SOILveR Meetings
Webinar series on Soil Health 2024 – 2025
Webinar #1 Soil management and Land planning 24th of January 2025
- Programme
- Recording plenairy presentations and panel discussion
- Recording Breakout room 1
- Recording Breakout room 2
- Recording Breakout room 3
- Presentation
- Welcome and introduction | Ana Alzola, IHOBE
- Spades: Spatial planning and design with Soil | Fransje Hooimeijer TU Delft
- Soil-based urban design for climate-resilient and inclusive cities | Antoine Vialle, TU Berlin
- Some land-use planning mechanisms for safeguarding the health of urban soils in Wallonia and Brussels, Alain Malherbe, University of Louvain
- Soil health measurement in rural areas : gaps, needs, challenges and opportunities | Brieuc Hardy University of Louvain
- An index for assessing urban soil health in Amsterdam | Amanda Matson Wageningen Environmental Research
- Integrating soil health in land planning documents: feedback from France | Cecile Le Guern, BRGM
- Indicators of Soil functions and Soil quality | David Montagne UMR ECOSYS
- Land capability classification for agricultural purposes in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Basque Country) | Ana Aizpura, NEIKER
- Designing for the Vital Soil in Urban Areas | Gintare Norkunaite PosadMaxwan
- Soil management and land planning com together in Upgrading sandy soils | Margot de Cleen, Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management
Webinar #0 Concept of Soil Health and setting the scene in the SOILveR countries 18th of November 2024
- Programme
- Recording
- Presentation
- Welcome and introduction | Marta Popova, Spaque Chairperson SOILveR
- Introduction on Soil Health | Mirco Barbero European Commision
- France | Cecile Grand – Ademe
- Belgium | Esther Goidts – SPW-Arne
- The Netherlands | Margot de Cleen – Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and watermanagement
- Basque Country | Ana Alzola – Ihobe
- Sweden | Yvonne Ohlsson – SGI
Webinar Japanese Knotweed management 5th of June 2024
- Programme
- Recording
- Presentation
- Environmental DNA for the detection and monitoring of invasive species | Aurélie Bonin
- Overview of non-patented techniques for Japanese Knotweed manangement in France | Mireille Boyer
- Final eradication of Japanese Knotweed by in situ or ex situ thermal treatment | Bart Vermeiren
- Evaluation of heat treatments used to controle Japanese Knotweed | Tina D’Hertefeldt
- Accelerated verification and insurance of Japanese Knotweed treatments | Paul Bardos
- Development of innovative value chain for land infested by an invasive plant, the Japanese Knotweed | Emerance Bietlot
Workshops to provide input to the Soil Expert group
- In the EU SOIL Expert Group meetings in the first half of this year, the discussion will be about the development of the Soil Health Law (SHL). SOIlveR is planning a series of workshops prior to these Soil Expert Group meetings to provide input, on the basis of knowledge and experiences from SOILveR participants and participating countries, for the discussion.
Workshop III Use of Soil Certificates and Soil Passports in Europe 14th of October 2022
Workshop II Sustainable land use, beyond agriculture and forestry 10th of June 2022
- The program
- Recording
- Presentations
- Importance of sustainable remediation in the new soil strategy
- Promotion of biodiversity, beyond a risk reduction in government funded projects
- Contaminated land and the biodiversity challenge – exemplified by a Swedish project
- Review of the last two decades experiences of tehnosols construction for urban greening
- Phytoremediation as a way of improving underground and above ground biodiversity
- Japanese Knotweed – A manageable treat to brownfield re-use
- Japanese Knotweed – State of the art of Knotweed UK
- Summary
Workshop I Monitoring schemes in several European countries 12th of April 2022
- Program
- Recording
- Presentations
- Documents
- Links
- BdSolU, database dedicated to contamination in urban soils
- SERENA project , EJP SOIL project aims to assess, analyze and map soil ecosystem services bundles across European agricultural landscapes
- OCS-GE, Monitoring on land take in France
- Cerema, monitoring on land take in France
- Summary