SOILveR Meetings

Webinar series on Soil Health 2024 – 2025

Webinar #0 Concept of Soil Health and setting the scene in the SOILveR countries

• 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

• The program
• Recording
• Presentation
  • SOILveR introduction
  • Showcase ‘How Certificates and Passports work in Wallonia’
  • SOILveR maps of Europe
  • Data management of contaminated sites in region Flanders
  • Soil Certificates and Passports in Denmark
  • Soil Certificates and Passports in Austria
  • Soil Certificates and Passports in France
• Summary Report
• Summary Report Annex 1
• Summary Report Annex 2

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
  • How EJP SOIL activities will support the future EU soil monitoring scheme?
  • Soil quality monitoring network (RMQS) : a dedicated tool to evaluate and monitor long-term French soil quality
  • Dutch soil monitoring system now and onwards
  • Soil monitoring Wallonia
• Documents
  • EJP Soil contribution Soil Health call for evidence
  • Reports on existing national soil monitoring systems and data policies in Europe
  • Report on harmonized procedures for creation of databases chapter 2
• 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

Strategic meeting 17th February 2022

• Soil strategy Bavo Peeters