach, planned for mid-2026. We invite you to take part in a short questionnaire designed to gather feedback from key stakeholders across the agricultural, forestry, and rural sectors by 25 January.
Tuesday, 2 December 2025
The Soil Monitoring Law is published in the EU Official Journal
The EU Directive on Soil Monitoring and Resilience, published on 26 November 2025, sets out a coherent and harmonised framework for monitoring and assessing soil health across all EU Member States, a key milestone for Europe’s environmental ambition. The legislation aims to achieve healthy soils across Europe by 2050 and contributes directly to the EU’s zero pollution ambition.
Tuesday, 2 December 2025
New SHARE Handbook Sets the Standard for Soil Health Monitoring Across Europe
The SOB4ES project has released the Soil Health Assessment and Re-Evaluation (SHARE) Protocols Handbook, a comprehensive new guide designed to harmonize how soil health is monitored across Europe. This landmark publication provides standardized, practical, and scientifically validated protocols for assessing the physical, chemical, and biological properties of soils, essential to understanding and protecting one of our most vital natural resources.
Thursday, 27 November 2025
European Mission Soil Week 2025
The EMSW 2025 took place on 5-6 November 2025 at Aarhus University, Denmark. This third edition was organised by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development, the Danish Ministry of Green Transition and Aarhus University, under the auspices of the Danish Presidency of the Council of the EU.
Tuesday, 18 November 2025
Manifesto signatory: Saxony’s path towards soil health
The Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology (LfULG) in Germany has signed the Mission Soil Manifesto, reinforcing its commitment to sustainable land use. By signing, the regional authority highlights the crucial role regional bodies can play in protecting soil health and shaping resilient landscapes for the future.
Monday, 10 November 2025
SEACURE Open Call for Associated Regions
The SEACURE Open Call is funding up to seven Public Authorities with up to €100,000 each to empower regions facing similar nutrient-pollution challenges in the Mediterranean basin and beyond. The aim is to strengthen their capacity to replicate the innovative solutions developed within the SEACURE project and tackle nutrient pollution.
Friday, 7 November 2025
New publication! 'Rough estimate of the soil protection potential of the CAP Strategic Plans over the 2023-2027 period'
A new report has been published by the European Evaluation Helpdesk for the CAP and estimates how the current CAP Strategic Plans contribute to protecting Europe’s soils. Covering 13 countries and six key soil health indicators, the study offers an innovative, replicable method to support future CAP design and evaluation.
Friday, 7 November 2025
HuMUS Final Conference | Participatory governance for Soil Health quality management: The legacy of the HuMUS project
Join the HuMUS Final Conference on 21 November, bringing together policymakers, soil stewards, municipalities, regional authorities, researchers, farmers, urban planners, and civil society to share knowledge and outcomes from the three-year Horizon Europe project HuMUS – Healthy Municipal Soils.
Monday, 27 October 2025
Call for experts input to assess the cost effectiveness of soil biodiversity indicators
The Mission Soil-funded project, SOB4ES is inviting experts to contribute to the assessment of the cost effectiveness of soil biodiversity indicators. The project team developed two surveys to gather insights from key stakeholders, including land managers, researchers, policy makers, industry representatives, retailers, and advisors. The SOB4ES team has already collected cost estimates from all SOB4ES partners involved in the field sampling for the whole range of indicators sampled – now they are looking for input from key stakeholders to assess the “effectiveness”-side of soil biodiversity structural indicators.
Monday, 13 October 2025
Call for expert input on soil function models
The Mission Soil-funded project, BENCHMARKS, is inviting experts to contribute to the evaluation of four soil function models developed under the project. These models are based on the concept that soil functions result from bundles of soil processes that co-occur in time and space, and can be defined either by measuring process rates directly or by using proxy indicators.